There were 25 seconds remaining when at last the nerves fell away and they knew. Marta Cardona leaped at the far post to guide a header back in the net and Spain into the quarter-final against England, substitutes streaming from the bench to greet her, as relieved as they were delighted. It had been edgy and far from easy, but they had done it. Denmark, ultimately, had not done enough. They had waited for their moment, the goal they needed, but it was Spain who got it, eventually.
All that came in a five-minute spell midway through a half in which Spain looked decidedly uncomfortable, but they started to take a degree of control. There was a willingness too to deliver early into the area, Mariona Caldentey heading over and Ona Batlle delivering a superb ball from which Del Castillo could not get a clean contact at the far post. Del Castillo then had a penalty appeal of her own, although it was more her own roulette that caused her to fall than the challenge.
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