England supervisor Sarina Wiegman hailed her aspect’s “unbelievable response” because the Lionesses bounced again from defeat of their opening Euro 2025 match with a dominant 4-0 victory over the Netherlands.
A Lauren James brace, Georgia Stanway strike and Ella Toone end ensured England’s hopes of defending the crown they received in 2022 remained alive with a commanding result in Zurich.
In opposition to the nation of her delivery, Wiegman masterminded a much-improved efficiency from the one proven within the 2-1 loss to France on Saturday.
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An amazing efficiency and end result for the #Lionesses tonight 🙌 https://t.co/JJpC0g4LqV
— England (@England) July 9, 2025
Defeat towards her native nation would have virtually actually meant Wiegman’s aspect would progress nom additional within the event. As it’s, the end result provides a serious enhance to England’s probabilities of qualifying from the so-called ‘group of dying’.
They go into their ultimate group recreation towards neighbours and event debutants Wales figuring out a win ought to be sufficient to see them safely by way of to the knockout phases.
Requested what happy her most concerning the victory, Wiegman informed the BBC: “The response of the workforce after the France recreation. How we got here collectively and the way we performed on the pitch.
“I’m very pleased with the rating as a result of that’s a large assist and aim distinction could make a giant distinction.
“The execution of the sport plan actually helped. We did rather well and I’m actually happy with the workforce.
“We’re not there but however that is an unbelievable response.”
Whereas the Lionesses boss was thrilled with the end result, she admitted that such a convincing scoreline was not one thing she thought would occur.
“I’d not count on 4-0. Completely not,” mentioned Wiegman.
“Initially you need to win and you need to win. Whenever you win by greater than two objectives then you might be in the very best place going into the Wales recreation. So, yeah, all simply excellent tonight.”
England tackle Wales in St Gallen on Sunday, with kick-off at 20:00 UK time.
