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...

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 they say in bullfighting: when the bull emerges, everyone sits down. The chit-chat and the how-do-you-dos in the stands come to an end...