The Spanish football team gave a football lesson in his match against Ireland. The team known as "la Roja" (the red ones") are famous for the tiki-taka, a name invented by the Spanish football press to describe the virtuoso and skillfull passing game of the Spanish football team.

In the match against Ireland, Spain made 898 passes of which 815 were successful, which means that of the 898 passes they only missed 83! Xavi played a crucial role in this passing game as he gave 136 of the passes. It is also important to remark that Spain shooted 15 times at the goal out of 27.