Sid Lowe
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375 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Sid Lowe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Although I must confess, if you're in a game and you're writing and you get 27 minutes to write at halftime instead of 15, it's quite handy.
This is The Guardian.
Yes, they did look good.
And they look very Spain-like.
I think there's a really interesting kind of tactical switch that has happened with Spain, which I think is very significant.
But yeah, they were Spain the way they wanted to be today.
And this was the way, if they were going to beat France, this was the way it was going to have to be.
Take the ball off them and don't let them play.
Don't let the front four really get hold of the ball and go at them.
Yeah, and look, I think there is... I mean, I don't want to sort of bore you with this, and I don't want to bore myself with it, really, but I think one of the things that's interesting is when they won the Euros two years ago,
we talked a lot about how Luis Lafuente had given a twist to Spain's style.
You know, we talked about Tiki Taku as being sterile, fouls and passes were not really happening.
And we talked about how he'd shaken that style up basically by having the two wingers, Nico Williams and Laminia Mahal, being very, very direct, being prepared to go longer.
And this, in a way, I was going to use the word regression, but regression feels like a very unfair word because it sounds very loaded.
But this, in a way, was a return to the kind of Spain before that twist.
Partly, of course, because Nico Williams has been injured, because they've been playing Alex Baena on the wing rather than an out-and-out winger, someone who'll come inside and play.
Partly because Lamine Yamal has not quite found his place in this tournament, although I would argue that he's played better than his critics say.
And I think also because of the opponent.
And I think all the way through this tournament, we've seen a manager that's been prepared to tweak things
because of the opponent more than others.
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