In response to a triplet of Fernando Torres in the first 17 minutes, Spain was a feast of goals at 5-0 on Sunday to slaughter a fragile New Zealand and confirmed that his favoritism in the Confederations Cup is fully supported. The run of matches without losing to Spain stretched to 33, to draft two more to match the record set between 1993 and Brazil 1996.
It was a pity that only one third of the Bafokeng stadium Rotal Rustenmburgo was filled to witness the exhibition of the Red to an opponent who was overwhelmed by the dizzying effect of the overwhelming champion of Europe.
El Niño Torres scored at 6, 14 and 17 minutes, each with different invoice goal: the first with a rope that beat the goalkeeper Glen Moss, then a subtle touch pass from David Villa and finally with a header to the center of Joan Capdevilla .
Cesc Fabregas, now the owner, got the fourth with 24, while the gauge Villa became the fifth thanks to a gift of 48 behind the Kiwis a blunder when a defender cleared the ball and was served at the feet of Spanish striker.
Villa reached 29 goals with the selection and is now second in the history list.
The win left Spain as the owner of the first Group A with three points in their next match will be with Iraq, which equals no goals to host South Africa at Ellis Park in Johannesburg.
We started the tournament well with the ease of the team, we should recognize it, the technician told Spanish Vicente del Bosque. We have made a good first time. We should not believe much, the match was misleading.
The downside of the game were clear in the huge stadium with a capacity for 45,000 fans. Organizers of the confederations, test tournament for the World Cup that South Africa will host in a year, had insisted that only the most expensive ($ 87) sold for lack of grief.
New Zealand came with a certain air of danger, then in the previous week had lost a 4-3 friendly against Italy. But offered nothing to contain the Spanish power. Its alleged superiority in the physical game and there was no air appeared.
I do not think anyone was surprised by what we saw in the stadium, said the technician Kiwi Riki Herbert. We knew that we were not easy, but still has a couple of games.
Everything came to ask him mouth-to Spain. Beyond the goals from Torres, Sergio Torres was unstoppable in the right banda, Capdevila did likewise for the left and Cesc went high note with his work as a generator of football in the midfield.
But the real star of the night was the implacable Torres. As a statistic, the triplet of player Liverpool was the fastest in the history reflected in the selection of more than 20 minutes it took for Gaspar Rubio on March 17, 1929.
After the goal by Villa, Spain dropped the curtain and cover the remainder of the match, playing almost as a rival to inertia that always seemed dazed look on the court.
