Lucy Bronze converts from the spot before Smilla Holmberg misses for Sweden to send England through to the semi-finals of Euro 2025, with the Lionesses winning a dramatic penalty shootout 3-2.

England star Lucy Bronze may have provided the understatement of the century when she described the Lionesses’ Euro 2025 penalty shootout win over Sweden as a “crazy game”. Sarina Wiegman’s

England came back from a 2-0 deficit to take Sweden to penalties and seal their place in the Euro 2025 semifinals, but they did it by virtue of one of the strangest, and longest, penalty shootouts ever.

England survived one of the worst penalty shoot-outs in major tournament history as Sweden twice missed the chance to reach the semi-finals

England then bounced back by defeating the Netherlands 4-0 and Wales 4-1 to get to this stage of the tournament. In the win over the Netherlands, Georgia Stanway, Ella Toone, Lauren Hemp, Alessia Russo, Beth Mead, and Aggie Beever-Jones scored for England, setting up for this thrilling matchup against Sweden.

England started badly vs. Sweden, turned things around in 103 second-half seconds, won a penalty shootout which saw nine misses to progress to the Euro 2025 semifinals.

England head coach Sarina Wiegman was thrilled with her team’s togetherness and fight after they came from two goals down to eventually defeat Sweden 3-2 on penalty kicks in their UEFA Women’s

Aygemang was at the heart of the comeback, the teenager causing chaos with her movement and power. Her run down the right almost gave England a winner right at the death, but Alessia Russo’s shot was saved.