One year and one day after their
infamous 5 - 1 defeat to the Netherlands at the World
Cup in Brazil, this was a potential banana skin of a fixture for the Spanish with the home - based players in the Belarus squad in the middle of their domestic season.Del Bosque's players could be forgiven for feeling the effects of a long campaign as their summer
holidays beckoned but they got the job done thanks to Silva's goal just before the break.