Women's Euros
From the opening 10 minutes of their first Euro 2025 group match against Portugal, a 5-0 victory, it felt obvious that Spain were playing football on a different level to everyone else in the tournament.
No other side can boast Spain’s reliability in possession. Nobody else offers their quality of movement in the final third. And none can combine the two so well, which owes much to this team’s long-standing football philosophy, and the fact nine of their likely starting XI — and two of their regular attacking substitutes — either play for Barcelona, or did so until recently.
With the ball, Spain are a better side today than when they won the World Cup two years ago.
“They’ve become so much more efficient in the last one and a half years,” said Belgium manager Elisabet Gunnarsdottir, after her side lost 6-2 to them in the second of three group games at these Euros. “They’re so good at making decisions around the box.
