England is a woman who loses Euro 2025 opening match: Lea Williamson says that Assad was not good enough “against France | Football News

Captain England women Leah Williamson said the lions “were not good enough” because she lost the opening match Lauro 2025 against France.

England was the first heroic defending champion of losing their opening match for the next championship, winning 2-1 by admired French in Zurich.

There were many issues in Lioneses, including defending both wings that led to goals from Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Sandy Baltimore.

Williamson said, thinking about the reasons behind England’s performance without -level. ITV sport: “We have lost a game. Cheap defense for one.

“We learned from these mistakes in fairness and slept to the game, but on the ball we were not good enough. We have improved because they were tired, we benefited from that, but not enough.

“Sometimes this happens, the positivity is that I have not shown us like this in terms of turning the ball a lot for a while now. It is really frustrating, I think this is what we take, but tomorrow we returned to it.

“I think everyone takes responsibility for themselves today, and they have a look at the field that could have had more effect on the game.

“I will do that, but I think tomorrow we have a new game plan, different spaces available, and a different type of opposition.”

Wajman: We played ourselves outside the game

For its part, England coach Sarina and Yumman He did not believe that defending any of the two wings was the largest case in England, adding that the general decline also contributed to the result.

She said ITV sport: “I am very disappointed about the result. I thought we started well, and we scored a goal and unfortunately, no longer.

Then we played ourselves out of the game by playing short permits, which really helped them and lack of distress enough. We needed to get out of that first press and skip and I think this harmed us a little.

“The wide areas were not the biggest problem. We started well, then we started playing short passes, and this was what they wanted, because they wanted to pressure. So we needed to enter behind and try to overcome the press, but we lost. We were very dirty and this did not help us.

“Then we know how good they are in the counter -attack. They are strong and fast players. This is what they did well.”

England must now win the next group D against the Netherlands on Wednesday to maintain themselves in running for a position in the knockout tours.

Wiegman knows that its side cannot bear more mistakes, but it should move quickly with another game in four days.

“I think we can do better,” she added. “France is really good, but we caused our own problems and we have registered in the first minutes.

“We can do what is better, for sure, and we have to make it a little easier for ourselves. We cannot withstand any mistakes more advanced? This is true.

“These are the facts, and we have to escalate, and tomorrow we review, recover, and after that it is directly to the game against the Netherlands on Wednesday. Now we must adhere to each other, and we refresh and move forward.”

Bonadei was surprised by the England approach

France coach Laurent BonadiThe team last year took over from former coach Herve Renard, his team was surprised by the England approach.

“England is a really good team,” he said. “They are ranked fifth in the world rankings and won the end of the euro, so we have to respect this team.

“They really started well and pressed us from the beginning. We were a little surprised because they usually play with the accumulation of Keira Walsh in the midfield, so it was really difficult because we were under pressure, and we confessed. Fortunately, we were excluded.

“Then slowly, step by step, we went back with our front players and we had a great goal on the right side. Physically, it was not easy for the England team because we played directly in the midfield. We continued calmly and scored a second goal.

“In the second half, we took control of the game because they only had two shots on the goal. At the end of the game, you can see that England can score at any time and play under pressure on the last five minutes. The players achieved it well and kept the result.”