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.

Follow live reaction to England’s extraordinary penalty shootout victory over Sweden, in a game they trailed 2-0

Austrian qualifier Filip Misolic rallied from down 5-2 in the second set and saved triple match point to force a tiebreaker on his way to upsetting Portuguese third seed Nuno Borges at the Nordea Open on Thursday in Bastad,

Sweden head coach Peter Gerhardsson has defended his decision to allow teenager Smilla Holmberg to take the decisive penalty in last night’s catastrophic shootout defeat against England. Sarina Wiegman ’s defending European champions staged an astonishing act of escapology to secure a semi-final against Italy next week.

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.

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