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England\u2019s match-winning hero Chloe Kelly speaks to ITV. \u201cUnbelievable \u2026 such a great feeling \u2026 three finals on the bounce and we want more \u2026 it\u2019s an unbelievable feeling \u2026 that penalty wasn\u2019t supposed to go like that \u2026 but I was ready for the rebound \u2026 luckily I got there for the tap-in \u2026 [Michelle Agyemang] is at it again \u2026 she\u2019s an unbelievable player \u2026 she\u2019s got the world at her feet \u2026 a bright future \u2026 I\u2019m buzzing for her \u2026 this team shows resilience \u2026 we have hope \u2026 belief \u2026 the quality \u2026 we need to keep at it to make sure we\u2019re right next weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Italy are as devastated as England are ecstatic. Plenty of tears. Their captain Cristiana Girelli is one of many distraught. Several other players stunned by England\u2019s smash-and-grab raid. Their plan nearly paid off \u2026 and would have done had Emma Severini slotted from a couple of yards with regulation time running out. But she didn\u2019t have the ice-cool touch that Michelle Agyemang would display moments later, and here we all are. Italy put up a fine show, and got further than many expected them to. But having got so close to the final, it\u2019ll be almost impossible to take a measured view on their achievements right now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n England cavort in delight! Michelle Agyemang and Chloe Kelly the heroes yet again! They all link arms and advance towards their fans, skipping and leaping with delight. Another victory snatched from the jaws of defeat! This one in much more dramatic fashion than the quarter-final win over Sweden, and that was enough of a rollercoaster. Agyemang swept home a late, late equaliser, then nearly won it towards the end of extra time with an audacious improvised lob. But moments later Kelly missed a penalty, but rammed home the rebound. From the middle of a huddle, a delighted Sarina Wiegman gives one last pep-talk of the evening. England are through to yet another final!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>EXTRA TIME, FULL TIME: England 2-1 Italy<\/p>\n England will take the defence of their trophy all the way! They\u2019re through to the final, where they\u2019ll face either Spain or Germany on Sunday!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 30 min +4: Mead is booked for a late clip on Caruso. Giuliani sends the resulting free kick long, but England knock it back upfield, and \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 30 min +3: Italy throw everyone forward, but now it\u2019s England\u2019s turn to hold their shape. The Lionesses so close now!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 30 min +2: Italy\u2019s bench in floods of tears. Their coach Andrea Soncin, fuming, thinks about storming off down the tunnel but is encouraged to come back.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 30 min +1: Greenwood is replaced by Carter in the first of three additional minutes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 30 min: Kelly stands by the corner flag, and strikes a pose. Kelly and Agyemang have done it again!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! England 2-1 Italy (Kelly 119)<\/p>\n Kelly takes a hop and a step, aims for the bottom-left corner, and \u2026 Giuliani saves! But the ball rebounds to Kelly, who forces the ball into the net from close range! What a turnaround!<\/p>\n Chloe Kelly of England scores her team\u2019s second goal, after her penalty kick was saved by Laura Giuliani of Italy. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein\/Getty ImagesKelly celebrates. Photograph: Denis Balibouse\/ReutersScenes ptII. Photograph: Denis Balibouse\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.47 EDT<\/p>\n Penalty for England!<\/p>\n ET 28 min: Hemp\u2019s cross comes in from the left. Mead is wrestled to the ground by Severini, shoved from behind. The referee points to the spot! It\u2019s soft, but if you give the referee a decision to make, it\u2019ll sometimes go against you. Severini, who missed that golden chance to put Italy 2-0 up, suffers another nightmare. Kelly to take.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.50 EDT<\/p>\n ET 27 min: Agyemang competes with Salvai down the inside-right channel. She enters the box and extends a leg, looping over Giuliani and towards the top-left corner \u2026 but off the underside of the bar and away! What an effort!<\/p>\n England’s Michelle Agyemang hits the bar. Photograph: Denis Balibouse\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.33 EDT<\/p>\n ET 26 min: Piemonte sends Oliviero into space down the right. Oliviero crosses low, but there\u2019s nobody in green up with play. England clear, but Clinton ships possession cheaply, and Oliviero has another go at crossing from the right. Hampton claims.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 25 min: \u2026 Agyemang handles. The pressure off Italy. Giuliani does not rush to restart the game.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 24 min: Kelly advances down the right and checks back, whipping a cross into the mixer. Linari clears. But Kelly comes again, down the same flank, and wins a corner this time. From which \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 22 min: Bronze crosses from the right. Now it\u2019s Giuliani\u2019s turn to pluck the ball from the sky. Both keepers were looking for team-mates making quick breaks upfield, but everyone\u2019s too tired.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 21 min: Caruso floats the free kick into the box. Hampton comes off her line to claim.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 20 min: No quarter asked or given at the moment. Every ball fiercely contested. Too fiercely by Bronze in this instance, as she shoves Severini in the back. A free kick, 25 yards out, just right of centre.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 18 min: Kelly robs Caruso down the right and crosses. Agyemang lurks but Salvai eyebrows away just in time. England come again, Hemp winning a corner down the left. Kelly floats it long, and it\u2019s heading into the top right. Giuliani claws it out, another fine save at this Championship. Nothing comes of the next corner.<\/p>\n Italy goalkeeper Laura Giuliani earns her corn. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.29 EDT<\/p>\n ET 16 min: Oliviero and Mead tussle down the England left, and fall over. It\u2019s one of those 50-50 challenges that could go either way, but England get the call. Kelly launches the free kick into the mixer, but Bronze can\u2019t meet it at the far stick, and it\u2019s a goal kick.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Italy get the second period of extra time underway. England have made a change, sending on Clinton for Walsh. \u201cWe are watching (on Rai1) in our hotel room in Naples,\u201d reports Sarah Godfrey. \u201cThey seem to care so little for women\u2019s football here that we haven\u2019t found a single bar showing the match, even though it\u2019s on terrestrial TV. We\u2019ve drunk the half bottle of wine from the minibar, the hotel bar closes in 20 minutes and the only room service offering is a \u20ac50 bottle of Prosecco. But after watching the quarter-final shootout on BBC iPlayer in a bar in Pompeii, we are all in for as far as this goes. Forza Inghilterra!\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>EXTRA TIME, HALF TIME: England 1-1 Italy<\/p>\n The whistle goes, and everyone can take a breather.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 14 min: Greggi wriggles clear of Kelly and Mead, but loses control on the edge of the England box. Mead launches long for Agyemang, who can\u2019t quite get the better of Linari. The game\u2019s suddenly stretched, with everyone looking leggy.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 12 min: Linari sticks to Agyemang like glue. Agyemang goes over and wants a free kick, but the ref\u2019s never likely to give it for a 50-50 grapple. This is becoming scrappy. Nobody wants to make the big error.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 10 min: Agyemang is full of youthful energy. On top of that, she\u2019ll be buzzing after those absurd heroics. She nearly closes Giuliani down, but the keeper lashes clear just in time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 8 min: Kelly hip-shakes in from the right flank, bamboozling three defenders before entering the box and aiming a curler towards the top left. She gets the shot all wrong, and it\u2019s a goal kick, but what a mesmerising run that was. Had she put the finishing touches to it, she\u2019d have scored a goal for the ages.<\/p>\n England’s Chloe Kelly goes past Italy’s Lucia Di Guglielmo … Photograph: Matthew Childs\/ReutersBut can\u2019t get her shot on target. Photograph: Bernadett Szab\u00f3\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.21 EDT<\/p>\n ET 7 min: Greggi cuts in from the left and aims a curler towards the top right. Fine idea, but there\u2019s not enough power or whip on the shot. Hampton collects with ease.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 5 min: Tonne crosses from the left. Giuliani spills the ball at her near post. The ball ricochets off Piga and heads towards the bottom left, with the keeper prone, but Piga does well to react, swivel and hook the ball off the line and away. An own goal there would have been a cruel farce.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 4 min: Caruso looks to have been upended out on the Italy right, but they don\u2019t get the chance of pumping a free kick into the box. The referee waves play on. Italy not best pleased.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n ET 2 min: Hemp has been busy all evening, and makes her nth run down the left. She finds Beever-Jones with her cross, but Beever-Jones can\u2019t control and eventually concedes a foul.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n England get the first half of extra time started. Kelly\u2019s boot accidentally connects with Di Guglielmo\u2019s face, and the game stops as soon as it starts. Thankfully Di Guglielmo is back up and running again soon enough.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n England looked absolutely done when Chloe Kelly sent that corner into the side netting. But now look! Laura Giuliani failed to deal with a cross from the right, spilling it at the feet of Michelle Agyemang. The 19-year-old still had work to do, but one touch, one shot, bang! England have saved themselves dramatically once again. They left it really late this time. A penny for Emma Severini\u2019s thoughts, though, after that egregious miss from four yards that would have made it 0-2 and surely put Italy in the final. The small margins, at both ends!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>FULL TIME: England 1-1 Italy<\/p>\n Michelle Agyemang does it again! We\u2019re heading to extra time. Penalties again, maybe.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +8: Hemp crosses from the left. The ball nearly loops to Agyemang, but Severini heads clear just in time. Then Bronze crosses from the right, only for Beever-Jones to head wide left. England unbelievably pressing for the winner!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +7: Wild scenes at the Stade de Gen\u00e8ve! Agyemang disappears under a delighted pile! Italy were so close. Emma Severini\u2019s miss so costly now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! England 1-1 Italy (Agyemang 90+6)<\/p>\n With time running out, Agyemang does it again for England! Pinball in the box. Again. Kelly crosses. The keeper spills. The ball drops to Agyemang, who takes a touch before whistling a low drive through Giuliani and in!<\/p>\n Michelle Agyemang\u2019s shot finds its way past a number of Italian players and England are level. Photograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi\/EPAAgyemang wheels away in celebration. Photograph: Jean-Christophe Bott\/EPAScenes! Photograph: Leiting Gao\/BSR Agency\/Getty ImagesAbsolute scenes at Boxpark Croydon, Photograph: Alishia Abodunde\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.17 EDT<\/p>\n 90 min +5: Italy are sitting back in their low block. No way through. But then \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +4: Kelly very nearly breaks clear down the left but Piga refuses to budge. She half clears. Walsh shoots. Deflected. Corner. Kelly slaps the set piece into the side netting. What a waste. Italy are hanging on a bit here, with England in Kitchen Sink mode.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +2: Morgan and Cambiaghi are booked for a set-to in the centre circle. Then Oliviero battles down the right before larruping an overly ambitious effort over the bar from distance.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +1: Piga has come on for Lenzini. Kelly wins a corner off her, but Giuliani claims it comfortably.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min: There will be seven additional minutes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 89 min: Before it can be taken, Greggi is sent on for Giugliano. Italy then deal with the set piece without too much fuss.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 88 min: Hemp is about to tear into space down the right. Linari comes across and cleans her out, taking a booking for the team. But this is a free kick and a chance to send the ball into the Italy box.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 86 min: A speculative ball down the Italian right. Cambiaghi doesn\u2019t give it up, and wins a priceless corner off Greenwood. She had no right to get to that ball. What a chase. Italy don\u2019t rush to take the corner. But when they do, Salvai takes a swipe from six yards. It drops to Severini, who has to score, a couple of yards out, but somehow slams her shot straight at Hampton! What a miss! A huge chance to seal Italy\u2019s progress to the final wasted.<\/p>\n England’s Hannah Hampton saves from Italy’s Emma Severini. Photograph: Bernadett Szab\u00f3\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.50 EDT<\/p>\n 85 min: England\u2019s last roll of the dice. Russo and Williamson make way for Beever-Jones and Agyemang.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 83 min: Oliviero crosses for Piemonte, who can\u2019t quite meet with a header 12 yards out. Greenwood had a hold of her shirt there, and had the Italian decided to go down, the referee might have had a decision to make. It\u2019d have been soft, but Greenwood was taking a bit of a risk there. Anyway, it\u2019s a goal kick.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 81 min: Kelly\u2019s corner from the right is hit long. Bronze meets it again, from the other side. The ball\u2019s heading towards the top-right corner, but Di Guglielmo clears off the line. Giuliani eventually claims the ball. England asking some questions finally.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 80 min: Kelly dances in from the right and whips in a cross that gets deflected out for a corner. She takes it herself, sending it long from the left. Bronze, coming in from the other flank, powers a downward header goalward but Lenzini blocks and clears.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 78 min: Italy launch a four-on-three counter. Caruso crosses from the right. Piemonte flicks a header over the bar. England were very fortunate that Italy took quite a while to work out what they should do.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 77 min: Chloe Kelly, who did so much to turn things around against Sweden, replaces Stanway.<\/p>\n Chloe Kelly gees up the England fans after taking to the pitch. Photograph: Nick Potts\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.42 EDT<\/p>\n 76 min: Bronze fizzes in a low cross from the right. Hemp tries to control on the left-hand corner of the six-yard box. Russo can\u2019t prod the loose ball home as it pinballs around. Italy hack clear. Then up the other end, Caruso goes romping off down the right, and attempts to lob over Hampton, who is on walkabout, from 40 yards. Her shot sails harmlessly wide left.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 74 min: Giuliani is booked for taking her sweet time over the resulting goal kick. Then her coach Andrea Soncin goes into the book as well, for telling the fourth official how he sees it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 73 min: Italy make a double change, replacing Bonansea and Cantore with Severini and Cambiaghi. When play restarts, Stanway lashes a wild shot over the bar from distance.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 72 min: Bronze bustles down the right but a heavy touch puts a stop to her run. \u201cChloe Kelly time?\u201d wonders Pete Mumola. \u201cShe seemed to make quite the impact last time out, and they desperately need at least one goal.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 70 min: Toone sends a weak effort wide left. England still not putting Giuliani to serious work.<\/p>\n