Leah Williamson admitted England weren't ok on the ball and stated “low cost, one-versus-one defending” value the Lionesses badly of their 2-1 defeat towards France, however vowed her facet would enhance earlier than dealing with the Netherlands on Wednesday.
The defending European champions appeared second-best to France for big parts of their assembly in Zurich and the Lionesses captain stated: “If you're dropping the ball actually cheaply, and then you definitely're in emergency defending, and while you've accomplished 4 or 5 counterattacks in a row towards high quality like that, it's robust, however we maintain ourselves to increased requirements, within the particular person battles.
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“The optimistic is that I've not seen us like that, when it comes to turning over the ball a lot, for some time now, so sure [while it is] actually irritating, I feel that's how we'll take as we speak. Tomorrow, again on it.”
The Arsenal centre-back added to ITV: “[It was] low cost defending one-v-one, we learnt from these errors in equity and grew within the sport, however on the ball, [we were] not ok, we couldn't hold it within the areas that we would have liked to maintain it, and we received higher as they drained, we took benefit of that, however [it was] not sufficient in the long run.
“I feel, everyone [has to] take accountability for themselves as we speak, take a look at ‘what areas might they've had an influence on the sport extra?' – I'll. However then tomorrow, we have now a brand new gameplan [versus the Netherlands], completely different areas obtainable, a unique kind of opposition, however we'll take a look at what we did as we speak, and enhance.”
England had been 2-0 on the break after a dominant spell of strain from France within the latter a part of the primary half, however after the sport, their head coach Sarina Wiegman defended their resolution to not make any half-time substitutions. When requested why she didn't make any modifications on the break, she replied: “As a result of I had the conviction that having a brief assembly at half-time [would mean] that we might do issues higher within the second half and I needed to provide them that chance. I feel this group is succesful so I didn't need to swap immediately.”
Wiegman additionally defended her resolution to provide Lauren James a primary begin since April, following a hamstring harm. The Chelsea ahead had performed simply half an hour of soccer, towards Jamaica final Sunday, earlier than this event however Wiegman deemed her match to face France. When requested if that had been a bet or a mistake, Wiegman replied: “No, I don't see it as a mistake, it was a selection. I feel if she had scored in that first minute, and if the cross she made within the first half the place we simply couldn't simply get a head on it [had gone in], I feel we'd be having a unique dialog.”
England defender Jess Carter stated: “I feel we performed like we had been somewhat bit scared as we speak, perhaps we weren't aggressive sufficient, we perhaps had been worrying about their threats in behind and what they will do relatively than doing what we are able to do. We didn't do as properly on the ball, or off the ball.
“The one optimistic to take is that final 10 minutes, for me watching it from the facet I actually believed we might get a objective, I actually felt like we might get a second objective. We've got to concentrate on that 10 minutes that we did have on the finish and take that over to the subsequent sport, the vitality the subs introduced on was unbelievable, actually urgent and being aggressive. It's one thing to take to the subsequent sport.”
France, who reached the semi-finals in England three years in the past, face Wales subsequent, hoping to safe a spot within the knockout phases. Their in-form winger Delphine Cascarino recognised that England had made a shiny begin however added: “Sure, we received scared initially initially however we remained calm. We managed to get to our objective and our goal. We complied with our gameplan and we actually managed this match, I consider.”
