#3 Spanish forwards to the fore
Make no mistake about. This is as much as about redemption as it is about pride for the Spaniards. The golden generation of Spanish football has already asserted themselves on the footballing with two Euros and a World Cup triumph to boast of. However, the memories of their first-round exit at the last World Cup still remains fresh, the wound still not tended to.
They hobbled out of the tournament with a front line that looked disjoint and dysfunctional as Diego Costa fluffed his lines time and again with not much help from the others. This time around. things look much better.
In Morata, they have a mobile front man who can also double up as the target man and the ‘late bloom’ of Spanish football, Nolito also gets into dangerous positions ever so often.
Both the forwards delighted us not only with their all-around ability in the game but also their ability to find the back of the net, the most important thing in football. And that helped finally vindicate their large spells of domination with the ball.
Spain already possesses arguably the most fierce midfield in the competition and with the forwards also coming to the fore, this team, as suggested before, is to be feared.
