Four Players Ready to take Euro 2012 By Storm: Group C

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Spain – Andres Iniesta

Everyone knows how good this Spanish team is. They are without question the greatest international team of my generation.

They are on a different wavelength to anyone else playing the game and should they click on any given game they are brutally clinical.

Spain’s record goalscorer David Villa suffered a broken leg in the World Club Cup playing for Barcelona. The forward is a doubt for the tournament and faces a race to be fit.

Without Villa, Spain are a little light in terms of a central forward capable of drifting into the flanks. Fernando Llorente isn’t known for his movement and acts as a more central target figure which no longer suits the way Spain play their football.

Fernando Torres is struggling to get in the Chelsea team at the moment and when he does he can’t hit the proverbial barn door. Early 2012 is a massive time for Torres, it will either break his international and domestic hopes of appearing regularly or propel him into the limelight as Spain’s centre forward.

It wouldn’t surprise me to see Vincente del Bosque playing three “tiki-taka” forwards in David Silva, Pedro and Andres Iniesta.

Iniesta will be pivotal to Spain’s success if Villa or Torres don’t make it. His balance, vision and creativity aid his movement which in a small frontline is vital. With fellow La Masia graduates Sergio Busquets and Xavi playing a little deeper he will rely on the club understanding to drop into space to receive the ball.

What Iniesta also has in his locker is a fantastic eye for goal. His finishing ability is excellent and by pushing him further up the pitch he can influence the game a much as he does at club level for Barcelona.

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