Sarina Wiegman insisted England are “not panicking” after a 3-2 defeat away to Belgium took management of their Nations League group and Olympic qualification out of the Lionesses’ palms.
“That’s life, and in order that’s soccer too,” stated the England supervisor. “So, we’re not panicking or something. You could possibly see that we have been making an attempt exhausting, we have been looking for the house and we have been making an attempt to have totally different crosses and play a possession sport into the ultimate third, however we simply missed within the ultimate excellent contact … though we did create possibilities to actually rating objectives.”
Wiegman additionally confirmed that Alex Greenwood was OK and strolling round however has concussion after the defender needed to be taken off on a stretcher whereas carrying a head brace and requiring oxygen following a nasty conflict of heads with Jassina Blom in the course of the first half right here.
“She’s wonderful,” stated Wiegman of Greenwood. “I haven’t spoken to her but. I additionally haven’t spoken to the physician about it but, however I heard she’s strolling round. Clearly she has a concussion, but it surely’s excellent news that she’s strolling round and doing wonderful.”
England dominated towards Belgium however didn’t benefit from it and have been punished on the counter. Wiegman stated she was “disenchanted and pissed off” with the consequence.
“Very disenchanted, we’re pissed off too, I feel this was pointless,” she stated. “What we needed to do was to play higher than Friday and we received Friday [1-0 in the reverse fixture].
“There have been a few issues we needed to do higher right this moment, however ultimately we have been too sloppy. They’d extra counterattacks than they did on Friday, in order that they did that properly and I feel we might have completed higher.”
On England’s hopes of securing a qualifying place for Staff GB at subsequent summer season’s Paris Olympics, Wiegman stated: “It’s very tight … we are able to solely do what we are able to do, so we all know what now we have to do. We play at Wembley [against the Netherlands], that’s all the time very thrilling, so we’re wanting ahead to that.
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“However we additionally need to present once more what we’re, and that we are able to do higher, towards a prime opponent in fact, too. Now we have to win and now we have to win by multiple, after which now we have to win [towards] Scotland, so [the task] may be very clear.”
