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ENG Vs GER : Magnificent Lionesses win Euro 2022!

England’s Lionesses won the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 final at Wembley Stadium today, defeating Germany 2-1 after extra time. The Lionesses of England won their first major event in front of almost 87,000 people at Wembley Stadium, a record audience for a men’s or women’s Euros final.

euro2022Records were broken, emotions ran high, and hearts burst as England upset eight-time winners Germany, thanks to a first-time international goal from Chloe Kelly, to win the Lionesses’ first major title – and England’s first since 1966.

Sarina Wiegmann’s record as England manager is unblemished. She has now won all 12 matches she has presided over in this tournament, with her team scoring 20 goals and allowing only two this season. She performed the remarkable job of guiding England to the Continental title after leading her native side, the Netherlands, to the title in 2017. The English players shed tears of delight and dance in happiness. It’s a height they’ve never scaled, a time they’ve never cherished.

England wins euroGermany, on the other side, enjoyed an almost perfect tournament. In another world, Alexandra Popp would have been on the team today, and the outcome would have been different. Popp’s run of unlucky injuries continues as Germany loses a Euro final for the first time.

England coach Sarina Wiegman discussed the Germans’ physicality in the pre-match press conference. After the Germans lost their captain and leading scorer, Alexandra Popp, both teams went at each other with a recklessness that resulted in five yellow cards before the first goal was scored.

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Ella Toone of England scored in the 62nd minute with a wonderful chipped goal after coming on as a replacement. Lina Magull of Germany, on the other hand, equalised from close range 17 minutes later. The match ended 1-1 after 90 minutes, forcing extra time. The game remained tied until the 110th minute, when England striker Chloe Kelly was the first to react to a loose ball from a corner and shot the winning goal.

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Kelly, celebrating the victory for the Lionesses, ripped her top off in a gesture reminiscent of the iconic picture of American striker Brandi Chastain from the 1999 Women’s World Cup final, which contributed to the game’s meteoric rise in popularity in the United States.

The triumph was the product of a year of hard effort, according to England coach Sarina Wiegman, and they “broke through obstacles” in the last 15 minutes of extra time.

She remarked: “We won the cup. It’s unbelievable, I don’t know what is going on, this is incredible. If you really want to win and become better every day that’s what I’ve noticed the whole year, it’s just incredible.”

“We agreed on a couple of things about behaviour, we lived it and this is the result. It was so tight against Germany and it was bit like fighting at the end there, who cares we are European Champions.The girls already broke through barriers against Spain and we needed to do it again.”

The previous record for a European women’s international match was established 10 years earlier at the same stadium when 80,203 people watched the women’s Olympic Football Final between the United States and Japan. This matches crowd topped that, becoming the largest for any European Championship finals match played by men or women.

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