The number at the last whistle was completely suitable: I will survive that the speakers and England had done exactly that exactly, exactly that while they are clambering through their biggest test.
How they did it, it should explain something, because for long periods it felt like a night for examinations and reproaches, but instead it ended with dancing and delirium and that rarest thing: a triumph for the punishment.
The last denouement was a crazy thing like the previous 120 minutes, but what does it matter if it was a crazy cap? England missed four times from 12 meters, but they had Hannah Hampton, who made three saves and grew up in goal.
Both parties took seven penalties and the last score of 3-2 tells you how many nerves are playing, but the Sarina Wiegman team got the job. They are again in the semi -final.