B. In the best scenario. As a spaniard (also as a good football lover) very pleasantly surprised by our sometimes magnificent team perfomances, right now i still thinks that we lack the hierarchy of players with the caliber of Puyol, Piqué, Ramos or Iker Casillas in our back four. Maybe a differential factor against us in the quarterfinals (if it has been reached) against Germany. If wrong, I won't complaint at all. 😊
@@javierluissantosrubio6603 esta claro q es un buen dato teniendo en cuenta q España no ha sido eliminada por perder un partido desde el 2016 y q además los penaltis tienen un alto factor de suerte
imagine a team where silva, fabregas or cazorla were reserves; with puyol, pique and ramos in the back, casillas in the goalie, and the most underrated player ever in spain, villa, in the top. What a dream it was to watch them play and win.
The tiki-taka style in the Spanish national team was implemented by Luis Aragonés during Euro 2008, before Guardiola coached Barcelona. Additionally, among Spain's three consecutive titles (Euro 2008, World Cup 2010, and Euro 2012), I believe the best tiki-taka, with a single defensive pivot, was seen in Euro 2008, as mentioned before Guardiola arrived at Barcelona. Xavi Hernández himself says that Luis Aragonés reinvented him as a player and states, "Luis Aragonés is the most influential person in my sports career." The notion that tiki-taka in the national team comes from Guardiola's Barcelona has become almost a truth by repetition, but the fact is that a year before Guardiola took over at Barcelona, Spain had already amazed the world in Euro 2008 with matches like the one against Russia.
This, word by word, is the truth. Luis was an old man without Guardiola's charm and style and (certanly) with fewer friends in the media, so his greatest creation (la España de los bajitos, the midgets' Spain) will forever be attributed to others. If you read this, spread the word, right that wrong.
Guardiola was coaching the B-team in 2008 with the same tiki taka style. Before that Riikjaard, Cruyff. Trying to discredit Guardiola typical Madrid fans
@@Carebearwithfam I am not a Real Madrid fan; I am a Valencia fan. As you can understand, given what happened with Mijatovic, what they tried with Mendieta, with Villa, and many others, I am probably even less of a Madrid fan than you are. In fact, I am quite an admirer of Barcelona, though not a supporter, but I admire their philosophy, La Masia, and many other things. Secondly, what you said about Guardiola already using that style with the B team is irrelevant. What is constantly said is that "Guardiola's Barcelona" (and everyone, including you, knows that when people talk about Guardiola's Barcelona, they mean when he coached the first team) came before the first time the national team used tiki-taka, and that is not true. No one disputes that the more touch-based game or total football was invented in the Netherlands in the 70s, or that the best example of it is Barcelona with the arrival of Cruyff, establishing that style as Barcelona's identity. No one disputes that Rijkaard added certain elements and that Guardiola added many more. But that doesn't negate the claim that the national team copied and transferred Guardiola's Barcelona to the national team, which is not true-it happened before his arrival. What you have said does not contradict what I have said because we are not discussing who invented the style (which was neither Aragonés nor Guardiola) or who gradually improved it. The point is that it is not true that Aragonés copied Guardiola's Barcelona. These are two different things. It is false to say that Aragonés took "Guardiola's Barcelona" and transferred it to the national team, and that is incorrect from any point of view. Even Xavi's change from playing where he had been his entire career to a slightly more advanced position was Aragonés's idea, and from then on, it became Xavi's position, even at Barcelona. That is why Xavi says Aragonés is the most influential person in his career. That Barcelona has been the greatest exponent of combination and touch football from the 90s to today due to Cruyff's arrival is 100% true. But it is false to say that Aragonés copied and established the style of "Guardiola's Barcelona" in the national team because the beginning of the wonderful era of "Guardiola's Barcelona" started the following year. Sorry for the lengthy text, but I wanted to clarify that I understand what you are saying, and I don't dispute that Barcelona has been the clear exponent of that football style since the 90s. However, that is one thing, and another is that it was not possible to specifically copy Guardiola's Barcelona, the use of those players, etc., when he hadn't yet coached them.
The other teams allowed it too. Most nations can’t outplay a midfield with Rodri, Pedri, Gavi Fabián, or with Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Xabi, Silva, etc before, so they focused on giving the ball to Spain, park the bus and wait for the counter
The great problem was to have the key players to make that can of Game. Nor Xavi, Nor Iniesta, Nor Silva had substitute to make that kind of Game. The case of Busquets yes, Rodri. Not to say have problems to have good centre-backs. Until now these problems became cronic. At the end, le Normand, Laporte, Nacho, finally, the centre back were find, even midfielders like Pedro, Fabián, Gavi. Were joined to achieve a good centre-midfielders, however, are not but good enough. The case of forwards Morata has been find as the only one. He is not a TOP forward but IS good enough. Was at the end which players will support Morata at the attack. Luis enrique decided for more attack midfielders in order to copy Tiki Taka style of his predecesors, however, that was a real failure. None of then achieved the objectives. Was a even a boring Game without any goals. When De la fuente the under 21 coach arrive to the Big team he decided to combine the Tiki Taka style but with more direct wingers to support Morata. That si when Young talents like Nico and Lamine arrive to Barcelona and Athletic first teams. The players that wanted were found.
De la fuente is still playing tiki taka, is just that is more vertical than the other past coaches. Because of this the media thought that he was refusing spain's style of play. But in reality is the same thing. Against Italy Spain did not have that much possession. This is because he tried to adapt to the opponent. But he said that his first priority is the possession, but if he has to be more direct to adapt to the rival, he will. The idea of play is the same, is just being a little vertical when needed.
Any team wants to have the most vertical passes as possible, independently of its philosophy. The thing is that Luis Enrique's Spain didn't have a winger like Yamal at the right side. The difference is that now the team can stretch the field with substantial threats coming from both sides with Nico Williams and Yamal. This creates space and permits more verticality.
Not every team what u talking about. Yawal doesn't even stretch the wing that is nico's yamal's job is to invert. Rewatch the matches😔 although he ussualy does it. That is not his primary role. That's why he cuts inside looking for a shoot or cross
AH LOPETEGUI did the same,,with EPIC diego costa smashing all defenders,,but he was fired 24 hours before 2018 world cup in the most retarded decision ever ...LOpetegui bring back the strikers to bury the lame delbosque decadence era of 2014 to 2016..
Spain still aim for possesion but instead of reaching it by keeping the ball, they reach it by agressive pressuring enemy possesion. This leads to less possesion percentage but more effective possesion of the ball, more goal reach and quicker defense reaction on counter attacks
spain looks incredible. they have been my pick to win the euro since the first half i saw them play against croatia. they absolutely smother their opponents offensively and defensively while having the skill to make meaningful plays and goal opportunities.
Spain is still playing tiki taka, don't get confused. The players have been raised with that style, they will just change the ways depending on the players they have but the philosophy is the same (Cruyffism). There are no rules against "passing with a fast pace" in tiki taka, they did have a good pace in the 2008 and 2010 teams, but as they grew older and less hungry for titles, they slowed down, as it happens with any team. With all due respect, this is just a superficial analysis based on recent results. Spain against Croatia was an outlier, Spain isn't that effective usually, they normally need more chances to convert (more like what happened in their match against Italy) and they usually beat their opponents in possession. Don't forget Spain with Luis Enrique reached semi-finals last Eurocup and lost to the champion in penalties, we don't even know if the current team will get that far. Regarding the WC, Morocco also beat Portugal, so they deserved more credit than just blaming tiki taka. It is normal that when a physical rough team sits deep in a low block parking the bus, Spain will suffer, even the current team or with their best team in history. Let's remember 2010 Spain (the "GOAT"), beat their opponents 1 - 0 and COULD have gone out against Paraguay easily. This trouble against those kind of teams will always exist, and any style of football will look toothless against a good bus parking team that won't take the initiative. You will need players that dribble and beat defenders one on one to gain an advantage, but those kind of players aren't always available.
It's true that Spain won 1-0 all the elimination matches in that world cup, but they were much superior to the oponents, shooting way more with clear chances, and matches could have finished with many more goals. Both the semifinal and final could have ended 4-0.
guardiola had been in barsa b with the tiki taka the previous year where busquets and xavi were in his team, where they were promoted from third division.
@@daavids19 you definetly didn't see that. It was Van Gaal who made Xavi debut in Laliga and Rijkaard used him as a regular for years before Guardiola. People can't stop trying to prove that Guardiola invented football. And he just continued with what people before him did.
@@robertcena9194 Xavi had been alternating since 1998 in fact with vangaal he hardly played, guardiola discovers busquets, stop always repeating the same phrase because it is obvious that you are Madrid fans.
@@robertcena9194 The Barca team that started playing tiki taka was his, Spain only had possession of the ball because they had the players that had those capabilities, but they never tactically played that style, only after the Eurocup when they saw that it worked for Barca.
@@daavids19 It is funny that a Real Madrid fan knows better Barcelona's history than you do. Because you keep giving credit to Guardiola for things he never did. The coach that made Busquets debut was Frank Rijkaard in the summer of 2007 in the final of copa Cataluña against Espanyol. You should really stop. You are embarrasing yourself.
They also got to the semis of the last Euros losing only to Italy on pens. Sadly, the author decided that the narrative of the video was more important than the actual facts.
So true. And they were they best team in the 2021 Eurocup. All respect to both teams, but Italy played very dirty and did not deserve to win. They fell of from the greatness in 2008-2013, but in the last ten years they have been better than Germany, England, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, etc. In the last ten years they have been the third best European team, only behind France and Croatia.
Your make a few inaccuracies that I find important to correct. 1) Tiquitaca was born on October 17th 2007, in the qualifying game for the Euro08 between Denmark and Spain, 1-3, coached by Luis Aragonés (check out the highlights in TH-cam); 2) Pep Guardiola had just been hired hired as the new coach of the B TEAM of Barcelona, and coached all season in the Third tier league of Spanish football; when Spain won the Euro 2008, Guardiola was announced as Barcelona team A new coach. Soooo, you need to ask yourself who influenced who, and how Catalan Tiquitaca’s roots were; B) Under Del Bosque Tiquitaca did not became more defined, but never coached with full conviction. A very conservative coach, Del Bosque always gave priority to NOT LOSING the ball, so he created the boring, purposeless game that has been mocked so much. Spain went into a winning strike in spite of Del Bosque, who screwed up a few important details in the mechanism, and thanks to an incredible generation of players. The firing of Luis Aragonés right after winning the Euro08 was shameful, unfair, and a great loss if Spain’s national team; 3) Last, but not least, only ball players in every position were in Aragones’ formations. There is more to say, but I will live it here.
luis aragones never played with that tactic in his teams, the team of luis aragones in the first stage of the selection without xavi and busquets, did not play like that, it was not until xavi and busquets entered barcelona and came from guardiola's subsidiary with which he won the third division playing that style of play.
@@ender_z4nd3r83 You don't have any argument to defend what you say, just as a fan of Real Madrid you want to maintain that because you want to detract from Guardiola, put arguments in front of us and we will debate, if in 2006 Luis Aragones was criticized for not playing well, in fact never a team of Luis Aragonés played Tiki Taka
I don't think they abandoned it. It's just more effective with the wingers they have in the modern game. They still maintain what they are good at, which is their technical ability and moving the ball around, etc
we did that with lopetegui..with diego costa or even 2 more strikers on attack...luis enrique bring anabsolute chaos..we can win german 6-1 or just lose againts ukranie ,luis enrique was chaos
Tiki Taka was created by Aragones, that was BEFORE Guardiola arrived to Barsa, Tiki Taka wasnt tuned up, but CREATED by Aragones, Spain NEVER EVER played Tiki Taka before Aragones.
The key is in pressing, counter pressing and the tactical flexibility, that is being able the transition quickly from repossession to fluid, direct attack or slow down the game and control possession depending on what the situation needs.
Excelent video, we didnt had two wingers like Lamine and Nico before, thats why we can be more direct, but the the style its the same, height pressing and recovering the ball as fast as possible in the opposite side. This didnt change at all, the difference makers in attack are Nico and Lamine, they can adapt so well to every situation in the game that they free the midfielders
Exactly. The foreigners believe that now De la Fuente wants to change all, but nothing of that. He changes a little because now we have Lamine and Nico and nothing more. If in the past we could have had players like Nico and Lamine, the game could was the same that now. But in the past only we had good interior players, not pure exteriors (extremes), that is the unique and true differency. The Selections is adapt to their have in their countries. If you have players to some positions, but not to others, you adapt your game and your style to that. The more clearly example of that, it´s the match against Albania with players more slow, static and without ability to overflow along the band. Spain again was a little less deep, fast, dinamic, open, etc. Because don´t have a pure extremes. Spain was more a little like always was that it´s now against Croatia and Italy. Only for two players, but they are differents to the rest and uniques. This is the True. Regards.
They both cut inside the second they have the ball though, specially Lapine. But I agree, the point is that they stay open without the ball and making the field deeper helps create spaces and passes are longer and faster than the 2-3 meter passes we've had for years... Also: Rodri is the best posible replace for busquets, remember Lamine is only 16 🤯 and at least for the group stage so far no other team seems better (Germany struggled way too much last game...)
If the midfielders can add long range shots and score more goals then itll be crazy. Lot more threatening. Same with barca tbh since its just another spain
I'm not a football fan but I am Spanish and I do watch the World and Euro Cup. I swear to God that I had to fight not falling sleep Spain's matches lately. I felt like making a wish the other day after seeing Spain score a goal on a counter.
I would say there is a lot of potential from Spain to reach the final but they will be in the hardest side of the bracket with Germany, Portugal, France, it will be a tough task for any of the teams.
Tiki-taka was a blessing for us back in 08-12, but it also became a terrible burden since then, when our coaches kept playing the same way over and over and over despite the fact we didn't have the right players to execute this idea anymore. As a result, we sucked from 2014 to 2023 (yes, you're right: we made it to the semifinals in 2021 and we even won the Nations League last year, but at the cost of being boring as Hell). Thank God Luis de la Fuente was able to see what went wrong, fixed it and now we're back! 🏆
spain is not ditching anything. theyre just adapting to the kind of players they have in this generation. However, the objective remains the same, to be the ones in control of the ball and to be the ones attacking most of the time. Pep did the same when he moved out of Barcelona. In Barcelona he would not allow players to cross the ball under ANY circumstances. then he finds himself with lewandoski Ribery and Robben so he started to adapt to what he had and the overall game changed a little. However, the philosophy remained the same. This is what Spain is doing. they still have tons of ball playing midfielders. However, they have to adapt to the ones who are performing better right now. There's no more mistery than that.
Not easy on the eyes? I very much enjoyed this Spain team a lot more than the Spain team in the 2022 World Cup. It's infinitely better; they are fun to watch, and you can see from a mile away that they are by far the best team in this competition thus far. I hope they keep up the momentum.
Spain has been winning in posession for the last 16 years, 136 marches Spain records 47% posession against Croacia in the 137th match In the 138th match, Spain records 58% posession In the 139th match, Spain records 57% possesion @FrontPageFootball: Tiki Taka is over!
Give Luis Enrique his props.. he took a chance on a lot of youngsters. He made it to final of the nations league and came short on pks in the world cup. Madrid press pushed the guy out because they simply did not like him.
Morata always performed well for spain,he scored in every match in the group stage of last world cup and is probably spain top scorer in the Luis Enrique era (not sure,ferran scored a lot too)
They just need a new generation, rodri and ruiz were subtitutes in euro 21 semifinal, now they are in the 11. Then olmo and oyarzabal were on the starting 11, now they are good substitutes, lamine and william are on the starting 11, thats a change in resources! Your tactic is a result of your resources.
I get the idea but I feel that the whole argument is suported by the match against Croatia, where Spains was 3-0 up at half time. Given the score it was not necessary to press and get the ball...
It's not 16 years, it's 11 years. They lost in the 2013 confederations cup final which was the end for that team. 3 years ago they were also better than eventual champions Italy, who only beat them on penalties in the Semi's. This team doesn't even come close to the one who won three trophies in a row until they win trophies. The 2002 Spanish World Cup team was amazing with players like Mendieta, Morientes Raul, Ruben Baraja, Joaquin, Ivan Helguera, but have been forgotten as they didn't win anything. It's not how good they play, it's getting there hands on that trophy that counts or they'll be forgotten like other previous Spanish teams.
Spanish here ;D.... First of all we still play "tiki-taka" I mean all our sub 21-23-19-17 play that style.... Spain decided to play like that with all their generations so we can have players that know how to play that style cause is clearly the best style possible and the style that provides both more titles and respect. Is just that sometimes yeah... You don't get that good players to win things even playing the best style possible. I mean look at the Eurocup 2021, we were for sure the best team playing as a team, but look at the players.... Ferran, Olmo Morata on forward, and I think they are not that bad players but just fine players, like a 6 or 7/10 then u look France doing an absolute ridiculous with mbappe, griezmann and dembele my god, or England now with Bellingham, Kane, Saka, Foden... Camon if spain has this players we wil win this euro like bullying easy the other countrys, and that's because we have the style implemented since low categories and know what we want to do on games. Sometimes yeah... you lose.... Everyone loses but it's the best we can do for sure. And now people saying we are ditching Tiki-Taka... Na na na, we play the same is just that now we play with 2 wingers that can 1v1 or even 1v2, and that provides something that we didn't have with Ferran and Olmo on wings so is another option to generate ocasions that we didn't have before and it makes it easier to don't havke matches like the match vs Morroco..... And I mean what would say the people if we just won the stupid penalties against Morroco? wining a game based on luck makes u better? or luckier? is always the same....We were good on world cup, and we are good now but with 2 players that bring us more options and are wayyyy better than the players we had back then that are Lamine Yamal and NIco, that's all, besides that it's literally almost the same team with the same Idea.
The current Spanish team reminds me of the Spanish team from 1986. A bit more direct and offensive. Another thing, Lopetegui would've been a more successful coach for Spain had he not been sacked by the Spanish FA just three days before their WC debut back in Russia 2018.
It's hard to strike a balance between relying on passing as your defining trate and overdoing it to a logical extreme. Spain always needs SOME tiki-taka.
Spain's philosophy of play always has the same fundamentals: Ball possession and generating football. For example, one of Spain's bases is to defend through ball possession (something like "if I have the ball you can't hurt me with it") as well as defending in other ways depending on the situation. The Spain of today completely maintains that base but adapted to the players that are there at the moment. Right now Spain does not have the magic of Iniesta, Silva, Xavi, etc. but it has two good wide players in the style of N. Williams
Si vamos a los orígenes.... Guardiola se inspiró en el dream team de Cryuff, del que formava parte y a su vez Cruyff se insipro en la naranja mecánica de Rinus Michels. Pep también se aprovecho del buen trabajo de Rijkaard que ya apuntava maneras y sobretodo de la increíble generación de futbolistas formados en la Masia. Fue Cruyff, en los 90, el que instauro la filosofía del toque y movimiento rápido del balón en la Masia. Xavi e Iniesta no surgieron de la nada, flojos, lentos y pequeños físicamente tuvieron el mejor entorno posible para exprimir sus virtudes
Spain did not abandon tiki-taka. It has evolved because the old ways no longer worked. But the philosophy remains the same, high pressure, high possession and positioning of the players.
There's no such change in Spain's style. After more than 180 games, it is normal to lose the possesion in one game, but that was just an exception. The great difference and the only reason why now the spanish team is competitive again is that in this Euro, they have 4-5 very talented players; Rodri, Pedri, Fabián, and specially Nico and Lamine Yamal.
Spain is playing different this time using the tactic “you press you lose” -only possible if each player becomes the main part of the group. The block has to move in harmony. If they decide to play as low block, middle or high they wiil need to work together at the same time…It’s risky but worthy.
The spanish football still has the same bases. The only thing that has changed is that now there are two very vertical and fast wingers that were not there before.
The expression tiki-taka was invented by Spanish sports journalists. I understand that the name works abroad, and they use it. But many Spanish fans have learned to hate that expression "tiki-taka" because it means a thousand passes to do nothing, and because we have had people who are too fanatical about that style who have only prolonged something that no longer worked for a long time. How to play brilliantly and attack only worked all the time in 2008. In 2010 and 2012 sometimes it worked, and other times it was nothing more than a way of defending with the ball, not to attack eficienty.
@@javisc1999 when you say wide wingers to provide width olmo is not okay. He may be a inverted winger who comes inside of the pitch but current spaish team doesn't need that now. Just because he got a goal last game doesn't change anything.
@@mehedihasananik694Spain was never bad tbh even with Ferran and Olmo. They are good players and Ferran have even scored a hatrick against Germany. On a technical level both are superior to Nico. It's just that they are not quite as effective as wingers because Nico and Yamal are super pacy and explosive. The hate is almost unfounded, Barça fans just always blame it on Ferran Torres when he actually helps but injuries happen. The scapegoat machansism as always it's either Ferran or Roberto when things go south. Olmo is a massive player on a technical front. If Barça hopes Nico will shine every game, they are gonna be disappointed. He's sloppy at times. But his natural pace will boost counter attacks.
That's it, adaptability is key, not so much the directness of the game. Spain is now more unpredictable in their approach to each game, which is playing in their favour tremendously
Well if you have that more possession and you create more chances than the opponent while conceding very little, but you don't finish the opportunities that you get, the problem is not the play-style but the creativity of the forwards and sometimes your luck in those games. Losing in penalties versus a team like Morocco who every other team would have had problems to beat them when they only defend the whole game, is not an issue with the tikitaka either. Also Spain keeps the same play-style as before is just that now they have Lamine + Nico Williams, plus they are not being unlucky with the goals... I agree De la Fuente has made a few changes, losing possession of the ball in some instances while keeping a solid and compact static defense. But we have also seen this changes with Xavi the past season for example... So no, Spain is NOT ditching tikitaka.
I think (at least inside Spain) that the post golden era team is sometimes too heavily criticized. It didn't deliver in the world cup which is tbe nost inportant competition. But one semifinals of eurocup, one second place and one win of nations league are nothing to scoff at. The generation that won everything was a crazy one, Spain had some of the best players in the world in every position excluding maybe strikers (where torres didn't deliver), it's really hard to match a generation like that one, and I'm personally hopeful with our chances this euro, and the team seams to be really good, it's just that's frustrating seeing so many opportunities lost because of the inability of scoring
@@andrekoerber7334 Torres used to underperform with the national team, at least compared to the expectations. Villa was great, he was a world class player, but imo that doesn't elevate the strikers as a whole to the level of the midfield or defence that Spain had, you could very well argue that the midfielders and defense were each one of them the best on their position worldwide, maybe except Navas. They would also have to compete with Messi and Ronaldo for those places.
It sounds obvious but Spanish Players are key. Cucurella is performing as onle of the best LB in the world. Rodri is by far the best in his position. Yamal and Nico ridicoulously break all defences
Nice history analysis. Since many years, and as spaniard, I have seen that Spain is a national team that in a single match, can beat any team. What it is not clear to me, is that we will be able to win any long competition. Spain has being since many years an strong national team, even with Raul era, the middlefield and defence was an strong asset. What is different from Del Bosque era in my opinion (of course that we had maybe the best generation in the middlefield that no another country can face) was that we had two nice strikers as Torres and David Villa. Also I would like not to forget Iker Casillas contribution. Can we beat Germany? For sure. Can we beat France,? we can. But can we win all those matches against strong national teams... it is not clear to me.
we'r again the best selection of the world and we came here to stay, the best football players in average came from spain nowadays, we got high lvl players on every position.
As a Spanish, I clearly think Spain has the capability of winning the whole thing. France is not looking as strong as it was just a year or two ago, England is very hit or miss, and realistically, Germany is the only opponent that worries me
i kind of agree, but do not forget portugal squat is capable of producing very dangerous moments, so it does french mbape, dembele ... if they have their day they can make huge damage to anyone. And at knock-out stages it is a matter of just few moments the coin can shift from one side to the other. So i believe Spain can defeat all of them but also can be defeated by any of those ones. One strong point of current spanish squat is the cohesion, spirit and motivation,that seems to be among the highest of all! as example look at cucurella reactions and electric one to one confrontations, (as weel as nico against italy), it reminds me of puyol energy, as a feared dog overwelming oponents!!
France give my Real Madrid vibes... Like, they can be awful in the group stage and display mediocre football but they can win it in the end with their individualities and determination.
Es una evolución lógica: controlas el centro del campo pero tu juego es lento y aburrido? Añade dos extremos wingers y revoluciona tu juego sorprendiendo a tus rivales. Lo inexplicable es que otras selecciones no copien nuestro estilo de juego superior
Tika taka Spain ain’t run away from its was the player they had didn’t understand it or didn’t know how to play it it’s takes for a new generation to understand it
Where will Spain finish at Euro 2024? 🇪🇸👇🏻
A. Round of 16
B. Quarter-finals
C. Semi-finals
D. Final/Winner 🏆
D
Quarter Finals
D. Final/Winner
B. In the best scenario.
As a spaniard (also as a good football lover) very pleasantly surprised by our sometimes magnificent team perfomances, right now i still thinks that we lack the hierarchy of players with the caliber of Puyol, Piqué, Ramos or Iker Casillas in our back four.
Maybe a differential factor against us in the quarterfinals (if it has been reached) against Germany.
If wrong, I won't complaint at all. 😊
@@uxiorabade2968 Germany is overrated struggled against swiss while you guys topped group of death
Cucureya is lowkey in every single counter, either by stealing the ball, stoping a play or pivoting to sides fronts. Mad respect
And he just pops out of nowhere
He’s probably reading this too
😂
@@porex2624 lol
Cucurella.
Who is here after spain reaching the finals🎉
AND NOW THEY WON THE FINALSSSSSSS
They won🎉
@@_----....----_ and now they won
fun fact: Spain has never been eliminated losing a game since euro 2016. In 2018, 2021 and 2022, Spain was eliminated in penalties
Which is the fun part?
@@javierluissantosrubio6603vaya amargado luis por estas cosas nadie te aguanta
@@javierluissantosrubio6603vaya amargado javier luis por estas cosas nadie te aguanta.
@@javierluissantosrubio6603 They have to get better at penalties.
@@javierluissantosrubio6603 esta claro q es un buen dato teniendo en cuenta q España no ha sido eliminada por perder un partido desde el 2016 y q además los penaltis tienen un alto factor de suerte
imagine a team where silva, fabregas or cazorla were reserves; with puyol, pique and ramos in the back, casillas in the goalie, and the most underrated player ever in spain, villa, in the top. What a dream it was to watch them play and win.
That was football.They made us the Spaniards proud
No one understimated Villa in Spain I'll tell you that (I'm Spanish) , if anything outside Spain
Perfect sinergy...dream team in reality winning world cup
Xabi Alonso backing Xavi Hernández, and...... Iniesta.
That Spanish team made me love soccer
Here after spain won the euro2024🎉🎉
The tiki-taka style in the Spanish national team was implemented by Luis Aragonés during Euro 2008, before Guardiola coached Barcelona. Additionally, among Spain's three consecutive titles (Euro 2008, World Cup 2010, and Euro 2012), I believe the best tiki-taka, with a single defensive pivot, was seen in Euro 2008, as mentioned before Guardiola arrived at Barcelona. Xavi Hernández himself says that Luis Aragonés reinvented him as a player and states, "Luis Aragonés is the most influential person in my sports career." The notion that tiki-taka in the national team comes from Guardiola's Barcelona has become almost a truth by repetition, but the fact is that a year before Guardiola took over at Barcelona, Spain had already amazed the world in Euro 2008 with matches like the one against Russia.
This, word by word, is the truth. Luis was an old man without Guardiola's charm and style and (certanly) with fewer friends in the media, so his greatest creation (la España de los bajitos, the midgets' Spain) will forever be attributed to others. If you read this, spread the word, right that wrong.
Guardiola was coaching the B-team in 2008 with the same tiki taka style. Before that Riikjaard, Cruyff. Trying to discredit Guardiola typical Madrid fans
@@Carebearwithfam
I am not a Real Madrid fan; I am a Valencia fan. As you can understand, given what happened with Mijatovic, what they tried with Mendieta, with Villa, and many others, I am probably even less of a Madrid fan than you are. In fact, I am quite an admirer of Barcelona, though not a supporter, but I admire their philosophy, La Masia, and many other things.
Secondly, what you said about Guardiola already using that style with the B team is irrelevant. What is constantly said is that "Guardiola's Barcelona" (and everyone, including you, knows that when people talk about Guardiola's Barcelona, they mean when he coached the first team) came before the first time the national team used tiki-taka, and that is not true.
No one disputes that the more touch-based game or total football was invented in the Netherlands in the 70s, or that the best example of it is Barcelona with the arrival of Cruyff, establishing that style as Barcelona's identity. No one disputes that Rijkaard added certain elements and that Guardiola added many more. But that doesn't negate the claim that the national team copied and transferred Guardiola's Barcelona to the national team, which is not true-it happened before his arrival.
What you have said does not contradict what I have said because we are not discussing who invented the style (which was neither Aragonés nor Guardiola) or who gradually improved it. The point is that it is not true that Aragonés copied Guardiola's Barcelona. These are two different things. It is false to say that Aragonés took "Guardiola's Barcelona" and transferred it to the national team, and that is incorrect from any point of view. Even Xavi's change from playing where he had been his entire career to a slightly more advanced position was Aragonés's idea, and from then on, it became Xavi's position, even at Barcelona. That is why Xavi says Aragonés is the most influential person in his career.
That Barcelona has been the greatest exponent of combination and touch football from the 90s to today due to Cruyff's arrival is 100% true. But it is false to say that Aragonés copied and established the style of "Guardiola's Barcelona" in the national team because the beginning of the wonderful era of "Guardiola's Barcelona" started the following year.
Sorry for the lengthy text, but I wanted to clarify that I understand what you are saying, and I don't dispute that Barcelona has been the clear exponent of that football style since the 90s. However, that is one thing, and another is that it was not possible to specifically copy Guardiola's Barcelona, the use of those players, etc., when he hadn't yet coached them.
what a bull shit
you fir sure real madrid fan LOL
Yes that's true in 2007 with fast transition game with 5 midfield
Spain vs Germany is gonna be 🔥
easy win for Germany 5-1 at best for Germany
@@CodetreyNah, Germany struggles against Spain
@@Codetrey a man can dream, eh? :p
@@Codetrey will see
@@Codetrey Nah, 130-0 seems more realistic.
136 games with more possession than oppnets is crazzyyzyz
it's an insane stat... the guys keeping track at it must have walked into every match thinking that this would be the end.
The other teams allowed it too. Most nations can’t outplay a midfield with Rodri, Pedri, Gavi Fabián, or with Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Xabi, Silva, etc before, so they focused on giving the ball to Spain, park the bus and wait for the counter
Barça went 315 games without losing the posession stat between 2008-2013
The great problem was to have the key players to make that can of Game. Nor Xavi, Nor Iniesta, Nor Silva had substitute to make that kind of Game. The case of Busquets yes, Rodri. Not to say have problems to have good centre-backs. Until now these problems became cronic.
At the end, le Normand, Laporte, Nacho, finally, the centre back were find, even midfielders like Pedro, Fabián, Gavi. Were joined to achieve a good centre-midfielders, however, are not but good enough.
The case of forwards Morata has been find as the only one. He is not a TOP forward but IS good enough.
Was at the end which players will support Morata at the attack. Luis enrique decided for more attack midfielders in order to copy Tiki Taka style of his predecesors, however, that was a real failure. None of then achieved the objectives. Was a even a boring Game without any goals.
When De la fuente the under 21 coach arrive to the Big team he decided to combine the Tiki Taka style but with more direct wingers to support Morata. That si when Young talents like Nico and Lamine arrive to Barcelona and Athletic first teams. The players that wanted were found.
And Croatia had bigger possesion how is that even possible
For me as a German, Spain is the favorite in this tournament. If we reach the quarter finals against Spain, we'll probably loose.
I'm spanish. Wish you german friends luck. Cheers.
Im comming from the future. We will play against each other the quarter finals
You predicted it😂
@@cojaknepal3614 coming back from the future and yes, you were right, you loose again against us
true
De la fuente is still playing tiki taka, is just that is more vertical than the other past coaches. Because of this the media thought that he was refusing spain's style of play. But in reality is the same thing.
Against Italy Spain did not have that much possession. This is because he tried to adapt to the opponent. But he said that his first priority is the possession, but if he has to be more direct to adapt to the rival, he will.
The idea of play is the same, is just being a little vertical when needed.
Any team wants to have the most vertical passes as possible, independently of its philosophy. The thing is that Luis Enrique's Spain didn't have a winger like Yamal at the right side. The difference is that now the team can stretch the field with substantial threats coming from both sides with Nico Williams and Yamal. This creates space and permits more verticality.
Not every team what u talking about. Yawal doesn't even stretch the wing that is nico's yamal's job is to invert. Rewatch the matches😔 although he ussualy does it. That is not his primary role. That's why he cuts inside looking for a shoot or cross
AH LOPETEGUI did the same,,with EPIC diego costa smashing all defenders,,but he was fired 24 hours before 2018 world cup in the most retarded decision ever ...LOpetegui bring back the strikers to bury the lame delbosque decadence era of 2014 to 2016..
That’s the same thing as playing pragmatic football 😂
@@itimi2870 before luis enrique ,,we got lopetegui more vertical play...with DIEGO COSTA smashing like in the chelsea
who thinks spain will win 2026 World cup?
well the onl enemy of spain is himself and politicians
Spain still aim for possesion but instead of reaching it by keeping the ball, they reach it by agressive pressuring enemy possesion. This leads to less possesion percentage but more effective possesion of the ball, more goal reach and quicker defense reaction on counter attacks
spain looks incredible. they have been my pick to win the euro since the first half i saw them play against croatia. they absolutely smother their opponents offensively and defensively while having the skill to make meaningful plays and goal opportunities.
Spain is still playing tiki taka, don't get confused. The players have been raised with that style, they will just change the ways depending on the players they have but the philosophy is the same (Cruyffism). There are no rules against "passing with a fast pace" in tiki taka, they did have a good pace in the 2008 and 2010 teams, but as they grew older and less hungry for titles, they slowed down, as it happens with any team.
With all due respect, this is just a superficial analysis based on recent results. Spain against Croatia was an outlier, Spain isn't that effective usually, they normally need more chances to convert (more like what happened in their match against Italy) and they usually beat their opponents in possession. Don't forget Spain with Luis Enrique reached semi-finals last Eurocup and lost to the champion in penalties, we don't even know if the current team will get that far. Regarding the WC, Morocco also beat Portugal, so they deserved more credit than just blaming tiki taka.
It is normal that when a physical rough team sits deep in a low block parking the bus, Spain will suffer, even the current team or with their best team in history. Let's remember 2010 Spain (the "GOAT"), beat their opponents 1 - 0 and COULD have gone out against Paraguay easily. This trouble against those kind of teams will always exist, and any style of football will look toothless against a good bus parking team that won't take the initiative. You will need players that dribble and beat defenders one on one to gain an advantage, but those kind of players aren't always available.
Pedazo comentario 👏👏
You should do a TH-cam Channel man you have so more knowledge
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, this didn't age well :). It's not tiki taka anymore.
Wow que buen commentario usted si sabe de futbol
It's true that Spain won 1-0 all the elimination matches in that world cup, but they were much superior to the oponents, shooting way more with clear chances, and matches could have finished with many more goals. Both the semifinal and final could have ended 4-0.
Luis Aragones won the 2008 Euros before Guardiola's arrival in the Barcelona's first team btw
guardiola had been in barsa b with the tiki taka the previous year where busquets and xavi were in his team, where they were promoted from third division.
@@daavids19 you definetly didn't see that. It was Van Gaal who made Xavi debut in Laliga and Rijkaard used him as a regular for years before Guardiola. People can't stop trying to prove that Guardiola invented football. And he just continued with what people before him did.
@@robertcena9194 Xavi had been alternating since 1998 in fact with vangaal he hardly played, guardiola discovers busquets, stop always repeating the same phrase because it is obvious that you are Madrid fans.
@@robertcena9194 The Barca team that started playing tiki taka was his, Spain only had possession of the ball because they had the players that had those capabilities, but they never tactically played that style, only after the Eurocup when they saw that it worked for Barca.
@@daavids19 It is funny that a Real Madrid fan knows better Barcelona's history than you do. Because you keep giving credit to Guardiola for things he never did. The coach that made Busquets debut was Frank Rijkaard in the summer of 2007 in the final of copa Cataluña against Espanyol. You should really stop. You are embarrasing yourself.
This is defo the best TH-cam channel for video essays on Euro 2024 right now.
"Very well done. Very well documented and impeccably narrated. Keep it up!" 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Thank you! Will do!
Its just the greatest team in football history.
lol no
@@theunheardlamb 2008-2012? casual
Those 3 dominant Euro - WC - Euro win was something else
What a time to be alive, watch and enjoy the best team in football history!
Who is here after Spain won the finals?
People says Spain fell off, but remember they got second at 2021-2022 nations league and won 2023 nations league.
They also got to the semis of the last Euros losing only to Italy on pens. Sadly, the author decided that the narrative of the video was more important than the actual facts.
No trophies tho innit
Pretty harsh words coming from a brit yourself... @@FrontPageFootball
@@josealexandercruzpena7177 I’m no Brit, just a neutral football fan. Also, it’s just facts.
So true. And they were they best team in the 2021 Eurocup. All respect to both teams, but Italy played very dirty and did not deserve to win.
They fell of from the greatness in 2008-2013, but in the last ten years they have been better than Germany, England, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, etc.
In the last ten years they have been the third best European team, only behind France and Croatia.
How tf doesn't this video have more views???? Amazing work man, keep it up. You're gonna be huge
Your make a few inaccuracies that I find important to correct. 1) Tiquitaca was born on October 17th 2007, in the qualifying game for the Euro08 between Denmark and Spain, 1-3, coached by Luis Aragonés (check out the highlights in TH-cam); 2) Pep Guardiola had just been hired hired as the new coach of the B TEAM of Barcelona, and coached all season in the Third tier league of Spanish football; when Spain won the Euro 2008, Guardiola was announced as Barcelona team A new coach. Soooo, you need to ask yourself who influenced who, and how Catalan Tiquitaca’s roots were; B) Under Del Bosque Tiquitaca did not became more defined, but never coached with full conviction. A very conservative coach, Del Bosque always gave priority to NOT LOSING the ball, so he created the boring, purposeless game that has been mocked so much. Spain went into a winning strike in spite of Del Bosque, who screwed up a few important details in the mechanism, and thanks to an incredible generation of players. The firing of Luis Aragonés right after winning the Euro08 was shameful, unfair, and a great loss if Spain’s national team; 3) Last, but not least, only ball players in every position were in Aragones’ formations. There is more to say, but I will live it here.
luis aragones never played with that tactic in his teams, the team of luis aragones in the first stage of the selection without xavi and busquets, did not play like that, it was not until xavi and busquets entered barcelona and came from guardiola's subsidiary with which he won the third division playing that style of play.
There's no such thing as "tiquitaca" or tiki taka
It's called positional football and it existed from decades ago
@@daavids19 no, it wasn't guardiola, doesnt matter how much you barca fans want to make it seem that way
@@ender_z4nd3r83 You don't have any argument to defend what you say, just as a fan of Real Madrid you want to maintain that because you want to detract from Guardiola, put arguments in front of us and we will debate, if in 2006 Luis Aragones was criticized for not playing well, in fact never a team of Luis Aragonés played Tiki Taka
@@daavids19hombre, con los jugadores que tenía no estaba la cosa para tiki taka.
I don't think they abandoned it. It's just more effective with the wingers they have in the modern game. They still maintain what they are good at, which is their technical ability and moving the ball around, etc
we did that with lopetegui..with diego costa or even 2 more strikers on attack...luis enrique bring anabsolute chaos..we can win german 6-1 or just lose againts ukranie ,luis enrique was chaos
Tiki Taka was created by Aragones, that was BEFORE Guardiola arrived to Barsa, Tiki Taka wasnt tuned up, but CREATED by Aragones, Spain NEVER EVER played Tiki Taka before Aragones.
Thats the true and it was in the Euro 2008.
The key is in pressing, counter pressing and the tactical flexibility, that is being able the transition quickly from repossession to fluid, direct attack or slow down the game and control possession depending on what the situation needs.
Spain won.
I'm Spanish with German familie
VIVA ESPAÑA
Vamos españa se viene la cuarta euro
Lo dije y ocurrió. 4 veces campeona lo pongo en español porque es el idioma de los campelnes
Edit: campeones no campelnes
Excelent video, we didnt had two wingers like Lamine and Nico before, thats why we can be more direct, but the the style its the same, height pressing and recovering the ball as fast as possible in the opposite side. This didnt change at all, the difference makers in attack are Nico and Lamine, they can adapt so well to every situation in the game that they free the midfielders
Exactly.
The foreigners believe that now De la Fuente wants to change all, but nothing of that. He changes a little because now we have Lamine and Nico and nothing more. If in the past we could have had players like Nico and Lamine, the game could was the same that now. But in the past only we had good interior players, not pure exteriors (extremes), that is the unique and true differency.
The Selections is adapt to their have in their countries. If you have players to some positions, but not to others, you adapt your game and your style to that.
The more clearly example of that, it´s the match against Albania with players more slow, static and without ability to overflow along the band. Spain again was a little less deep, fast, dinamic, open, etc. Because don´t have a pure extremes. Spain was more a little like always was that it´s now against Croatia and Italy. Only for two players, but they are differents to the rest and uniques.
This is the True.
Regards.
They both cut inside the second they have the ball though, specially Lapine. But I agree, the point is that they stay open without the ball and making the field deeper helps create spaces and passes are longer and faster than the 2-3 meter passes we've had for years...
Also: Rodri is the best posible replace for busquets, remember Lamine is only 16 🤯 and at least for the group stage so far no other team seems better (Germany struggled way too much last game...)
If the midfielders can add long range shots and score more goals then itll be crazy. Lot more threatening. Same with barca tbh since its just another spain
@@salvador9369Como um brasileiro eu apoio a Espanha e seu lindo estilo de jogo
Here after Spain won the Euros!🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
I'm not sure where you unearthed that gem of a track from, but I had to dig it up myself. Bantu Jobela - Melikhaya is the name. Thanks bro
De La Fuente’s at the wheel 🔥🇪🇸
9 years with the youth team means he already has a relationship with the players all the ways into their late 20s.
Proud to be Spanish😁
But I ain't gonna lie. Vicente del Bosque had an amazing generation of players. He didn't have to do much. 😅
I believe spain will win euro 2024
it's super crazy man spain defeated everyone so much in the Euros to the point where i had no doubt we'd win in the finals...
Sad to see what should be the final of the Euro in quarter finals
What an incredible video
I'm not a football fan but I am Spanish and I do watch the World and Euro Cup. I swear to God that I had to fight not falling sleep Spain's matches lately. I felt like making a wish the other day after seeing Spain score a goal on a counter.
I would say there is a lot of potential from Spain to reach the final but they will be in the hardest side of the bracket with Germany, Portugal, France, it will be a tough task for any of the teams.
They did reach the final tho ;)
They pulled it of 💪
good video bro, greetings from spain
Thanks brother!
I believe spain will win euro 2024
Tasteful, fact-ridden video with great insight. Subscribed! looking forward for more of your essays on this Euro!
Tiki-taka was a blessing for us back in 08-12, but it also became a terrible burden since then, when our coaches kept playing the same way over and over and over despite the fact we didn't have the right players to execute this idea anymore. As a result, we sucked from 2014 to 2023 (yes, you're right: we made it to the semifinals in 2021 and we even won the Nations League last year, but at the cost of being boring as Hell). Thank God Luis de la Fuente was able to see what went wrong, fixed it and now we're back! 🏆
Vamos La Roja 🇪🇸❤️🔥
They'll win the whole tournament. Prediction as of July 6, 2024.
The need for a more direct game comes from the Madrid press in order to discredit Barcelona's style, as they have always done.
spain is not ditching anything. theyre just adapting to the kind of players they have in this generation. However, the objective remains the same, to be the ones in control of the ball and to be the ones attacking most of the time. Pep did the same when he moved out of Barcelona. In Barcelona he would not allow players to cross the ball under ANY circumstances. then he finds himself with lewandoski Ribery and Robben so he started to adapt to what he had and the overall game changed a little. However, the philosophy remained the same. This is what Spain is doing. they still have tons of ball playing midfielders. However, they have to adapt to the ones who are performing better right now. There's no more mistery than that.
Exactly this guy dont know football
The unique difference between Spain in World Cup and now is Yamal and Nico players that Spain didnt have before
Whoever wins on Friday will win the Euros… viva 🇪🇸!!
Vamos!!
Not easy on the eyes? I very much enjoyed this Spain team a lot more than the Spain team in the 2022 World Cup. It's infinitely better; they are fun to watch, and you can see from a mile away that they are by far the best team in this competition thus far. I hope they keep up the momentum.
Who's here after Spain winning the Euro!!! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
Spain has been winning in posession for the last 16 years, 136 marches
Spain records 47% posession against Croacia in the 137th match
In the 138th match, Spain records 58% posession
In the 139th match, Spain records 57% possesion
@FrontPageFootball: Tiki Taka is over!
More possession isn’t the same as tiki-taka 🤷🏻♂️
@@FrontPageFootballSpain still play the same but now they have fast pace wingers that can dribble
Saying that Spain fell off is so innacurate. They have been one of the best european clubs in the last years.
Who's here after Spain winning the Euro 2024
Quarter Finals is a German problem.
Big love from Spain.
VERY MUCH RIGHT
Two weeks later Spain played one of their best matches in a decade against the same France that played the last two World Cup finals, Spain is back
They've just won the EURO)
Que falta de respeto para busquets la miniatura... El es una leyenda!
Congrats mate, your editing skills combined with the rightness of your analysis are really amazing.
Much appreciated!
Yes, this is that Spanish style
Give Luis Enrique his props.. he took a chance on a lot of youngsters. He made it to final of the nations league and came short on pks in the world cup. Madrid press pushed the guy out because they simply did not like him.
En España hay muchos cojones. Da igual como juguemos que siempre se da todo con coraje y corazón. Desde que es españa en 1468.
Morata is thriving under this style of play.
Morata always performed well for spain,he scored in every match in the group stage of last world cup and is probably spain top scorer in the Luis Enrique era (not sure,ferran scored a lot too)
They just need a new generation, rodri and ruiz were subtitutes in euro 21 semifinal, now they are in the 11. Then olmo and oyarzabal were on the starting 11, now they are good substitutes, lamine and william are on the starting 11, thats a change in resources! Your tactic is a result of your resources.
whos here after we GOING TO THE FINALSSSSS
Aged like fine wine.
I get the idea but I feel that the whole argument is suported by the match against Croatia, where Spains was 3-0 up at half time. Given the score it was not necessary to press and get the ball...
Exactly even Man City has less possession when they winning 3-0
It's not 16 years, it's 11 years. They lost in the 2013 confederations cup final which was the end for that team. 3 years ago they were also better than eventual champions Italy, who only beat them on penalties in the Semi's. This team doesn't even come close to the one who won three trophies in a row until they win trophies. The 2002 Spanish World Cup team was amazing with players like Mendieta, Morientes Raul, Ruben Baraja, Joaquin, Ivan Helguera, but have been forgotten as they didn't win anything.
It's not how good they play, it's getting there hands on that trophy that counts or they'll be forgotten like other previous Spanish teams.
Spain has become the champion 🎉
Spanish here ;D.... First of all we still play "tiki-taka" I mean all our sub 21-23-19-17 play that style.... Spain decided to play like that with all their generations so we can have players that know how to play that style cause is clearly the best style possible and the style that provides both more titles and respect. Is just that sometimes yeah... You don't get that good players to win things even playing the best style possible. I mean look at the Eurocup 2021, we were for sure the best team playing as a team, but look at the players.... Ferran, Olmo Morata on forward, and I think they are not that bad players but just fine players, like a 6 or 7/10 then u look France doing an absolute ridiculous with mbappe, griezmann and dembele my god, or England now with Bellingham, Kane, Saka, Foden... Camon if spain has this players we wil win this euro like bullying easy the other countrys, and that's because we have the style implemented since low categories and know what we want to do on games. Sometimes yeah... you lose.... Everyone loses but it's the best we can do for sure. And now people saying we are ditching Tiki-Taka... Na na na, we play the same is just that now we play with 2 wingers that can 1v1 or even 1v2, and that provides something that we didn't have with Ferran and Olmo on wings so is another option to generate ocasions that we didn't have before and it makes it easier to don't havke matches like the match vs Morroco..... And I mean what would say the people if we just won the stupid penalties against Morroco? wining a game based on luck makes u better? or luckier? is always the same....We were good on world cup, and we are good now but with 2 players that bring us more options and are wayyyy better than the players we had back then that are Lamine Yamal and NIco, that's all, besides that it's literally almost the same team with the same Idea.
You are absolutely right as a brazilian i know that some people hate Positional and Possession game
But for me It's beautiful masterpiece
They're playing like 2015 Barca. Tiki Taka with a proper front 3 like MSN.
Spain won the Euro Cup 2024!!!
Made the history!!!
The current Spanish team reminds me of the Spanish team from 1986. A bit more direct and offensive. Another thing, Lopetegui would've been a more successful coach for Spain had he not been sacked by the Spanish FA just three days before their WC debut back in Russia 2018.
Spain used to have great midfielders and now have also both top wings so impossible to keep same tiki taka style, but it's still there
It's hard to strike a balance between relying on passing as your defining trate and overdoing it to a logical extreme. Spain always needs SOME tiki-taka.
W video, viva España 🇪🇸🫡
Viva Espana 😄
Spain's philosophy of play always has the same fundamentals: Ball possession and generating football. For example, one of Spain's bases is to defend through ball possession (something like "if I have the ball you can't hurt me with it") as well as defending in other ways depending on the situation.
The Spain of today completely maintains that base but adapted to the players that are there at the moment.
Right now Spain does not have the magic of Iniesta, Silva, Xavi, etc. but it has two good wide players in the style of N. Williams
Se olvidan de Luís Aragonés (2008). Fue el que inició lo que se conocería como Tiki Taka. Guardiola copió ese modelo para el FC Barcelona.
estarás de broma no??
Si vamos a los orígenes.... Guardiola se inspiró en el dream team de Cryuff, del que formava parte y a su vez Cruyff se insipro en la naranja mecánica de Rinus Michels.
Pep también se aprovecho del buen trabajo de Rijkaard que ya apuntava maneras y sobretodo de la increíble generación de futbolistas formados en la Masia. Fue Cruyff, en los 90, el que instauro la filosofía del toque y movimiento rápido del balón en la Masia. Xavi e Iniesta no surgieron de la nada, flojos, lentos y pequeños físicamente tuvieron el mejor entorno posible para exprimir sus virtudes
Spain did not abandon tiki-taka. It has evolved because the old ways no longer worked. But the philosophy remains the same, high pressure, high possession and positioning of the players.
There's no such change in Spain's style. After more than 180 games, it is normal to lose the possesion in one game, but that was just an exception.
The great difference and the only reason why now the spanish team is competitive again is that in this Euro, they have 4-5 very talented players; Rodri, Pedri, Fabián, and specially Nico and Lamine Yamal.
Spain is playing different this time using the tactic “you press you lose” -only possible if each player becomes the main part of the group. The block has to move in harmony.
If they decide to play as low block, middle or high they wiil need to work together at the same time…It’s risky but worthy.
The spanish football still has the same bases. The only thing that has changed is that now there are two very vertical and fast wingers that were not there before.
The expression tiki-taka was invented by Spanish sports journalists.
I understand that the name works abroad, and they use it.
But many Spanish fans have learned to hate that expression "tiki-taka" because it means a thousand passes to do nothing,
and because we have had people who are too fanatical about that style who have only prolonged something that no longer worked for a long time.
How to play brilliantly and attack only worked all the time in 2008.
In 2010 and 2012 sometimes it worked, and other times it was nothing more than a way of defending with the ball, not to attack eficienty.
Crazy considering that Spain beat England to become the Champion of Europe
Emergence of lamine and nico is the most important thing. How could enrique play like this spain with ferran and olmo?
Exactly 100% right
Olmo is ok, Ferran's not
@@javisc1999 when you say wide wingers to provide width olmo is not okay. He may be a inverted winger who comes inside of the pitch but current spaish team doesn't need that now. Just because he got a goal last game doesn't change anything.
@@mehedihasananik694Spain was never bad tbh even with Ferran and Olmo. They are good players and Ferran have even scored a hatrick against Germany. On a technical level both are superior to Nico.
It's just that they are not quite as effective as wingers because Nico and Yamal are super pacy and explosive.
The hate is almost unfounded, Barça fans just always blame it on Ferran Torres when he actually helps but injuries happen. The scapegoat machansism as always it's either Ferran or Roberto when things go south.
Olmo is a massive player on a technical front.
If Barça hopes Nico will shine every game, they are gonna be disappointed. He's sloppy at times. But his natural pace will boost counter attacks.
You knew It!
That's it, adaptability is key, not so much the directness of the game. Spain is now more unpredictable in their approach to each game, which is playing in their favour tremendously
THEY WON
Well if you have that more possession and you create more chances than the opponent while conceding very little, but you don't finish the opportunities that you get, the problem is not the play-style but the creativity of the forwards and sometimes your luck in those games. Losing in penalties versus a team like Morocco who every other team would have had problems to beat them when they only defend the whole game, is not an issue with the tikitaka either.
Also Spain keeps the same play-style as before is just that now they have Lamine + Nico Williams, plus they are not being unlucky with the goals... I agree De la Fuente has made a few changes, losing possession of the ball in some instances while keeping a solid and compact static defense. But we have also seen this changes with Xavi the past season for example... So no, Spain is NOT ditching tikitaka.
I think (at least inside Spain) that the post golden era team is sometimes too heavily criticized. It didn't deliver in the world cup which is tbe nost inportant competition. But one semifinals of eurocup, one second place and one win of nations league are nothing to scoff at.
The generation that won everything was a crazy one, Spain had some of the best players in the world in every position excluding maybe strikers (where torres didn't deliver), it's really hard to match a generation like that one, and I'm personally hopeful with our chances this euro, and the team seams to be really good, it's just that's frustrating seeing so many opportunities lost because of the inability of scoring
Torres in his prime and Villa were deadly.
@@andrekoerber7334 Torres used to underperform with the national team, at least compared to the expectations.
Villa was great, he was a world class player, but imo that doesn't elevate the strikers as a whole to the level of the midfield or defence that Spain had, you could very well argue that the midfielders and defense were each one of them the best on their position worldwide, maybe except Navas. They would also have to compete with Messi and Ronaldo for those places.
Torres didn't deliver OMG how can you be so dumb
Well, they won the Euro finals with 60%+ possession and playing a very tiki-taka heavy style. They danced around England all game long.
That movie so sweet “DUNE”
It sounds obvious but Spanish Players are key. Cucurella is performing as onle of the best LB in the world. Rodri is by far the best in his position. Yamal and Nico ridicoulously break all defences
Nice history analysis. Since many years, and as spaniard, I have seen that Spain is a national team that in a single match, can beat any team. What it is not clear to me, is that we will be able to win any long competition. Spain has being since many years an strong national team, even with Raul era, the middlefield and defence was an strong asset. What is different from Del Bosque era in my opinion (of course that we had maybe the best generation in the middlefield that no another country can face) was that we had two nice strikers as Torres and David Villa. Also I would like not to forget Iker Casillas contribution. Can we beat Germany? For sure. Can we beat France,? we can. But can we win all those matches against strong national teams... it is not clear to me.
They look good but lack of conversion to goals might hurt them in the next coming rounds. Also I am very convince with their defense
VIVA ESPANA!!!
we'r again the best selection of the world and we came here to stay, the best football players in average came from spain nowadays, we got high lvl players on every position.
Music names? (amazing video btw)
this aged well lmao
As a Spanish, I clearly think Spain has the capability of winning the whole thing. France is not looking as strong as it was just a year or two ago, England is very hit or miss, and realistically, Germany is the only opponent that worries me
i kind of agree, but do not forget portugal squat is capable of producing very dangerous moments, so it does french mbape, dembele ... if they have their day they can make huge damage to anyone. And at knock-out stages it is a matter of just few moments the coin can shift from one side to the other. So i believe Spain can defeat all of them but also can be defeated by any of those ones. One strong point of current spanish squat is the cohesion, spirit and motivation,that seems to be among the highest of all! as example look at cucurella reactions and electric one to one confrontations, (as weel as nico against italy), it reminds me of puyol energy, as a feared dog overwelming oponents!!
@@josetanago yeah, group stages is different to the tournament stage so all I said could really not be the case, but who knows
France give my Real Madrid vibes... Like, they can be awful in the group stage and display mediocre football but they can win it in the end with their individualities and determination.
European champions again!
Euro 2024 Champs 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Es una evolución lógica: controlas el centro del campo pero tu juego es lento y aburrido? Añade dos extremos wingers y revoluciona tu juego sorprendiendo a tus rivales.
Lo inexplicable es que otras selecciones no copien nuestro estilo de juego superior
Tika taka Spain ain’t run away from its was the player they had didn’t understand it or didn’t know how to play it it’s takes for a new generation to understand it
Exactly
Players don't try themselves at them anymore😂😂