Jorge Vilda and his players have not seen eye to eye but against England they were in perfect alignment in their will to win
Shortly before the 2017 European Championship in the Netherlands I watched one of the tournament outsiders pass and move their way across a pitch and fell in love. “The way Spain play football is the way it should be played,” I tweeted afterwards.
Fast forward six years and Spain have come a very long way since the rainy Sunday evening in Breda when they lost 2-0 against England in the group stage. Even then, the Lionesses ceded the vast majority of possession but found a way to win thanks to counterattacking goals from Fran Kirby and Jodie Taylor.
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