IAN HERBERT: The last four weeks have changed women's football

Safe to say that the final, sublime, finishing touch bore no hallmarks of the last goal which wrapped up England tournament glory. It was not a Geoff Hurst 'they think it's all over' moment. 

Just Chloe Kelly delivering the second swish of a boot to a ball she had made no connection with first time, before spiralling away to whip off her shirt and deliver an iconic image for the ages.

But that finish still epitomised everything about what has most changed in this England team across the course of these past four glorious weeks. The psychological component, instilled in them by Sarina Wiegman, is of a kind we have never seen in this side. It was that which saw them home.

It had been a game in which England were technically second best, swamped at times by a drilled, coherent, often cynical Germany - just as they had been in the quarter final against Spain, which they were lucky to win. 

A high pressing game has been inculcated into Germany's women for years. The practitioners of it here played for the giants of continental club competition - Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg – who compete for the Champions League in a way our teams never have.

But Wiegman has instilled something ice cold in her players. There was a moment, just after the whistle had blown on 90 minutes, when she walked 20 yards out onto the turf, stood there and waited for them. A still, small space of calm in the madness which, at that stage, seemed destined to deny the team their best chance of tournament glory in a generation.

It was against that backdrop that Kelly took aim a second time, having swung and missed in the six-yard box. Just as Alessia Russo did, when she back-heeled the ball in after missing against Sweden in Sheffield in the semi-final five