Spain 2-0 Honduras (Gp H 21st June 7.30pm)

Really looking forward to this one.

Fingers crossed the real Spain turn up too. Could be good enough to rival the Brazil match lastnight.

Looking forward to this myself. There has to be starts for Nando and Fab IMO. Actually 3 good games on, i got the day off today ( The missus has promised to stay away for the day )   

Espana, Espana!!

Show England, Italy and France how it's done.

Come on Nando.

Goin' my mates to watch this. Should be good!

And so it begins in little than an hour or so...



Will spain flop?

Nah, I think they'll hammer them.

Agree, they will want to rectify the opening game.

5-0 Spain.

Torres hat trick?

Spain won't slip up twice.

Hope Honduras taped up their arseholes.

Spain have got to score early I think. Otherwise, they'll start flapping.

Honduras will probably park the bus and try hit on a break.

Hopefully should be a good game.

Spain line up with Alonso and Navas in front of Busquets with Xavi behind Torres and Villa. Surprising but looks like he's going on form, Del Bosque.

Come on Spain!

Fernandinho.

Come on my son.

Looking forward to this game, Come On Spain, go for it !!

Teams

Spain: 1-Iker Casillas; 15-Sergio Ramos, 3-Gerard Pique, 5-Carles Puyol, 11-Joan Capdevila; 22-Jesus Navas, 14-Xabi Alonso, 8-Xavi, 16-Sergio Busquets; 9-Fernando Torres, 7-David Villa.

Subs: Valdes, Albiol, Marchena, Iniesta, Fabregas, Mata, Arbeloa, Pedro, Llorente, Javi Martinez, Silva, Reina.

Honduras: 18-Noel Valladares; 23-Sergio Mendoza, 2-Osman Chavez, 3-Maynor Figueroa, 21-Emilio Izaguirre; 19-Danilo Turcios, 8-Wilson Palacios, 20-Amado Guevara, 13-Roger Espinoza; 15-Walter Martinez; 11-David Suazo

Subs: Canales, Johnny Palacios, Bernardez, Thomas, Nunez, Pavon, Jerry Palacios, Welcome, Garcia, Sabillon, Alvarez, Escober.

Referee: Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)

I wonder if Willy, Johnny and Jerry Palacios will all be on the field at the same time?

I hope Casillas gets injured in this game, i want to see Pepe play!

Looks like Spain are going with just Nando up top from the formation just shown on tele.

How does Casilas get his game ahead of Reina 

How does Casilas get his game ahead of Reina 

Probably because he plays his football in Spain.

Which gives him an extra bit of power when it comes to the all-powerful Madrid media.

Casillas plays for Real Madrid. Enough said. There'd be hell in the press if he gets dropped.

EDIT: 3 seconds. Nice one

TORRESSSS I LOVE YOU, please score

Vamos!!!!!

Let's go you Spaniards! Come on Nando you bloody sexy thing.

The Honduran skipper looks delighted just to be on the sane pitch as the Spaniards

Busquets is so overrated :S

Fabregas should be in the team imo

Torres is still warming up...

Spain could be 2 up by now, great strike!

Seriously, Sergio Ramos is the most overrated tripe I've seen. He can't defend, can't cross and can't shoot.

From what i have seen of Spain at the WC so far i would choose Navas to sign over Silva any day.

Nice goal from Villa!

Pick. That. Out!

Oh yes!!!

Nice one Mr Villa, wanna come to LFC and play with our Nando?

I would love to have seen Villa at Liverpool and with the right owners we would have seen him here I've no doubt.

Barcelona fans are drooling at this. Messi and Villa in the same team will be outrageous.

Villa is stringing Mendoza up by his bollocks and causing him constant misery.

Why is Ramos moaning? Didn't score anyway.

Xabi showing exactly what we were missing in midfield last season someone that can pass the ball.

F**k you Xavi that should be 2!

I've got 4-0 for this one.

I've got 4-0 for this one.

I've got 6-0. These Vuvuzelas are in tune for the 1st time.

Torres, are you aware the goal is not that high?

That number nine for Spain is sh*t. Glad he doesn't play for us.

Don't give the Yanks an excuse to sell you.

Reckon when he gets that 1st goal he will end up with 3 or 4 today.

He took 30 seconds before going down and then stood up perfectly straight after, pr**k.

Piqué's cherries get a tickle.

Reckon when he gets that 1st goal he will end up with 3 or 4 today.

I reckon it is a matter of confidence.
But at times, he does look lost in Spain's national team though.

Piqué's cherries get a tickle.

Ibrahimovic will be jealous. 

First start in about 2/3 months. You can excuse him.

Honduras shoot from kick off, they should have tried keeping the ball because they wont see much more of it now.

Villa again. Great play

David Villa = Quality

A joy to behold.

Bit lucky the goal. Lovely build-up play though. David Villa is too good for my liking.

Ramos nearly

Well done Spain!

David Villa = Quality

David Villa = increased in value 

David Villa = increased in value 

Already signed for 40m to Barca hasn't he?

He has signed for Barc so doesn't matter how many he scores.

Just watching Spain, and some of the crisp passing between the players is a joy to behold. They very much play for each other don't they, there always seems to be someone there, someone for them to pass to.

Penalty

Villa hat-trick now I'd think

Missed

My oh my! What a miss.

Didn't see that coming

Villa hat-trick now I'd think

Yeah, nice one!

Only thing bad about Xavi is that he never shoots!

Cesc almost scored straight away

Yeah, nice one!

Oi, you where thinking it too

And Nando looks like he needs an oiling, a bit rusty is our lad

Bad move taking Torres off IMO, needs the confidence.

Oi, you where thinking it too

And Nando looks like he needs an oiling, a bit rusty is our lad

No I wasn't...

I'd take one for the team and oil him down.

Nando wasn't to happy about coming off was he 

Didn't have his shooting boots on tonight though, at least he hasn't come off injured.

Alvaro Arbeloa is such a good looking young man, wish he still played for us.

He'll find his stride I'm sure, although I remember him and Villa have always had issues playing up front together... Well as much trouble as you can have for winning the Euros. But I trust he just needs a goal to get going.

^^^ I think you're right Mags, he's just lacking a tiny bit of confidence at the moment, one goal for him and he'll be full of it I'm sure.

Nando and Pepe having a chat on the bench 

No injuries are more important at the moment.

Villa should have 5.

Torres looks rusty doesn't he. Not surprised he didn't look happy when he was subbed.

Final score 2-0 to Spain.

Was a stroll in the park for Spain

Should have been 5 or 6 at least. Spain were really wasteful!
Honduras were no Switzerland nor Chile, the amount of mispasses they gave to Spain was astonishing. Spain really need to improve to win against Chile. They could have been easily punished by a better team. They were lucky to play against Honduras only.

I thought Spain were quite wasteful too. But no doubt that game will have given them a big boost and they are capable of playing some brilliant football.

It's all in the head for Spain.

Villa is now only behind Raul as Spains all-time top scorer  , I could only watch 20 minutes of this game this mornin before I left for work . Would have liked for Nando to get on the score sheet .

I think Villa on the left side would be really dangerous against Chile because that left side could have been exploited by Honduras. I guess he was put on the left because Del Bosque knew beforehand about Honduras' ability.

Jesus Navas on the right was okay, but it makes me remember Aaron Lennon, running and dribbling without end product (overhit crosses, blocked crosses, etc). Hopefully he can perform better in the next game otherwise Spain would have a problem. They can take risk by throwing Pedro on the right though. He seems to play okay on the right wing for Barça.

I wish our man Torres had scored a goal today to build his confidence up, ah well....

I hope Iniesta can play the next against Chile:
Iniesta Xavi Villa
       Torres

I hope Iniesta can play the next against Chile:
Iniesta Xavi Villa
       Torres

Scary stuff that isn't it mate.

Was at the game last night-great atmosphere,nearly cried when i saw Torres and Reina.It was once in a lifetime opportunity and im so glad i was there.Agreed our Number 9 did look a bit rusty but i feel so sorry for the opponent when(not if) he finds his form.

Well done Spainards!

Reina/Valdes suits the Spanish system so much better than Casillas. Casillas looks woeful when he comes off his line.

If they play Iniesta, i'd like to see him on the left. They looked brilliant with some width in Navas on the right.

I'd keep what they did for the next game, though.

If they play Iniesta, I'd like to see him on the left. They looked brilliant with some width in Navas on the right.

I'd keep what they did for the next game, though.

Meh don't know about Navas.

He looked unique in giving them an extra dimension but lost way too much possession and fluffed too many crosses for my liking.

He looked unique in giving them an extra dimension but lost way too much possession and fluffed too many crosses for my liking.

Yeah his delivery was piss poor.

does anyone think david villa could be dealt with retrospectively over the bi*ch slap he gave out?

I mean it was not seen or dealt with by the ref, but the camera got it clearly. (auto red card)

Decent game this was. Enjoyed it.

Villa's first goal was top drawer.

Meh don't know about Navas.

He looked unique in giving them an extra dimension but lost way too much possession and fluffed too many crosses for my liking.

I agree he was pretty sh*te. But the width just opened it up for Xavi and Villa and in turn, Torres.

Unless the put Pedro on, who has a better end product.

Still think it's needless to play Busquets.

         Alonso

     Xavi    Iniesta

Still think it's needless to play Busquets.

         Alonso

     Xavi    Iniesta

Exactly.

Alonso can do everything Busquets can do, and more. Fabregas or Iniesta should be playing ahead of him.