Spain won their first ever Women’s World Cup title following their 1-0 victory over England in the final at the Accor Stadium on Sunday.

In front of nearly 76,000 people at Sydney’s Stadium Australia, Spain was the more skilled team and had more chances, including missing a second-half penalty.

Spain’s win is a victory for coach Jorge Vilda and the Spanish Football Federation, who stuck with him even though 15 players said they didn’t want to play for their country under him last year.

England coach Sarina Wiegman has now lost back-to-back finals with her European champion team. However, Sarina Wiegman and her team have little to complain about.

Since the World Cup started in 1991, Spain is the fifth team to win it. The United States, Germany, Norway, and Japan are the other four.

In front of Spain’s Queen Letizia, left-back Carmona charged forward and smashed the game-winning goal low and hard in the 29th minute.

“It was a really tough game, we knew it would be tricky, England have a great team, but I think it was our game,” Carmona told Spanish national broadcasters La 1.

“We had the feeling we were going to do it.”

A sad moment The captain of the Lionesses, Millie Bright, said that her team had not been at their best as their hopes of winning their first World Cup faded.

“Really proud of the team to come this far and to play in a World Cup final, not many players do that,” she said.

“This is not it from us, we will bounce back I’m sure, but for now, it’s hard to take.”

Mariona Caldentey threaded a pass for Carmona that was perfect to the inch. Carmona came flying down the left side unmarked and smashed the ball into the bottom corner.

Vilda, who brought back three of the 15 rebels for the World Cup, didn’t even crack a smile while watching the game.

England looked unusually tense, and Paralluelo, a 19-year-old attacker for Barcelona who was always a threat, came close to hitting the post with the last kick of the half.

Wiegman made two changes during the halftime break. Four years ago, her Netherlands team lost the final to the U.S. by a score of 2-0.

Rachel Daly and Alessia Russo were replaced by James and Chloe Kelly when Wiegman switched from a back-five to a flat back-four.

But Spain almost made it 2-0 right after halftime. Caldentey dribbled inside and forced Earps to turn the ball around the post.

England was getting more and more upset, so Hemp was arrested for hitting Laia Codina.

Aitana Bonmati, a midfield schemer who was one of the best players in the tournament and one of the three refuseniks that Vilda called back, along with Caldentey, just missed Earps’s bar with his shot.

After a long VAR review, it was decided that Keira Walsh had handled the ball in the box with 20 minutes left. This gave Spain a penalty.

But Jennifer Hermoso’s penalty was weak, and Earps saved it easily to keep England’s hopes alive.

But even though there were 13 minutes of extra time, England rarely made a threat, and Spain held on easily and looked more likely to score.

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