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[caption id="attachment_16508" align="alignnone" width="580"] Alvaro Morata scored a brace against Turkey. Twitter[/caption] Internet Desk: Spain booked their place in the knockout stage of Euro 2016 by easing to a 3-0 victory over Turkey in Nice on Friday. Alvaro Morata and Nolito scored in a four-minute span in the first half to put the defending champions on their way to a second-straight win in Group D following Monday's 1-0 win over the Czech Republic. Morata added his second shortly after half-time as Spain became the first team to score three goals in one game at the tournament. Turkey were overmatched for the majority of the game, but they nearly broke out on the counter-attack in the first minute, only for Sergio Ramos to be booked for his challenge to halt Burak Yilmaz, who was booked himself in the ninth minute while trying to hold off Sergio Busquets. Spain's first chance of note came in the 11th minute when Jordi Alba tried to find Morata with a cross at the near post, but Gokhan Gonul poked it away at the last moment. Gerard Pique nearly scored from the resulting corner, but he put his header into the ground, and the ball bounced up and over the bar. Nolito threatened to score from distance in the 29th minute, but his shot form the top of the box whistled past the post with the goalkeeper outstretched. But it wasn't long before La Roja found the breakthrough, as Nolito curled in cross that Morata flicked on with his head to score in the 34th minute.