You can't ignore that Villa almost single handedly knocked Russia from this tournament in group play.  The last time these two met Spain spanked Russia in a 4-1 victory.  A three goal margin is big for international play and the only two teams to loose by that same margin in tournament play were Italy, knocked out by Spain, and France, knocked out in Group play.  Russia's been on a tear as of late ever since the reinstatement of Arshavin from his two game suspension.  Pavlyuchenko has seemed to find his own as well and is only one goal behind Euro tournament goal leader Villa.  Villa and Torres are the biggest threat to this Russian defense and we've already seen them punch holes in and out of it.  Yoonew contracts for Russia in morning trading were bid at 1000 while Spain contracts remained Strong at about 3600.  Russian has never defeated Spain in international play.  Spain has won the last three times they met and drew once.  Today could be epic or just another Spainish team being Spain again.  

 Dan