England’s Victories Are Becoming Too Dramatic – Sarina Wiegman

Lionesses boss Sarina Wiegman has come out to say that England’s win against Italy was unbelievable. England’s Euros title defence looked to be over as Italy resolutely held on to their 33rd-minute lead from Barbara Bonansea. However, Agyemang’s 96th-minute equaliser and substitute Chloe Kelly’s 119th-minute finish, after her penalty was saved, sent the Lionesses through to another final.

Reacting, Wiegman revealed that the victory was a movie throughout, and she feels super lucky to experience special moments like that as a coach.

Sarina, however, noted that while she enjoys comeback wins a lot, the victories are becoming too dramatic.

“We’re going to make a movie some day! Well this is a movie, my goodness, it’s unbelievable. Here we are again, it’s really, really special. When it finishes like that, I’m enjoying it but it’s a little bit dramatic,” she said.

On goalscorer Agyemang, the coach stated that the striker is very mature despite being 19 years old.

According to her, while the young forward is very dangerous in the 18-yard box, she also adapts superbly when asked to play as a target player.

On Agyemang, “She has something special. She’s only 19 years old, she’s very mature, she knows exactly what she has to do. When you talk about little things that she picks up straight away, because she’s not only in the 18-yard box very dangerous but when we have to go to her as a target player, she keeps the ball really well too. Even when you saw her shot hit the crossbar, that was not just a shot, she was aiming for it. If she continues like this she has a very bright future.”

The Lionesses have been very close to getting knocked out of this tournament in Switzerland, but have shown off their remarkable powers of recovery twice now.