17 June,2010 07:47 AM IST | | Agencies
Spain defender Gerard Pique has stated that his side's 1-0 defeat to Switzerland in their opening World Cup match should dismiss any talk of la Furia Roja being tournament favourites.
The Euro 2008 winners had been tipped by many pundits to emerge from South Africa triumphant, but their campaign started off in the worst possible way as a Gelson Fernandes goal handed Ottmar Hizfeld's team a famous win. "From now on we can leave behind the nonsense that we are favourites to win the World Cup. We have tried to exclude this from our thoughts, because it is not real.
"Spain have never even been to the final. It's true that we are a very good squad, but are we favourites... no."
