England beat Austria 1-0, with a goal from Beth Mead (16 minutes), in the opening match of the UEFA Women’s European Football Championship England – 2022, regarding the first group of the competition, which includes 16 teams, which it played on. Wednesday evening at Old Trafford, Manchester, one of the stages of the competition that will end only on the 31st, with the final, in Wembley (London).

The final phase of the competition, with 16 teams – including Portugal, brought back by UEFA to replace Russia (excluded) and included in Group C, where they will have the champion contenders, the Netherlands (winner in 2017), Sweden and Switzerland – will continue. On Thursday, with the other match of the opening round of Group A, between Norway and Northern Ireland, at St Petersburg. Mary’s Stadium, Southampton (20 hours).

The national team, coached by Francisco Neto, makes its first appearance on Saturday, the ninth of this month, in Group C in Wigan, against Switzerland (17:00 local time, the same time in mainland Portugal), and then plays on Wednesday, the 13th of current month. This month, the Netherlands (20 hours) are in the same stage and on the seventeenth they face Sweden, always in the Lee Sports Village, in Wigan (17 hours).

The President of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), Fernando Gomez, attended the opening ceremony and meeting at the team’s stadium, where Diogo Dalot, Bruno Fernandes and CR7 Habbeya will continue in England to watch the national team match with the national team. the Helvetica on Saturday. Many of the “Red Devils” players also took the opportunity to watch the match in the stadium, in the presence of … 68,871 spectators!

Remember that in Group B of the competition are the teams of Germany, Spain, Denmark and Finland, while Group D consists of France, Italy, Belgium and Iceland. Only the two best teams from each group qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition.