Spain - The Lowest Scoring Team To Win A World Cup

[The Situation]

1930: Uruguay - 15 goals in 4 games
1934: Italy - 12 goals in 5 games
1938: Italy - 11 goals in 4 games
1950: Uruguay - 15 goals in 4 games
1954: West Germany - 25 goals in 6 games
1958: Brazil - 16 goals in 6 games
1962: Brazil - 14 goals in 6 games
1966: England - 11 goals in 6 games
1970: Brazil - 19 goals in 6 games
1974: West Germany - 13 goals in 7 games
1978: Argentina - 15 goals in 7 games
1982: Italy - 12 goals in 7 games
1986: Argentina - 14 goals in 7 games
1990: West Germany - 15 goals in 7 games
1994: Brazil - 11 goals in 7 games
1998: France - 15 goals in 7 games
2002: Brazil - 18 goals in 7 games
2006: Italy - 12 goals in 7 games
2010: Spain - 8 goals in 7 games

Interesting statistic.

[hudson88]

what the most beautiful and attractively attacking team in football history??

[Frosty Kempes]

The worst winners ever - every game they have been involved in has been dull.

[Steve H]

Originally Posted by Frosty Kempes

The worst winners ever - every game they have been involved in has been dull.

The ball didn't help

[j.w]

They havent played particularly well all tournament (2nd half against ze jormans probably the best they have played), been carrying Torres most of the games and they still win it

[toosb]

The worst World Cup in my memory. Utterly boring with the winners being vastly overrated because of the shite around them.

8 goals in 7 games says it all.

[Arkle]

Originally Posted by Steve H

The ball didn't help

Nor did the opposition, to be honest.

I was never overly impressed by Spain but, after the Swiss success against them, most of their opposition were firmly in the "keep it tight and nick a goal late on" camp. The only real exceptions to this being Chile and Germany.

[zebediah]

Originally Posted by Arkle

Nor did the opposition, to be honest.

I was never overly impressed by Spain but, after the Swiss success against them, most of their opposition were firmly in the "keep it tight and nick a goal late on" camp. The only real exceptions to this being Chile and Germany.

Amazing how everyone keeps blaming Spain for being boring when every team has played 11 men behind the ball against them.
If Spain had played us they would have scored 4 or 5 cos we wouldn't have done that tactic, they already have done to any team that hasn't tried to park the bus against them before the tournament, and fair enough, football is winning games not having the best goal difference.

Spain have been the best team in the world for quite a while now, they still won the world cup carrying Torres (akin to us winning with Rooney world cup form), they are now joint Euro and World cup champions.
To not see how good that team is shows a person up for their lack of knowledge imo.

The real curse of English football is the fans, how can we ever keep the ball like Spain when everytime our team (England or club) has the ball for more than 3 seconds the crowds starts screaming if it isn't in the opposition box?

Attack! Attack! Attack!
Thrills not skills for us!!!

[WillD]

But Spains caoch had the guts to drop Torres, we should have done the same with Rooney.

[deodrant2]

Originally Posted by Steve H

The ball didn't help

Germany done ok with it, they score twice as many as Spain and didn't win it.