Key occasions
9 min: Scotland’s supervisor, Pedro Martinez Losa is sporting a fetching blazer and tie, such that he resembles a British Caledonian air steward.
7 min: Scotland going by one thing of an ordeal in defence. The corners are mounting. Zelem taking from the precise. Stanway will get to the ball however heads down and large.
4 min: A Greenwood nook finds Zelem, and it’s aimed again in. Katie Zelem is seeing a lot of the ball in standing in for Keira Walsh.
3 min: It’s all England from the beginning with Lauren Hemp and Lucy Bronze outstanding on the precise flank.
1 min: And away we go in Sunderland and within the Nations League.
A minute’s silence for Maddy Cusack is held.
The gamers be a part of collectively in solidarity for the Spain gamers, echoing the photographs from Gothenburg earlier than.
Huge noise forward of the nationwide anthems, and nicely sung by each groups. Huge smiles on the Scottish group throughout Flower of Scotland. Millie Vivid the loudest on the England group throughout God Save The Queen King.
Millie Vivid is within the tunnel to guide out the group as captain, and Sarina Wiegman is within the dugout. Regular service resumed? Let’s see.
From final week, however these issues have to stay.
Vital information forward of this match.
When final we met, again on the 2019 World Cup. Watched this recreation within the Pleasure of Spitalfields pub on a Sunday. I bear in mind it being nearer than this match report suggests.
Three adjustments from the World Cup closing for England as Zelem, James and Kelly change Walsh, Toone and Russo.
Caroline Weir – a risk for Group GB – begins for Scotland, Thomas comes again into the ahead line.
An added variable, Sarina Wiegman will likely be working the rule over a few of the Scotland gamers.
Listed here are the groups
Right here’s the way it works within the Nations League.
Preamble
It doesn’t appear very lengthy because the World Cup, does it? That’s as a result of it isn’t, and the story of what went on after the ultimate has by no means gone away. England’s Lionesses, the dropping finalists, have been moderately within the shadows because the Spain saga performs out. However they’re again in motion and with a neighborhood grudge match to play. The north-east, a hotbed of girls’s soccer simply as a lot as males, is the venue, the Stadium of Gentle. There’s no Alessia Russo, however will probably be a well-known lineup from England. Scotland missed the occasion Down Underneath however right here’s an opportunity for a well-known win,
