David Villa Wins the Day for Spain over Russia

Hat-trick hero David Villa sent Spain to a delightful 4-1 victory over a disorganised Russia.

After an edgy start both teams got into the game and there were some good bits of play, mostly from Spain.

Spain looked very comfortable on the ball and were getting dangerous balls into the box.

The first goal was well worked after some good play. Fernando Torres got the ball and was left one on one with his marker, he put the centre back under a lot of pressure before skipping past him to set up David Villa for an easy tap in.

The second goal came from a brilliant move. It started with a dreadful pass from Konstantin Zyryanov across the Spanish box which David Silva retrieved and, after some lightning quick passing, was slotted into the path of Villa for him to steer through Igor Akinfeev's legs to finish the half.

In the second half Russia did show more strength as they really started to put pressure on Spain's dodgy back line with some excellent balls into the box, but unfortunately Russia could find no end product..

With fifteen minutes to go Villa completed a magnificent day with a magnificent third goal, he turned Roman Shirokov inside out and drilled the ball home with his right foot.

Russia did get a consolation in the form of a well worked header from Pavlyuchenko.

Spain then added more misery when Cesc Fabregas scored a fourth goal in injury time.

A delightful victory for a deserving Spain. They should breeze through the group stage if they play like that.

Team Sheets Spain
1	Iker Casillas
4	Carlos Marchena
5	Carles Puyol
6	Andrés Iniesta
7	David Villa
8	Xavi Hernández
9	Fernando Torres
11	Joan Capdevila
15	Sergio Ramos
19	Marcos Senna
21	David Silva

Russia
1	Igor Akinfeev
8	Denis Kolodin
11	Sergei Semak
14	Roman Shirokov
15	Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
17	Konstantin Zyryanov
18	Yuri Zhirkov
19	Roman Pavlyuchenko
20	Igor Semshov
21	Dmitri Sychev
22	Aleksandr Anyukov