UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 – ENGLAND VS ITALY – 22/07/2025 – THE LIONESSES WILL PLAY SPAIN IN THE EUROS FINAL ON SUNDAY 27TH JULY!

UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 – ENGLAND VS ITALY – THE LIONESSES BEAT ITALY 2 – 1!

ENGLAND ARE THROUGH TO THE FINALS AFTER BEATING ITALY 2 – 1 LAST NIGHT IN EXTRA TIME!

ITALY MADE 432 PASSES, WITH A 76% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 3 CORNERS, WITH 11 SHOTS AND 5 ON TARGET, AND IT WAS, INDEED, ITALY WHO SCORED 1ST WITH A SUPERB GOAL FROM BARBARA BONANSEA AT 33 MINS! AND ALTHOUGH ENGLAND MADE A WHOPPING 579 PASSES, WITH AN 83% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 58% POSSESSION), AND 24 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET, THEY JUST COULDN’T QUITE REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET UNTIL SARINA WIEGMAN ONCE AGAIN “SENT IN THE CAVALRY” – AS IS HER WONT – (AKA THE FRESH LEGS OF MICHELLE AGYEMANG AND CHLOE KELLY), WHO ONCE AGAIN TURNED THE GAME AROUND QUICK-SHARP! IN FACT, IT WAS ONLY 6 MINS. AFTER MICHELLE CAME ON THE PITCH THAT SHE EQUALISED WITH AN ABSOLUTE CRACKER, (MICHELLE AND CHLOE CELEBRATE BELOW)

AND THEN, AFTER EQUALISING, IT WAS NOW FULL-STEAM-AHEAD TO EXTRA TIME! AFTER BETH MEAD WAS BROUGHT DOWN IN THE 116TH MIN. ENGLAND WERE GIVEN A PENALTY WHICH CHLOE KELLY MADE LIGHT-WORK OF CONVERTING, (BELOW)

(THEREBY FULFILLING HER ROLE IN THIS, BY NOW, “BATMAN-AND-ROBIN”ESQUE DOUBLE ACT), AFTER FOLLOWING-UP ON HER OWN PENALTY, WHICH HAD BEEN SAVED, IN DOUBLE-QUICK TIME, TO SECURE THE WINNING GOAL IN THE 119TH MINUTE! (SETTING A RECORD FOR THE LATEST GOAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE TOURNAMENT IN THE PROCESS!) PHEW – THESE LADIES DON’T DO THINGS BY HALVES!!

WHAT A TEAM! WHAT DRAMA! AND WHAT FANTASTIC ENTERTAINMENT! SO THE MATCH CULMINATED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO THE LIONESSES, AND AFTER SPAIN’S WIN LAST NIGHT AGAINST GERMANY, THE LIONESSES WILL NOW PLAY SPAIN IN THE FINAL ON SUNDAY 27TH JULY AT 17.00 P.M.!  SO GET THE POPCORN READY!

BY AMANDA WATERS