Spain refines in the face of the Eurocup with a victory against Japan | Women’s Eurocup Switzerland 2025

Spain tested tonight against Japan, the seventh selection of ranking FIFA, at the Municipal Stadium of Butarque. The match, the only probation of the team led by Montse Tomé left a good feeling in the group, increasingly refined for the tournament. The Red fit the first part after a loss of Laia Aleixandri at the ball out, but reacted with the goals of Claudia Pina, Vicky López and Athenea del Castillo (3-1) to overcome a complicated rival that always poses problems for her ability to show off.

I took opted for three rotations on which it is assumed that it will be its first titular alignment in the euro. In the center of the rear and formed a couple with Aleixandri. Aitana Bonmatí, admitted to the hospital with a viral meningitis, was replaced by Vicky in the core, and Alba Redondo came out to the detriment of Esther González. The team fit Japan in its field during the first half, but it cost him a lot to generate occasions on the goal of Yamashita.

The game of Spain flowed especially with the combinations between Mariona Caldentey, which made a formidable game as a false right extreme – the less profile -, the side Oona Batlle and Vicky. The young Barça found through conductions several times the background, but was not fine in the back. The Japanese, however, hit the first opportunity after a Aleixandri pifia at the ball. The central, which returns to Barça next season, handed the ball to Tanaka. The striker finished the play after combining with hamano and performing fantastic control to eliminate María Méndez and beat tasting.

The goal of the selection led by Danish Nils Nielsen was a blow to Spain, unable to leave its goal to zero since November 2024. The team has been in the row. The soup, on the other hand, spoiled those of Montse Tomé, who continued with the erosion work for the right lane. Alexia twice tried Yamashita from outside the area and Claudia Pina escaped a spin to the left squad of the Japanese goalkeeper after one of her usual diagonal conductions. The Barca striker did not err the second. A minute of the break, a combination between Putellas and Mariona enabled Ona, who put a back pass transformed with a precise touch with his right leg.

Patri Guijarro, indisputable title pivot after it was very successful at the ball out, always well oriented and with the capacity to break lines through the pass or driving. After the break, I took Esther and Jana Fernández in the field for Alba and Ona. The game resumed as it had ended before the players went to the locker room, with a good driving from Mariona to enable Pina, which this time stamped his shot in Kumagai.

The Red continued with its work of wear against a team that the ball lasted less and less. Vicky was a shot touching Yamashita’s left stick, but then defined perfect in a hand to the goalkeeper after a loss in the outlet of Takinawa’s ball on the front. Mariona was about to round her great performance with a direct foul, but her shot crashed into the crossbar after Cata saved an occasion of Tanaka. Athenea, who had entered Vicky a few minutes before, put the brooch in 88 with a spectacular shot with the left leg to the squad.

where he opens next Thursday against Portugal as the great favorite but where he will have to adjust at once the losses in the construction and the goals embedded in rapid transitions if he wants to lift the trophy for the first time in its history on July 27.