Here in Kiev’s Olympic Stadium they became the first full international team to win three consecutive major tournaments and, when you consider how dominant they have been and how much success these players have had at club level, they make a strong case for being considered the greatest of the modern era.

Wenger, like a number of critics, did not like the absence of a striker in their starting line-up and last night Vicente del Bosque asked Cesc Fabregas to play as a ‘false  No 9’ again.

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