No they were not. They were superior to England by far in midfield and had a world class center defensive unit behind that midfield. The idea England could have easily bested them is fanciful in the extreme.
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Well neither do I. Because I NEVER once argued the Barca player where ineffective without their team mates. I instead said Spain were a far weaker team attempting to use them the identical way Barca did.
About the bolded but, You've also misundertood me. This below was what I said when I first brought up the analogy of Spain not using Barca's midfield magic triangle, as I was disagreeing with the idea of a Rice-Bellingham - Foden 3 man midfield...
You the person who originallly posted this:
[Maybe Spain selecting Alonso had more to do with him being a world class player and less to do with Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets being unable to operate as trio outside of Barca.]
In reply to me...