Week 18 Processing World Cup Final

"Good ball control from spain to set Xavi free"

From the kickoff Ribery takles control of the ball and gets it through to Benzema, who gets it out to Malouda, who passes it back to benzema, with Ribery making his way into the box, he finds Ribery who skips past the diving Casillas to crash home the equaliser, what a great goal from the french, and after 52 minutes its now

Spain 2 France 2

"game on here"

Spain are passing it about and it comes to Iniesta who finds Xavi then Silva, then Fabregas who gets past Clichy to the goalline, crosses high into the middle and David Villa outjumps Koscielny to nod it past Lloris for a spanish goal and after 54 minutes its now

Spain 3 France 2

"Its been a hectic last few minutes so far"

France work the ball out to Ribery who sees his shot cleared off the line by Jose Enrique and out for a corner. Enrique saved his side there for sure. The corner comes to nothing as Casillas punches clear.

"Good work by france to create that chance"

Paul Hemmings wrote:

again Malouda tries to do too much and loses out to Ramos who then feeds Torres who hits a volley that goes just wide.

Alan "The french need to get some support up to Malouda much quicker"

Thats the Malouda i know

"the sieve" in operation at the back for France I see

"I understand this will be Jose Enrique's last international appearance as the boss has said he prefers Alba in that position"

Lots of spanish possession at the moment as they slow the game down and hang onto the ball.

then suddenly they break forward and Fabregas has a shot well saved by Lloris.

"france have got to create more"

"poor Nasri is chasing shadows at the moment in there with Xavi, Silva, Fabregas and Iniesta"

Puyol denies Ribery after good work by Benzema.

"that's better from the french"

Javi Martinez is warming up and it looks like he may replace Fabregas soon.

70 minutes on the clock now and more spanish possession.

Martinez replaces Fabregas.

"fresh legs only I'd say"

good work by Clichy and Benzema sets up Anelka for a chip but Casillas reads it and catches it under his bar.

"its pretty even at the moment"

Casillas starts off an attack as he does on many occasions by rolling the ball out to Pique, more spanish possession before th eball goes to Torres who finds David Villa who slides round Mexes and shoots, hits the upright and scores.

The spanish fans enjoyed that and after 75 minutes its now

Spain 4 France 2

"the french look a bit slow in the middel of their defence but Villa is a slippery character"

an attack by the french through Ribery breaks down and spain get possession and slow it down again, Sagna gets booked for a rash tackle on Iniesta.

Juan Mata replaces Xavi on 86 minutes

"the french havent given up but dont seem to be able to get the ball much"

and the last chance falls to Iniesta but his shot is saved by Lloris and its all over here as Spain and Iain Oliver climb the Wembley stairs to take the World Cup Trophy for the third time.

Alan "the french did very well to get to the final but gave it away really in midfield, with Toulalan playing deep and only Samir Nasri in there up against four spaniards, thats where the game was won and lost really"

"and a hatrick for Barcelona's David Villa"

your man of the match

"for me it has to be David Villa"

so it all went according to plan for the spanish, will anybody ever be able to stop them in the near future ?