World cup: Spain beat Iran 1-0 in a hard-fought match

It was an approach that didn’t lend itself to particularly beautiful football, as Spain prodded and probed, but there was something mesmerising about the tight concertina of red shirts, expanding and contracting and almost never being drawn out of position. The one part of the Iran set-up that did keep drifting out of position was Queiroz himself, who spent much of the game being ordered back into his technical area by the fourth official.