Sarina Wiegman gathered praises for England’s icon Lucy Bronze after she got up to help crawl Liones to the Euro 2025 semifinal of women on Thursday.

England were following two goals and seemed to be going out of the tournament with 11 minutes left before Bronze halved the deficit by departing for home CHLOE KELLY Cross.

And after Michelle Agyemang rested home level level, bronze got up to hit what turned out to be The winning sentence of a fiery exchange won 3-2 from England.

“Lucy Bronze is just one of one kind. I’ve never seen this before in my life. And I’m a very lucky person to have worked with so many incredible people, incredible football players. And there are so many, so much,” England boss Wiegman told reporters.

“But what she does, and her mentality … and that penalty, the goal also, distant, she gets it into the net. But this is not what determines it, what determines it is that resistance, that war. I think the only way to remove it from the field is in wheelchairs.”

Dried Chelsea Star Bronze, 33, has been a major part of the rise of England to reign European champions and World Cup finalists, and caught her foot after suffering a late injury in extra time, before lifting her to get her hit.

“I just felt a little tight at the end of the game and thought. I just have to get to make sure I can continue,” Bronze told reporters.

“But I thought it would hinder me with a penalty. So, yes, I didn’t expect it to go to my sixth punishment, so I didn’t remove it and then it was my punishment. I thought, I had to remove it, so I could hit it absolutely.”

ITALY Stay on the road to England to reach the final later this month after a victory which for long periods of play, and even during the exchange of fire, seemed almost impossible.

“It wasn’t beautiful football, but I think what I was trying to get yesterday is that we had to go out and win in a different way,” Added bronze.

“Tonight was what, with me and my mother, we talked about the right England. It was not beautiful, but it passed.”