Sarina Wiegman has challenged England to show the tables on France to kick-start their Euro 2025 qualification marketing campaign.
The protecting champions went i’m sick 2-1 to the French at St James’ Terrain on Friday night and realistically want to avenge that defeat in St-Etienne on Tuesday to re-light their faltering bid to put together it to the finals robotically.
Wiegman’s aspect have now taken simply 4 issues from their first 3 qualifiers and path Workforce A3 leaders France via 5 issues and Sweden on function remaining.
She stated: “Of course, we first wanted to be first in the group, but that’s a little further away now. We’ll go through the game tomorrow and then we have the game on Tuesday.
“From what we showed today, I think we can win that game. If you see, we had more possession, more shots on goal – all we wanted more on target – so we go out there to win that game and from there, we will see.
“Yes, we know that we have to do well to go higher in the group, that’s a fact.”
England, who had misplaced keeper Mary Earps to shock simply mins next kick-off, gave the impression to be within the using seat when Beth Mead fired them right into a Thirtieth-minute supremacy.
Alternatively, France – ranked 3rd on the earth via FIFA to England’s moment – levelled thru Elisa De Almeida sooner than the split and after received it with Marie-Antoinette Katoto’s second-half clash with each objectives stemming from corners.
Wiegman stated: “Of course, the result is really disappointing and I think unnecessary. I think our performance was good most parts of the game.
“The first part, of course, was very different than we were expecting. We really had to find our feet and get started. After that, we did well, scored a good goal and had chances to score more, and then they scored from a corner, which was disappointing.
“In the second half, I think we controlled the match more than we did the first half, but we created ‘almost’ chances.
“In many moments, we played pretty well and it’s very frustrating that we then concede a goal from a corner. We know they are very good at that, so we really wanted to do that very well.
“We want to win and we play to win, but we also played against a very good opponent. As I said, I think it is a very unnecessary loss and that makes it even more disappointing.”
Wiegman’s unhappiness was once compounded via Earps’ hip shock, the level of which residue to be progressive.
The Lionesses’ boss, who insisted she would haven’t any qualms over establishing Hannah Hampton in France must Earps now not put together it, stated: “I don’t have an update because I haven’t spoken to either her or the doctor.
“Of course, I’m concerned because she doesn’t off the pitch very often, and now she did, and as we’ve all seen, she was on crutches, so I really don’t know, but yes, of course, there are some concerns.”
