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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jonathan Liew at the Stadion Letzigrund

England go from shambles to euphoria as self-belief somehow sees off Sweden

Michelle Agyemang scores England’s late leveller in Zurich on a night when Sarina Wiegman played the waiting game with her substitutes.
Michelle Agyemang scores England’s late leveller in Zurich on a night when Sarina Wiegman played the waiting game with her substitutes. Photograph: Harry Langer/DeFodi Images/Getty Images

The Letzigrund looks gorgeous under a pale pastel evening sun. The noise washes over the athletic track where Carl Lewis and Asafa Powell once broke the world record, and where Sweden are now flying out of the blocks and leaving England trailing in their dust.

We do not yet know that in many ways this is simply the prologue, that this devastating early two-goal flurry is actually relatively benign in comparison with the carnage that will follow.

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