Brazil Thrash Spain, Torres wins Golden Boot

Brazil taught World and European Champions Spain a footballing lesson last night as they won their third consecutive Confederations Cup by beating La Roja 3-0. Spaniards had no answer to the attacking play of Samba boys and perhaps couldn’t find the much effective tiki taka during the game.
Chelsea’s Fernando Torres won yet another golden boot having scored 5 times in the competition. Brazilian Fred also scored the same number of goals but the Spaniard won the prize like he did at the European Championships by playing fewer minutes.
Torres like majority of the Spaniards was ineffective last night but his 5 goals in the group stage eventually won him the coveted Golden Boot Prize, one that he will not be all happy winning because this time he ended up on the losing side.
Spain never really had the chance to control the game as Brazil started pressurizing them from the word go and it took only 2 minutes for the Samba boys to open the scoring, Fred somehow scrambled the ball in the net.
Having taken the lead, Brazilians were in charge and did not let Spain play their flwoing passing game by pressing high and counter attacking with the likes speed demons like Neymar and Hulk.
Iniesta was perhaps the only shining light in the La Roja side as he dribbled past Brazilian players but unfortunately with no end product. Xavi on the other hand was far from his usual best.
Player of the tournament, Neymar was too hard to deal with especially for his new Barcelona team mate Gerard Pique. Just before the half time break, Brazil doubled the lead. Neymar easily skipped past Arbeloa with quick feet and smashed the ball past Casillas with left foot.

The second half started just as the first, Brazilians were not letting Spain keep the ball for long and to their advantage Spanish defense was at sixes and sevens last night. 2 minutes after the break, Fred produced a lovely finish from just inside the box. Casillas could have done better but failed to clear the ball despite getting a hand on it.
Del Bosque had to make changes and Navas was brought on for Mata. The new Manchester City player immediately made an impact as he won Spain a cheeky penalty. Of all the starlets, Sergio Ramos, a defender stepped up for Penalty and shot wide much to the despair of Spanish supporters.
That was not it, the horror story continued as Pique was sent off in the 68th minute for a tackle on the last man Neymar and Spain had to play the rest of the game with 10 men.
Later on, Brazil had a few decent chances saved by Casillas and on the other end Julio Cesar made two great saves to deny Pedro and David Villa.
In the end, Brazil ran out deserved winners of the Confederations Cup and are being considered strong favorites to lift the World Cup next year playing at home. However, Brazil have dominated last two Confederations Cup as well but afterwards failed to win the World Cups the following years. Adding to that, The Seleccao might have won 5 WCs but they have never won the biggest prize in their homeland. Will that change next year, only time will tell.
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