United Kingdom, July 20, 2022, England rose from the elimination threshold to defeat Spain 2-1 after extra time and reach the Euro 2022 semifinals thanks to the amazing Georgia Stanway strike.
Ether Gonzalez opening has the host to come out early, but Ella Toone saved a female lion six minutes from the end of normal time before the winner of the STANWAY brought England to the last four of the fourth large sequential tournament.
Sarina Wiegman side will face Sweden or Belgium in the last four on Tuesday.
England was given a pre-match drive to the return of Wiegman to the touch line after he tested negatively for Coronavirus the previous day.
The female lion has everything in their own way in the group stage because they looted 14 goals without reply against Austria, Norway and Northern Ireland.
However, regardless of their own struggle to reach the knockout stage, Spain is a big step in class.
La Roja is a pre-tournament favorite before injury to rule the Ballon D'OXia Putellas and the all-time scorer of Jennifer Hermoso shook their preparations.
Jorge Vilda's side suffered their first defeat since 2019 to Germany in the group stage, but even in the game dominated the ownership of the ball.
Spain's ability to keep the ball away from the British frustrated host and others sold out from 29,000 in Brighton for most of the first 90 minutes.
But they again struggled to turn their ownership into a destination.
Although in the back foot, the home team can lead before rest when Ellen White destroys a loose ball from a free kick to the roof of the net just to buy offside.
England still has never lost in 18 matches since Wiegman took over in September.
But they were never so close to defeat at that time and had to show an amazing battle to fight back from the goal down.
Substitute Spanish Athenea del Castillo walked past Rachel Daly and Squares for Gonzalez, who had time to take a touch before shooting low to a distant corner.
Mary Earps then had to make a brilliant rescue to prevent the cross from Del Castillo who lived in a distant corner to duplicate Spanish advantages.
Wiegman did not waste time to switch to the bench with White, Fran Kirby and the top scorer Beth Mead tournament was surprisingly sacrificed for the introduction of Chloe Kelly, Alesia Russo and Toone.
These changes have the desired effect to maintain British hopes for the victory of the first major tournament in the game of women to stay alive.
The Lauren Hemp cross headed down by Russo for his teammate at Manchester United to shoot at close range.
Suddenly the momentum really swung British help and six minutes into extra time they took the lead.
Stanway drove forward before midfielder Bayern Munich who was bound by Munich destroyed the ball through Sandra Panos from outside the box.
Aitana Bonmati came closest to the reply when he shot wide at the beginning of the second period of extra time.
But Spain waited to win the KO match in a big female tournament.
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