Friday 18 November 2011

Day 4. Spain, World Champions.
This morning we had a visit from the coaching team of Spain. They spoke with us about their strategies taking charge of a team which had just won the European Championships and attempting to maintain that hunger then take them to the next level. 
The strategies of Señor Del Bosque, Señor Grande and Señor Minano were extremely insightful and a massive amount of hard work went into taking a great team and making them even better. 
Spain lost their first game of the World Cup against Switzerland and the press were calling for wholesale changes across the team. Señor del Bosque was very calm, he changed just one player whilst shouldering the expectations of the Spanish people and the press then went on to win the whole tournament. The press were highly critical of Busquets after game 1 but del Bosque simply backed his player 100% to everybody which unified the squad and brought them closer together.
The session also covered competitive analysis of the teams they are playing and what type of information Señor del Bosque requires from his team prior to a game.

I think these guys must have been on holiday leading up to the game at Wembley recently. :-)
Joking aside, their comments regarding the England match were very accurate in terms of the way teams play against Spain. 
In terms of possession Spain had most of the ball, in terms of passing Spain had a significantly higher completion percentage, in terms of shots  on goal Spain were superior and Spain recovered the ball in Englands half of the pitch 42% of their possession recoveries. This is aligned with one of the main tactical priorities we have seen consistently everywhere in Spain so far, if you lose the ball you must try to recover it as quickly as possible.

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