WHAT AN EVENTFUL MATCH THIS INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY WAS BETWEEN THE LIONESSES AND GERMANY LAST NIGHT! WITH GERMANY’S GIULIA GWINN SCORING FROM A PENALTY AT 4 MINS. INTO THE GAME, AND THEN SCORING AGAIN AT 11 MINS., AND WITH GERMANY’S KLARA BUHL ALSO SCORING AT 29 MINS., PEOPLE WERE LEFT WONDERING HOW ON EARTH THESE BRA SWINGING, “NAUGHTY”, SPIRITED LIONESSES COULD BE 3 – 0 DOWN IN THE FIRST HALF-HOUR OF THIS MATCH! (IT DIDN’T HELP THAT ALESSIA RUSSO’S GOAL HAD BEEN DISALLOWED FOR BEING OFFSIDE DURING THIS TIME.) THE ANSWER WAS THAT THE GERMAN TEAM JUST LOOKED MORE ORGANISED, WITH THE LIONESSES LOOKING LIKE THEY HAD JUST NEEDED A LITTLE MORE TIME TO GEL TOGETHER AS A TEAM BEFORE THE MATCH. SHORTLY AFTER THE DREADED “WITCHING” HALF-AN-HOUR WAS OVER, GEORGIA STANWAY SPRANG INTO ACTION, SCORING AN ABSOLUTE BEAUTY FROM A PENALTY AT 33 MINS., AND THEN ANOTHER STUNNER SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, AT 36 MINS! THERE WERE A TOTAL OF 9 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET FOR THE LIONESSES, AND 12 SHOTS, WITH 8 ON TARGET FOR GERMANY, WITH THE LIONESSES RETAINING 51% POSSESSION OF THE BALL THROUGHOUT THE MATCH. IT REMAINED 3 – 2 FOR QUITE A WHILE, WITH SOME GREAT GOALKEEPING ON BOTH SIDES, WITH EVERYONE WELL AWARE BY NOW JUST HOW GOOD THE GERMAN LADIES WERE, (SO IF YOU WERE A LIONESSES FAN, THIS WAS DEFINITELY SQUEEKY BUM TIME!) AND IN THE 72 MIN., THOSE FEARS WERE PROVED CORRECT, WITH GERMANY’S SARA DABRITZ HITTING THE BACK OF THE NET FROM A PENALTY, BUT THEN, QUICK-THINKING LUCY BRONZE GOT HOLD OF THE BALL AND FLICKED IT INTO GOAL, WITH A BEAUTY AT 81 MINS., WHICH BROUGHT ENGLAND BACK INTO THE GAME AGAIN, WHICH UNFORTUNATELY, THE LIONESSES WERE UNABLE TO FURTHER IMPROVE UPON (WHICH WAS, LET’S FACE IT, A GOOD TALLY OF 3 GOALS), AS THE GAME ENDED WITH A 4 – 3 WIN TO GERMANY! CHECK OUT THIS EXCITING GAME – AND SEE IF YOU THINK ANY OF THE YELLOW CARDS AWARDED TO ENGLAND WERE A LITTLE HARSH. IT’S INTRIGUING.
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY : ENGLAND WOMEN VS GERMANY WOMEN 25/10/2024
