Spain are consistently tipped to impress in major finals, but more often then not fail to live up to expectations and find themselves on an early flight home.

Despite breaking their hoodoo of exiting tournaments early, Arsenal star Fabregas insists Luis Aragones' side have not achieved anything yet.

"It's a great feeling of course because we've got to the semi-finals," he told the Sun. "But we haven't accomplished anything yet.

"We want to get to the final and that's why we have got to be patient. The job now is to beat Russia and get to the final.

"Once we get there anything can happen but we have to make sure that we go step by step."