Spain had 23 attempts on goal, hit the bar and post and Pickford made a world class save, that isn't creating very little. Along with their 73% possession and stream of creating chances I thought they were due a penalty and a sending off as Pickford man handles Rodrigo. We were lucky and Spain were robbed, if it was the other way around there'd be plenty of bleating about being robbed.
Our first goal was a direct pass from Pickford and then two superb passes. We were clinical with our chances and created very little with the ball in the final third and our play is generally counter attacking and dependent on huge gulfs of space we can exploit 1v1. That's OK and it worked well last night but essentially we are Norway in the 80's and England are a better team than that with better players.
I thought it was bordering on long ball defensive football, the type I hate, which may be colouring my opinion. That's not to say we are equipped to play Spain in their own backyard at their own game when we don't have the technical class but to rave on like we deserved to win by channelling the spirit of Arrigo Sacchi is wide of the mark.
