{"id":270656,"date":"2025-07-18T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270656\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:22:10","slug":"six-gunners-involved-in-euro-quarter-final-chaos-international-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270656\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Gunners involved in Euro quarter-final chaos | International | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chloe Kelly was the super substitute, providing one assist, one pre-assist, and scoring in the penalty shootout, after coming off the bench as England came from 2-0 down to beat Sweden in the UEFA Women\u2019s Euro 2025 quarter-finals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Agyemang, also off the bench, scored England\u2019s all important equaliser, assisted by another Gunners substitute, Beth Mead.<\/p>\n<p>A comeback seemed a long way off for the majority of the game after Stina Blackstenius\u2019 sensational summer continued with a goal and assist for Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Their high press hurt the Lionesses straight away as Blackstenius teed up Kosovare Asllani to provide an early lead.<\/p>\n<p>Our UEFA Champions League final winner then got herself on the scoresheet, appearing to shatter England\u2019s dreams of retaining the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/stina-blackstenius-shes-always-scored-goals?utm_source=arsenaldotcom&amp;utm_medium=embedded-article&amp;utm_campaign=news\" class=\"article-card__wrapper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\n         Read more                              Stina Blackstenius: She&#8217;s always scored the goals <\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Kelly made an instant impact after coming on, her cross headed in by Lucy Bronze, before her next delivery was touched down by Mead, allowing Agyemang to convert.<\/p>\n<p>Leah Williamson and Alessia Russo also got 105 and 120 minutes respectively for the Lionesses.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on penalties, after one of the most bizarre shootouts, England won 3-2 with the two sides missing nine penalties in total, including Sweden goalkeeper, Jennifer Falk, who took their fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Russo scored England&#8217;s first penalty, while Kelly was next to score for the Lionesses, before Lucy Bronze set the shootout up for Smilla Holmberg&#8217;s decisive miss.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, England will play Italy in the semi-final at 8pm on Tuesday, July 22, while Mariona Caldentey and Lia Walti will be involved in tomorrow&#8217;s quarter-final between Spain and host nation Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chloe Kelly was the super substitute, providing one assist, one pre-assist, and scoring in the penalty shootout, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-270656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114871385685657125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}