MADRID -- For many teams, losing a three-time, reigning Ballon d'Or winner two days before a major final might be too much to cope with. But not for Spain .

Their talent pool runs deep, with more emerging all the time, and in Tuesday's 3-0 win over Germany in their second leg of the UEFA Women's Nations League final, two more stars, goalscorers Clàudia Piña and Vicky López , were crowned.

For over an hour, the 55,843 crowd at the Metropolitano -- a record attendance for Spain's women's team -- had to wait. Perhaps some began to wonder if the presence of Aitana Bonmatí , absent with a broken leg suffered in Sunday's training , might have made the difference.

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