Team claim England’s equaliser should have been disallowed but take pride after giving the hosts ‘a footballing bath’
omorrow I’ll wake and think: ‘Bloody hell, the Euros have gone.’ It will be a hard day,” Aitana Bonmatí said. It was late in Brighton and Spain had been close, six minutes from a first semi-final, but. The selección left England earlier than they hoped and earlier than had looked likely when Esther González gave them the lead. Staff said goodbye, some in tears. A plane was hurriedly chartered for the following afternoon.
“The game changes when they scored the first goal and you have seen how they scored it,” Paredes said. “I know 100% that it is a foul. I don’t understand why it is not blown. Well, yes, I do understand … I also understand why it didn’t go to the VAR. And that hurts.”Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
“I don’t want to see a replay because it doesn’t help now,” Bonmatí said. “You’ve lost 2-1, you’re going home, there’s no point. And we have to look at ourselves, see what we can do to win these games. At times we gave England a footballing ‘bath’ [a drubbing] so you feel frustrated, angry. I wouldn’t say sad because we gave everything and were the better team in my opinion.
What then was missing? “When we went 1-0 up, it took a weight off our shoulders and instead of being ourselves, instead of having the ball and keep on playing our style and go for the second goal, we stopped doing that,” Bonmatí said. “The English started to have a bit more of the ball, they started to get more crosses in and in the end the goal came. I think at that moment, we needed to have more of the ball. But it’s done now; hopefully that can help for the future.
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