Thursday 29 March 2018

World Cup power rankings: Spain back at the top

Most World Cup teams played two games over the recent international break and here we assess how all of them fared

An exhilarating week’s football from Spain has set down a marker. They could have won what was, for an hour, an excellent match in Germany and then obliterated a shoddy Argentina with a cocktail of intense pressing and clinical finishing. These were full-throttle performances of the kind Spain have not always managed in recent years; AndrĂ©s Iniesta was on sublime form but the sheer depth Julen Lopetegui can call upon was ominously evident in both games.

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from Football | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2GBcqfe

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