Just four days after England gave Spain a football lesson at the Under 17 World Cup final there was more painful viewing in Madrid as the goals went in at Wembley.
Television and radio match analysts Pedro Mijatovic and Jorge Valdano called it as they saw it – the former could be heard suggesting Dele Alli was a better player than Paul Pogba and the latter that Harry Kane was the complete striker.
The praise came thick and fast, like the Tottenham attacks.
The Spanish don’t usually pride themselves on the physical side of the game but there was concern expressed in the first half hour that Madrid had not committed a single foul.