2023-08-04 09:53:35
«It is normal that we are criticized and more is demanded of us, we assume it. Criticism is part of our job. Irene Paredes had her bracelet removed when she returned to the national team, but Barça’s Basque central defender acts as captain through thick and thin. She never hides and has already shown her face after the disaster against Japan in the last game of the World Cup group stage. Spain is measured this Saturday (7:00 am / 1) against Switzerland to seek the quarterfinals in the women’s world championship, a major challenge for the group led by Jorge Vilda, who has never surpassed a knockout round in the big tournaments. «We have a new opportunity to be closer to the Spain we want to be. We are capable of giving more”, reflected the Legazpi defense in the previous one against the Swiss.
After the win against the Nadeshiko, the real World Cup begins for Spain, which not only has to be fine-tuned in front of goal against Switzerland – it was already fine-tuned against the weak Costa Rica and Zambia – but also in defense, where La Roja had shown itself like a wall until the arrival of the Asians, who unstitched them with a master class on the counterattack. The instability behind returned to shake some waters that seemed to be more than calm in a group almost freed from the controversy with the 15 rebels. La Roja was an oasis until the irruption of Hinata Miyazawa and company.
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Vilda’s block now runs the risk that his rival plays in the image and likeness of the Empire of the Rising Sun. “We were not so good before, nor are we so bad now,” Tere Abelleira rightly stressed after the debacle. The Galician is the zenith of the ‘tiki taka’ of a team that expects Alexia Putellas to finally take a step forward in the World Cup. A good part of La Roja’s success may be that the Barça attacker, twice Ballon d’Or, recovers her excellence after living a season in which she barely participated after being seriously injured in the last Euro Cup. Aitana Bonmatí’s big day is also expected against a rival of packaging -he was already MVP against Costa Rica- after the great season that he has signed with Barça, with whom he achieved a triplet (League, Super Cup and Champions). The Catalan must put the finishing touch to a year in which she has been one of the great protagonists of the football planet. “There are people waiting for Spain’s ruling,” Jennifer Hermoso said in defense of the group. The forward of the Mexican Pachuca, top scorer in the history of La Roja, also seems essential in the Spanish attacks to see the team among the best.
It will not be an easy opponent for the Spanish team, since Switzerland have not conceded a single goal in the entire group stage, where they faced New Zealand, the Philippines and the powerful Norway. The team led by Inka Grings arrives at the event unbeaten after three clean sheets, which makes it a true defensive wall whose solidity is difficult to break, although it is also true that they showed weakness in the offensive section, with only two goals scored in the three games he has played. His top scorer and acquaintance with the Spanish fans has not yet seen the door: Ana-Maria Crnogorčević. The attacker of Croatian origin plays for Barcelona many times on the wing, but her team is her best historical attacker, scoring 67 goals in 117 games. The maximum reference in the attack of the Central Europeans plays as a striker alongside Ramona Bachmann, another of the weapons of this Swiss army knife, and who with Lia Wälti form a very dangerous trio for the interests of La Roja.
Spain and Switzerland have met nine times to date, with a record of four wins, two draws and three losses for ours. The last time they met was on March 6, 2019 with a win for ours (0-2). Spain is eager to take the big leap with the best generation of footballers it has had to date and who have a powerful winning gene. Not only because of the influence of a Barça that reigned this season for the second time in the Champions League, but also because of what has been achieved in recent times by the lower categories, in which La Roja has a high-level record thanks to the triumphs in the Europeans. Sub-19 and the world events Sub-17 and Sub-20. Jorge Vilda, who is being looked at with a magnifying glass after the Asian disappointment, has good mirrors to look at when it comes to raising the motivation in the group he leads in this event in Australia and New Zealand.
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