Sarina Wiegman’s Final Chapter: Why Women’s Euro 2025 Could Define Her Legacy—Win or Lose
No shoot-out should end 3-2 after 14 penalties. In Thursday’s Women’s Euro 2025 quarter-final between England and Sweden in Zurich, both teams struck out with three spot kicks in a row at one point in a baffling tie-breaker.
England eventually triumphed when a limping Lucy Bronze smashed her penalty right up the gut and into the roof of Jennifer Falk’s net. Smilla Holmberg couldn’t follow suit and the quarter-final, mercifully, was over.
The penalty shoot-out had everything but consistent quality. Falk and England’s Hannah Hampton made an unusually high number of saves of varying difficulty. Falk spooned her own kick over the top. Chloe Kelly put England back in pole position by laughing in the face of the moment.
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