The host team win their first continental title against Germany in extra time, in front of 87,192 fans at Wembley
In the temple of British football, England crowned a historic European Championship this Sunday, with record numbers of spectators in a men’s and women’s continental championship final, competing for the title of a league that saw attendances never seen before. spectators seen before. Euro 2022 has confirmed the unstoppable growth of women’s football and, to give the championship even more notoriety and excitement, Wembley, with 87,192 fans filled the stands, attended a battle to be decided in extra time after Germany defeated England’s goal equalized that opened the scoring. Ecstasy for England came with just ten minutes left before the European Championship was decided on penalties, with a goal scored by one of the host’s replacements, Chloe Kelly, giving the team that knocked out Spain in the quarter-finals their first major title.
In the duel between the hosts and the most successful team in the European Championship, who had never lost a continental final and added eight titles until they fell at Wembley, England felt no pressure to play at home, with their best team, in the memorable piece always, led by a coach, the Dutch Sarina Wiegman, who already won the trophy with the Netherlands in 2017 and finally lifted England. The dream of the British team, which had previously lost two European finals, could not have been fulfilled by England in a better scenario.
In the same match in which England lost last year’s men’s European Championship on penalties against Italy, the islands’ players achieved the long-awaited glory, and they did so against the absolute ruler of the tournament, reduced and hit before the start of the final for the injury in the warm-up of his top goalscorer and captain, Alexandra Popp. Germany suffered the unfortunate loss of Popp, who shared the Golden Boot with England’s Meth Mead, both scoring six goals. As fate would have it, it was precisely the replacement for the great England striker who certified the title for the hosts after regular time.
Earps, Bronze, Bright, Williamson, Daly (Greenwood, min. 88), Stanway (Scott, min. 88), Walsh, Mead (Kelly, min. 64), Kirby (Toone, min. 55), Hemp (Parris, min. 120) and White (Russo, min. 55).
Frohms, Gwinn, Hendrich, Hegering (Doorsunn, min. 103), Rauch (Lattwein, min. 113), Magull (Dallmann, min. 91), Oberdorf, Dabritz (Lohmann, min. 73), Huth, Schüller (Anyomi, min. 67) and Brand (Wassmuth, min. 46).
The third time the charm was for England, who lost the 1984 and 2009 finals and took revenge 13 years after losing the title match and then against Germany, which had chances to win the trophy but lacked the attacking power to bounce back. turn to succeed. As usual, the German team did not go without scoring, but England had the efficiency in attack in the title match, which, as foreseeable, suffered to write its name with greatness on that of a memorable European Championship, a championship that has never had so much media and social significance. The hosts were lucky too, as after taking a possible penalty in the first half for a handball in their area, the winning goal came as the game headed for the fateful point and Kelly was the smartest in the area and took advantage of a defensive error by the Germans.
If the first goal was a Vaseline goal, by Ella Toone, in the second fortune England smiled and Kelly’s shot was the grave for Germany, which no longer had the ability to react against a team that had solidity and cool-headedness until the final whistle. to endure the ever terrifying Germany. The Germans deserved to force extra time thanks to their insistence and better play in the last part of regular time, but it was the effectiveness that finally tipped the balance in England’s favor for 120 minutes, with more intensity and uncertainty then football.
Source: La Verdad
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