Mikel Oyarzabal decided the final match of European Championship football four minutes before full time. Spain won the championship for the fourth time in its history.
14.7. 23:54•Updated 0:09
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Spain is the men’s European football champion. England fell in Sunday’s final match in Berlin with goals 2–1.
Spain scored the winning goal Mikel Oyarzabal, when 86 minutes had been played. The pass from the left reached Oyarzabal, who had slipped in, a few meters from the England goal, and the 27-year-old Real Sociedad player scored with his first touch.
Oyarzabal had been replaced on the field 18 minutes earlier. The goal was his first of the tournament.
– The English deck was sawed through easily and effortlessly, with a few passes, and what a reward for Oyarzabal! The coach put on the field and he responded to the shout in this way, Urheilu’s expert Erkka V. Lehtola glowed.
– I said earlier that he was a bit gray in this tournament – not anymore, now he’s a pretty bright guy.
Spain took the lead in the match right at the beginning of the second period when Nico Williams finished off a sharp attack with his left foot from inside the penalty area.
England equalized with a quick counterattack that was started by the goalkeeper by Jordan Pickford after the fight. The 1-1 goal was completed by a long-range shot by a substitute player Cole Palmerwho had entered the field just three minutes earlier.
For the first time in the EC and World Championships, both teams got a goal from a substitute in the final.
England got the ball to the goal line in the last minute of regular time, but Spain’s goalkeeper Unai Simón and fielder Dani Olmo were the last men standing between the ball and the net.
England managed to score three times in a few seconds, but Simón saved By Declan Rice of the company and Olmo was able to To Marc Gueh skip the continuation. In the end, Rice headed over the goal.
Spain won the European Championship for the last time in 2012. At that time, the championship was the second in a row at the European Championships and the third in a row at the prestigious tournaments, in between Spain had also won the 2010 World Cup.
Spain is now the country that has won the most European championships of all time. The championship was its fourth. Before this tournament, it was tied with host nation Germany. Spain also set a single European Championship goal record, as the championship goal was their 15th hit of the tournament. The previous record team was France in 1984, who struck 14 times.
– Spain succeeded both as a team and as individuals. Ehji’s team with a great structure, top players, a united team in feeling. Difficult to find weaknesses. Everything was fine, Lehtola summed up.
– Spain was by many measures clearly the best team of the games and deserved to win the championship, said Urheilu’s expert Juho Rantala.
England lost the final match of the European Championship for the second time in a row. In the previous games, it lost to Italy in a penalty shootout in London, despite having led the match for more than an hour earlier.
England made questionable history, as it became the first country in European Championship history to lose consecutive finals.
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