Spain pile on pain as tiny Tahiti are hit for 10

Spain 10 Tahiti 0

There had been predictions that the World and European champions would reach double figures, but they only led 1-0 after 30 minutes.

David Villa had a hat-trick, David Silva scored twice and Juan Mata also netted as Spain went top of Group B, ahead of Nigeria’s clash with Uruguay.

It took Spain less than five minutes to take the lead through Torres, the Chelsea striker calmly sidefooting inside the near post of Mikael Roche.

The crowd were getting excited every time Tahiti made it out of their own half and were whipped into a frenzy as Steevy Chong Hue made a surging run forward and drew a foul from Raul Albiol. Marama Vahirua put the free-kick into the wall.

Tahiti had so far managed to hold their own but two goals in as many minutes, from Silva and Torres, just after the half-hour gave the scoreline the look many had been expecting.

Villa added number four in the 39th minute and it took just four second-half minutes for Spain to make it five as some clever build up saw Nacho Monreal square the ball to Villa who hammered home his second.

Eight minutes later Torres had his hat-trick and was joined on three by Villa in the 62nd minute. Three minutes later it was eight as Mata fired under the body of Roche.

Spain were in autopilot now and missed a 78th-minute penalty — Torres hitting the bar.

But Torres quickly added the ninth and Silva’s last-minute strike made it 10-0 and equalled Tahiti’s largest ever defeat, which came against New Zealand in 2004.