Not a very entertaining game today, but victory deservedly goes to the Spanish "Hidalgos". The Spain goal scorer, Xabi Alonso with his red beard looks like a real conquistador soldier from the Cortez army. I can immagine him with that spanish "Morion" helmet and the archebus rifle. Noble looking guy.
The French looked pretty bad today. Their (black) defender Clichy was either out of place or clumsily fouling people in the penalty area, like Fabergas at the beginning of the game. The other black, Malouda, was to lazy to bother returning and defending a bit (he's the one that should have kept an eye on Xabi during the first goal action, but was strolling around in the midfield). Benzema was horrible as usual, loosing the ball left and right, skying the shots, just an absolute travesty. Benzema's slow, his peculiar running style (he looks like he's running in slippers) doesn't help. The only one who showed something in attack today was Ribery, not exceptional, but trying, being persistent etc. The only real chance came after his cross. Well deserved win by Spain.