Spanish aims for historic treble; England will fight them until the end

July 25 – In the repetition of the 2023 women’s World Cup final, Spain will start as a favorite to beat England in the Euro 2025 final and win their first continental title.

How do you beat the best team in the world? This is a simple question manager Sarina Wiegman and the powerful European champion will try to answer against the Spanish world champion on Sunday at St. Jakob Park is in Basel where they can maintain their European crown, winning on a historic night in Wembley in 2022.

The winning night in London might feel far. Basel Showpiece is a repetition of the 2023 women’s World Cup in Sydney, Australia, which feels much closer. It was the night that changed women’s games. After the arrogant tournament, Spain’s 1-0 victory indicated the beginning of their dominance. At the same time, a kiss that was not requested from the Spanish FA boss Luis Rubiales catapulted the team into a global spotlight.

The Spanish team took it calmly and arguably, in the face of difficulties, became better. Conversely, Britain is heartbroken, but after a swayed campaign in Switzerland for the team in the transition, they have found ways to win, have shown signs of significant improvement and will not facilitate any size for Spanish.

British opening defeat against France expressed the weakness that the female lion could not completely run out. Victory over Sweden ranked as a big escape, and they once again needed extra time against the Italian team who parked the bus defensively but had enough to challenge higher on the field.

England a few minutes from the elimination against Scandinavia, Italy can send the champion in power at home if Emma Severini takes a lifetime opportunity at the end of the match.

Seven out of 11 who started against Spain in the World Cup final were in the English team to win against Italy. Leah Williamson, Georgia Stanway and Alesia Russo are among British supporters. The emergence of 19 -year -old Michelle Agyemang with three goals in four appearances shows that England finally found an unreasonable goalscorer, but the European champion did not look entirely solid.

Conversely, the Spanish campaign is almost perfect. They floated through the group stage, running 14 goals against Italy, finally semifinalis, Belgium and Portugal. Every performance and party goal is more impressive than the next. If they struggled a little against Switzerland in the last eight, Germany represented the first large test: the eight -champion resilience and Grit blocked the Spanish flow, but the Bonmati Aitana class was in force.

Spain, world champion, is not polite is not new. They have so many outlets to play outside of problems. They have classes in all Pitch departments and under the manager of Montse Tome, Spain may further perfect their games.

Center defenders can play a long but comfortable ball with the ball on their feet, the Bonmati midfield trio, Putellas and Guijarro are unmatched and in front, Esther Gonzalez’s sister is a sharp weapon. With the emergence of Claudia Pina and Vicky Lopez, the next generation has come.

However, they will also feel pressure. Spain has a unique opportunity: they can claim their inaugural European title to complete the treble, following a victory in the World Cup and the nation -nation league.

However, the semifinal victory against Germany. During the majority of 120 minutes in the semifinals, Germany, neutralizing Bonmati and his star -studded team, giving a blue mold on how to stop Spain.

England can also take hearts from February 1-0 victory against Spain in the League of Nations. At that time, England, a team that likes to be in the ball, only has 41% of ownership and submit initiatives to Spain, but that is a successful strategy.

For Wiegman, this is the fifth final in a row in a large tournament, something that FA executive chief Mark Bullingham is called “phenomenal”, saying that Wiegman “is not sold at any price.” This is a recognition of work and consistency, even if running England is often full of complications and drama.

Against the team to be defeated, the female lion must be perfect.

As Bonmati said: “I am proud to be part of the generation of footballers who achieve so many things. Actually, I think we will be grateful in the future because we have experienced so many things and achieve so many things. But, well, this hasn’t ended yet.”

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