UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 – GERMANY VS SPAIN – 23/07/2025 (PHOTO – AITANA BONMATI CELEBRATES)

WITH A MATCH AS UNPREDICTABLE AS THE ONE BETWEEN GERMANY VS SPAIN LAST NIGHT, IT CERTAINLY MADE FOR ENTHRALLING VIEWING, AND WITH DEFENSIVE SKILLS IN ABUNDANCE ON BOTH SIDES, IT WAS NO SURPRISE WHEN THE MATCH ENDED IN A 0 – 0 DRAW AFTER AN INTENSE 90 MINS! GERMANY MADE 352 PASSES WITH A 72% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 6 CORNERS, PLUS 15 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET. BUT WITH SPAIN’S GOALY CATA COLL READY-AND-A-WAITING, GERMANY WEREN’T ABLE TO REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET. SPAIN MADE 723 PASSES, WITH AN 86% PASS ACCURACY (HAD 67% POSSESSION) AND 22 SHOTS, WITH 9 ON TARGET, BUT WITH GERMANY’S GOALY ANN-KATRIN BERGER, ALSO ON TOP FORM ONCE AGAIN, NOTHING WAS GETTING PAST HER.

UNTIL, THAT IS, AFTER THE GAME HAD GONE INTO EXTRA TIME, (AFTER STALE-MATE AT 90 MINS.)

AND AITANA BONMATI MANAGED TO SQUEEZE HER STRIKE, QUITE LITERALLY RIGHT THROUGH THE ARMS OF A DIVING ANN-KATRIN BERGER AND INTO-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET AT 113 MINS. FROM A TIGHT ANGLE (AFTER PREVIOUSLY LOOKING LIKE SHE WAS LINING UP A CROSS.)

AITANA BONMARTI CELEBRATES (BELOW)

GERMANY PUT SPAIN UNDER MUCH PRESSURE AFTER THIS, WITH AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD ATTEMPT ON GOAL BY LEA SCHULLER, BUT AS BEFORE, SPAIN’S GOALKEEPER CATA COLL WAS READY FOR IT, AND OTHERS, WITH THESE LATE SAVES PROVING INVALUABLE FOR SPAIN!  (WHO KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF IT HAD GONE TO PENALTIES?)

THE LIONESSES WILL NOW PLAY THE SPANISH LADIES ON SUNDAY 27TH JULY AT 17.00 P.M. IN THE FINAL – HOW EXCITING!!

BY AMANDA WATERS