Swiss defender Noelle Maritz stated re-watching movies of the win – the boys’s first in opposition to Spain – gave her “goosebumps”.

“That is soccer and we have now to attain another aim than the opponent and imagine in ourselves. We hope we’re capable of win in opposition to Spain like the boys’s group did,” Maritz added.

In opposition to Spain in 2010, Switzerland received regardless of going through 24 photographs in opposition to a group that went on to win the match.

Requested if her aspect will want the identical luck in Bern, Sundhage replied: “We won’t win in opposition to Spain if we aren’t fortunate. However it is advisable to create your individual luck.”

Spain are ranked second on the earth and received 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 stated her aspect have an opportunity to “write historical past” in opposition to Switzerland.

“I feel it is a lovely problem for the Spanish group, for the workers, for the gamers,” stated 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 group, will make historical past [if they win]. This creates an power and that is the power we present on the pitch.”