The Swiss was applauded at length by the spectators at the end of the match.
Getty ImagesThis time, no miracle for Pia Sundhage’s troop! Swiss players did not have weapons to dream of joining the last European square. The Spanish reigning world champions copiously dominated them and did not doubt, even after hitting the posts three times and missed two penalties. The Swiss do not have to have any regrets, they gave everything and once again vibrated their fans for more than an hour.
The Swiss building trembled in the 7th minute, after a completely failed intervention by Nadine Riesen in her penalty area. Mariona Caldentey also missed since the eleven meter point and the deadline was delayed for the first time. Livia Peng set out to keep her team afloat, by succeeding in a very high level part (11th, 18th, 46th, etc.).
Livia Peng stops a penalty
The Chelsea goalkeeper was able to count on her post (43rd) on a head of Irene Paredes, before being saved by her two upstarts at the time of play! However, she could not do anything at the 66th, when Athenea has perfectly wrapped her flat on the foot. Spain had done the hardest. Claudia Pina has doubled the bet of a magnificent strike in the middle of the skylight of twenty meters (70th). The addition was not more salty than that, because Livia Peng released a new penalty (88th).
It is the first time since 2009 – and the elimination of Finland by England – that a host team of a continental women’s tournament has been eliminated in the first round with direct elimination. It was expected: the walking was far too high for Swiss who had all the sorrows of the world to create situations and who have long capped at less than 30% of the ball, without however throwing it away from anyhow.
29,734 spectators
“The time to move mountains”, proclaimed a banner in the Bernese enclosure. There, it was squarely Everest and he did not vacillate. A center of Iman Beney did not find a taker (14th), Sydney Schertenleib left without success in dribbles in the opposing surface (45th+1), before trying a lob of 50 meters (51st). The biggest Swiss occasion was not one, when Alayah Pilgrim hit hard (63rd) and Catalina Coll boxed out of her goal. The Roman was offside.
It was the last match of this euro in Bern and the Wankdorf told him goodbye by greeting their valiant compatriots very hard. The stadium of the capital will find its Young Boys shortly and also … its synthetic terrain, which had given way to grass the space of an enchanted summer. The Bernese and all the other Swiss who made the trip this Friday showed their love for their selection, shouting with throats deployed with each successful pass or tackle. They paraded at 25,000 in the streets before the game, 29,734 were in the stadium and surely a good million in front of their TV. If we wrote that a month ago …