Aitana Bonmati started Spain’s clash with Italy at Women’s Euro 2025 on Friday after recovering from a bout of viral meningitis which briefly threatened her tournament.<\/p>\n
Reigning two-time Ballon d’Or winner Bonmati started in midfield alongside Patri Guijarro and Alexia Putellas, the first time this tournament the 27-year-old will be on the pitch from the first minute.<\/p>\n
Her selection by coach Montse Tome was one of five changes from Spain’s 6-2 win over Belgium last time out.<\/p>\n
Bonmati played as a substitute in both of Spain’s thumping wins over Portugal and Belgium in Group B, which Tome’s side lead ahead of Italy by two points.<\/p>\n
Anything but a defeat in Bern will guarantee top spot for world champions Spain and a quarter-final clash with Norway on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Spain are gunning for their first ever triumph in a women’s European championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aitana Bonmati started Spain’s clash with Italy at Women’s Euro 2025 on Friday after recovering from a bout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-257111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114836566540336453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}