Chloe Kelly’s extra-time strike gave England a 2-1 win over Germany within the 2022 European Championship earlier this yr. This was the ladies’s facet’s first-ever European crown, a feat the Lionesses managed earlier than a crowd of 87,192 followers at Wembley.
This was probably the most attended fixture throughout each the lads’s and ladies’s Euro.
Germany was with out captain Alexandra Popp — the crew’s main scorer with six targets — after she reported a muscle downside within the warmup. She was changed within the lineup by Schüller whereas Svenja Huth took over as captain.
After the ultimate whistle, the England gamers danced and the gang sang their anthem “Sweet Caroline.” The good-natured environment contained in the stadium Sunday drew contrasts with the violent scenes when the England males’s crew misplaced its European Championship remaining to Italy on the similar stadium a yr in the past.
The final time England and Germany performed for a continental title within the ladies’s recreation was 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 Women’s Super League, which has professionalized the sport and grown into one of many principal competitions worldwide.
That has meant rising competitors for Germany, which was a pioneering nation in European ladies’s soccer and more and more faces well-funded rivals in England, Spain and France.