
No shoot-out should end 3-2 after 14 penalties. In Thursday’s Women’s Euro 2025 quarter-final between England and Sweden in Zurich, both teams struck out with three spot kicks in a row at one point in a baffling tie-breaker.
England eventually triumphed when a limping Lucy Bronze smashed her penalty right up the gut and into the roof of Jennifer Falk’s net. Smilla Holmberg couldn’t follow suit and the quarter-final, mercifully, was over.