The most striking part of the Juve game, or at least the most surprising, was seeing Marco Asensio in the role of a false No

The most striking part of the Juve game, or at least the most surprising, was seeing Marco Asensio in the role of a false No

After a slew of unveilings high on mouth but low on trousers, an air of disconcerting quiet has fallen over Real Madrid once more.

Spain’s Tiqui-taca high-possession passing brand of football was never intended to be like this - the drawn-out, overbaked version we saw of it in Moscow on ...

AS Editor Alfredo Relaño analyses Spain’s defeat to Russia on penalty, with Hierro’s side crashing out at the last 16 stage of the World Cup 2018.

We're not without reasons to see our glass as half full. Spain have topped a group also containing Portugal, the reigning European champions...

AS editor Alfredo Relaño analyses Spain's game against Morocco, which saw Spain top their group by a pure mirable and head into the last 16 of the World Cup 2018 to play Russia.

It's going to be a siege, was how someone described it to me yesterday, and that's exactly what we used as today's headline in the newspaper.

AS Editor Alfredo Relaño analyses the draw between Portugal and Spain in World Cup 2018 Group B, which saw Cristiano Ronaldo score a hat-trick.

AS editor Alfredo Relaño looks at the decision Spain coach Julen Lopetegui needs to take regarding who plays up front for Spain at the World Cup in Russia.

The traditional view used to be that, when it comes to the national team, there's no such thing as a friendly...

Ramos, Busquets and Isco back for the dress rehearsal that awaits us in the city of Krasnodar, within a fantastic stadium which was described to me as 'a futuristic Roman circus'.

Something I liked even less than seeing no goal-scoring solution was that Sergio Ramos and Isco were allowed to miss the entire trip,

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