Hannah Hampton became a heroine at the English quarter of 2025 at the English quarter-finals against Sweden. The 24-year-old was handicapped in the dramatic penalty shootout.
Hannah Hampton was visibly drawn – and also quite exhausted. “It was stressful to look at and play stressful”said the English goalkeeper after an epic EM evening when she became one of the main protagonists when she was semi-final in defending champion England.
England prevailed in the penalty shootout after a total of 14 attempts 3: 2 (2: 2, 0: 2) against Sweden. Hampton parried im Shootout The attempts by Filippa Angeldahl and Sofia Jakobsson – although she was handicapped. A few minutes before the end of the extension, she had got something in the penalty area female after a Swedish corner and bleed out of her nose.
Since the team of trainer Sarina Wiegman had already exhausted his exchange quota, the goalkeeper continued. Hampton exchanged her shirt smeared with blood, continued the game with a cotton pad in her nose and became the match winner of the “Lionesses”.
Hannah Hampton: “Everything went so quickly”
After the penalty shootout, Hampton was buried by her teammates under a jubilee grape. The 24-year-old himself looked almost too weak to celebrate euphorically. “No idea where my emotions are.Hampton admitted after the game. “I’m just satisfied and happy. “
England’s goalkeeper Hannah Hampton continues the game against Sweden with a fresh jersey and a cotton pad in her nose.
The long evening cost nerves, Hampton stated, who has suffered from a poor eyesight since childhood and almost had to bury her dream of the football career. “Every time I kept a penalty, I thought: Please let’s put the next attempt to make us a little cushion. But then she kept the next penalty from us again”she said with a view of Jennifer Falk, her counterpart on the Swedish side.
Because the hero inner role actually seemed to be awarded – on Falk. The goalkeeper parried three of the first five English attempts in the penalty shootout before grabbing the ball to the supposedly final Swedish attempt. The 32 -year -old chased the ball over the goal – a goal would have meant the progress of the Scandinavians. So he went Shootout The British prevailed further and in the end, even if Falk later even held a fourth penalty.
Jennifer Falk shoots over the goal against England in a penalty shootout.
“Not again”: memories of the hospital
Hampton was finally the heroine – despite her handicap.
“That with my nosebleeds never actually works well.”
“That with my nosebleeds never actually works well”said the 24-year-old after the match and revealed: “There have been many stories in the past, I was already in the hospital. I just thought: ‘Not again.’ But then it went with a nostril. “
Hampton’s family congratulates during the PK
A little later, the tension of Hampton had fallen off. At the press conference after the game, the goalkeeper was surprised by a FaceTime call of her family. “My cell phone rang in my pocket, sorry. Please take a moment”Hampton first apologized before realizing who tried to reach her there and accepted the call. “I am in a press conference”she said to her family. And finally, now under the laughter of the media representatives present: “I have to put on. I call back.”
England and Hampton are still in the tournament. Only a few months ago she had replaced Mary Earps in the English goal – the final woman with which the “Lionesses” 2022 had won the European Championship title. Almost none now speaks of Earps – Hampton is the woman of the hour. And thanks to her, England also closer to the title defense.
Now Italy is waiting for the English defending champions in the European Championship semi-final (Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025, 9 p.m.). Against the “Azzurre” it will also arrive on Hampton. Until then, the 24 -year -old will have recharged her almost empty battery – according to the epic as well as “stressful“Match against Sweden.