Sarina Wiegman enjoyed the chaos of England’s Euro 2025 Triumph after a tense penalty shoot-out victory in Spain in Sunday’s final.
The showpiece competition went in Basel, with Chloe Kelly – England’s Matchwinner against Germany in the Euro -final three years ago – delivered.
Kelly, who leaves the wounded Lauren James in the first half, offered Alessia Russo the assist to restore parity and to cancel the opener of Mariona Caldentey.
After it was 1-1 within 120 minutes, Kelly then stepped up to break the winning spot kick in the shoot-out, so that a 3-1 triumph was sealed after the heroic deeds of Hannah Hampton with the gloves.
Wiegman has now won the last three editions of the euro, although her team led only four minutes and 52 seconds during the knockout phases.
Indeed, England also had to bounce back from a defeat to France in their opening group game.
“It was the most chaotic tournament, especially on the field,” a jubilant Wiegman told BBC Sport.
“It was chaos of the first game. Losing your first game and then becoming champions is incredible. Football is chaos!”
England has won all four of their penalty shoot-outs under Wiegman. Before she took over, they had lost four in a row.
Wiegman added: “I can’t believe it. The word team really describes who we are.
“We said that we can win in every possible way, that is what we have shown again today. I am so proud of them, so proud of the team – it is incredible.
“I just can’t believe it, I have a medal on my neck. We have that trophy.”
England became the first team to have three different competitions to have extra time on a single edition of the ladies -euros or the World Cup for Women.
Spain had the better chances and collected 2.35 expected goals (XG) to the 1.04 of England.
Beth Mead and Leah Williamson missed their spot kicks, but with Hampton in good shape, the stage was set for Kelly to ensure that England was the second team that preserves the euros, after Germany (1989, 1991 and six in a row between 1995 and 2013).
“It just felt like it would be our day,” said Williamson.
“These players, they just get up. It is just incredible to do this again. People may not appreciate it, but this is the hardest to win again.
“Everything, the commitment. Everything was higher. I have the feeling that even when we won it in 2022, all other teams were happy for us. Today it wasn’t.
“We drove our happiness. I don’t think we were lucky. We drove our luck and I think we just pulled it out at the right time.”
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