A leftie for the cameras

The wall is perfectly positioned at the regulation distance of 10 yards (9.15 metres) and even jumps up as the ball flies over it.

They form a line of five inanimate figures, for if they were, they would also have turned in unison to lament the precision with which Alejandro Grimaldo sends his free-kicks floating straight into the top corner.

The left-back shows off his left foot to the camera alongside captain Álvaro Morata and Álex Baena, with whom, half-jokingly, half-seriously, they study the possibilities that the Valencian's free-kick mastery provides Spain with.

The scene was a colourful climax to the internationals' training session on Friday morning in Donaueschingen, on the eve of their trip to Cologne to face Georgia in the Last 16 of the European Championships.