As EnglandPlayers were handed in Zurich and vowed to take responsibility for their opening performance in defeat Francedefender Jess Carter admitted to something you wouldn’t expect to hear from the team who entered the tournament as champions. “I think we played like we were a little scared today,” Carter said. “Maybe we took care of their threats behind and what I can do, not doing what we can do.”
Carter endured the hard night, the French Winger Delphine Cascarino. Lucy bronze It is struggling on the other hand, renumbered with a combination of sandy Baltimore, Sakina Karchaoui and Selma Bach. Captain Leah WilliamsonIn usually an honest assessment of her team, he said England paid the price for “cheap defense of one-V-One”, which came from the same question. “Not good enough with the ball,” Williamson said. “We couldn’t hold.”
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Sarina Wiegman They accepted that England was “messy” and created their “own problems” with a type of passage, hesitantly pass in the middle of the shot that called France to press. “When you lose him and you’re so expansive, it’s hard,” Williamson added. “We’re exposed in moments to lose the ball when we didn’t want to lose the ball,” Wiegman said. “That’s what we need to find a solution.”
If the tactical placement in Midfield has occurred to the question, England lacked a belief and seemed that France was spooking in the period after the naked Alessia Russo. “When I say scared, I think maybe only a little more awareness of French and their abilities,” Carter said. “They are top, top team.”
England is the first team that will lose the introductory match on the female euro as a defense of the champion, but the way their effect continued the form. “We fought, we couldn’t keep the ball, we didn’t have a real threat,” Williamson said after the last monthly victory in Spain. “We have to deal with players and runners better than we did today,” said Captain Lionesses after April defeat in Belgium. Or the statement could also be applied to France.
But England didn’t take a warning. Bronze said Earlier this week In order for England “to be the best team in the tournament” if they got a balance right, and there is no doubt that the ceiling of this lavese side remains high when it clicks. The question is the English floor, and how low it can be if it is under pressure to put a stronger opposition. “We all have the days where we have a little mare at the ball and unfortunately, today there was more than one player,” Carter said.
The question confronted by Wiegman is whether she asks England to play again as expansive when he faces the Netherlands. In addition to opening 15 minutes, Laves barely threatened France to a 19-year-old attacker Michelle Agyemeng, she encountered and cause some problems. “They were surprising with long balls,” the French Chief Coach Laurent Bonadii, who was lifledous to see that his side was held after Keira Walsh pulled one back. “It has become a vertical game.”
If Wiegmant’s Netherlands looked at the English fight against France after opening a 3-0 victory in Group D, in a group D, you could imagine that the Dutch would be far happier to try to try them. “Of course I know them well,” Wiegman said. “They definitely want to have the ball and play, but they also want to press high, so we will prepare for it.”
Laioness are already in the noctic regime of the tournament, where of course they have a strong record after the conquest of the euro and reach the World Cup final. But if England loses on the 2017 champion. Year, and France beat Walses, and England and Wales will be out of euros before they play each other on Sunday.
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“There is no added pressure in the group, but we just have to stick together,” Ella Toon said, who may have been unhappy to lose their place in the cozy field of England. “I have a lot of confidence in this team,” Grace Clinton added. “Not looking at them only in the last euros, but the experience we have in the team. In the last two years, I have seen here that not only just not to return to the loser, but we win so many games.”
If to survive, England has to focus on yourself. The problems in their defeat in France were clear and will be sufficient only the rapid transformation from lower in opening matches will save their Euro campaign from falling to early end.