We deserved to win, it was fair. We've worked on it”. These were the words that the top Spanish striker (and of the World Cup) used to define his team’s performance. The asturian player, David Villa, spoke these words about the match against the Portuguese, that ended with the “reds” qualified for the quarter finals.

After a dubious beginning, Vicente del Bosque’s team confirmed their positive trajectory and won a match against the only team that hadn’t been scored one single goal in the whole tournament. The Guaje, who else, was the one who broke the lock on Eduardo’s goal, Portuguese goalkeeper who proved his quality in more than one occasion during the competition and in this match also, he saved many clear goals and situations of great danger in favor of the Spaniards.

“Portugal was closed in defense, they also have great defenders, especially the ones who play in the center. As regards Paraguay, the next team to face Spain, to decide one of the free positions in the semifinals – next Saturday at 20.30h. David Villa said that “we have to go step by step; this is a world cup, we have to be very careful”.

In personal terms, the player from Tuilla has increased his results to 41 goals scored with the Spanish Team and is only 3 goals away from Raúl, top striker in the history of the Spanish Team.

In this World cup and with four goals scored in four matches, he is top of the list of strikers along with Vittek and Higuaín. However, the guaje does not forget the “solidarity” principle that has always been with him, right to where he is now: “I am very happy to score goals because it is my job, but I am very aware that the happiness wouldn’t exist if that didn’t help the success of the group: the key to everything are the collective goals, the individual success is useless without them”.