Spain wary of World Cup repeat after Villa's hat trick leads it over Russia 4-1 at Euro 2008

Spain isn't going to let another impressive tournament debut allow it to get too far ahead of itself.

David Villa's hat trick led the Spanish to a 4-1 victory over Russia to confirm them as one of the European Championship favorites on Tuesday. But after another rout of an eastern European team _ two years ago, it was a 4-0 win over Ukraine at the World Cup _ Spain isn't setting hopes too high.

Not again.

"We have to learn from mistakes like at the last World Cup when everyone thought that we were going to win the tournament because of our victory against Ukraine," Cesc Fabregas said. "We don't want to get too excited and just go …