Belgium beats Portugal for its first win at Euro 2025 and its last

SION, Switerland (AP) — Janice Cayman scored in stoppage time for Belgium to beat Portugal 2-1 and a first win in its final game at the Women’s European Championship on Friday.

Amber Tysiak thought she already scored Belgium’s winner in stoppage time but that goal was struck out for an offside call, the second Belgium goal ruled out after a VAR check.

Portugal needed a win to have any hope of making the knockout stage but got off to a bad start when Belgium captain Tessa Wullaert slid in to meet Jill Janssens’ cross for the third-minute opener.

“We go out of the tournament but it’s on a high," Wullaert said. "We really deserved this after all the games we played. I don’t think the luck was on our side and even today we got two goals canceled.”

More bad news for Portugal came from Bern where Italy took a shock lead against tournament favorite Spain. Portugal was hoping for a heavy Italian defeat to enable its progress to the quarterfinals on goal difference — as long as it also won.

Telma Encarnação got Portugal’s only goal late and couldn’t prevent her team’s elimination.

Spain came from behind to beat Italy 3-1 and both teams progressed from Group B, the world champion with a perfect three wins from three games, Italy second on four points, followed by Belgium on three and Portugal with one.

Portugal showed urgency only toward the end of the first half, when Ana Capeta found herself alone facing the goalkeeper. Her attempted lob didn’t go to plan, and Lisa Lichtfus again thwarted the Portugal star after the break.

Belgium threatened more and Mariam Toloba struck the crossbar.

Fátima Pinto went closest for Portugal with a header over before Telma equalized in the 87th. The celebrations were short-lived.

Cayman rewarded Belgian persistence in the sixth minute of stoppage time and became the first Belgium player to score in three Women's Euros.

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Belgium players celebrate their second goal during the Women's Euro 2025, Group B soccer match between Portugal and Belgium at Stade de Tourbillon in Sion, Switzerland, Friday, July 11, 2025. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Portugal's Telma Encarnação holds her head after the Women's Euro 2025, group B, soccer match between Portugal and Belgium at Stade de Tourbillon in Sion, Switzerland, Friday, July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Portugal head coach Francisco Neto concentrates prior the Women's Euro 2025, group B, soccer match between Portugal and Belgium at Stade de Tourbillon in Sion, Switzerland, Friday, July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Portugal goalkeeper Patricia Morais gets upi from the pitch after failing to make a save during the Women's Euro 2025, group B, soccer match between Portugal and Belgium at Stade de Tourbillon in Sion, Switzerland, Friday, July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Belgium's Tessa Wullaert celebrates with teammates after scoring her sides first goal during the Women¥s Euro 2025, group B, soccer match between Portugal and Belgium at Stade de Tourbillon in Sion, Switzerland, Friday, July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who had a relationship with a Brazilian au pair is going to trial Monday in what prosecutors say was an elaborate double-murder scheme to frame another man in the stabbing of his wife.

Brendan Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the February 2023 killings of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at the Banfields' home in northern Virginia. He has pleaded not guilty in the case.

Banfield and Juliana Peres Magalhães, the family’s au pair, were with the wife and Ryan on the morning the victims were killed in the primary bedroom of the Banfield home, court records say. Authorities have said on that day, Banfield and Magalhães told officials they saw Ryan, a stranger, stabbing the wife after he entered the house. Then they each shot the intruder, Banfield and Magalhães said at the time.

Prosecutors have painted a different picture, arguing that Brendan Banfield and Magalhães lured Ryan to the house and staged it to look like he and the au pair shot a predator in defense. Officials have said Banfield and Magalhães had a romantic affair beginning the year before the killings.

Both the au pair and husband were arrested between 2023 and 2024 and initially handed murder charges in the case. In 2024, Magalhães pleaded guilty to a downgraded manslaughter charge after giving a statement to officials confirming parts of their theory.

In that statement, Magalhães said she and Brendan Banfield created an account in his wife’s name on a social media platform for people interested in sexual fetishes. There, Ryan connected with the account in Christine Banfield’s name, and the users made plans to meet on the morning of Feb. 24, 2023, for a sexual encounter that would involve a knife, authorities said based on the statement from Magalhães.

Prosecutor Eric Clingan said last year that the au pair's statement helped the state solidify its theory ahead of trial.

“With 12 different homicide detectives, there were 24 different theories,” Clingan said. “Now, one theory.”

Not all officials investigating the case have believed Banfield and Magalhães catfished Ryan.

Brendan Miller, a former digital forensic examiner with the Fairfax County Police Department, testified last year that he analyzed dozens of devices and concluded Christine Banfield had connected with Ryan herself through the social networking platform.

An evidence analysis team at the University of Alabama peer-reviewed and affirmed Miller’s digital forensic findings, according to evidence submitted to the court.

Miller was transferred out of the department’s digital forensics unit in late 2024, though a former Fairfax County commander testified the reassignment was not punitive or disciplinary.

John Carroll, Banfield's attorney, argued that Millers' transfer was directly tethered to the case. He also said in court that Fairfax County police reassigned the case’s lead detective after that man had pushed back on the top brass’ catfishing theory.

“It is a theory in search of facts rather than a series of facts supporting a theory,” Carroll said.

Banfield, whose daughter was at the house on the morning of the killings, is also charged with child abuse and felony child cruelty in connection with the case. He will also face those charges during the aggravated murder trial.

FILE - This image provided by the Fairfax County Police Department and taken on Oct. 13, 2023, was submitted as evidence in the murder case against Brendan Banfield shows a framed photo of Banfield and Juliana Peres Magalhães on his bedside table in Herndon, Va. (Fairfax County Police Department via AP, File)