They were better than England on the day.
Which is all we can judge them on - it is pure speculation whether this particular England team might have beaten this particular Spain team on another day.
It doesn't mean that England were technically not good, which is your implication.
It isn't what I said, nor is it my implication. What I actually said was:
All in all, Spain were just the better side. They were technically superior - much better able to keep the ball with neat one touch stuff.'This is about the relative technical abilities -
better,
superior. And on that count my opinion seems to be clearly backed up not just by the result, but also by the underlying stats on passes and completed passes, which is key to one touch stuff and keeping the ball.
Ultimately we can only judge a teams actual technical ability by reference to other teams - put the England team up against a women's Sunday morning side and they'll look like world beaters. Put them up against the Man City men's team and they'll probably hardly get a touch. Put them up against Spain last Sunday and they looked clearly second best in technical terms.
What hasn't been discussed is that England had lost five key players that helped them win last summer - White and Scott retired and Mead, Kirby and Williamson were injured. Overall their squad wasn't as strong this summer compared to last, and ultimately that showed.
