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Laia Codina: "We want a perfect qualifying campaign"

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The player and Montse Tomé looked forward to tomorrow's match against Denmark at the pre-match press conference.

The Spanish Women's National Team is looking to secure their third straight victory in the group stage of the qualification phase for the Euro 2025 in Switzerland, and to achieve this they will have to beat Denmark on Scandinavian soil. On the eve of the vital match, coach Montse Tomé, accompanied by player Laia Codina, took questions from the media at the Vejle Stadion before the official training session.

Firstly, Laia Codina spoke, explaining how Denmark have changed since the last match, as well as how the Spain squad are managing the workload in the final stretch of the season: ‘We have changed because now we are World and Nations League champions but we also know that we can achieve more great things and we want to qualify for the European Championships. We are a team that never stops aiming for more. At the end of the day, the players are the same and so is our ambition. It's not the best time of the year because some players have got a lot of games in their legs after a long season, but that's what we have to do. The coach has been adjusting the training loads and we have been adapting too. It would be a mistake to fear for our health, because when you are afraid is when more injuries occur. Tomorrow, we'll be at 100 percent and it's not only us who are going to feel the load of so many games’.

She is clear that the key to victory lies in knowing how to handle the finer details that arise in each match and knows that Denmark have extremely dangerous players who will have to be watched closely: ‘Since they changed coach they are more ambitious on the ball, they want to play out from the back and employ the high press. I've played with one of them at Arsenal. I don't think the plan will be very different from what we've seen before. Our idea is to push them back, but we'll see... It's also about dominating the individual duels that happen during the match itself.