{"id":340464,"date":"2011-03-26T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/26\/spanish-centurion-xavi-believes-introduction-of-fernando-torres-changed-the-game-against-czech-republic\/"},"modified":"2011-03-26T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:57:00","slug":"spanish-centurion-xavi-believes-introduction-of-fernando-torres-changed-the-game-against-czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/26\/spanish-centurion-xavi-believes-introduction-of-fernando-torres-changed-the-game-against-czech-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish centurion Xavi believes introduction of Fernando Torres changed the game against Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Luke Matthews<\/h3>\n<h4>26 Mar 2011 14:57:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"61.352510460251\">\n<div readability=\"20.732984293194\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spain-Colombia: Xavi Hernandez (Spain), Abel Aguilar (Colombia) (Getty images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/30b0a7a6123684_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spain-Colombia: Xavi Hernandez (Spain), Abel Aguilar (Colombia) (Getty images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"19.355877616747\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/teams\/spain\/22\/spain\">Spain&#8217;s<\/a> milestone man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/people\/spain\/1310\/xavi\/national\">Xavi<\/a> insists the introduction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/people\/spain\/1442\/fernando-torres\/national\">Fernando Torres<\/a> at half-time was the catalyst needed for La Furia Roja to overturn a one goal deficit in last night&#8217;s 2-1 Euro 2012 qualifier against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/czech-republic\/29\/czech-republic\">Czech Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Barcelona midfielder, making his 100th appearance for the national side, was full of praise for the out-of-form striker; although he conceded that club-mate David Villa will rightly receive the majority of plaudits after breaking the Spanish goalscoring record with a deadly double.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if David Villa steals all the headlines from me given that he scored great goals and won us three points,&#8221; Xavi told <em>UEFA.com<\/em> after the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The manager bringing on Fernando was the key to our victory on a complicated night. As soon as we played with two strikers the Czech central defenders were occupied in dealing with him, which left much more space for Andres Iniesta, for Villa and for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Xavi and Co. is an away trip to Lithuania on Tuesday night, where the Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010 champions will be hoping to maintain their 100% record in qualifying so far.<\/p>\n<p><span><em><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/30b0a7a6123684_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/3284\/euro-2012\/2011\/03\/26\/2412351\/spanish-centurion-xavi-believes-introduction-of-fernando\" title=\"Spanish centurion Xavi believes introduction of Fernando Torres changed the game against Czech Republic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spanish centurion Xavi believes introduction of Fernando Torres changed the game against Czech Republic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Luke Matthews 26 Mar 2011 14:57:00 Spain-Colombia: Xavi Hernandez (Spain), Abel Aguilar (Colombia) (Getty images) Related Links Teams Players Spain&#8217;s milestone man Xavi insists the introduction of Fernando Torres at half-time was the catalyst needed for La Furia Roja to overturn a one goal deficit in last night&#8217;s 2-1 Euro 2012 qualifier against the Czech Republic . The Barcelona midfielder, making his 100th appearance for the national side, was full of praise for the out-of-form striker; although he conceded that club-mate David Villa will rightly receive the majority of plaudits after breaking the Spanish goalscoring record with a deadly double<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spanish centurion Xavi believes introduction of Fernando Torres changed the game against Czech Republic - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/26\/spanish-centurion-xavi-believes-introduction-of-fernando-torres-changed-the-game-against-czech-republic\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Spanish centurion Xavi believes introduction of Fernando Torres changed the game against Czech Republic - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Luke Matthews 26 Mar 2011 14:57:00 Spain-Colombia: Xavi Hernandez (Spain), Abel Aguilar (Colombia) (Getty images) Related Links Teams Players Spain&#039;s milestone man Xavi insists the introduction of Fernando Torres at half-time was the catalyst needed for La Furia Roja to overturn a one goal deficit in last night&#039;s 2-1 Euro 2012 qualifier against the Czech Republic . 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