Euro women’s 2022 final: England beats Germany 2-1

LONDON –

England beat Germany 2-1 within the closing of the European Championship after further time on Sunday to win its first main ladies’s soccer title.

Chloe Kelly scored the profitable aim on a rebound within the second half of additional time after Germany didn’t clear a nook. The sport had completed 1-1 after 90 minutes at Wembley Stadium with Lina Magull for Germany canceling out Ella Toone’s aim for England.

After the ultimate whistle, the England gamers danced and the group sang their anthem “Candy Caroline.” The great-natured environment contained in the stadium Sunday drew contrasts with the violent scenes when the England males’s staff misplaced its European Championship closing to Italy on the identical stadium a yr in the past.

The tournament-record crowd of greater than 87,000 underlined the expansion of girls’s soccer in Europe because the final time England and Germany performed for a continental title 13 years in the past.

On that event, Germany surged to a 6-2 win over an England staff which nonetheless relied on part-time gamers. Two years later, England launched its Girls’s Tremendous League, which has professionalized the sport and grown into one of many essential competitions worldwide.

That has meant growing competitors for Germany, which was a pioneering nation in European ladies’s soccer and more and more faces well-funded rivals in England, Spain and France.

Ella Toone latched onto a protracted go from Keira Walsh to get in behind the German protection within the 62nd minute and cleverly despatched a lobbed shot over goalkeeper Merle Frohms and into the online for the opening aim.

Toone’s aim, six minutes after she entered the sport from the bench, sparked celebrations as England supervisor Sarina Wiegman — the profitable coach with the Netherlands in 2017 — raised each arms in pleasure.

Dealing with its first defeat in 9 European finals, Germany got here shut when Lea Schuller hit the submit after which leveled the rating within the 79th when Lina Magull knocked a low cross previous England goalkeeper Mary Earps, taking the sport to further time.

When the sport went to further time there have been echoes of one other European Championship closing on the identical venue the yr earlier than, when the England males’s staff had a 1-0 lead however misplaced on penalties to Italy.

Germany was with out captain Alexandra Popp — the staff’s main scorer with six targets — after she reported a muscle downside within the warmup. She was changed within the lineup by Schuller whereas Svenja Huth took over as captain.