TOPS
Sarina Wiegman, not “The Best” for nothing
Sarina Wiegman was voted best coach of the year by FIFA in 2017 and 2020 for nothing.
Five years after winning the Euro at the head of the Netherlands, the Dutchwoman has retained her crown, but this time taking control of England.
A first female title for the cradle of football in which she will have played an immense role.
If only in this final with remarkable and winning coaching since the two scorers on the Lionesses side, Ella Toone and Chloé Kelly, both entered during the match before making the difference.
This is called having a nose.
And talent in his management of the group.
Lina Magull will have tried everything
If Germany has made the host country of the competition tremble for so long, it owes it mainly to one player: Lina Magull.
At 27, the Bayern Munich midfielder will have tried everything to allow the Mannschaft to win a 9th European title.
Success fled him in the 66th minute of play when his missile smashed against the opposing goalkeeper's post.
But a quarter of an hour later, after a school movement on the part of his team, it was still Magull who intelligently cut the trajectory of a cross at the near post to equalize.
A fair reward for the one who will undoubtedly have been the best player in the final.
In vain, unfortunately for her.
Record attendance, symbol of a magnificent Euro
With 87,192 spectators at Wembley, this final broke the attendance record for a Women's Euro match.
A record that dates back to less than a month ago and the opening game between England and Austria at Old Trafford.
But beyond this symbolic figure of the rise of the discipline across the Channel, this Euro will have been a great popular success around the English selection, confirming the rise of the practice among the English, who were for a long time prohibited to play.
This final will therefore remain as an essential marker in the evolution of mentalities.
FLOPS
Alexandra Popp, the cruel absence
Germany suffered a big blow during the warm-up with the injury of their captain and top scorer Alexandra Popp.
Indicated as a starter on the compositions given an hour before the match, this one was not finally on the lawn at the time of the presentation of the teams, victim of a "muscle problem", according to the twitter account of the German team .
It was Lea Schüller who was established in her place in the axis of the attack, while Svenja Huth took the armband.
But difficult to replace at short notice an attacker who had scored 6 goals in 5 matches, including a double against France in the half, in this competition, of which she was the co-top scorer with the English Beth Mead.
Germany had already been deprived, since the semi-final, of their winger Klara Bühl,
positive for Covid-19.
For Popp, 31, the curse continues given that she was previously deprived of the Euros in 2013 and 2017 due to injuries.
Fran Kirby, the exception
If England can celebrate its first major international title this Sunday evening, one must still blame itself for having passed through its final.
Namely Fran Kirby.
Rightly presented as one of the stars of the competition, the Chelsea player unfortunately also demonstrated her irregularity during this Euro where she was sometimes brilliant, and sometimes much less.
Like this Sunday when his performance was ghostly.
Moreover, the English coach was not mistaken in replacing her in the 56th minute of play. At 29, Kirby will undoubtedly remain this brilliant player but unstable in her performance.
No big deal for English women who had more than one queen up their sleeve.
