Wiegman’s Lionesses rekindle lost energy to fire spectacular comeback | Women’s Nations League
They’ll all the time have Paris. All through this Nations League marketing campaign this has been an England staff combating its personal sense of entropy, nonetheless giving every thing, nonetheless making an attempt the identical plans and processes within the hope that ultimately one thing would click on. And at 9.34pm on a briskly chilly Wembley evening, it lastly did. Ella Toone’s injury-time purpose earned England three points and saved their faintly glowing Olympic dream alive. However by some means it additionally did a lot extra. It breathed life right into a staff and a cycle, and a second that for a lot of the night had felt prefer it was drawing to its pure conclusion offered a rousing encore to a forged making ready for its closing curtain. There can be new challenges and new frontiers to beat quickly sufficient, a contemporary set of European Championship qualifiers within the spring, however for now this iteration of the Lionesses nonetheless has methods up its sleeve, nonetheless has expertise and creativity to burn, nonetheless has a hearth that may scorch any staff on the planet. And as they rallied so spectacularly to salvage a match that…