Spain Transition Will Test Del Bosque's Resolve — bleacherreport.com

Spain is in transition, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The only trouble is that I’m not convinced that coach Vicente del Bosque knows what form that transition should take. To be fair to del Bosque, he has—kind of—been here before, having changed around 50 per cent of his squad between the 2008 European final in Vienna and the 2012 version in Kiev. But then, it was just the names that changed while the idea remained the same and revolved around a certain Xavi Hernandez, and Xavi, as we all know, is no longer there.

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