COMMENT: The Chelsea manager’s stellar work with his two summer signings can inspire Vicente del Bosque to revive la Roja’s fortunes

MOURINHO HOLDS THE KEYS TO SPAIN REVIVAL
Sunday in Luxembourg yielded four goals and three points for Spain, but no escape from the lingering stench of crisis.

Four defeats in seven matches – as many as the former world and double European champions had suffered in the previous 48 – tells its own tale, and one some are interpreting as the end of a glorious chapter.

The sad truth is that the inevitable decline and retirements of Carles Puyol, Xavi and Xabi Alonso have deprived an all-time great team of its heart and brain.

Those left behind, star-studded but depleted, have quickly discovered that the tiki-taka which once divided the rest of elite football into imitators and reactionaries has its own limits when allied to the human fallibility so ruthlessly exposed by Netherlands, Chile, France and Slovakia in recent months.

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