England victorious after shootout chaos and Italy stun Norway – Women's Football Weekly
Elsewhere, Italy knocked out Norway with a dramatic Cristiana Girelli double, including a 90th-minute winner, to make their first Euros semi-final in 28 years. The panel asks what went wrong for Norway, and where do they go from here, and from those celebrations, are Italy getting ahead of themselves?
Also today: Wafcon quarter-finals, WSL transfer news including Olivia Smith's record-breaking Arsenal move, and Jordan Nobbs's next chapter.
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