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Mon 28 July 2025 8:22, UK <\/p>\n
Lauren James celebrated with Chelsea captain and her brother Reece James after England Women beat Spain in the Euro 2025 Final.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sarina Wiegman\u2019s side made history by beating Spain<\/a> on penalties to retain the European Championship title they won in 2022, with a 3-1 victory in the shoot-out after a 1-1 draw at St. Jakob\u2013Park in Basel.<\/p>\n Alessio Russo<\/a>\u2018s cushioned header early in the second half cancelled out Mariona Caldentey\u2019s opener and took the match to extra time, as both Russo and goalkeeper Hannah Hampton shone for England<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hampton<\/a> saved two penalties in the shoot-out and set the stage for England to win it with the very last kick, and Chloe Kelly<\/a> obliged with a well-taken clincher after he previous winning goal in the Euro 2022 fianl against Germany. <\/p>\n Kelly was one of Wiegman\u2019s go-to substitutes throughout the tournament<\/a> after the impact made by both her and Michelle Agyemang off the bench, but her introduction in the final came sooner than expected.<\/p>\n England\u2019s winning goalscorer came on at half-time after Chelsea forward James was withdrawn with an injury, which she suffered just before the break and forced a stoppage in play from Aitana Bonmati<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n Kelly replaced James<\/a> to set up Russo\u2019s headed equaliser before firing home the winning penalty, and after her early substitution, the Chelsea star celebrated in the stands with her family and friends.<\/p>\n Reece James<\/a> was front and centre of the celebrations with his sister and posted a group photo on his Instagram account (27 July), sharing the post to his story with the caption of \u201ccongrats my g\u201d. <\/p>\n Football Insider Verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n The summer of 2025 has been a successful one for England<\/a> after the Under-21s also won their European Championships, and now Wiegman\u2019s Lionesses have joined Lee Carsley\u2019s side in going back-to-back.<\/p>\n England\u2019s men have reached back-to-back Euros finals in 2021 and 2024, but lost both to Italy and Spain respectively under Gareth Southgate<\/a> and the pressure is on the Three Lions to finally get over the line.<\/p>\n James has re-established himself in the England setup<\/a> since his former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel<\/a> took charge of the national team, and with the 2026 World Cup on the horizon, the stars could align for the men to win a first major trophy since 1966.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Andrew Yates \/ SportImage\/BBC iPlayer) Mon 28 July 2025 8:22, UK Lauren James celebrated with Chelsea captain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[885,393,16517,94,91111,49256,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-chelsea","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-england-women","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-lauren-james","13":"tag-reece-james","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114929955353693263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298033","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=298033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sarina](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MixCollage-17-Jul-2025-08-54-PM-8596-1024x576.jpg\")
Wiegman has now won three European Championship finals in a row (Credit: Hayters TV on YouTube)James siblings celebrate despite early England injury<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Reece](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/reece-james-instagram-2-819x1024.png\")
(Credit: @reece on Instagram)James under pressure to emulate his sister\u2019s England success<\/strong><\/p>\n