UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 QUARTER-FINAL : SWEDEN VS ENGLAND – 17/07/2025 (PHOTO – LUCY BRONZE SCORES FOR ENGLAND – TWICE!)

IT WAS SWEDEN WHO GOT THE BALL ROLLING IN THE MATCH BETWEEN THE LIONESSES AND SWEDEN LAST NIGHT WITH A GOAL AT 2 MINS. FROM KOSOVARE ASLLANI, WHICH DELIGHTED THE SWEDISH FANS, BUT MUST HAVE PREPARED THE LIONESSES FOR THE EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE GAME WHICH WOULD LIE AHEAD. SWEDEN MADE 365 PASSES IN TOTAL, WITH A 58% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 6 CORNERS, WITH 14 SHOTS AND 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A THUMPING GOAL FROM STINA BLACKSTENIUS AT 25 MINS!  ENGLAND MADE 536 PASSES, WITH A 74% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 60% POSSESSION), AND 18 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, AND AFTER SHOWING SUCH RESILIENCE THROUGHOUT THE MATCH AGAINST SWEDEN’S WELL-ORGANISED DEFENCE, THE LIONESSES WERE ASSISTED SOMEWHAT AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FRESH LEGS OF CHLOE KELLY, MICHELLE AGYEMANG, ESME MORGAN AND BETH MEAD AT 78 MINS., WHO SEEMINGLY KNEW EXACTLY HOW TO TURN THINGS AROUND, BECAUSE OF THE CLOSENESS THAT THIS SQUAD HAVE TOGETHER! (CHLOE KELLY’S ‘LUCKY CHARM’ PHOTO OF HERSELF AND HER HUSBAND WHICH SHE HAD STRAPPED TO HER LEG CERTAINLY WORKED!) BECAUSE WITHIN A FEW MINUTES, CHLOE HAD SENT THE MOST PRECISE CROSS OVER TO LUCY BRONZE, WHICH FOUND HER IN THE PERFECT POSITION TO SIMPLY NOD THE BALL OVER THE LINE WITH A STUNNING HEADER AT 79 MINS., AND THEN, WITHIN 2 MINS., MICHELLE AGYEMANG SCORED AGAIN AT 81 MINS, MAKING IT 2 – 2! WAS THIS REALLY LUCK, OR JUST GREAT PLANNING FROM SARINA WIEGMAN? WHAT A TEAM TO CHOOSE FROM. HAVING SUCH A DEPTH OF TALENT IN THE TEAM MUST BE WONDERFUL.

SARINA PROUDLY SAID AFTERWARDS

“I DON’T KNOW WHY BUT THIS TEAM IS INCREDIBLE. THEY STICK TOGETHER AND DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO TURN AROUND A RESULT LIKE WE DID TODAY. IT IS SO IMPRESSIVE AND I’M JUST REALLY PROUD TO BE A PART OF THIS TIME.”

SARINA ALSO SPOKE OF LUCY BRONZE’S PROWESS INDIVIDUALLY SAYING “SHE IS JUST ONE OF A KIND.  I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE IN MY LIFE.  I HAVE WORKED WITH SO MANY INCREDIBLE FOOTBALL PLAYERS BUT WHAT SHE DOES AND HER MENTALITY….THE PENALTY, THE GOAL – THAT IS NOT WHAT DEFINES HER.  WHAT DEFINES HER IS THAT RESILIENCE, THAT FIGHT.  THE ONLY WAY TO GET HER OFF THE PITCH IS IN A WHEELCHAIR.”

SO, IT WAS NOW 2 – 2! AND THE MATCH WENT INTO EXTRA TIME, AND WITH NOTHING DOING, ONTO PENALTIES, WHICH ENGLAND WON 3 – 2! (BELOW)

UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 QUARTER-FINAL : SWEDEN VS ENGLAND – 17/07/2025 – PENALTY SHOOT-OUT

UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 QUARTER-FINAL – FULL MATCH HIGHLIGHTS : SWEDEN VS ENGLAND – 17/07/2025

SARINA IN ANOTHER POST-MATCH INTERVIEW

BY AMANDA WATERS