When Ella Toone’s smartly-taken, 23rd-minute strike rippled the back of the Brazil net back in April, there were probably few inside Wembley that forecast they would have to endure more than 265 minutes of football without clapping eyes on another England goal.
But football is an unpredictable beast. And the Lionesses’ wait for that next rush of electric, elusive goal-scoring ecstasy goes on.
When Toone fired England ahead in the inaugural Women’s Finalissma, she compounded the ever-growing aura of infallibility that had surrounded the Lionesses since Sarina Wiegman took the reins from Hege Riise back in September 2021.
