{"id":257475,"date":"2025-07-11T23:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257475\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T23:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:47:10","slug":"what-did-we-learn-from-spains-perfect-group-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257475\/","title":{"rendered":"What did we learn from Spain\u2019s perfect group record?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain at EURO 2025: What have we learned so far?<\/p>\n

Coming into a tournament as the overwhelming favourites brings a certain pressure, yet Spain have shown no signs of it in the way they\u2019ve been playing.<\/p>\n

A clean sweep in the group, even in spite of conceding a handful, saw them cruise to the last eight as expected.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we noticed from a masterful outing across their first three games\u2026<\/p>\n

Putellas is back to her best<\/p>\n

Alexia Putellas<\/a> is undoubtedly one of the best midfielders in the world; you don\u2019t win two Ballon d\u2019Or accolades without dominating.<\/p>\n

After suffering an ACL injury on the eve of EURO 2022, it had taken the 31-year-old a little while to find her feet again \u2013 but now she has, she is soaring.<\/p>\n

Bar 21\/22, she recorded her best-ever return in front of goal for FC Barcelona in the run-up to representing her nation in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Putellas has gone on to pull the strings in this tournament, registering seven goal involvements thus far, with three goals and four assists.<\/p>\n

Such an emphatic return to her best is not only evident on the pitch, but the player feels it within herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, without a doubt, I am the best Alexia,\u201d she said at Spain\u2019s pre-Euros camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know myself much better, I know what my qualities are, I know what those are in my work.<\/p>\n

She is determined to win what would be Spain\u2019s first European title, and it shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain at EURO 2025: What have we learned so far? Coming into a tournament as the overwhelming favourites…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-257475","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\/114837274163334134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257475","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=257475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}