Euro 2012: Ireland must learn lessons from England's friendly win over Spain, says goalkeeper Shay Given Defeated and outplayed by Croatia on Sunday, the Irish face a daunting task against the European champions. But having been a part of the team denied a place in the 2010 World Cup by Thierry Henry's handball for France in Paris three years ago - Ireland won 1-0 in normal time before Henry's intervention led to the French earning a 1-1 draw - Given insists that the performance in the Stade de France, combined with England's 1-0 win against Spain at Wembley last season, proves that Ireland are capable of winning on Thursday. "Sometimes in the past, when everyone has given up on us, we've come out fighting and proved that we're a decent team," Given said. We have to do that again. There are players on our bus who've been there before, perhaps in Paris, and our backs are against the wall a little bit, so we've got to come out fighting. We know it could be all over on Thursday night if we don't get the result. We know we've got to get a result. Given admits that Ireland expect Thursday's game to follow a similar pattern, but he believes that Spain's weaknesses can be exploited. He said: "Spain are very good on the ball and if you give them time and space, they're going to pick you off, so we know what's coming. We've just got to try and combat that. But we saw England beat Spain a few months ago, so we can take things from that, in terms of how they played. Hopefully, we can do something similar. We can hurt them. We'll try to cause them some problems as well and one of the biggest things will probably be set-pieces. They're not the biggest team in the competition and we've got some big players, so if we get the right deliveries in there, we've got the players who can get on to balls in the box. Given is likely to be tested to the full by Spain, whether they continue with their striker-less formation or deploy Fernando Torres or Fernando Llorente up front, but the goalkeeper insists he is over his injury problems, despite a poor display in the 3-1 defeat against Croatia. "The first goal, I saw a bit late," he said. By the time I saw it, I didn't react quickly enough or get enough to take it around the post. The third goal just hit me smack on the forehead. Ideally I'd have liked to have trained more over the last couple of weeks, but I feel fit again and I'm in full training again now.