England defeated Sweden in the dramatic penalty shootout at the European Championship semi-final

England defeated Sweden in the dramatic penalty shootout at the European Championship semi-final

In the semi-finals of the women's football championship in 2025, England celebrated a spectacular success against Sweden. The game in the Letzigrund Stadium, which took place in front of 22,400 spectators, ended 3-2 for the English after the dramatic penalty shootout, after the regular playing time and the extension ended 2-2. [Kleine Zeitung] (https://www.kleinezeitung.at/service/newsticker/newsticker_sport/19910917/england-nach-elferkrimi-against-schweden-im-em-em-em-em-em-em-semen reports that the Swedes competed aggressively from the start.

The Swedish Star Kosovare Asllani scored the first goal of the game in the second minute, which was 50th in her 203rd international. England fought back, however, after they had difficulties in the first half. Leah Williamson, defense chief of England, prevented worse when she saved Hannah Hampton in the fifth minute. England's attacker Lauren Hemp hit the crossbar in the sixth minute, which Sweden did not stop from Stina Blackstenius shortly before the break.

return and tension in penalty shooting

After the half-time break, England returned with more energy and quickly equalized with a bronze header and another goal from Agyemang. At that time, Asllani and Rolfö had already been replaced. The rest of the season was balanced, and the match finally had to be decided in a penalty shootout. However, the shots were catastrophic - only five were successfully transformed out of 14 penalties.

The Swedish goalkeeper Jennifer Falk, who parried four penalty, shone in the penalty shootout, including from the important players James, Mead, Greenwood and Clinton. Ironically, she missed her own penalty. England's goalkeeper Hampton also showed her class and parried two shots from the Swedes. In addition, Magda Eriksson only hit the pole and Smilla Holmberg put her shot over the goal.

statistics and outlook

While Sweden now comes to an impressive series of 16 unbeaten international matches, England's team boss Sarina Wiegman is striving for her third European title. The next goal for England will be the encounter against Italy, which defeated 2-1 in the other semi -finals.

The EM 2025 is progressing with interesting statistics. Overall, players like Kosovare are emerging as Kosovare asllani, who lists the list with 18 EM games. The average age of the teams shows that Sweden is the oldest team in the tournament at the age of 29, while England also has younger players in their ranks with an average of 26.01 years. SPIEGEL, [Wikipedia] (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/fu%C3%9Fball-Europame Championship_der_frauen_2025/Statistics) offer deeper insights and statistics for this important tournament.