Spain in the final round of Group E of the World Cup with a draw
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The two teams were defeated by Japan 1-2, but they still joined hands to
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.. There were rumors before the match that Spain might walk the line and pick the second place in the group
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The team will be able to avoid Brazil in the last 8 and even Argentina in the last 4. The UK's Daily Express even put forward a conspiracy theory that Spain and Japan have been training their youth in recent years,
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and a partnership on the balloting training, one suspects that the two countries will work together to create a win-win situation.
Spain's team leader, Aleksandar Anriki, denied that he was considering a lineout before the match, but the result was the same as the conspiracy theorists had predicted. Anriki praised Japan after the match as deserving of the win: "We were attacked by two goals in five minutes of chaos, and a team like Japan that is determined to go for broke and has players who are as fast as airplanes deserves to be on top".
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I'm disappointed because we were hoping to finish top of the group.
During the match, Costa Rica was ahead of Germany at one point, and the situation was that Spain was out of the tournament. After the match, Anriki confessed that he didn't know: "Are we going to be out of the tournament? I didn't pay attention to the results of the other game, when did it happen? I don't know, if I knew, I would have had a heart attack.
