Spain culminated this afternoon at RCDE Stadium his good role in the group stage of the Nations League. The world champions defeated England, those of Europe, on their return to Catalonia almost three decades later to get into the semifinals of the tournament and continue with the defense of the title they achieved in February 2024 in the first edition of the competition. After a very strange first part, in which lionesses They advanced with a goal from Alessia Russo when they had almost not passed from the middle of the field, the entrance to the second section of Claudia Pina, which signed a double, changed the face of a team that danced to its rival during the last half hour to sign an important victory that
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Cata Coll, Laia Aleixandri, Ona Batlle, Olga Carmona (Jana Fernández, Min. 88), Irene Paredes, Patri Guijarro, Salma Paalluelo (Clàudia Pina, min. 57), Mariona Caldentey, Aitana Bonmatí, Alexia Putellas and Esther González (Lucía García, min. 81)
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Hannah Hampton, Niamh Charles, Leah Williamson, Lucy Bronze (Jess Carter, min. 55), Alex Greenwood, Lauren Hemp, Georgia Stanway (Missy Kearns, min. 45), Keira Walsh, Jessica Park (Ella Toone, min. 74), Beth Mead (Chloe Kelly, min. 55) y Alessia Russo (Agnes Beever-Jones, min. 86)
Goals
0-1 min. 21: Alessia Russo. 1-1 min. 59: Clàudia Pina. 2-1 min. 69: Clàudia Pina
Referee Katalin Kulcsár
Yellow cards
Laia Aleixandri (min. 28), Missy Kearns (min. 82), Keira Walsh (min. 92)
I took, last Friday took an eleven of gala on the visit to Belgium, only made a change in alignment. He placed Salama Paralluelo at one end instead of A Pina. Spain departed again with its usual structure-a 4-3-3-, with the center of the title field of Barcelona-Patri Guijarro in the Pivote and Aitana Bonmatí and Alexia Putellas inside-in Punta chose Esther González. The Gotham ram arranged for the first two clear occasions for the red, but Hannah Hampton avoided his goal in the first moments by stopping a shot at a ball in a ball that had been dead in a corner. Grenadine also escaped a petroleum jelly after a pifia of Williamson, who lost the ball in his own area before the front of the front.
Spain went to the countryside as if it were the team that needed to win the game to be in the semifinals of the Nations League. The selection controlled possession and game until in the 22 Keira Walsh minute launched Russo in depth. Arsenal’s front started from the midfield and gave a sample of his power by gaining the race to Irene Paredes, as in February in Wembley, and defining with quality before tasting. The both of the English began in a loss of salma in the right wing in which he claimed lack of Niamh Charles. He did not give the impression that the side of Chelsea La Zancadilleara, but only a few minutes before the referee had been out of play when Aitana was hand in hand before Hampton despite having started in the right position. Still without var for the review, the collegiate could not verify either of the two actions. Nor a posterior hand of Charles that was very detached from the body and that diverted a center of Alexia.
The goal of England reduced the end of a first part in which the red one frustrated, unable to quickly circulate the ball from side to side and with very little mobility in the last third of the field. Spain lacked edge in the face of the accumulation of rival players and did not scare Hampton with the distant shots of Aitana, Esther and Patri. At the start of the second part, I took Salma and put Pina in the field, a player with many resources in small spaces. Its impact was so immediate that it entered 58 and only two minutes later nailed the goal of the tie in a fantastic action. He received on the front, gave three touches with the right to move towards the goal before two rivals and ended with the left to the long stick.
The goal of the Barca striker was liberating for Spain, which undressed and traced against England with combinations with much more rhythm. Moncada’s player and Reixach altered a match that had taken an ugly color. Pina culminated his fabulous performance with the same in which he once again demonstrated his enormous ability to shoot from afar by leaving Bo Kearns on the front and nail the leather into Hampton’s left stick. An instant before, Esther had wrong a frank shot, and just after the goal was Aitana who wasted another attempt after Pina got rid of her side with exquisite control with the outside and put the pass back.
Promoted by the Barca striker, the National Team fulfilled the triumph of the objective of being in the final four From the Nations, where it will be measured with Germany, France or Sweden – the draw is Friday – and sent a message to the current European champions to a month from a month after the euro of Switzerland begins: the red today is today
