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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Spain’s head coach, Montse Tomé, said: We are a team, they are players that have been fighting, working, with energy and now they are able to focus energy on football. I can sit here and answer questions about football – this has changed. This means a …

From the opening 10 minutes of their first Euro 2025 group match against Portugal, a 5-0 victory, it felt obvious that Spain were playing football on a different level to everyone else in the tournament. No other side can boast Spain’s reliability in possession. Nobody else offers their quality of movement in the final third. And none can combine the …

England will go into Sunday’s Euro 2025 final against Spain as clear underdogs. It’s less about the fact the Spanish defeated them in the World Cup final two years ago, and much more about the quality of both sides’ play throughout this tournament. England have won only two of their five games in the 90 minutes, and spent the majority …

England midfielder Keira Walsh hopes opponents Spain can “enjoy” playing in the Euro 2025 final without the “controversy” that surrounded the World Cup. Spain beat England 1-0 in the 2023 final but their victory was overshadowed by former football federation boss Luis Rubiales’ sexual assault case involving striker Jenni Hermoso. As players received their medals in Sydney, Rubiales grabbed Hermoso …

ZURICH (AP) — Aitana Bonmatí scored in extra time to send Spain to its first Women’s European Championship final with a 1-0 win over Germany on Wednesday, setting up a repeat of the 2023 World Cup title match. A stubborn Germany performance had seen it take the world champions to extra time and Spain needed a superb strike from the …

The rain drenched Spain’s players in this wide, sweeping bowl but nobody was in any rush to leave the pitch. They were still out there more than two and a half hours after they had begun their shot at history, waving at their exultant families and reliving what had just passed. A first European Championship final awaits on Sunday, which …

GENEVA — If it weren’t for the crystal-blue lake and rugged mountains that sandwich the city, I’d have thought I was in London. In the 36 hours before England’s Women’s Euro semifinal match against Italy, downtown Geneva was crawling with English accents and white kits with leonine crests. The only thing more prevalent than England fans was the ample signage …

GENEVA (AP) — England is living on the brink and survived another near-inevitable elimination all the way to another Women’s European Championship final. The defending champion broke Italy’s hearts — twice — in a 2-1 win after extra time in their semifinal on Tuesday. Chloe Kelly scored the decisive goal in the 119th minute, shooting home the rebound only after …

Waiting outside the packed Stade de Geneve during Tuesday night’s semi-final between England and Italy was a unique experience. Loud cheers and competing chants of “come on England” and “Italia” were in the 96th minute replaced by an almighty roar that lasted a full 30 seconds. I furiously refreshed the BBC Sport live page, wondering what on earth had happened. …

Defending champions England came back from the brink of Euro 2025 elimination for the second time in two matches to beat Italy and progress to Sunday’s final. The Lionesses entered the semi-final in Geneva as heavy favourites, but the Italians took a shock first-half lead through Barbara Bonansea’s back-post finish. As the clock ticked into stoppage time, England looked devoid …