Lauren Hemp mentioned the Lionesses “thrive beneath stress” after a 2-1 defeat by France plunged them into in impact a must-win recreation towards the Netherlands on Wednesday.
England's midfield collapse was regarding of their Euro 2025 opener, the staff sloppy in possession and punished on the wings, however Hemp struck a defiant tone.
She believes a squad containing most of the gamers who gained Euro 2022, reached the World Cup remaining a yr later and have repeatedly bounced again since from detrimental outcomes needn't be too downcast. England can be out in the event that they lose towards the Netherlands and France get some extent or extra towards Wales within the later kick-off.
“Loads of the time, we thrive beneath stress,” Hemp mentioned. “Each recreation we go into we need to win. Based mostly on how we acted within the final 10 minutes of the sport, you may see we all know what's at stake. We clearly need to get so far as we are able to. We're reigning champions and that's essential to recollect and acquire confidence from.
“I like taking part in in soccer matches the place we have to win – they're the video games you need to be concerned in – so it's essential we take confidence from components of yesterday.”
England have been unfortunate that an virtually invisible offside denied them the opening purpose earlier than France struck twice on the Stadion Letzigrund. Then a late rally was held off by a France defence with out the dropped Wendie Renard and injured Griedge Mbock.
“Clearly, we're actually upset with the end result,” mentioned Hemp. “It was again out on the grass for lots of the women at present and I feel you may see quite a lot of confidence too.”
Hemp was speaking pitchside after a neighborhood open coaching session at England's base, on the dwelling of Glattbrugg, who invited their girls's and women' groups to look at alongside different native golf equipment and colleges and the native mayor. The ahead mentioned what had been lacking towards France was “high quality in possession”.
“We delight ourselves on that as a staff,” she mentioned. “Sadly, generally in video games you fail to have that and make mistake after mistake, but it surely's essential that we mirror on that. We all know that we may be higher, however one thing that we are able to take from the sport is the struggle that we confirmed. Even when issues aren't going our method, we are able to nonetheless attempt to flip it round and we got here shut.
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“That reveals we are able to compete towards the perfect even after we aren't essentially at our greatest. The issue is you may't afford to do this on this competitors, so we're going to ensure we're again at our greatest going into the subsequent recreation.”
There have been no harsh phrases between gamers on Sunday morning, based on Hemp, who mentioned it was “extra of an arm round one another”.
She mentioned: “When occasions are powerful we've had troublesome conversations on the pitch. After it, off it, you've bought to come back collectively reasonably than push one another additional aside. That's what this staff's good at: getting round one another and supporting one another, as a result of we're going to want everybody again as much as their finest on Wednesday.”
