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MOTD- Spain 10-0 Tahiti

By on June 20, 2013

Fernando Torres bagged four goals to help Spain triumph over Tahiti by ten goals, yes ten, and all but booked the World Cup winners a spot in the Confederations Cup semifinals. Spain, as they were expected too, broke multiple records with the win, smashing the previous largest win margin in the tournament by four goals, while Torres became the only man to score four goals in a single match. Tahiti meanwhile were lucky to have the scoreline as low as it was, with many, including Eddy Eteata, predicting La Roja to score as many as twenty ahead of the fixture.

Tahiti looked spirited at the beginning of the match and even after Torres found his first goal only five minutes into the match. The Chelsea forward skipped down the left and towards goal, and after spotting Tahiti goalkeeper Mikael Roche mispositioned, easily passed the ball into the near side of the net. Although Tahiti attacked with hopeful vigor, Spain easily passed around the South Pacific minnows, with Tahiti’s very high line eventually costing them more. David Silva was slipped in down the right of goal by Santi Cazorla in the thirty-first minute, and curled it into the corner of the net, before Torres was put through on goal two minutes later. The out-of-form forward easily rounded Roche, and passed the ball into the vacant net.

Spain made it four in the thirty-ninth minute when Silva’s cross from the left found David Villa around the penalty spot, and the Barcelona forward took a touch before slotting it home.

La Roja continued to control the match at the start if the second half, sometimes while the Vincent Del Bosque’s players were merely walking around. But the players brightened after Spain scored yet again in the forty-ninth minute when Nacho Monreal exchanged passes with Cazorla down the left before swinging a low cross into the box, which Villa tapped into the back of the net at the near post. Five minutes later Torres made it six, when Jesus Navas skipped down the right and cut it back to Torres into the box, and the forward firmly guided the ball past an again out of position Roche into the back of the net.

In the sixty-fourth minute Villa earned his hat-trick, when he was put though on goal with a lofted ball from Cazorla, and Roche completely missed his attempt to catch it. Villa simply passed it into the back of the open net, before Juan Mata slammed a shot into the top corner after poor Tahiti defending allowed the midfielder to break though on goal two minutes later.

Although Torres grazed a penalty on the top of the bar and over soon after (with Roche celebrating like he saved it), the forward rounded Roche and scored his fourth in the seventy-eighth minute. Tahiti mustered up the strength to pressure Spain in the final minutes of the match, to the cheering of the crowd. But the South Pacific side could not stop the constant onslaught of their Spanish opponents, who reached double digits in the final minute of normal time. Navas cut the ball into the box from the left, and Torres laid it off to Silva, who turned with the ball and curled a hard low shot past Roche into the bottom corner of the net. It might have been more courteous for the referee to refrain from adding injury time in respect to Tahiti, but he added two minutes, which Spain played out in possession. At the end of the added time the final whistle blew, sealing the records Spain broke with the win.
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