Norway star Ada Hegerberg led her group to a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over host nation Switzerland regardless of lacking a penalty of their opening recreation at UEFA Girls’s Euro 2025 on Wednesday.
The house group dominated the primary half and went forward within the twenty eighth minute when Nadine Riesen capitalized on some pinball-machine Norwegian defending to attain off the left publish.
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Hegerberg equalized in opposition to the run of play with a header to Vilde Bøe Risa’s nook within the 54th, 4 minutes earlier than Switzerland’s Julia Stierli scored an personal objective, attempting to cease Caroline Graham Hansen’s cross for Hegerberg.
However Hegerberg – the all-time Girls’s Champions League top-scorer – despatched her penalty to the left of the publish within the seventieth after Geraldine Reuteler was penalized for handball whereas attempting to defend in opposition to the Lyon star.
Reuteler had despatched the ball crashing off the crossbar for the dominant Swiss within the first half.
Switzerland was awarded a penalty after Hegerberg’s miss solely to have the choice overturned after a VAR overview for an offside name.
The Swiss gamers appeared crestfallen after the sport, as did veteran coach Pia Sundhage who had referred to as this job her “largest problem” earlier than the match. Switzerland was in search of simply its second win in seven matches on the Euros.
Many followers stayed of their seats to applaud the group afterward. The match was performed at St. Jakob-Park, throughout the highway from the place Austrian singer JJ gained the Eurovision Track Contest in Might. It’s Switzerland’s largest stadium with a capability of 34,250 for the match and it’ll additionally host the ultimate, amongst different video games.
This recreation — the second of the match after Finland’s 1-0 win over Iceland — was preceded by the Euro 2025 opening ceremony. Dancers used lengthy silver tubes in a fastidiously choreographed efficiency that paid tribute to Switzerland’s clock-making heritage and Alpine panorama.
UEFA stated the modest ceremony celebrated “the head of European group spirit” whereas emphasizing “variety, unity and the triumph of girls’s soccer on its biggest stage.”
Each captains wore rainbow armbands to underline the message.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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