England beat Spain in the quarter-finals of the European Football Championship. The host country is the first team to secure a place in the semi-finals. The Spaniards were frustrated by the situation, which led to Ella Toone’s 1-1 equalizing goal.
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England knocked out Spain in the first quarter-final of the European Championship on Wednesday. The victory of the host country of the tournament finally came through the follow-up match, with a score of 2–1. He scored the winning goal for the English with a strong right-footed long shot Georgia Stanway in the 96th minute of the game.
With the win, the “Lionesses” secured their place in the semi-finals and will face the winner of the quarter-final between Sweden and Belgium in their next match in the top four.
The biggest controversy of the match was the situation that led to England’s equaliser. Spain had played an excellent opening half and made England, who had become one of the tournament’s biggest champions favorites, very tight in the opening series. It led the fight 1–0 by Esther González goal and the English were seven minutes away from being eliminated from the semi-finals.
You can watch Gonzalez’s 1-0 lead in the video below.
In the 84th minute of the match Lauren Hemp centered the ball from the right edge of the sixteen area in front of the Spanish goal. In the middle of the region of England Alessia Russo and the Spanish captain Irene Paredes got up to chase the ball. Russo elbowed Paredes in the head and continued to pass the ball forward.
Ella Toone ran to the ball first and put it past the Spanish goalkeeper Sandra Panosin. The Spanish pair Paredes was left lying on the ground after Russo’s contact. French referee Stephanie Frappart however ruled the situation an England goal, infuriating those on the Spanish bench.
They had to be calmed down by the fourth referee of the match Lina Lehtovaara. Head coach of “La Roja”. Jorge Vilda was the first to ask and protest the situation to the Finn. In the end, referee Frappart gave Spain’s substitute goalkeeper For Misa Rodriguez a yellow card, from which he continued to bite Lehtovaarall
– In my opinion, Paredes is just soft, in the commentary room Matti Härkönen deconstructed the situation from scratch.
– I don’t know about that. Russo gets Paredes’ shoulder down. Now only the hand hits the face. I would personally see that such situations belong to game situations, expert Jonne Kunnas continued.
You can watch the protest that followed the situation and the goal situation in slow motion by pressing the main picture of the story.
The Spanish players made it clear after the game that they were not satisfied with the verdict.
– I will be punished if I say what I think. A replay of the situation was shown. Irene gets elbowed in the face and that’s the finish, Marion Caldentey complained According to AS. (you switch to another service)
The star player said the same Fence Bonmati.
– I think there was a mistake in the equalizing goal, but I can’t change the result of the match, Bonmati stated.
England’s substitutions turned the game
England had progressed from the initial group almost without challenges to the next round. Now Spain gave it a challenge at the very beginning of the match, which became difficult for the stewards to overcome. England’s wing players, who previously dominated games, were left at the feet of Spain’s counterparts, and the red and yellow shirts took control of the ball in the match.
Playmaker Aitana Bonmat’s attack was able to hurt England specifically from the wings, which led to Gonzalez’s goal.
Playing in their white shirts, England was saved – and the equalizing goal secured – by the head coach by Sarina Wiegman in the second half, the substitutions made by Spain after the lead goal.
Toone and Russo, who just scored the equalizing goal, representing Manchester United at the club level, entered the field, and in the third Chloe Kelly. The experienced were allowed to leave the field Ellen White and those who almost dominated the earlier matches of the Games Fran Kirby and Beth Mead, the latter of which still leads the goal exchange of the Games. The change worked and England woke up to the game.
In addition to the substitutes, England’s most important players were the pair especially at the end Keira Walsh and Millie Bright. Toppari Bright broke several critical centering balls with his head. Walsh, on the other hand, shone with his excellent passes at the bottom of the midfield when England were in dire need of a goal. He offered Stanway the pass for the winning goal.
You can see Stanway’s long-range winning goal in the video below.
_The quarterfinals of the European Championships continue on Thursday with the match between Austria and Germany. The live broadcast of the quarter-final between Austria and Germany starts at 21:00 on TV2.
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