- The results, highlights and surprises of this day of the competition. Main photo: EFE
Spain beat France 2-1 in the Euro 2024 semi-final on 9 July. This is their fifth Euro final, which they will play on 14 July in Berlin, Germany, once morest England or the Netherlands.
Lamine Yamal finished off a memorable performance with a first-half goal in the 21st minute, with which Spain equalised Kolo Muani’s goal for France.
Dani Olmo then scored the second goal for Luis de la Fuente’s team and Spain held off the French team’s attempts to equalise in the second half.
Spain will fight for its fourth title following those it won in 1964, 2008 and 2012.
Spain and a memorable match for Lamine Yamal at Euro 2024
A match to remember by Lamine Yamal at 16 years of age and 362 days old, he boosted the winning character of a Spanish generation hungry for glory.
Nothing will take away Spain’s conviction that it has found a way. The right touch-up to a style that needed to evolve following hitting rock bottom in the last World Cup. The excitement represented by young talents who compete with greatness and illuminate great challenges with optimism. A Euro Cup full of good feelings with two major challenges on the way to the final. From the host’s challenge to the resurrection of Kylian Mbappé without a mask.
Mbappé decided to accept Yamal’s challenge. To turn the semi-final into a duel of greatness between two players who are destined to be protagonists of many battles in LaLiga over the years. Luis de la Fuente’s system of assists soon collapsed. Navas had made a good move to cut off the first French counterattack, the great fear following losing the ball, when the first time he was unprotected following breaking an offside trap, he retreated, he did not go up to Kylian, who, with time to think, put the measured pass over Kolo Muani.
France defeated at Euro 2019 following nine games unbeaten
France ended a nine-match unbeaten run in the final stages of the continental competition, dating back to losing to Portugal in 2016, although they had only won three of those games on the scoreboard.
Since that extra-time defeat once morest the Portuguese side at the Saint Denis stadium in Paris, with Éder’s goal in extra time, France had accumulated, over the last few editions, six draws (0-0 with the Netherlands and Portugal and 1-1 with Poland in this edition and 1-1 with Hungary, 2-2 with Portugal and 3-3 with Switzerland in the previous one) and three wins: 1-0 once morest Belgium in the round of 16 of this Euro, 0-1 once morest Austria in the first phase and 1-0 Germany in 2021.
At the same time, France had only lost one of their most recent 16 Euro meetings, the aforementioned 0-1 with Portugal, and in one of their last 23 duels if we also take into account the final phases of the World Cup in the first 90 minutes or extra time, because they had lost on penalties to Argentina in 2022 and to Switzerland in 2021.
With information from EFE.
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2024-07-10 10:59:57
