It’s time to turn the page, forget the defeat against Portugal and concentrate on Sunday’s duel (2:30 p.m.) against Ukraine for the bronze medal of the European Championship. That is what the national coach wants, Faith Vidalwho congratulated the Portuguese team for reaching the final.
“It’s a match that we have faced quite well in which the expectations we had were fulfilled”, analyzed the coach who added that, “we have entered the match very well, we have put ourselves ahead on the scoreboard but in the second half They have had more force to press.”
“Spain didn’t switch off, the players we have don’t switch off. Looking at the result, of course people will talk about those things, but it was a very close game. We created some good chances and if we had taken them, the game could have been different”, commented the Spanish coach. “Of course, it’s not what we wanted. Portugal showed a lot of strength,” he settled.
Regarding the duel against Ukraine, he stated that “It’s a game that no one likes to playeveryone wants to be in the final, it has that special connotation”. Even so, “it is a match that we want to win, we have to recover from this hard blow and try to recover for this match and get third place”.