Mike Grella
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2,486 appearances
60 recordings
10 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 17 Sep
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Yeah, so there's a few factors at work with Spain.
They have been playing this way for a very long time.
It's in their culture.
It kind of is birthed out of the Barcelona way of playing.
A lot of the players obviously play for Barcelona as well, but it's ingrained in Spanish culture.
And the thing is, the idea behind it is, at least from what I understand, is like they have the ball and they are not anxious to go and try and score.
They're not like,
trying to play vertical all the time they're happy to keep it they're happy to wait until you get out of your spots and out of your you know your shape and then slowly pick you apart and i think you know a lot of people say oh the possession and they're so great with the ball yeah that's one side of it but because they're so good with the ball and the spacing is so good when they have the ball they're able to easily press from those positions so because they're in tight little triangles when the ball turns over they're able to go fast from those positions and get it back right away so like
When other players got the ball, opponents got the ball, it just felt like there was three, four, five waves of pressure that never seemed to go away.
And then if you beat that pressure,
The defensive transition from the rest of the guys was so good that it was like you didn't even get rewarded for going past two or three guys.
So it was like they figured out a way to really control good teams.
They made France look bang average.
They made Argentina look like a Sunday league team yesterday.
I mean, they made the best player of all time not even get a sniff in the game.
It's really anticlimactic for large parts of that game because of how good Spain are.
Again, if you're the fan that wants to go and see 10 goals in a game and you want to watch a third-place match, that's great.
There's a spot for you, but it's not in football.
It's in something else, maybe in badminton or I don't know what else.
I got to tell you something.
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