France Women 2 – 1 England Women

Defense of England women began with its European title a losing start, and beat France 2-1 in Zurich.

This is the first time that the ruler’s hero has lost his opening game for the next championship, as Assad has greatly defeated the impressive French.

Its ideas are presented about the reason for not performing England at its best ITV sportLea Williamson said: “We have lost a game. Cheap defense for one to one. Not good enough. We could not keep it in the areas we need to maintain.

“We learned from these mistakes in fairness and slept to the game, but on the ball we were not good enough.”

But Lioneses’s performance was booked with two bright talismans. Alicia Rousseau had the ball in the back of the net in the 16th minute, but its strike was excluded by the VAR to infiltrate the Beth Mead in the accumulation.

France’s reaction was better, as it benefited from the dirty play of England and the use of its feature down on both wings – Lucy Bronz and Jess Carter struggled against Sandy Baltimore and Delphine Kaskarino.

It was another operation from the latter who put France in a due convenience. She was turned to the box to the house by Marie Antoinette Katoto, who was drifting behind Williamson.

After three minutes and France hit its progress, with the total number of goals they allowed during 2022 euros (2) within a few minutes.

Baltimore ignored the double challenge that Williamson and his teammate at the Chelsea team tried to try. The right back in England stuck to his leg, but that only returned the ball to the wing, who then turned home.

There was a VAR review of the Russian error in accumulation, but technology is stuck with the decision in the field to allow the goal, and to send Sarina Wiegman to an angry sparkle in the fourth official.

France continued to look comfortable in the second half – until the lifeline was introduced in the 87th minute.

Lioneses continued to pay – Michelle Ajmang looks bright when she came as a late alternative – as Lauren Heimb made a ground effort from the line after she left Pauline Bera, her goal is open.

But this was not enough for England to extract an indifferent point, leaving them in third place in the group d. They will need to win their next match against the Netherlands and Wales to determine the progress of the knockout tours.

Williamson: Everyone must take responsibility

England leader Lea Williamson Talk to ITV sport: “We have improved because they are tired, we benefited from it, 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

President of England Sarina and Yumman Talk to 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.

Of course, they scored goals and then finally we played with four attackers and we really tried to get the ball over the line but we did not.

“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, we lost. We were very dirty and did not help us;

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

Bonadei was surprised by the England approach

France coach Laurent Bonadi: “England is a really good team. They are ranked fifth in the world rankings and won the end of the euro, so we must 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 attackers and our great goal was on the right side. Physically, it was not easy for the England team because we play directly in the midfield. We have maintained calm and scored another 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.”