The Iberian team advanced to the final after beating Germany in the extension with the annotation of Aitana Bonmatí. England got his pass by beating Italy 2-1 in extra time.
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The world champion Spain assaults the European crown that belongs to England since 2022, on Sunday in Basel, in a final of the Eurocup that faces a seductive and dominating team during the tournament in front of an injured champion capable of surviving in the wire.
The rooms that England won Spain 2-1 with a goal in the extension, in Brighton on July 20, 2022, closed a chapter of promises and opened another of glory.
That day the red ceased to be a talented team, but without titles, not even finals, to become a winning machine. Along the way, claims and very hard battles for three years to make the Spanish Federation (RFEF) understand that mimbles were left over and conditions were missing.
The triple crown
The results, immediate: 2023 World Cup with 1-0 victory against England in the final, League of Nations 2024 and End of the Eurocup 2025.
The only mole, the Games of Paris 2024 in which in its first participation the team paid a different 'timing' from the other great competitions to stay at the feet of the podium -fourth after falling against Germany for bronze.
“The potential was there, for me the Spanish of other generations were already the best. He was immediately,” confirmed the AFP during the Eurocup Vero Boquete, legend of Spanish football, who sacrificed his international career to get improvements.
With the climate of peace that he has finally enjoyed in this Eurocup, Spain reaches the final with all its gleaming arsenal. Its coach Montse Tomé has the 23 players available, protagonists of an unpolluted tour of five victories, with 17 goals in favor -10 different scorers- and three against.
The road was even simple to the semifinals against Germany (1-0), a suspense film with a happy ending thanks to a genius of Aitana Bonmatí in the extension after two consecutive miracles of the Archera Cata Coll at the end of the regulatory time.
Wiegman, five out of five
England is the great survivor of the competition. He began losing to France (2-1), traced two goals and survived in an unlikely batch of penalties against Sweden (2-2, 3-2 after 14 shots) in the rooms and repeated Machada against Italy (2-1) in the semifinals, with the tie in the last sigh and the decisive goal to a minute of the penalties.
Salvadoras in both games, the substitutes Michelle Agyemang, 19, and the charismatic Chloe Kelly, already author of the decisive goal in the final of the last Eurocup against Germany.
The Swiss tournament is already another chapter in the legend of Sarina Wiegman, five tournaments as a coach and five consecutive finals: Eurocup 2017 and World Cup 2019 with Netherlands; Eurocup 2022, World Cup 2023 and Eurocup 2025 with England.
“It doesn't matter what I say, if Sarina speaks she is listened to her because she knows sure what she is doing,” said the player she touches about the Dutch talisman on her bench.
Wiegman will have the doubt of the team's star, Lauren James, replaced to rest against Italy for ankle discomfort.
Time and where to see Spain vs. England of the Eurocup 2025
- Date: July 27, 2025
- Time: 11:00 am in Colombia
- Estadio: St. Jakob-Park (Basilea)
- Transmission: ESPN y Dinsey+
It is a hybrid
“It is a hybrid. You can travel and you can also keep the ball. It has so many resources that you do not know very well where it will come out,” said Alexia Putellas on Friday to England and his status as a chameleon.
The double Golden Ball (2021 and 2022), three goals and four assists, started like a shot in Switzerland, leaving the lights in the last two games to its heiress in the great individual trophy (2023 and 2024) Aitana Bonmatí, brilliant after starting the tournament with a viral meningitis.
Next to the midfielder Patri Guijarro reproduces the golden triangle of Barcelona, a trio that collects the five MVP trophies delivered in the duels of the Red.
“We have so many games playing together that we understand each other practically without speaking,” Patri told the doors of fighting for the first Eurocup for Spain at the ST Jakob-Park of Basel.
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