Bob Loblaw
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Haven't been watching many of Spain's international games this year, has Casillas been starting in all of them? Just wondering if given how he's been used on-and-off at Real this season if there was any shot of De Gea starting.
Casillas will start, there's no debate about that now Valdés is injured (and even then it was almost definitely going to be Casillas).
Still amazes me that they're not picking Lopez. If you were picking purely on form, then Lopez should be 1st choice, de Gea 2nd, and Casillas 3rd.
And I know Del Bosque has always had a massive thing for respecting seniority, but if he's willing to bring de Gea in then he should be willing to drop Reina for Lopez.
Nah, López's form is hugely overrated. Real Madrid concede far fewer goals when Casillas plays in the cup games, and generally look a lot better defensively. López has a bad habit of parrying shots into the path of strikers, yet (English) commentators don't pick up on it.
Picking López over Reina would be far more trouble than it's worth (agree he's better though) because of the divide between him and his captain. You get people like Arbeloa who are now against Casillas because they are on López's "side", and that's probably why neither make it, as well as Reina's importance off-the-pitch.
Glad de Gea is going though, he's had a great season and is surely the future number one.