La Roja will be pitted against host nation England, the tournament’s deadliest team, who still don’t know what it’s like to score a goal in the quarter-finals
After making it through the group stage with some trepidation, the Spanish women’s football team will face the most deadly team of the current European Championship, the host country England, in the quarter-finals in Brighton on Wednesday. A team tied with a full number of wins and the best figures in championship history: 14 goals for and not one against.
A feat that reaffirms the ‘Lionesses’ as one of the big favorites to win the title. A team with a physical block and a lot of talent, which, driven by their fans in the stands, has traveled a comfortable path so far, dominates all their matches from the start, and is the team that has generated the most scoring opportunities in current affairs continental. Interestingly, the next bloc to appear on that list is the Spaniards, but unlike the one led by Sarina Wiegman, who scored 13 goals in just two games (they scored eight against Norway, in the biggest win in the history of the tournament, and five to Northern Ireland), The Red is much less effective.
To begin with, a sizzling duel is expected in which Spain’s main goal, which has suffered in its three previous commitments, is nothing but the bolt that England have behind them to burst, with Mary Earps under the sticks, a goalkeeper who has left his side. undefeated. We will have to see what attack Jorge Vilda puts out for the occasion, a line in which he has made changes in each of the group stage matches. The only one to regain ownership of them all is Lucía García, a former Athletic player who has gone from the wing against Finland to the top reference against Germany and Denmark.
In this last game, she was substituted after the break and two of the repulsive players to hit the green, Olga Carmona and Marta Cardona, were the ones who revolutionized the game, with a cross from the former and a goal from the latter. . A goalscorer who has left Real Madrid this summer and was on the point of hanging her shoes on the hook in January due to injuries.
La Roja’s bench has already assured that it will face this match “with respect, but without fear”, against the team that has witnessed it the most. Of the 15 matches Spain has measured against England, only three have ended in victory for those playing as visitors today, with six draws and as many defeats.
The last time they met was in February at the Arnold Clark Cup, also in England, a match that ended goalless. That same scoreboard, and a penalty shootout outcome, is a scenario no one is counting on this time around, especially given the offensive potential the British team is showing, with players like Beth Mead, the top goalscorer of the five-goal pool phase.
It should also be noted that England does not know what it is like to lose at the behest of Sarina Wiegman, a coach who already won the European Championship with the Netherlands in 2017 with the Netherlands. The Dutch coach could not sit on the chair. tonight on the bench against Spain because of the coronavirus, which keeps him isolated in his concentration hotel. A duel between two of the favorites to take the title, who share his love for touching the ball and are sure to put on a great show.
Source: La Verdad
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