Take the beam out of Spain's eye before you criticise the speck of dust in one's own

I remember about a decade or so ago (I think 2001) that Italians were lamenting the absence of any Italian teams in the Champions League quarter-finals.  This from a position of primacy in the 1990s, to make then plain-old Mr Alex Ferguson state that to win the Champions League, one needed to beat at least one Italian side.  Of course, a mere two years later, the 2003 final was an all-Italian affair, but there has been a general aura of Italian flakiness that cannot be shaken.
The English press, for the second year running, worry that the contagion has shifted from Italy to England and that there is a very real danger of no English team in the qaurter-finals of Europe's premier competition.  Last year Chelsea went on a run that culminated in lifting the trophy but that was generally seen as a fluke (as validated by Chelsea's group stage exit this season).  Tough draws and lack of sides making it past the group stage increase the danger of this happening and the threat to the English co-efficient, guaranteeing four spots to the Premier League.
England, however, has had a representative in seven of the last eight finals.  Also any catch up that the other European powers are making will be rendered less important as the next season's TV deal comes into effect, increasing revenues (and ability to purchase the world's best players with insane wages) by 71%, leaving the others in a slipstream.  English decline is overblown.
All the while, no-one has been paying attention to La Liga or rather their European exploits.  Although they got three sides through to the Last 16, all registered negative results in their first leg and their runaway league leader, Barcelona, has appeared very jaded in Europe.  Real Madrid and Malaga haven't been pulling up trees either.  There is a very real possibility of there being no Spanish sides in the quarter-finals.  But the English press are too parochial to mention that.