UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 – ENGLAND VS ITALY – 22/07/2025

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

ANOTHER LOOK AT THE MOMENT WHEN ENGLAND WENT THROUGH TO THE FINALS AFTER BEATING ITALY 2 – 1 IN EXTRA TIME AT THE EUROS!

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 AGAINST GERMANY, THE LIONESSES ALSO WENT ON TO BEAT SPAIN AND TRIUMPH IN THE EUROS FINAL!!

BY AMANDA WATERS