Spains Midfield 3

[LFC Brian]

Dont know if this has been mentioned in the match thread,but are Spains midfield 3 of Xavi,Xabi and Iniesta the best in world football.Iniesta was fucking awsome last night.

 

Would love to see him paired with Xabi in a Liverpool shirt

[Red Mist]

Add Fabregas to the mix and they have the best central midfield in the world. Not much in the way of wingers, although they probably don't need them with their full backs always bombing forward. Even our Bob was charging forward at every opportunity when he came on.

[Xherdan]

Fantastic front five.

[wiiksie]

Wasn't Xabi brought in for someone else (can't remember their name). He isn't a regular in their midfield is he?

 

But Iniesta/Xavi/Alonso and then Torres/Villa has to be an almost perfect front 5. And like others have said, no real width either.

[LFC Brian]

Add Fabregas to the mix and they have the best central midfield in the world. Not much in the way of wingers, although they probably don't need them with their full backs always bombing forward. Even our Bob was charging forward at every opportunity when he came on.

 

 

 

Your right,but Ramos was almost a winger last night,how many times was he down the right hand side whipping crosses in.Compare it to Cashley and the myths that he is "an attacking full back" go out the window cos he is shit

[gaz181]

Silva was a regular starter in the euros but he's been injured for a while.

[The Chef]

Agreed................but Brazil were shithot on tuesday also.Between them both, man for man, best 2 teams in the world by far.

[zigackly]

Point of order, they played with three in midfield last night and Iniesta behind the strikers.

 

Senna, Xavi and Alonso is more accurate.

[Bust3rboi]

and lets not forget their their keepers .

[Barnesey]

Thought Xabi was superb. Great pass for first goal, not mentioned by commentators who were wetting themselves over Villa's stumble past Jagielka

[ScottyT]

Don't they play 4 in a diamond-ish?

 

.............Senna

......Xabi...........Xavi

.............Iniesta

[Major Tom]

Wasn't Xabi brought in for someone else (can't remember their name). He isn't a regular in their midfield is he?

 

They played Silva in the Euro's.

 

Haven't seen much of Valencia this season so have no idea how he has been playing.

 

Iniesta was outstanding last night.

[odris]

Ramos is a fucking monster, he can run up and down the wing all day.

[Funkasy]

love the way Xavi(barca) was givin Ramos(RMD) way to fast passes all the time so he had to run like a horse all night. ;D;D

[halewood pete]

england got their arses kicked good and proper by spain last night

[rogaas]

Is Torres ok? did he get any knocks last night?

[Thants]

I'd love to have Iniesta here, the wierd boyalienfaced genius.

[AdamD]

I was sitting there just shaking my head in wonderment. They were absolutely fantastic. I kept changing my mind as to who was the best. I started off drooling about Xavi, the Iniesta would turn it on but as the game wore on it became obvius that our Xabi was every bit as good. He didn't waste a pass all night.

 

All in all - those three are top drawer.

 

To me Senna was fairly quiet but still effective but didn't influence tha game as much as other there but then again that is not his job.

[dennis tooth]

Fernando Torres has told Barcelona to forget about trying to sign him and pledged his long-term future to Liverpool.

 

The Catalan giants were reportedly weighing up a bid for the Spanish hitman, who again underlined his importance to The Reds on Saturday with a superb late header to down Portsmouth.

 

The striker, who is preparing to face England in Wednesday night’s friendly in Seville, insists he is happy at Anfield and not considering a move away from Merseyside.

 

"I don't see myself playing for Real Madrid, or Barcelona or Chelsea or any other team," he said.

 

"I see myself playing for Liverpool. I have a long contract and that's that."

 

After a devastating start to life in The Premier League, Torres’ second season in England has been dogged with persistent injuries.

 

A niggling hamstring problem has seen the Spaniard feature in only 14 of The Reds' league fixtures this season, but the 24-year-old hopes to remain injury free for the rest of the campaign.

 

"This year what I am more worried about are injuries," he added. "I have had many problems since last summer but I hope I will be okay now until the end of the season."

 

Meanwhile, Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has handed a trial to highly-rated Danish youngster Oliver Feldballe.

 

The 18-year-old winger, who currently plays for Odense, will spend a week training with Liverpool’s first team in an effort to win a deal at Anfield.

 

Odense’s head of development Uffe Pedersen said: “We got an inquiry from Liverpool that they wish to see him in training and we have agreed to let him go there. He will be there for the rest of the week.”