The captain of the Spanish women’s soccer team, Irene Paredes, highlighted the mental strength of the Spanish team, which, as she stressed, has known “overcome” all difficulties that have been arising throughout the first phase of the European Championship.
“We have never set limits and we are not going to do it now“, Paredes said after the match, in statements to Televisión Española. The team will face the next phase against the host, who has a record of 14-0 after the first games against Austria, Norway and Northern Ireland. “We already warned from the At first it was going to be very difficult and it is being so. Every day we have a difficulty and we continue to overcome them and today was one more, because it was a very complicated match”, said Paredes.
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The Spanish central defender had no qualms about admitting the problems that the Spanish team had to beat Denmark, in a match that was decided in favor of the Spanish team with a goal from Marta Cardona in the 90th minute.“We have had control of the game, but we have not created many chances and then they were waiting for some counter, but we have been very good in defense and Cardona who came out to save us. So now very happy to have passed,” Paredes concluded.
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“We want more, we go for more”, assured Marta Cardona, scorer of the winning goal against Denmark that qualifies Spain for the quarterfinals of Euro 2022. Speaking to Televisión Española, the player who has played for Real Madrid in recent seasons, stated that “every match is a final” because “it is a very competitive European Championship and it has been a very complicated group stage”.
Cardona commented that when she scored the goal “many people went through her mind”, her family, everyone who has been by her side, the teammates, “this great group, this coaching staff, all the girls who have not been able to come, Jenni Hermoso, Alexia Putellas and Virginia Torrecilla, goes for them“, as well as his grandparents, who are his “angels” and are always making sure that everything goes well for him