UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 QUARTER-FINAL : SPAIN VS SWITZERLAND – 18/07/2025 (PHOTO – CLAUDIA PINA CELEBRATES)

IT IS WELL INTO THE UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS COMPETITION NOW, AND IT SEEMS THAT THE RIGOROUS SCHEDULE CAN TAKE IT’S TOLL ON EVEN THE HARDIEST OF TEAMS – (i.e. EAT, TRAIN, PLAY – REPEAT) AND DARE I SAY, IT CERTAINLY SEEMED TO BE THE CASE IN THE SPAIN VS SWITZERLAND MATCH LAST NIGHT! SPAIN HAD 2 UNSUCCESSFUL PENALTIES, WITH THE 1ST FROM MARIONA CALDENTEY, WHICH WENT WIDE, AND THEN, ALSO FROM ALEXIA PUTELLAS, FOR WHICH SWITZERLAND’S GOALY LIVIA PENG WAS READY-AND-A-WAITING! SPAIN DID PUT ON A DOMINANT PERFORMANCE HOWEVER, WITH 658 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY AND 73% POSSESSION. BUT SWITZERLAND HELD THEIR OWN, PUTTING UP A BOLD DEFENCE AGAINST THE SPANISH LADIES, MAKING 259 PASSES, WITH A 70% PASS ACCURACY, AND 4 SHOTS, WHICH WERE, ALAS FOR THEM, NOT TO BE! BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP THEM FROM MAKING IT EXCEPTIONALLY HARD FOR SPAIN TO REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET ALSO! IT TOOK UNTIL THE 66TH MINUTE, IN FACT, FOR SPAIN TO SCORE, AFTER A CRACKER FROM ATHENEA DEL CASTILLO AT 66 MINS., FOLLOWED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS BY ANOTHER FROM CLAUDIA PINA AT 71 MINS., MEANING THAT THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO SPAIN! WHOEVER SPAIN PLAY NEXT IS TO BE DECIDED UPON THE OUTCOME OF TONIGHT’S MATCH BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY, WHICH IS ON AT 20.00 P.M.

BY AMANDA WATERS