Spain goalkeeper hits back at claim Lioness Hannah Hampton 'threw her cheat sheet away'
Spain women's goalkeeper Cata Coll has denied Hannah Hampton 's claims she threw her 'cheat sheet' water bottle into the crowd during England 's penalty shootout win in the Euro 2025 final.
England won back to back European Championships and avenged their World Cup defeat to the Spaniards in 2023 by winning 3-1 on penalties after the game finished 1-1.
Three Lions shot-stopper Hampton was the hero on the night as she saved two efforts from Spain stars Mariona Caldentey and Aitana Bonmati, with Salma Paralluelo also missing her kick.
England were the more clinical side from 12 yards as Alex Greenwood, Niamh Charles and Chloe Kelly converted and Hampton revealed she attempted to aid their cause by throwing away Coll's instructions on her team-mates.
Hampton said she noticed Coll had a 'cheat sheet' on her bottle so she threw it into the crowd of English fans behind the goal while she was getting ready for the first kick.
During an interview with talkSport, she said: 'The Spanish keeper had it (the penalty information) on her bottle, so I thought when she was going in goal, I'd just pick it up and chuck it into the English fans so she can't have it.
"I don't ever put it on a bottle because anyone can do that so I put it on my arm." When asked to clarify if she really threw it away by presenter Sam Matterface, Hampton replied: "Yeah, it wasn't hard. When she's gone in the goal, it's on its own isn't it? It's in the towel, you just pick it up.
'Mine is blank, but it has the same sponsors and stuff so I just put mine in there, chucked her one into the fans and she had an empty bottle. She was looking for where it is.
"She was walking back to take the penalty and I was walking the other way and she was so confused, and I was just trying not to burst out laughing, being like, 'I don't know what's happening!'." You've got to do something, haven't you?"
Coll has since hit back at her England counterpart on social media after she reposted the interview and disputed her claim, writing: "Okay, okay, calm down, calm down. At least if it were true...'.
Hampton said England had studied Spain penalties in some depth ahead of the game, claiming that the goalkeeper group sat down to watch 46 penalties taken by Alexia Putellas to find weaknesses and quirks in her technique.
It came after England were strongly criticised for their penalty-taking ability following a chaotic 3-2 shootout win over Sweden in the quarter-finals in which they missed four efforts, while their opponents missed five.
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