Swiss defeat at Euro 2025 against Norway

Never has a tournament host had lost when he entered his competition. Switzerland experienced this bitter taste on Wednesday evening at the St-Jacques Park in Basel and it’s raging. Pia Sundhage’s players are probably going to sleep badly. Because they had made an almost flawless, before fate and clumsiness get involved. The qualification will go through more realism, but the same quality of play against Iceland and Finland.

Intensity, commitment, will … The Swiss gave everything from the start, just to doubt an opponent who had defeated them twice in the space of a few weeks in the League of Nations at the start of the year. It notably gave rise to two or three moments when the Norwegians curled in their own sixteen meters, without the referee intervening.

It did not work closely, at the start of the game, so the captain Lia Wälti – finally a delivery of injury – tried from afar. His quarter -hour shot made the gloves of Cecilie Fiskerstrand vibrate. Like the 30 -meter lob’s attempt from Géraldine reutele two minutes later. And what about sending the no 6 to the 25th, which ended up shaking the transversal …

Autogoal de sterli

The solution was found in the 28th. Following a well -conducted counter and a small breeze in the area, Nadine Riesen ended up with the ball on her right foot, far from being her best. It did not prevent him from deceiving the opposing goalkeeper, with the help of the post, returning this time. The left side scored its 2nd goal with the Swiss jersey, for its 31st selection.

The Norwegians returned to the scoring on their first attempt framed by the game. Following a corner from the right, Ada Hegerberg gave himself up and placed an authoritarian head in the right place (54th). The Scandinavians have made even stronger in stride (58th): they took the advantage without having to hit the goal … because Julia Stierli tacted the ball very clumsily at the bottom of her own nets.

Reutele, again, went to two hair of equalization (66th and 83rd), after Livia Peng avoided the worst in front of the exceptional Hegerberg. But as it was really not the evening of Frankfurt, she conceded a terribly avoidable penalty. Fortunately, the old Ballon d’Or struck next.

The 34,063 spectators of the St -Jacques park – record for a women’s football match in Switzerland – trembled when the referee’s whistle resounded, in the other area, on the counter which followed. Except that the Var detected an offside on the action. Alayah Pilgrim also had an equalization ball (90th), but his shipment was saved on the line by a defender. There are evenings like that …