{"id":29892,"date":"2025-12-03T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29892"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:04:11","slug":"spain-win-nations-league-title-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29892","title":{"rendered":"Spain win Nations League title second time"},"content":{"rendered":"
Spain defended their women’s Nations League title with a 3-0 second leg win over Germany on Tuesday, following a goalless draw last week.<\/p>\n

Claudia Pina’s second-half brace, either side of a Vicky Lopez strike, secured 2023 World Cup winners Spain a third international trophy.<\/p>\n

A record crowd on home soil for Spain of 55,843 at Atletico Madrid’s Metropolitano Stadium watched Sonia Bermudez’s side claim the first silverware of the new coach’s reign.<\/p>\n

Spain were shorn of three-time Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmati after she fractured her leg on Sunday in training, but swept to victory with a convincing display in the capital.<\/p>\n

The Euro 2025 runners-up relied on goalkeeper Cata Coll to keep their hopes alive during the first leg in Kaiserslautern but dominated Christian Wueck’s visitors in the decisive second leg.<\/p>\n

“We had one objective, which was to win, and we did it,” Pina told TVE.<\/p>\n

“It was a great game from the whole team and a new trophy,” she continued.<\/p>\n

“(The atmosphere was) crazy, the fans, who always support us, came here, without them the victory wouldn’t have been possible.”<\/p>\n

Esther Gonzalez fired narrowly wide early on and Ann-Katrin Berger saved Alexia Putellas’s header.<\/p>\n

Coll fielded two Germany efforts from distance, but Spain were in control.<\/p>\n

Arsenal playmaker Mariona Caldentey could have scored twice in the first half, but volleyed over when well placed and punted another effort straight at Berger.<\/p>\n

The best chance of the first half fell to Germany’s Nicole Anyomi just before the break, but she dragged her shot narrowly wide.<\/p>\n

The visitors started the second half strongly, too, before Pina fired Spain ahead in the 61st minute.<\/p>\n

The Barcelona forward exchanged passes with Caldentey before drilling home from the edge of the box. Berger got a hand to her shot and could have kept it out.<\/p>\n

Her teenage Barca team-mate Lopez grabbed the second with a delicious curling shot past Berger seven minutes later, having come close with a similar effort in the first half which dipped just over.<\/p>\n

Pina wrapped up Spain’s triumph with a fine solo goal, winning the ball back just inside Germany territory, driving forward and firing spectacularly into the top corner from distance.<\/p>\n

‘Proud’ Hermoso<\/p>\n

Former Atletico and Barcelona striker Jenni Hermoso played the final 10 minutes as a substitute and was overjoyed to win another trophy with the national team.<\/p>\n

Hermoso was forcibly kissed on the lips after Spain won the 2023 World Cup by then Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales, creating worldwide outrage.<\/p>\n

Former Spain coach Montse Tome dropped her from the squad but Bermudez recalled Hermoso for the Nations League semis and final after a year in the cold.<\/p>\n

“My happy face says it all, to come back, to win in my city, with my people, with the whole family, that we put on a show, it’s great,” Hermoso told TVE.<\/p>\n

“Today I am very proud to wear this shirt, to win a title, and still be enjoying football.”<\/p>\n

Players celebrated wildly with coach Bermudez afterwards, reflecting a change from the colder relationship they had with Tome, and worse still, Jorge Vilda, who was sacked after the World Cup win amid a huge player strike and the Rubiales kiss scandal.<\/p>\n

“This is a very beautiful day to enjoy,” said Bermudez.<\/p>\n

“There (in Germany) we weren’t the Spain we wanted to be, we knew that we had the support of the fans here and they were very important.”<\/p>\n

Germany, who last won major honours at the 2016 Olympics, lost against the same opponents in the semi-finals of the Euros and had hoped to claim revenge, but were unpicked by a Spain team in their golden era.<\/p>\n

“I think you saw over two games that we could play at the same level as Spain for much of it. We can take a lot of positives away from this, especially from the first game,” Chelsea midfielder Sjoeke Nuesken told ARD.<\/p>\n

“I think the 1-0 broke us today,” she continued. “The Spanish are incredibly efficient. We simply have to keep working to be more efficient in front of goal.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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