Alberto Gardin/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images Atletico Madrid Femenino player Andrea Medina was taken to hospital after suffering a head injury during the Champions League tie against Juventus in the Spanish capital on Wednesday night. Medina was treated on the pitch for more than five minutes after staying down following a sliding tackle near the corner…
Between what was nominally the 70th and 73rd minutes of Barcelona Femeni’s 8-0 win against Alhama CF last weekend, Claudia Pina scored twice — but the VAR review of her second goal took more than five minutes to get through. Video refereeing has only just been introduced in Liga F, Spanish women’s football’s top flight,…
Bay FC, the professional women’s soccer team, set an attendance record for the National Women’s Soccer League on Saturday with a sellout crowd of 40,091 for its 3-2 loss to the Washington Spirit at Oracle Park. The San Francisco crowd surpassed the previous record of 35,038 for a single NWSL match set on June 8,…
It’s nearing the 91st minute, and Italian striker Sofia Cantore is moving with the ball through Norway’s defensive third with purpose. She zigs and she zags, before a narrow opening appears. In the distance, Italy’s captain Cristiana Girelli is waving Cantore down, as she’s running towards goal. Cantore delivers a perfect cross to Girelli, who,…
Germany does have two ways to play Germany entered the tournament playing adventurous, high-pressing and attacking football and ended having spent their last couple of games sitting in the stubbornest of defensive shells — and playing their best football in the process. Of course, Christian Wück & co. had to adjust to the situations and…
Aitana Bonmati nearly missed the 2025 European Championship due to a bout with viral meningitis the week before the tournament began. But on Wednesday, the two-time Ballon D’Or winner found a late goal to lift Spain to their first appearance in a Euros final. They will face a familiar opponent in England — the team…
It’s day two of the semifinals at EURO 2025 — Spain vs. Germany for the chance to face England. After a long and tortuous road the German women’s national team find themselves again at the semifinals of the European Championships. This time, three years since their last one, the Germans enter on the back of…
Welcome to the 2025 UEFA Women’s European Championships! Here we are now at the semifinals stage. Today England takes on Italy in a matchup that should feature Bayern Munich midfielders on each side of the field. The defending champion Lionesses have had a decent tournament so far but were tested hard by Sweden, who raced…
Germany faces France tomorrow in the quarterfinals of EURO 2025. The Germany women had a strong if not all-cylinders-firing start to the tournament, but then fell completely apart in the final group stage match against Sweden. It was the kind of heart-breaking collapse that usually means the end of a team’s run, only this time…
When you watch Spain you get the feeling this is a team that play alongside each other every weekend, as if it were club football rather than a group thrown together on the international stage. The reason? In large part, it is because so many players come from one club, to a far greater extent…