Portugal loses fourth straight final to Spain at Euro 17 in roller hockey
In a frenetic game played in Sant Sadurní d`Anoia, less than 50 kilometers from Barcelona, with a 4-4 draw at half-time and advantages for both teams, Spain beat Portugal for the fourth time in a row in the European final, despite of the four goals scored by Vítor Oliveira, the tournament’s top scorer, with 17 accurate shots.
Portugal came close to winning 2-0, with goals from Vítor Oliveira and Guilherme Azevedo at the beginning of the match, but Spain turned the score around, through Pau Andreu, Jacobo Copa and Jacobo Copa, before Vítor Oliveira drew 3-3, repeating the `ʻa `end of the first half, when equaling 4, from a direct free-kick from Biel Nadal-terrões later, to advance the hosts.
In the second half, it was the home that marked Spain in the initial moments, by Miquel Escala, having João Pina re-established equality once again, before starting it for the triumph, with goals from Àlex Ortigosa and Jacobo Copa, this team from a direct free-kick, the fourth goal by Vítor Oliveira was of little use.
The Portuguese team fought by Spain (the two previous times had the game at home definitively, in 2021, in 2021), keeping once with 14 competition trophies, in 2017, keeping with 14 competition trophies, the last , in 2017, the last one in Torres de competition, the last one in 2017, in Fanano (Italy), also in a final against Spain.
In addition to the Iberian countries, only Italy integrates the gallery of winners of the European Championship of 17, with six titles, but in the 2022 European Championship it had to settle for a bronze medal, today thanks to the triumph over France, by 2 -0 after overtime.
The defeat against Spain was the only one suffered in the tournament by the ‘team of the corners’, which in the group stage prevailed against Germany (7-0), Andorra (21-0) and Italy (2-0), before thrashing Switzerland in the quarter-finals, by 14-0, and overcome France in the ‘half-finals’, by 2-0.
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