World champion chased EM titles
Gala at the start: Spain spain dominates and wins
Updated on 03.07.2025 – 11:02 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Spain is one of the biggest favorites of the EM of women in the bookmakers. Against Portugal, “La Roja” also showed why.
Spain’s women’s national team won the first game at the European Championship. With 5: 0, the world champion hit the neighbor from Portugal, dominated the game from the kick -off and already led four goals at halftime, so that the second half was more managed.
The goals scored Esther González (2nd and 43rd minute), Vicky López (7th), Alexia Putellas (41.) and Cristina Martín-Prieot (90.+3).
Before the kick -off fans and players of Portugal’s national player Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva, who died in a traffic accident. Portugal’s fans applauded the two footballers, held up posters and made emotional moments with speech choirs.
Afterwards, only Spain found in EM mode. The world champions took their neighboring country apart at a technical high level. Captain Putellas and Mariona Caldentey in particular distributed the balls, often tore gaps in the Portuguese defense with their passports and thus caused extreme dominance. Appropriately, La Ola spilled through the stadium. In the end, the Portuguese team of coach Francisco Neto was still well served with the result.
In the first game of group B in Sion, Bayern Munich’s Arianna Caruso led her goal in the 44th minute Italy to a 1-0 (1-0) against Belgium. For Belgium on Monday against world champion Spain with an almost unsolvable task, Italy then meets Portugal.