Swiss defender Noelle Maritz mentioned re-watching movies of the win – the lads’s first towards Spain – gave her “goosebumps”.
“That is soccer and we have now to attain another objective than the opponent and imagine in ourselves. We hope we’re in a position to win towards Spain like the lads’s staff did,” Maritz added.
In opposition to Spain in 2010, Switzerland gained regardless of dealing with 24 pictures towards a staff that went on to win the match.
Requested if her aspect will want the identical luck in Bern, Sundhage replied: “We won’t win towards Spain if we aren’t fortunate. However you’ll want to create your personal luck.”
Spain are ranked second on the planet and gained the World Cup in 2023, however they’ve exited the Euros within the quarter-finals at every of the previous three tournaments.
With their solely higher efficiency being in 1997, the place they reached the semi-finals, supervisor Montse Tome mentioned her aspect have an opportunity to “write historical past” towards Switzerland.
“I believe it is an attractive problem for the Spanish staff, for the employees, for the gamers,” mentioned Tome.
“It’s a problem, it’s large to have the chance to get to the semi-finals and write historical past.
“These gamers, this staff, will make historical past [if they win]. This creates an vitality and that is the vitality we present on the pitch.”
