Euro star Fabregas aims to reign with Spain

Cesc Fabregas has already conquered Europe wearing a red shirt once and he will be aiming to do it again this season, only this time with his club.

The midfielder, who helped Spain to glory at Euro 2008 in the summer, has joined his compatriots once again this week. They face Bosnia-Herzegovina and Armenia on Saturday and Wednesday respectively and Fabregas sees similarities between the style of play of his club and his country.

“The Spanish side has very, very good players,” Fabregas told the official matchday programme. “I enjoy playing with them and there are definitely comparisons with Arsenal, although it’s a bit quicker with my club.

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“The emphasis with Spain is maybe more on keeping the ball while at Arsenal we’re committed to playing on the counter and looking for attacking solutions all the time. The players are similar as they’re technically good and very creative.”

Before Euro 2008 some critics suggested that Fabregas and his Spanish team-mate Xavi were too similar to strike up an effective partnerhip. But the Arsenal.com Player of the Season was never in any doubt that the duo would complement each other.

“Good players can always play together if they want to and are intelligent,” he said. “I think that the coach was actually very intelligent himself in this case; he knew that Xavi and I are a bit different. Xavi is very good at keeping the ball, while every time we were losing or drawing he’d send me on because I can play a bit quicker, a bit longer.

“I respect Xavi a lot and [Luis] Aragones too - he made the right decisions at the right moments and what it comes down to is that we are a team.”