England beat Germany 2-1 within the ultimate of the European Championship after further time on Sunday to win its first main girls’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 ambiance contained in the stadium Sunday drew contrasts with the violent scenes when the England males’s crew misplaced its European Championship ultimate to Italy on the similar stadium a yr in the past.
The tournament-record crowd of greater than 87,000 underlined the expansion of ladies’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 crew 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 rising competitors for Germany, which was a pioneering nation in European girls’s soccer and more and more faces well-funded rivals in England, Spain and France.
Ella Toone latched onto an extended cross 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 web 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 Schüller hit the publish 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 ultimate on the similar venue the yr earlier than, when the England males’s crew had a 1-0 lead however misplaced on penalties to Italy.
Germany was with out captain Alexandra Popp - the crew’s main scorer with six objectives - after she reported a muscle downside within the warmup. She was changed within the lineup by Schüller whereas Svenja Huth took over as captain.
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