Sunday Oliseh has kind words for the Spanish national team following their successful outing at the 2024 European Championship.
Spain defeated the Three Lions of England 2-1 in the final of the competition in Berlin on Sunday night.
Mikel Oyarzabal struck an 86th-minute winner after Cole Palmer had cancelled out Nico Williams’ opener.
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La Furia Roja made it seven wins from seven at Euro 2024 without needing penalties, scoring 15 goals in the process, which set a tournament record.
It was also the fourth time Spain will be winning the Euro title, making them most successful side in the history of the competition.
Oliseh showered encomium on Luis de la Fuente and his boys for their remarkable display throughout the competition.
“Magnificent 7″ Spain win 7 games in a row to become record European champions with 4 titles. Yamal,Williams Olmo, Rodri & coach De la Fuente have given me back joy watching the European championship. What a Team ,what a football philosophy with youngsters. By far the best team,” he wrote on X.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Continue chirping on the internet like a lost canary.
A 37yr old South African lad (another one who i guess also qualifies as your son’s agemate) has just been unveiled as the new coach of Wydad Casablanca, one of the biggest clubs in morrocco and by extension in Africa.
The funny thing is that he never even played for his national team, at the AFCON, world cup or in Europe under top coaches.
To get that sort of job, He didn’t need to wield all that exinternational nonsense you and your lazy unqualified yet entitled comarades wield whenever you demand for NFF jobs you neither deserve nor qualify for.
He only allowed his CV to speak for him which includes close to 10 years of senior coaching experience and multiple trophies to show for it all.
They will not give us jobs because we are blacks….LMAOoo
Rulani Mokwena becomes the 3rd black coach to be employed by top Arab clubs in africa after Florent Ibengue (RS Berkane of morrocco) and Pitso Mosimane (Ahahly of Egypt).
A child who washes his hands clean will dine with elders.
Continue chirping away your coaching career on the internet…..I’m very sure we will hear from you again when next the SE coaching job becomes vacant….LMAOoo
Wherever you’re hiding insulting meaningful people I hope God punishes you idiot nobody. The poverty causing you so much hurt will only leave you when you turn a new leaf.
Hahahahaha….See whom God has alredy been helping me to punish for years now…LMAOoo
Meaningful people…!
No wonder you have remained poverty striken all your miserable life…LMAOoo…to the point where obtaining entry visa into another country is of major significance in your life….LMAOoo
If I have lied up there point it out….otherwise crawl back into that gutter where you were raised….LMAOoo
Useless Animal. I can see how much life is frustrating you these days…LMAOoo. All you come to do on CSN thewe days is to look for Dr. DREY to eat for food….LMAOoo
Hahahahaha….See whom God has alredy been helping me to punish for years now…LMAOoo
Meaningful people…!
No wonder you have remained poverty striken all your miserable life…LMAOoo…to the point where obtaining entry visa into another country is of major significance in your life….LMAOoo
If I have lied up there point it out….otherwise crawl back into that gutter where you were raised….LMAOoo
Useless Animal. I can see how much life is frustrating you these days…LMAOoo. All you come to do on CSN thewe days is to look for Dr. DREY to eat for food….LMAOoo
The key to the Spanish performance was their midfield weighted by their wing play. The difference between their performance at the World Cup and their Euro performance was the addition of wingers.
Their possession football at the WC supported by their midfield proved adequate in achieving dominance, but could not translate into winning games. At the Euros they added wings (Williams and Yamal) to their midfield dominance, producing a winning formula that defeated heavyweight stalwarts Italy, Croatia, Germany, France, and of course England.
Essentially they defeated most of the top-ranked European teams.
The question for everyone else is how do they do it? Important, is their midfield dominance. The Spanish midfield is more flexible than others. Their midfielders can adopt or be assigned a variety of midfield tasks.
They do not have static defensive midfielders like Rice (for England) or Ndidi (for Nigeria) whose only job is to shield the defence.
Rodri, their defensive midfielder is a playmaker that sets the tempo of the game. Fabio Ruiz pivots with Rodri, which means with Olmo they can overload the central areas of the pitch.
It means against teams like England that have static defensive midfielders shielding the back line, they have 3 players(Ruiz, Rodri and Olmo) against 2 (Bellingham and Foden).
The Spanish midfield are all adept at holding the ball – rarely losing possession, pressing and tackling to win back possession, and display the most impressive array of passing skills.
It is this flexibility where all the midfield players have the entire range of midfield skills allowing them to interchange that is at the centre of Spanish football success. The icing on the cake is the addition of wings which creates a dilemma for opposing teams as well as sharpening the Spanish attack by providing more goal-scoring opportunities.
The Spanish can launch attacks from 3 areas, the left-wing (Williams), the right-wing( Yamal), and the middle through the interplay of passes of the midfielders(Ruiz, Rodri, and Olmo) and their attacker (Morata). On wing play, Spain has nothing to teach the world, not even Nigeria, as our wingers are just as good.
It is the midfield where Spain is the master and everyone else ‘learners’ and the key clue is how they launch attacks through the middle. They have 4 methods which I’ll call the ‘ladder’, the ‘mirror’, the ‘thread’ and the ‘shield’.
The ladder is to play a combination of passes as they advance into the oppositions half. This can mean the ball holder is accompanied in near-parallel (usually just slightly ahead) by another (midfield) player. When the ball holder is challenged he simply passes the ball across to the player accompanying him. In this way, they form the rungs of a ladder. They can also play the ladder in the penalty area.
The mirror is to receive a pass in an opponent’s area and deflect it in a different direction to an attacker with only one touch. Its effect is to unsettle the opposing team whose concentration is misdirected. Spain plays a lot of these passes to advance to the penalty area from the centre circle.
The thread – has two types, and is based on how they pass the ball. They thread the ball through the needle of marking players. They look for gaps between two opposing players and pass the ball between them to their own players who are always positioned to receive the ball from this position. This is called the ‘lazy thread’. The second is the ‘hard thread’, which requires the ball-holding player to advance on his marker side step left or right and at that moment launch his pass between opposing players. This can take out a lot of players.
The shield is hold-up play. An example is dele-Bashiru’s goal against South Africa, but Spain does this differently. They are willing to hold-up play in the penalty box rather than outside as most teams do. And with quick feet and short exchanges of passes they can cut through the centre of any defence to obtain goal scoring opportunities.
The final attribute of the Spanish midfield is courage. They are not afraid to lose the ball or to pass the ball forward. They have confidence in their pressing and tackling ability to win back the ball.
Abeg, you be coach?