The last duel between azulgranas of this European Championship was won by the recently signed Lucy Bronze. England thrashed Fridolina Rolfö's Sweden in a game in which the Nordics began dominating, but ended up succumbing to the steamroller that is the host team, who won 4-0. "I am very disappointed, I expected more," Rolfö admitted to La Vanguardia after the match. "When you see the result it's very bulky and it hurts, but at the same time I feel like it could have been different," she explained.
For the Barça player, the key was conceding Beth Mead's goal just before the break: "We had a good first half, but we didn't manage to score when we had the opportunity and this made it more difficult to get into the game and when we were in a good moment They marked us. In the second half we had to go for the match, but they kept scoring”.
Sweden faced, for the first time in the tournament, a team that could dispute the role of favorite: “It is not a new situation for us. We always want to be among the favourites, but today we played against a good team. England are having a great tournament and today they played very well and we showed some weaknesses, so they deserved to win”.
If in the previous one it was the Englishwoman Lucy Bronze who praised her future partner at Barcelona, yesterday it was Rolfö's turn: “I'm a winger and she's a winger, so we've faced each other many times, I know her very well. She has great skills and I have been watching many videos of hers to find out how to use my strengths against her. She is a great player that you always have to watch out for because she can be dangerous on the offensive side as well”, she pointed out. Going into the final, Rolfö has her preferences clear: “England are at a great level and I have many friends in Germany because I played there before, so I will be between England and Germany”.
Eliminated from the European Championship in the semifinals, Fridolina Rolfö will now enjoy a well-deserved, albeit brief, vacation before joining Barcelona's pre-season, a return that the Swedish footballer is already longing for: "I really want to go back to Barcelona, I miss the girls, the staff and everyone. I'm looking forward to getting back, I need some time off first to recover, but I'm looking forward to meeting the new players and giving Alexia a hug and just being there and supporting her."
