Heavyweights Spain, France clash today for Euro 2024 final berth
Just one step away from Berlin, continental heavyweights Spain and France will meet in the Euro 2024 semi-finals today. Boasting a flawless record so far, La Roja made it to Munich by eliminating their hosts in the previous round; meanwhile, Les Bleus reached the final four via a tense penalty shootout win over Portugal. A […]
heavyweights spain, france clash today for euro 2024 final berth
Just one step away from Berlin, continental heavyweights Spain and France will meet in the Euro 2024 semi-finals today.
Boasting a flawless record so far, La Roja made it to Munich by eliminating their hosts in the previous round; meanwhile, Les Bleus reached the final four via a tense penalty shootout win over Portugal.
A formidable force under Luis de la Fuente, Spain are the only team to have won all five matches thus far, and no nation in European Championship history has won six times in a single finals, or even posted six wins in a row.
Spain have progressed from four of five European Championship semi-finals to date – though they lost on penalties to eventual winners Italy at this stage three years ago – and will now fight for the right to meet either England or the Netherlands on Sunday.
That would be the Iberian nation’s fifth continental final, and the first since their brief but brilliant reign of dominance was wrapped up with victory at Euro 2012.
Meanwhile, France are aiming to reach a fourth European Championship decider, but only the second played away from French soil.
France has been far less fluent than that of Spain, who swept past Croatia, Italy, Albania and Georgia before toppling the tournament hosts.
Having lost out to Austria for top spot in Group D, France were uninspired in their last-16 win over Belgium before edging past Portugal in the quarter-finals.
In the sixth meeting between Spain and France at a major tournament, it is surely the turn of an inspired La Roja side to taste success again.