📰 Newspapers

Who swaggered around like he owned the place? Spain v England ratings

Who swaggered around like he owned the place? Spain v England ratings

Spanish football reporter Elizabeth Conway and senior football correspondent Sami Mokbel give their player ratings for Spain v England.

England went 3-0 up before surviving a late onslaught after going down to 10 men to earn a landmark victory against World Cup holders Spain in Madrid on Sunday night.

Here's how we rated the players following the Three Lions' 3-2 victory and you can see how you scored them below.

Unai Simon: Made some brilliant saves early in the first half but still conceded three. 7

Marc Pubill: Had a bright 20 minutes against Anthony Gordon until he came off injured. 6

Pau Cubarsi: Gave away the penalty that Harry Kane scored for England's opener. 5

Aymeric Laporte: Always under pressure against Kane but came into the game more as the England striker dropped deeper after the sending off. 7

Marc Cucarella: Tried to get under Morgan Rogers' skin and kept him fairly quiet. 6

Martin Zubimendi: Made some decent challenges. 6

Fabian Ruiz: Made little impact in midfield before he came off at half-time. 5

Mikel Merino: The Arsenal midfielder was ineffective and quiet for the first half - and then taken off at half-time. 5

Lamine Yamal: Lewis Hall and Jarell Quansah has to double up to contain him. Moments of brilliance throughout. 8

Alex Baena: The Atletico Madrid forward made some decent runs into the box. 7

In brief

England went 3-0 up before surviving a late onslaught after going down to 10 men to earn a landmark victory against World Cup holders Spain in Madrid on Sunday night. Unai Simon: Made some brilliant saves early in the first half but still conceded three. 6 Martin Zubimendi: Made some decent challenges. 6 Fabian Ruiz: Made little impact in midfield before he came off at half-time.

This is the opening of the story, shared with credit to BBC News — Top Stories. The rest of the report — with every detail — continues on the publisher’s website.

Continue reading at BBC News — Top Stories ↗

Cookie settings

Choose which cookies we may use. You can change this at any time from Cookie settings in the footer. Details of each cookie are in the Cookie Policy.

Strictly necessary

Needed for sign-in, security, payments and remembering these choices. Always on.

Preferences

Remember settings such as dark mode.

Analytics & performance

Help us count visits, understand which pages, devices and countries our readers use, and measure how well the site performs – anonymous and aggregated.

Advertising & marketing

Lets advertising partners show and personalise adverts, measure impressions, clicks and visits, prevent ad fraud and pay us – this is how the free site is funded.

🔔 News notifications

Get headlines from NewsHub on this device — even when the site is closed.

You can switch this off at any time. Works on Android, Windows, Mac and Linux browsers; on iPhone/iPad add the site to your Home Screen first.