Euro 2024: Spain 2-1 England

Spain secured a historic win at Euro 2024 with goals from Nico Williams and Mikel Oyarzabal, breaking English hearts.
Cole Palmer thought he had taken the game to extra time with his equaliser, but Oyarzabal’s tap-in clinched victory for Spain.

Marc Cucurella had a standout game, keeping Bukayo Saka at bay while also providing the vital assist for Spain’s late winner.
Spain stopped football from coming home on Sunday night as goals from Nico Williams and Mikel Oyarzabal secured La Roja’s record-breaking fourth European Championship at EURO 2024 under the starry Berlin night sky.

In the first half, a cagey affair unfolded, and observers could have been forgiven for mistaking football for chess as defences ruled the roost. Nevertheless, both teams had chances to create something out of nothing, with Phil Foden’s off-balanced volley into the near-post at the end of the half igniting hope among a stadium filled with English supporters that more was to come after the break.

That clutch-at-straws encouragement came to a quelling blow straight after halftime. Lamine Yamal cruised beyond Luke Shaw for the first time in the night before releasing Nico WIlliams, who would have no trouble finding the back of the net.
The Three Lions, looking shell-shocked, almost conceded again shortly after, but survived.

Nonetheless, while the opener came much like a pin to a balloon in England’s desperate hopes of claiming the crown that they let slip three years ago, Cole Palmer came off the bench to inject more late drama into the Three Lions’s EURO 2024 adventure, scoring the equaliser to take the final all the way down to the wire.

But whereas five-star entertainment had favoured Gareth Southgate’s pride in previous games en route to Germany’s capital, all their hard work came undone via a late Oyarzabal tap-in.