Auckland, Aug 5 (IANS) : Aitana Bonmati played an important role with a brace and two assists as
Spain swept past Switzerland 5-1 here on Saturday to reach the quarterfinals of the FIFA Women’s
World Cup for the first time in their history.
Bonmati’s early opener in the match was canceled out by an own goal from Laia Codina, but Alba
Redondo restored Spain’s lead and Bonmati scored again to make
it 3-1.
Codina then made up for her error by scoring her team’s fourth before the break, and
Jennifer Hermoso made it 5-1 in the second half in front of 43,217 fans, a new record
crowd for a football match in
New Zealand, Xinhua reported. After the terrible 4-0 defeat to Japan in the group stage.