The lead goal during France quickly turned into a losing position. Spain will face either England or the Netherlands in Sunday’s final.
9.7. 23:54•Updated 9.7. 23:59
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Spain claimed their place in the final match of the European football tournament by beating France 2-1 in Tuesday night’s semi-final.
France took a lightning lead in the match, but Spain quickly turned the situation on its head and went on to win. Spain have now won 12 consecutive competitive matches.
– Spain has played the best, most versatile and freshest attacking game of the tournament. Today it faced its toughest challenge, but responded very elegantly. It created many situations and scored beautiful goals. In the second period, it kept the ball enough to keep France at bay, Urheilu’s expert Antti Pohja your sum.
Spain stole the headlines Lamine Yamal, who was responsible for the wonderful 1-1 equalizer. Yamal evaded the French player to get a foot free and fired the ball into the net with his left foot through the back post.
France had taken the lead 12 minutes earlier, right in the opening moments of the match. Kylian Mbappé precise focus reached Randal Kolo Muaninwho headed the ball into the goal.
Mbappé, who broke his nose in France’s opening match, had finally gotten rid of the protective mask that had been bothering him, and the result was the first normal goal of the tournament in France.
Mbappé was involved in three of the four goals in the European Championship in France. He hit once with a penalty kick and one hit marked as an own goal came from his kick.
Yamal equalized with 20 minutes to play. The hit made him at the age of 16 years and 362 days the youngest goal scorer at the European Championships. He is also the youngest player in the history of the tournament.
Yamal turns 17 on Saturday, the day before the final. In addition to a goal, he has provided three assists leading to goals in the EC tournament and has been counted among the breakthrough players of the summer.
Spain’s winning goal followed even faster. The ball bounced appropriately in the penalty area To Dani Olmo, who shot it in through the foot of the French defender. Olmo has already scored three goals in the tournament and shares the top spot in the scoring statistics with four other players.
The Spanish men’s national team returns to the finals of the prestigious championships after 12 years. It won three consecutive tournaments while celebrating the European Championship in 2008 and 2012 and the World Championship in 2010.
In the previous European Championships, Spain was eliminated precisely in the semi-final stage after losing the penalty shootout against Italy. Among other things, Olmo failed in his own business.
France was the losing side of the European Championship final at their home tournament in 2016, but was eliminated in the previous tournament already in the quarter-finals against Switzerland.
– France’s playing was too monotonous. The creation of scoring chances was very poor, but that was the case throughout this tournament, Pohja stated.
Spain’s final match will be decided in the second semi-final on Wednesday, when England and Holland face each other.
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