England's Women's Team Shocks Brazil in First Finalissima Win: A Game to Remember
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England’s Chloe Kelly scored the winning spot- kick to settle the first women’s Finalissima after a dramatic game against Brazil, watched by,132 suckers at Wembley, ended in a 4- 2 penalty shootout palm for the hosts on Thursday.
Ella Toone looked to have secured the palm for England in a match between the titleholders of Europe and South America. Her 23rd- nanosecond strike was the game’s only thing going into the third nanosecond of alternate- half cessation time.
But Andressa Alves exploited a mistake by England goalkeeper Mary Earps to make it 1- 1 and force the shootout, where Georgia Stanway, Rachel Daly, Alex Greenwood, and Kelly who scored the thing at Wembley that made the Lionesses European titleholders last summer — got the job done for England.
Coach Sarina Wiegman’s side is now undefeated in 30 matches, and will look to extend that band when it hosts Australia in coming week’spre-World Cup friendly.
England dominated the first half — and Brazil the alternate — with the home platoon going ahead in emotional style after Lucy Citation changed passes with Stanway before cutting back to Toone, who made no mistake as she slotted past Brazil ‘ keeper Leticia.
England allowed it had gone 2- 0 ahead through a confident strike by Lauren James but there was an offside in the buildup.
Brazil looked the better platoon after the renew, Geyse snappily calling Earps into action before Kerolin bounced an trouble in the direction of the England ‘ keeper, while Leah Williamson’s concurrence stopped a sustained swell from the callers.
Geyse hovered again, this time firing a rocket that Earps just managed to cock down.
While Earps was suitable to stop an original attempt from cover Adriana, she fumbled the save and the ball landed at the bases of Andressa who made no mistake as she fired in the equalizer.
