Defending champion England has staged a remarkable late recovery from two goals down to take its quarterfinal against Sweden to extra time at the Women’s European Championship.

By Philip O'Connor ZURICH (Reuters) -England beat Sweden 3-2 in an astonishing penalty shootout that featured 14 attempts to reach the Women's Euros semi-finals on Thursday after the reigning champions had fought back from 2-0 down to force the game to extra time.

Smilla Holmberg missed PK, England advanced past Sweden and clinch spot in Euro Semifinals. 27 MINS AGO・UEFA Women's EURO・0:47

Mead came on for Toone and went to the right wing, James dropped into a floating midfield role while Michelle Agyemang joined Russo up top. Kelly came on for Hemp on the left wing on 78 minutes. So England had two wingers, two strikers and James.

England started badly vs. Sweden, turned things around in 103 second-half seconds, then won a penalty shootout which saw nine misses to progress to the Euro 2025 semifinals. But they have their goalkeeper and two super-subs to thank.

England fight back from 2-0 down to win a dramatic penalty shootout against Sweden to book their place in the semi-finals of Euro 2025.

Sweden's Husqvarna (HUSQb.ST), opens new tab on Thursday named insider Glen Instone as its new chief executive effective August 11. Instone will replace Pavel Hajman, who has been at the garden equipment maker's helm since May 2023.