{"id":257813,"date":"2025-07-12T02:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257813\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:47:14","slug":"spain-3-1-italy-jul-11-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257813\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain 3-1 Italy (Jul 11, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain<\/a> cruised to a 3-1 win over Italy<\/a> on Friday that sees both sides through to the knockout stages at the Women’s Euros, with the Spaniards topping Group B to set up a showdown with hosts Switzerland<\/a>, while the second-placed Italians will meet Group A winners Norway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spain finished top of the group with a perfect nine points from their three games, with the Italians second on four points, one head of already-eliminated Belgium<\/a>, who beat Portugal<\/a> 2-1 to snuff out their chances of advancing.<\/p>\n

The swashbuckling football of the Spaniards has singled them out as the team to beat in Switzerland but once more they got off to a sluggish start before saving the day with some outstanding attacking play.<\/p>\n

The Italians almost took the lead in the 10th minute when captain Elena Linari<\/a> smacked a powerful header off the crossbar and seconds later they did score through Elisabetta Oliviero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Patri Guijarro helped Spain to a third win from three games in the group stage of Euro 2025.<\/p>\n

Florencia Tan Jun – UEFA\/UEFA via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Italy worked the ball in from the left flank and Martina Piemonte<\/a> found enough space to squeeze off a shot that Spain’s Mariona Caldente tried to control, but she only succeeded in teeing up Oliviero to slam home the ball.<\/p>\n

That jolted Spain into life and they levelled four minutes later as the reigning world and Nations League champions began to dominate possession, Athenea del Castillo<\/a> working the ball in from the right before playing a brilliant one-two in a tight space with Alexia Putellas<\/a> and firing into the net.<\/p>\n

Patri Guijarro<\/a> put Spain 2-1 up in the fourth minute of the second half and the Italians struggled to get out of their half for much of the rest of the game, with Esther Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a> sealing the deal for Spain with a stoppage-time goal to make it 3-1.<\/p>\n

Guijarro declared herself pleased with the business-like way Spain had secured the group win, even if there were things that could be improved.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy for the three victories. The match was difficult [but] we are first in the group and now let’s go for the quarterfinals,” she said.<\/p>\n

“They played very well. Those balls that we lost, there was a lot of space, so we have to run back as quickly as possible, we have to be more on top of the pressure after losing [the ball].”<\/p>\n

Spain will take on Switzerland in Bern next Friday, while Italy meet Norway in Geneva on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain cruised to a 3-1 win over Italy on Friday that sees both sides through to the knockout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-257813","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\/114837981996694329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257813","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=257813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}