Swiss defender Noelle Maritz stated re-watching movies of the win – the lads’s first in opposition to Spain – gave her “goosebumps”.
“That is soccer and now we have to attain yet another objective than the opponent and consider in ourselves. We hope we’re in a position to win in opposition to Spain like the lads’s workforce did,” Maritz added.
Towards Spain in 2010, Switzerland received regardless of dealing with 24 pictures in opposition to a workforce that went on to win the match.
Requested if her facet will want the identical luck in Bern, Sundhage replied: “We is not going to win in opposition to Spain if we’re not fortunate. However it’s essential create your personal luck.”
Spain are ranked second on this planet and received the World Cup in 2023, however they’ve exited the Euros within the quarter-finals at every of the previous three tournaments.
With their solely higher efficiency being in 1997, the place they reached the semi-finals, supervisor Montse Tome stated her facet have an opportunity to “write historical past” in opposition to Switzerland.
“I feel it is a gorgeous problem for the Spanish workforce, for the workers, for the gamers,” stated Tome.
“It’s a problem, it’s large to have the likelihood to get to the semi-finals and write historical past.
“These gamers, this workforce, will make historical past [if they win]. This creates an power and that is the power we present on the pitch.”
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