Spain, the best team so far in the euro, knocked down Germany tonight, eight times champion, to sneak in the final for the first time in its history. In a dog face and that launched cons that looked dagged, the red sweated to reach the extension. For the short stick to decide the match against a team that competed until the end despite having played another extension four days ago and despite arriving with four important casualties: Nüsken, Hendrich, Gwinn and Linder. The triumph leaves the Montse team took one step away from winning the tournament and completing a wonderful cycle that began with the 2023 World Cup and continued last year with the victory in the Nations. Now England awaits, the current champion, Sunday at St. Jakob-Park in Basel.
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Ann-Katrin Berger, Carlotta Wamser, Franziska Kett, Rebecca Knaak, Sophia Kleinhern (Sydney Lohmann, Min. 96), Janina Minge, Elisa Senss (Lea Schüller, Min. 113), Jule Brand, Sara Dallmann, Min. 63), Klara Bühl Y Giovanna Hoffmann (Selina Cerci, Min. 85)
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Cata Coll, Olga Carmona, María Méndez, Ona Batlle, Irene Paredes, Aitana Bonmatí, Alexia Putellas, Patri Guijarro, Esther González (Salma Paalluelo, min. 67), Clàudia Pina (Athenea del Castillo, min. 76) and Mariona Caldentey (Cristina Martín-Prieto, min. 102)
Goals
0-1 min. 112: Aitana Bonmatí
Referee EDINA ALVES BATISTA
Yellow cards
Sara Däbritz (Min. 16), Esther González (Min. 19), Patri Guijarro (Min. 106), Salama Paralluelo (Min. 110)
I took in the Stadion Letzigrund in Zurich the same eleven he used to Switzerland in the quarterfinals. Patri, Aitana and Alexia formed in the core, with Mariona and Pina on the wings and Esther on tip. The team kneaded and kneaded the ball, but the team led by Christian Wück did not sink around its area. The German coach, who had already assumed in the previous one that Spain would have much more possession, formed with a 4-5-1 and placed the defensive line 35 meters from his goal.
Wück’s idea worked. His three midfielders – mining, Sensss and Däbritz – plugged the inner game of the red, which crashed into a compact block that only left spaces through the outer lanes. Before each loss, in addition, the Germans tried to release a whipping against. His direct proposal gave Cata the first scare how much Berger took out, Patri threatened to go head but did not clear and the ball slipped between the defensive line for Bühl to stay hand in hand. At the end of Bayern his shot was diverted, but the octocampeone notice in minute eight was serious.
The game of Spain was so flat that the team did not find a way to break lines. The combinations resulted in a romo attack, without edge or depth. Before that traffic jam, Patri tested from the center of the field when he saw Berger ahead, but his attempt left away while the German goalkeeper let out a smile. The game became a meek thick where everything was very controlled. Nothing happened until Patri threw Olga on the left lane. The side put the center and Kett erred the clearance. The ball fell to Esther on the edge of the small area, but Berger, spectacular throughout the euro, diverted the shot.
The warning of Spain was an isolated flash. The German plan, which was going through the game of the world champions and traveling quickly towards Cata, resulted again when Alexia lost a ball in the center. Brand led to the right and combined with Däbritz. The new Real Madrid midfielder put the pass back, but Hoffmann did not spliced the ball in the penalty area.
Spain was so predictable that the first part, in which it had 70% of the possession, passed without creating danger until in the last five minutes it shook the game from the stopped ball. First it was a closed foul of pina, almost a mini -horner, who walked through the German goal after playing in Däbtriz, and then walls stamped a corner kick. Tomé’s team squeezed in the last moments, but Berger frustrated Mariona, Esther and Pina, all from within the area after good combinations.
The Teutone goalkeeper, who already got out of the rooms against France, showed again at the beginning of the second half when he shrinks the space and avoiding a hand to Ona. I took refreshed the group with Salma and then did it with Athenea. The Red sank Germany more but did not find a way to disturb Berger or avoid the cons of his rival, who touched the goal in a lack of Bühl from the front. The game went to the extension after Cata saved the team at the last minute with two consecutive stops to another shot of the Bayern and Wamser end.
The legs of the Germans resisted until Athenea attended Aitana and until Cata then saved Schuller’s shot from the front. The first Spanish players to lift the World Cup, a formidable generation, also want to be on Sunday euro champions with more assistance in history with 623,088 accumulated spectators.
