The national team, with Silvia Lloris of Murcia at the core of the defence, is one step away from winning a title they lost to the Japanese in France 2018.
“I’ve always dreamed of playing in a World Cup and we’re going to fight for it,” said Silvia Lloris, Murcia’s centre-back, before the start of the U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica. The defense of Levante is just one step away from achieving it. Spain and Japan will contest the final the following morning (4:00 AM), in a duel with a taste of revenge for La Rojita, who lost the last World Cup in the category to the Japanese four years ago.
The match, which will be played at the San José National Stadium, will give Spain the chance to win its first World Cup and avenge the defeat it suffered against Japan in France’s 2018 final. For the blue samurai, a win would be their second. gold mean medal, in a competition where the United States and Germany each add three titles and North Korea two. Except for coaches Pedro López and Futoshi Ikeda, not a single player from the previous final will repeat at the next morning’s appointment.
“Yes, on a personal level you can have a motivation or a thorn in the side, of a goal that you would like to achieve as a coach, but we already have a silver medal hanging and that is a lot,” said López afterwards. the Spanish qualifier for the final after beating the Dutch team (2-1) in the semi-final.
For his part, Ikeda, the Japanese coach, said after Brazil’s elimination that “there is no pressure” to win the title again, although “we wanted to go to the extreme with this new team.”
Japan has defended its crown in Costa Rica with colorful and fast-paced football, based on ball control and filtered passes to jump over opponents’ lines. The team land of the rising sun has also shown a lot of speed and versatility when it comes to attacking, with great quality details and Yuzuki Yamamoto, Maika Hamano and Aoba Fujino as the main threats to the defense.
Japan enter the final with four wins and a draw, which ended in a penalty shootout win against France in the quarter-final, with eight goals for and three against. But if the Japanese team stands out in anything, it’s in its attitude and physical strength to run and hold at a brisk pace for most of the match. “Spain has a new team, so do we. There are differences between the two teams, but we want to play a good game,” Ikeda said.
Spain wants to add a new title for women’s football, where it is the current champion of the U-17 World Cup and the U-19 European Championship, the latter won last July.
The Spaniards reach the final with four wins and one draw, with eleven goals for and only one against. But numbers aside, it shows the game model that has made Spain recognizable over the past 15 years.
Starting from behind with the ball, possession, high pressure, space management and the constant search for the rival area with multiple passes and combinations, both on the wing and inside, are the DNA of the team. The class is put in the middle of the field by FC Barcelona players, Ariadna Mingueza and Julia Bartel, directors of an orchestra where Ana Tejada, from Real Sociedad, imposes the defensive order and Salma Paralluelos, also from Barcelona, the speed.
The Hispanics have a goal guarantee in their Sevilla striker, Inma Gabarro, top scorer of the World Cup, with 7 goals.
Source: La Verdad
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