The Women’s Euro tournament has reached its pinnacle point with the highly-anticipated final between England and Germany to take place on Sunday evening at an excpected full-capacity Wembley Stadium.
It’s 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 🆚 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 in the final 🤩
— UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 (@WEURO2022) July 27, 2022
Who’ll lift the 🏆 at Wembley? #WEURO2022 | #ENG | #GER pic.twitter.com/V0GUpThoqv
The road to the final has been very impressive for both sides as Sarena Wiegman’s Lionesses came top of their group with a flawless 9 points tally. A goal difference of 14-0, including an 8-0 drubbing of Norway proved that the hosts’ challenge for the title was serious. In the quarterfinals England conceded their first goal, but 2 late strikes from Ella Toone and Georgia Stanway helped them overcome tournament favorites Spain and booked a semifinal spot where once again the hosts’ team effort and dominance proved too hard to handle for Sweden in an eruptive 4-0 win, including a superb back heel goal from Alessia Russo.
😱 @alessiarusso7, that is 𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙍𝘼𝙂𝙀𝙊𝙐𝙎 😮💨#WEUROVision #WEURO2022 @hisensesports pic.twitter.com/i0BMDsxoa9
— UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 (@WEURO2022) July 26, 2022
Martina Voss’ Nationalelf also finished top of their group grabbing 9 points from 9 possible and also without conceding a goal, setting their goal difference at 9-0 including a 4-0 win over Denmark. In the quarterfinals, Lina Magull and Alexandra Popp’s goals were enough to sink Austria and n the semifinals France were swept aside as Popp rose to the occasion once again with a wonderful brace.
Ahead of the highly-anticipated head-to-head clash at Wembley, both teams have high hopes of lifting the coveted trophy. The Lionesses have been runners-up on two occasions before, once in the inaugural tournament in 1984 where they lost on penalties to Sweden, and once again in 2009 in a one-sided 6-2 defeat at the hands of their upcoming rivals. The fact that this specific team is looking better than any team we’ve ever seen from England’s ladies combined with the backing of the home crowd is making everyone once again dream that “It’s coming home”. But of course if, a year ago the same could have been said for the Men’s team, and we all know how that one ended…
Germany on the other hand are firm favourites. After not participating in the first two editions of the Women’s Euros, they have been ever present in the following 11, including this year, and out of the other 10 tournaments they have won 8! In fact, their Women Euros Finals record is a perfect 100% success rate with 8 wins from 8 finals played. The only 2 times when the German Women’s National team participated in the Women Euros and didn’t win it were in 1993 where they finished 4th and the previous tournament (In 2017) where they surprisingly crashed-out in the quarterfinals. Here’s another alarming stat for England: In the previous 27 official meetings between the two, Germany have won 21 times! England have only won twice.
27 – England have faced Germany on 27 previous occasions and have won only twice, losing 21 times (D4). It’s the most defeats England’s women’s team have against any nation. Fearsome. #WEURO2022 pic.twitter.com/F9mIEGDis5
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) July 27, 2022
Last but not least, Sunday’s final will also be the final stage for both the Player Of The Tournament and Top Scorer awards as England’s Beth Mead and Germany’s Alexandra Popp will look for something to separate each from another, scoring 6 goals so far in the competition.
Beth Mead and Alexandra Popp are currently tied with SIX goals.
— ESPN UK (@ESPNUK) July 27, 2022
Who is taking home the Golden Boot for the 2022 Women’s Euros? 👀🏆 pic.twitter.com/x5nmiKKPGT
Both would most likely give-up on the personal award if it meant to lifting the trophy the pair will look to lay their hands on another award!
