Spain’s Maite Zubieta with teammates have fun after the match.
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Spain’s Aitana Bonmati struck an outstanding extra-time winner to fireplace her facet to a 1-0 victory over Germany on Wednesday (July 23, 2025) and ship them by to the Women’s European Championship final for the primary time, the place they are going to face reigning champions England.
Spain captain Irene Paredes struck the foot of a put up with a first-half header as her facet dominated possession, with the Germans constructing a stable block and alluring the Spaniards to assault whereas they tried to strike on the counter.
Klara Buehl had plenty of respectable probabilities within the second half, together with a deflected stoppage-time effort that Spain keeper Cata Coll needed to claw away, however the recreation ended scoreless, forcing additional time.
Bonmati lastly broke the impasse within the 113th minute, selecting up a ball within the left channel and recognizing a niche at Ann-Katrin Berger’s close to put up earlier than whipping a shot from a decent angle into the online to ship her facet by to Sunday’s final in Basel.
Published – July 24, 2025 03:22 am IST
