Morocco vs Spain, Round of 16, 3PM GMT, Education City Stadium

[ArsenalFan7]

Amrabat has looked good in every game I have seen, MOTM for sure. Looks like he has the potential to be the guy that gets a move and flops judging by the trajectory of his career so far

[Weezer]

Spain’s golden generation was an actual golden generation. One of the few genuinely worthy of the title.

[Heartwork]

13 hours ago, av3ry said:

No, because their golden generation won everything. This current generation is still held to the standard of the Xavi/Iniesta generation despite not having the players to be able to play to that standard anymore.

I meant about their usual standard, not the anomaly that was their 2008-2012 squad

[Coulthard's Jaw]

Luis Enrique GONE. Unsurprising, they were dreadful.

[Heartwork]

13 minutes ago, Coulthard's Jaw said:

Luis Enrique GONE. Unsurprising, they were dreadful.

All their ability was used up in the first game

[GunmaN1905]

One has to think if he's even a good coach.

All of his jobs except for Barcelona were textbook failures.

Even at Barcelona he managed to lose the league in his last season. Won the CL in the first season, then lost twice in quarter-finals. If not for that CL win with MSN at their peak, he would've been seen as a failure there.

Everywhere else, including NT, he just looked like a coach with an idea that can't really work out. He failed to fully implement his football everywhere. Which leads to a question about if his football is even a thing without Messi and most stacked team ever?

[skybluedave]

Didn't clock but Spains WC record is really bad since winning it. Well it's bad full stop if you exclude 2010. Last 3 now, group stage, 2nd round pens to Russia and 2nd round pens to Morocco. 

[The Golden boy]

43 minutes ago, skybluedave said:

Didn't clock but Spains WC record is really bad since winning it. Well it's bad full stop if you exclude 2010. Last 3 now, group stage, 2nd round pens to Russia and 2nd round pens to Morocco. 

They're just reverting back to average. Look at Spain's record in World Cup before 2010. 1 Semi Final appearance before they won it, and that was in 1950.

[PMLF]

6 minutes ago, The Golden boy said:

They're just reverting back to average. Look at Spain's record in World Cup before 2010. 1 Semi Final appearance before they won it, and that was in 1950.

And they still lost 1-6 to Brazil in the final stage (it wasn’t semis, the four teams played against each other)…

[enigmatic]

8 hours ago, The Golden boy said:

They're just reverting back to average. Look at Spain's record in World Cup before 2010. 1 Semi Final appearance before they won it, and that was in 1950.

Yeah. Record so bad they managed to lose to us on penalties   

[Heartwork]

They're brilliant at churning out average players though. You'll be hard pressed to find a league in the world that doesn't have at least a couple of Spanish players or coaches.