Sometimes it is football that saves you. He who returns to you what owes you. He shakes his hand to achieve a new milestone. Spain triumphed against Germany (0-1) for stubbornness, by talent and by Aitana. The midfielder signed the only goal of the semifinal with a work of art worthy of a museum a few minutes from the end of the extension to give the ticket to her first final of the Eurocup. A change of era, a cycle that begins and the confirmation that Spain has changed a lot since the last euro. In England they left with tears in their eyes ahead of time. In Switzerland they will play the final as world champions and all the arguments in their favor to achieve a new milestone. And they will do it with football by flag.
Spain found a wall. A cap that did not let him prosper. It was not going to be a surprise that the Montse selection would take the ball and the German accepted the script that came given them. They avoided being sunk behind, trapped in their area, but kept the pulse with the Spanish team for their land plot. They renounced the ball, but not to danger. They had a couple of sporadic counterattacks in the meantime control of Spain.
Found the imbalance through CLADIA Pinta and Esther González. The two strikers, pillars for Spain this Eurocup, were its main weapons. First Esther signed a tremendous blea auction but Berger took out his mitte to divert the ball over the crossbar. Then Pina dazzled to reach the leaked balls that did not end up reporting danger.
In the second half, the feeling was the same. With little Germany created danger while Spain was stuck in their game. He circulated and moved the ball, but without enough rhythm to find holes to get to Berger with possibilities. Tomé did not succeed with the changes, He removed Esther and Claudia Pina when they were just the most gave life to Spain and left a fairly discreet mariona on the green.
There was little football in general. Both selections were conservative, they did not take hardly risk, and Spain despite wanting, he did not know. He lacked mobility and speed. Silly mistakes in the last passes penalized him, leaving her at the mercy of luck. They needed Germany to continue thick, practically static, but in the final minutes he took out what he was keeping. Bühl had the best in Germany from the front and the ball left for centimeters out of the goal of Cata Coll. The heart of all Spanish soccer players jumped, who put their hands to the heads. Just a few centimeters forgave an elimination that would not have been unfair.
And it was not the last scare pear Spain. Cata Coll put on the saving suit by luck for the selection. The Barça goalkeeper signed a double acrobatic and forceful stop that avoided in the last minute of the addition that Spain lost any possibility of fighting for the ticket to the final. A few seconds later the collegiate whistled. And another extension mortified Spain and Germany. There was no other and 0-0 focused on extra time.
Errors intensified, but Spain kept believing. He did not lose the confidence that he could come if goal, he did not intimidate against a Germany that began scratching a little more. But Spain sought its football and found Aitana Bonmatí. Athenea filters a millimeter ball between the defense that Aitana lets pass just at the key moment to turn around and pick it up for goal. It drives a few meters and ends up the ball for the tiny space between Berger and the post. The ball ran and ended against the network. He turned shouting and all his companions ran to bury her in a pineapple where they joined the bench.
It was not played much more. And Spain planted in the final. It was an effort award, recognition of stubbornness. The Montse Tomé selection will be in its first final in a Eurocup and does so after eliminating the 8 -time champion. And it demonstrates, once again, that the legacy of this team still does not know how far it will go. At the moment, they will continue writing it in Basel this Sunday.
