I think Zapatero should have mentioned this after the pause.

Other comments: I didn´t like at all Zapatero racing in things immigration to show that he ejected more immigrants. He could and should have been more pedagogical and point out how racist Rajoy had positioned himself.

Zapatero was leaning forward and looked like needing convincing you, not his best performance. Rajoy was aggresive, cynical but more articulate.

Zapatero failed to sell the infrastructure effort but placed three or four extremely good attacks on Rajoy. He very effectively exploited last year/last month inflation data. Zapatero was very far from the effectivity and calmness of his economy minister, who shot down the rising star of PP.

All in all I think Zapatero underperformed according to expectations and Rajoy kept to the lack of any moral scruples that characterizes a whole generation of conservative dirigents.