You're going to. I've left you used to the sound of training or the sound of the car driving

back from the stadium the sound of the call to prayer, Rondo's football's being struck.

What you can hear now is the Aircon.

I'm back at HQ.

That deathly silent seems to me highly appropriate for a shambolic night

where Spain were out of the competition for several minutes are through, not because of Maratta's goal really but because of the two goals scored by Germany who reacted

There's the word reacted and refused to be beaten by Costa Rica having trailed.

Haven't seen that game yet, but there's very clearly a lesson to be learned for Spain's staffs Spain's is very

lesson to be learned for Spain's staff, Spain's players.

As much as there is from rewatching the defeat to Japan,

reaction is a very big thing.

That was an embarrassing defeat and not in the least because a side which has won three European Championships and one World Cup which was a

semi-finalist at the last euros is a finalist in the most recent Nations League lost to a national team of much less renown.

That's not it.

And before I am encounters about the embarrassment I talk about and says, well, this is a

World Cup when Belgium and Germany are out where there have been truly shocking results like France losing their final group game to Tunisia like

Saudi Arabia beating Argentina. I could go on. It was embarrassing because there was no correlation

between how Spain have trained and how they played.

There was no correlation between the powerful emphasis placed upon Louis Saint-Rique,

who remains a terrific coach whose reputation isn't

besmirched by having a bad night but he had a bad night and there was no

connection between the 11 he chose and the power of the words

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