Spain vs. Tahiti Recap, Video Highlights: Confederations Cup 2013

Spain took home its second Confederations Cup victory after defeating Tahiti 10-0 on Thursday.

Prior to the start of the match, Tahiti coach Eddy Etaeta stated that his team of amateurs could concede 20 goals against the World Champions. The game did not look that way early on despite an early goal from Fernando Torres. The Chelsea striker ran down the left wing and fired a shot past Tahiti's poorly positioned goalie Mikael Roche. As he came out to stop the ball, the goalie left his short side wide open for Torres. After that early goal in the fifth minute, Tahiti shut down the Spaniards and made the World Champions look dysfunctional. The team eventually found its game in the final 15 minutes of the half. David Villa slid a perfect pass to David Silva on the right side of the box and the latter slotted it past Roche for the second goal of the game at the 31^st minute. Two minutes later, Juan Mata found a breaking Torres. The striker cut past an oncoming Roche and fired the shot into the empty goal. At the 39^th minute, Silva threw a breakaway pass to Villa; the forward scored his record 54^th goal for the Spanish national team.

Three minutes into the second half, David Villa scored his second goal thanks to a low cross from Nacho Monreal. At the 57 mark, Torres would score a hat trick to make it 6-0 in favor of Spain. He became the first non-Brazilian to score a hat trick at the Maracana stadium and the first Spaniard to score a hat trick in the Confederations Cup. David Villa would complete his own hat trick in the 64^th minute while Mata scored another goal less than two minutes later to make the score 8-0 in Spain's favor. Torres got a chance to add his fourth in the 78^th minute on a penalty kick, but he wound up hitting the crossbar. He made up for it less than minute later to extend the goal to 9-0; he became the 10^th Spanish player to score four goals in one game with the national side. He also became the third player in Confederations Cup history to score four goals in a match. Silva added another in the 89^th minute to make it 10-0 for Spain.

Sergio Ramos was the only "regular" player that played against Uruguay on Sunday that also got the start against the Tahiti; the other 10 players were reserves during Spain's first match and were considered a part of the "second team" for Spain. Ramos was subbed off in the second half in favor of Navas.

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