Spain coach Montse Tome felt her facet deserved extra after La Roja suffered an agonising penalty shootout defeat to England in the Euro 2025 final.
The world champions, who beat England within the 2023 World Cup last, had been favourites to dethrone the Lionesses and declare the European title.
They usually appeared primed to just do that when Mariona Caldentey put Spain forward with a Twenty fifth-minute header.
However Alessia Russo levelled for England within the 57th minute, and Sarina Wiegman’s facet held agency in further time, regardless of the extra half hour being dominated by Spain.
Spain had been made to pay for failing to make that superiority depend, with Caldentey, Aitana Bonmati and Salma Paralluelo unable to transform from 12 yards, the latter’s miss permitting Chloe Kelly to safe glory for England.
“I feel this staff deserved extra. I feel we labored exhausting for a very long time to achieve this second, to achieve this last towards a high-level nationwide staff as an occasion and what we noticed within the recreation makes me suppose that the staff deserved it,” Tome instructed her post-match press convention.
“It is a sport, you will need to know the way to lose, and at the moment we missed the penalties.
“I feel we had been higher, however soccer is a sport the place one of the best staff doesn’t all the time win. England are a wonderful nationwide staff, they confirmed their degree throughout the event. They draw, after which they defend themselves to get the penalties.
“That is our occupation. what we labored for, what they labored for deserved a special ending.
“That’s why at the moment I’ve the sensation that we virtually reached it, however it’s gone. I actually worth all of the work achieved — we wrote historical past throughout the entire event, and the staff was good.”
