A Space His first stumbling block is presented this Friday Eurocup. The world champions are measured to Italy, in search of the classification as first group for the quarterfinals. They will do it with the two winners of the last four Gold balls About the grass. Before the Blue, It will be the first time that Alexia Putellas y Aitana Bonmatí They coincide on the grass from the beginning in this championship. Before Belgium they already played 45 minutes, in which the selection devastated and, now, it is time to bring out the talent that accredits them as the best players in the world in search of the second objective of this euro, once they have certified their presence among the eight best.
Spain arrives at a cloud. The selection comes from beating in its first two games, before Portugal y Belgium. They have not been able to start things better for Swiss lands for ours, which have shown their best version in the first two meetings. Although against Italy they will have a complicated encounter. Transalpines have put world champions against the strings in recent months. Three games in the last two seasons, with a balance of a triumph for each team and a draw.
The only victory of the National Team Italia At this time he found himself with the two great stars of this team about the grass. It was in October 2023, months after winning the World Cup, when Spain won 0-1 in Salerno and, then, were led by Alexia and Aitana. In the meetings that arrived after that triumph-a 2-3 in Pontevedra and a 1-1 in a friendly-the winners of the Golden Ball did not coincide over the green.
Alexia Putellas He arrives at the duel being the most prominent player, by far, of what is going from Eurocup. Mollet del Vallés is showing absolute superiority over the rest. He is giving the best version that is remembered since the crusade was broken and seeing it at this level, it is impossible not to excite himself with the selection in this championship.
Against Portugal, he stood out with a goal, going down the ball with his chest, cutting his marker in the ground to leave it on the floor and beat the goal with the left. The goal allowed her to take the MVP of the meeting, something that she would repeat against Belgium. Although, in that case, he set a stratospheric party. Alexia touched perfection against red flameswith a double goals and another of assists. Unbridled the game inventing a pass so that Esther He put the 3-2, when the Belgians had just drawed the duel. His smile at the end of the game said everything.
Aitana and Alexia, together in the center of the field
In the second part of that second meeting, Alexia y Father They got together again. It was then that Spain found the fluidity that had been missing until then. Although the game came to complicate for minutes, between the two stood out to give a new victory to those of Tomé. And, now, against Italy, the golden balls must be shown again.
Aitana Bonmatí He will start for the first time in this Eurocup, after the scare that he could even leave it without attending the continental appointment. That of San Pedro de Ribas has been entering dynamics as the doctors and the coaching staff saw him convenient, although if it were for her he had played everything we had as a tournament.
The ambition of the Barcelona player has only increased in these weeks. The coach herself said they had to stop her to avoid unnecessary risks. But on the grass, they can't stop it. Not playing everything that I would have liked makes Aitana even more desire to stand out in this Eurocup. Before Italy will have the first opportunity to be decisive, in which it will be the first height exam for a world champions that also seek their first continental scepter.
