Preview: Spain vs. Tunisia

June 19th, 2006 | by: Peter |

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THE BIG PICTURE
Spain showed up and taught everyone a little something about scoring goals with a 4-0 win against the Ukraine, but we still have out doubts. Did Ukraine’s defenders just make Torres look fast or can he accelerate away from people with the ball at his feet? Can David Villa put in two goals against a better team? We probably won’t get definitive answers to these questions until after Spain is out of their group, but they’ve shown potential that make them the favorites until they’re deep into the tournament. Today they take on a Tunisia team that is coming off a disappointing tie against Saudi Arabia. With the hope of advancing still alive and well, the Carthage Eagles hope to pick up three points at the expense of Spain.

Teams: Likely formation; shirt numbers; caps and goals, coach

Spain (4-3-3): 1-Iker Casillas (59-0); 15-Sergio Ramos (12-2), 5-Carles Puyol (48-1), 22-Pablo Ibanez (12-0), 3-Mariano Pernia (2-1); 16-Marcos Senna (4-0), 14-Xabi Alonso (27-1), 8-Xavi (37-1); 11-Luis Garcia (11-3), 9-Fernando Torres (31-11), 21-David Villa (9-4) Coach: Luis Aragones

Tunisia (4-4-2): 1-Ali Boumnijel (49-0); 6-Hatem Trabelsi (57-0), 15-Radhi Jaidi (90-6), 3-Karim Hagui (27-4), 18-David Jemmali (3-0); 20-Hamed Namouchi (15-1), 12-Joahar Mnari (38-1), 14-Adel Chedli (39-4), 13-Riadh Bouazizi (86-4); 5-Ziad Jaziri (62-14), 9-Yassine Chikhaoui (2-0) Coach: Roger Lemerre

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Spain’s Socialist coalition recently proposed a law for great apes that would eliminate the concept of ownership and put all great apes under the “moral guardianship” of the state, much like people in comas.

English and Spanish biologists recently discovered that female starlings take the odor and cleanliness of a male starling’s nest into consideration when choosing a mate.

Spanish law does not limit the term of a President.

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Cactus fruit is the cheapest fruit you can find in Tunisia in the summer.

To bring a guest through the kitchen door is humiliating to the house owner.

The freedom to write and to publish is guaranteed in Tunisia.

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http://sports.godblessthefreaks.org Philip

¡A por ellos, Oé!

So far I’ve had Cadena Ser tuned in for about 6 minutes and they’ve two fan renditions of that song, one that was fatal and the second that was pretty decent.

Spain’s gotta feel pretty good now. Of course there’s a limit to the comparative scores game, but when you’re four goals better than the team that’s four goals better than the team that drew with today’s opponent, you’ve gotta feel confident.

(Digression: Why oh why couldn’t the US get a group like this?)

Biggest problem for Spain is probably maintaining focus and giving just enough to win comfortably without peaking in the group stages.
louis

i still dont think that spain will be able to handle argentina
http://sports.godblessthefreaks.org Philip

Incidentally As is doing a blog (in Spanish, of course): http://blogs.as.com/lamundial/
http://sports.godblessthefreaks.org Philip

OK, never mind, game post is up now.