The partners of Aitana Bonmati won 5-0 in Bern this Thursday for their first match at Euro 2025.
Even by sparing Aitana Bonmati after its meningitis, Spain has expanded Portugal (5-0) Thursday in Bern for its entry into the Women’s Football Euro, ideally launching its quest for a first continental title. Already at the top of two goals after seven minutes, the reigning world champions take the lead in group B, at the same height as Italy, which beat Belgium a little earlier (1-0).
In a boiling Wankdorf, in front of nearly 30,000 spectators, the synthetic lawn has no disturbed the favorites of the tournament, technically superior, aggressive in the pressing and very organized. It will take another adversity that navigators, already clearly dominated by their Iberian rivals in April in the League of Nations (7-1, 4-2), to test the solidity of the Spanish defense, little jostled Thursday.
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From their first collective movement, the players of Montsé Tomé marked thanks to a long opening from Olga Carmona to Esther Gonzalez, who concluded with the end of the foot (1-0, 2nd). Five minutes after the experienced fellow of Gotham (United States), 32, it was the 18-year-old prodigy Vicky Lopez, an eagerly awaited incarnation of the future Roja, which increased the brand by cutting a Ballon of Caldentey (2-0, 7th).
Hardly inhibited by its tenure in place of the double golden balloon Aitana Bonmati, which recovers from viral meningitis contracted last week and entered the 81st minute, Lopez illuminated the Spanish midfield by its dribbles and the accuracy of its discounts. If Ines Pereira saved his cages against Vicky Lopez (24th) then Claudia Pina (35th), Alexia Putellas then aggravated the mark after a number in the surface: chest control, feet of the right, left strike (3-0, 41st).
Banners against deployed sexism
The Barcelona milieue, double golden ball in 2021 and 2022 but deprived of the last euro by a serious injury in the left knee, sported the captain’s armband to replace Irene Paredes, suspended. Just before the break, Esther Gonzalez offered himself a double successful double by taking up from the left a Ballon by Claudia Pina who had first touched the post (4-0, 43rd).
And after a second less lively half, Cristina Martin-Prieto scored a final goal by taking the head of a center of Salma Paralleluelo, a few seconds from the term (5-0, 90th+3). Deployed even before the players warm, a banner “Fight sexism”flanked by the watchword #Seacabo (“That’s enough”), however, recalled the extra-sporting turmoil suffered for two years by the Spanish, shadow that they always try to dispel.
Their triumph at the 2012 World Cup had been tarnished by the kiss imposed by the ex-president of the Luis Rubiales federation at the attacker Jenni Hermoso, the best scorer in the history of the selection not retained for this euro. The two meetings of the Euro played Thursday began with a moment of silence in tribute to the Portuguese international of Liverpool Diogo Jota and his brother André, also a footballer, who died in the night in a road accident in Spain.
