
Just two games now stand between England Women’s team and triumph; two games on home soil during which Sarina Wiegman will have to keep finding the tactical answers that will turn the Lionesses into champions.
It’s a short list, but a significant one: 1966. That’s the only time England’s teams – men or women – have won a major trophy, that being the World Cup. Gareth Southgate’s side went close again last summer in the delayed men’s European Championship, but fell agonisingly short.