Summary and result I Women’s Eurocup 2022:

Spain he leaves the European Championship after conceding a cruel defeat. On his best day and offering the best version of himself, but showing a goalscoring deficit after losing to Alexia Y Handsome. They dominated the ball, they dominated the English, but fell to the punch of the hosts, who pulled the balls and their physical superiority to seal their place in the semifinals.

ripped Spain with a sufficiency and a cheek with which he had not been seen in this European Championship. Touching and cooling the game when the ball came out, but being vertical when he found spaces to reach the area and making the local team work Earps. The English goalkeeper had to stop a long shot from Mariona Caldentey and risking his physique in a center where he entered with everything Esther Gonzalez.

Jorge Vilda he had moved eleven with new faces and fresh legs. appeared the Cardona, Olga on the side and Martha up, Tere Abelleira in the medullary and Esther Gonzalez on point. And the team appreciated it by showing a lot of personality against an England that was uncomfortable and frustrated at times unable to step into the goal area cloths or create chances of danger. Midway through the first part, the Spanish dominated the match, taking it to a very comfortable stage for them.

If in the duel in February Spain monopolized possession (80%), now they dominated the ball (55%) and made it happen on occasions. Wiegmann, the English coach, hollered on the wing giving directions to her players, unable to overwhelm her rival. At 36 minutes England took the lead on an isolated play, a set piece that White he clinched the net offside. The VAR left the episode in fright, while the English, a team more emotional than technical, tried to come up. But Spain cooled down the game and came to rest with the ball at the feet of a Bonmati imperial.

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Esther’s goal

Spain came out of the locker room with a novelty, Athena of the Castle by Martha Cardona. The madridista, who was the best in February in the match against the English, came out to face, to verticalize the Spanish game. And in the first one he had, in the 53rd minute, he left his marker and assisted Esther Gonzalez, that anticipated Spain on the marker. First goal conceded by England and deathly silence in Brighton. Fair prize to the Spanish dominion.

Wiegmann reacted by substituting his star Mead, who was eaten by Ona Batlle, already ahead by White by Kelly Y Russiansecond scorer of the European Championship. vilda He asked for a head aware that the English arreón was coming. But with Bonmati in mode Xavi Y Mapi Y Walls impassable, the Spanish suffocated the local push. The English danger passed through the set pieces, in play they were not able to disturb them. He was about to score Athena of the Castle the goal of the European Championship in a very dangerous center-shot that Earps he took out when the goal was already being sung.

Everything the Spanish did made sense: the coverage, the defensive help, the exits from the outside, the diagonals of Athenathe movements of Esther, the turns of Bonmati... But each ball hung in the Paños area caused a lump in the throat. As each one against one of Athenea silenced the stadium. The Spanish was a nightmare for daly, the English left-back, which he overwhelmed in every possible way. It was a crossroads of blows.

to extra time

And then a rainy center was touched by Russianwith a contact on Walls who claimed Spain as missing, and Toone He ended up clinching the net. England tied with more heart than football when the Spanish already savored their place in the semifinals. Tie already in extra time with the feeling of having lost an unbeatable opportunity to reach the semifinals. It was time to reset and recover the version of the Spain patient and domineering.

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But the blow was too hard and six minutes into extra time a lost ball in the spinal cord ended with a shot from stanway that entered like a shell. Vilda entrusted herself to Amaur Sarriegi, front of the Real society that the coach has reviled initially leaving her off the list, and then without giving her a single minute. From lost, to the river. But it was already late. It could not be. Spain had football, but the goal was missing Alexia Y Handsome.