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

They may only have drawn that opening game against Portugal, but there was still a sense that of the serious pre-tournament contenders, Spain looked the most coherent. Plenty of other sides have been confounded by the finishing of Cristiano Ronaldo, even without the dreadful error by David De Gea that seemed uncharacteristic to anybody who watches him regularly for Manchester United but that has become worryingly commonplace with his national side.