Sarina Wiegman rued England’s sloppyness from set-pieces, as the Lionesses’ Euro 2025 qualifying hopes were dented by a 2-1 defeat to France. England suffered their first home defeat in a qualifying match since October 2002 with Les Bleues…
Sarina Wiegman was left rueing a “really disappointing” and “unnecessary” defeat to France as England’s hopes of automatic qualification for Euro 2025 in Switzerland were left very much in the balance.
Sarina Wiegman insisted that her England side are showing improvements, despite their hopes of qualifying for Women’s Euro 2025 automatically suffering a big blow with Friday night’s home loss to a strong France side.
England boss Sarina Wiegman says her side's defeat to France was 'unnecessary' as they threw away a lead to slip out of the automatic qualification spots for Euro 2025.
Sarina Wiegman defended her England players but blamed set-pieces for a first home qualifying defeat in more than 20 years at the hands of France in a 2-1 loss.
Sarina Wiegman insisted that her England side are showing improvements, despite their hopes of qualifying for Women’s Euro 2025 automatically suffering a big blow with Friday night’s home loss to a strong France side.
England Head Coach Sarina Wiegman praised Jess Naz’s displays in training after she announced the forward had been promoted to the Lionesses senior squad for the first time.
KATHRYN BATTE: James, who has withdrawn from the squad, has been carrying the injury for a number of weeks and was used sparingly in Chelsea's final fixtures of the season.
KATHRYN BATTE: The Lionesses face back-to-back games with France at the end of May and start of June before further matches against the Republic of Ireland and Sweden in mid-July.