{"id":272264,"date":"2025-07-18T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272264\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:37:09","slug":"lionesses-memorable-semi-final-ties-england-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272264\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionesses&#8217; memorable semi-final ties | England Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        Revisit some of the Lionesses&#8217; previous semi-final encounters in major tournaments&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lionesses are through to the semi-final of a major tournament once again after booking their place in the final four at UEFA Women\u2019s EURO 2025 where they will lock horns with Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here, we take a trip down memory lane to look back on some of England\u2019s most memorable semi-final match-ups from tournaments past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Australia 1-3 England \u2013 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In securing passage to their first-ever Women\u2019s World Cup final, the Lionesses knocked out tournament hosts, Australia, running out 3-1 winners in Sydney in front of a sold-out Stadium Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Ella Toone broke the deadlock in the first half before Chelsea forward Sam Kerr got the Matildas back on terms. However, Lauren Hemp restored England\u2019s lead in the 71st minute and Alessia Russo ensured the Lionesses were heading for the final against Spain when she made it three with 86 minutes gone.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Making sure of our place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWWC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FIFAWWC<\/a> FINAL! <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udff9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alessiarusso7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@alessiarusso7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/weqI7SjjML\">pic.twitter.com\/weqI7SjjML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lionesses (@Lionesses) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lionesses\/status\/1691785104748601728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>England 4-0 Sweden \u2013 UEFA Women\u2019s EURO 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarina Wiegman\u2019s side breezed past Sweden to reach the final of EURO 2022 on home soil, scoring four against the Blue and Yellow at Sheffield United\u2019s Bramall Lane to make it 19 games without defeat under the England head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Beth Mead opened the scoring in the first half before Lucy Bronze made it 2-0 after the break. But it was Alessia Russo\u2019s instinctive backheel finish \u2013 a goal which was immortalised in the history books \u2013 which was the pick of the bunch, while Fran Kirby also got in on the act.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Revisit some of the Lionesses&#8217; previous semi-final encounters in major tournaments&#13; The Lionesses are through to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,16517,52826,4884,2199,66158,30101,812,32416,16,15,47305],"class_list":{"0":"post-272264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-england-women","11":"tag-european-championships","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-lionesses","15":"tag-semi-final","16":"tag-sweden","17":"tag-uefa-womens-euro-2025","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-womens-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114874747801026880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272264","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=272264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}