Spain got rid of Belgium tonight with overwhelming superiority. He passed over a team that in the same Leuven field, the Den Dreef stadium, defeated England, the European champion and the rival to which the Red will be played on Tuesday in Barcelona the pass to the semifinals of the Nations League. The National Team controlled the game from the first to the last minute and did not give the slightest option to the Belgians, unable to steal the ball against a combined that encased them around their area and that had its only defect in the lack of aim at the avalanche of occasions of the occasion he enjoyed. Spain was advanced with a goal from Esther González in the first half, which defined with the left a fantastic pass by Mariona Calderiey, but did not kill the game until the front signed her double in the second part and Athenea of the castle and Alba Redondo completed the win in the final stretch.
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Nicky Evrard, Amber Tysiak, Laura Delons, Janice Cayman, Justine Vans Varvemat (Mariam Toloba, min. 58), Zenia Mets (Davina Phill being, 45), Marie Detruyer, Jill Janssens (Elena Dhun, 78, min. 78), min. 78, min. (Kassandra Missi, min. 45), Tessa Wulleers y Jarne Tuls (Tine The Caigny, 65)
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Cata Coll, Irene Paredes, Ona Batlle, Laia Aleixandri, Olga Carmona, Aitana Bonmatí, Alexia Putellas, Patri Guijarro, Clàudia Pina (Athenea del Castillo, min. 60), Esther González (Salma Paalluelo, min. 76) and Mariona Caldentey (Alba Redondo, min. 80)
Goals
0-1 min. 35: Esther González. 0-2 min. 63: Esther González. 0-3 min. 77: Athenea del Castillo. 0-4 min. 78: Athenea del Castillo. 0-5 min. 84: Alba Redondo. 1-5 min. 87: Caigny tine
Referee Ewa Augustine
Yellow cards
Olga Carmona (min. 10), Marie Detruyer (min. 48)
Tomé’s message with the eleven was very clear when placing eight players – out of Barça and one of the Arsenal – who were starting six days ago in Lisbon in the final of the Champions League, in addition to Esther, who last Sunday played the 90 minutes with the Gotham in the final of the Concacaf Champions Cup. The selector gave the most important importance to the match against Belgium. He will play it on Tuesday against lionessesthat last night they thrashed in Wembley to Portugal.
The bet of the Asturian technique went well to the red from the beginning, which embroidered his football in a first half in which the Belgians did not get five consecutive passes almost spinning and much less disturbed Cata Coll, who did not even have to make a stretch. The National Team shot in the first section 19 times and launched five corner serves, but only succeeded at Esther’s goal, from Dulce since he returned to the group last April after a year.
The marker in the halftime was very short despite the total domain of Spain, which was above all excellent in the pressure after loss to cut the cons of Belgium, the plays with which the selection led by Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir hurt England two months ago in the Loavaina and also in February to the Red in the Ciutat de Valencia. Then 0-2 was put, but Tomé’s team
Under the baton of the center of the head of Barça – Patri Guijarro de Pivote and Aitana Bonmatí and Alexia Putellas in the interiors – which today departed from the extreme right, the team circulated quickly and effectively the ball to develop the Belgian defense. Nicky Evrard cleared the shots of Caldentey, Claudia Pina and Ona Batlle while Esther, Olga Carmona and Alexia approached the goal with shots that finally left deviated or were rejected. The Gotham front closed with its double, in which it took advantage of a rejection, the match and became the fifth scorer of the history of the Red by adding its 34º both before Athenea signed another double and round marked his. Two minutes from the end, De Caigny marked in a side center in a play in which he gave the impression that Cata could do more.
Esther has marked four goals in the three games she has played since she returned to the team in April and is emerging as one of the great candidates to occupy the position of nine in the national team both in the euro and next Tuesday at the RCDE Stadium against England, where Spain is worth to tie to be in the final four of the tournament and continue defending the title he achieved last year in the nations.
