England V Belgium: Women’s Nations League – Live | League of female nations
Key events
14 min: Davina Philtjens enters with studs showing Grace Clinton in midfield. It seems painful. It is a free kick and Clinton is fortunately ok.
12 min: Another corner! This is for Belgium though. Cayman floats him from the left of Belgium, but England erases their lines.
9 min: Another corner in England. Mead drives him to the far post. Millie Bright keeps his head in his hands after not having connected.
8 min: Bronze and Russian try one-two on the right England. The bronze runs towards the line. Vanhaevermaet counts a corner under pressure from the Right Terzino of Chelsea. So there are four corners of England in the first nine minutes and five in total … what is the world record? From the set, the bronze looks at a head goalwards but is wide.
7 min: As required by Wiegman and how it would be expected, Belgium is sitting in defense and inviting England to try to play it. This will be a night that will require some creativity in midfield and at the top to find a road.
6 min: Now England builds their left wing. Russo chases a ball towards the corner but visitors manage to free the danger.
4 min: Now Belgium wins a corner of their own which is treated efficiently by the English background line after being hit in the next place.
2 min: England immediately threatens. They quickly win two corners … no, three corners. The Belgians are already working hard in defense. Lauren James bends a good ball from the third set and curls just the far post. Wiegman is already animated on the bench.
Kick-off of the first half!
Here we are.
England players wear black bracelets Tonight after the tragic death of Poppy Atkinson last month, a 10 -year -old footballer and a lionsese fan who was hit by a car on a shot in Kendal.
The teams are on the Ashton Gate field. And the crowded house is treated to get pyrotechnic before the hymns.
“There was a lot of thought“I think they both can play there … we made the decision to start Beth.
“He is really disappointing (that Chloe Kelly left the team with a foot injury).” He was in a very good, happy position, and in training he did well. So unfortunately Tuesday will be too early. So now he continues in his club.
“I hope we are witnessing a more ruthless advantage. Not only Alessia (Russo) but I think the whole team. We want to play well, have the ball, create possibilities and score goals. Tonight I expect it to be difficult, because they defend themselves very close, in depth, and they also play physical. We must also do it together. And hope we can” show “and do well.”
What is Jess Park’s best position for EnglandShe is asked in a pre -aggravated interview on ITV.
“This is a difficult question. I would like to say in midfield, I think …
“The victory against Spain was my best moment for England. It was a fantastic moment.”
What if I said, some time ago, that he would have scored a winner for England against the world champions in Wembley?
“I wouldn’t have believed it.”
“They had to resistThey had to show some quality, “says Pundit Ian Ian Wright The victory of February over Spain. “I liked it because it was the type of performance I saw in England in tournaments and go very far.”
“You want to show the rest of Europe that you intend to business, we attacked 2025 and we are coming for our trophy,” adds Karen Carley.
“As Wighty said, it’s that mentality of the tournament that starts starting.”
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Leah Williamson praised the form of Alessia Russo Before England n. 9 guide the Lionesse attack in the double head of the double head of Leonesses League against Belgium, starting from Bristol on Friday.
Arsenal’s Russo scored 14 goals in his last 21 clubs and country games, two of which in the second League of the Champions League last week Winning back on Real Madrid. His clubmate, the captain of England Williamson, praised Russo’s character, saying at the St George’s Park on Thursday: “Everyone will always say how beautiful a person Alessia is and everyone wants to see her do well for this reason. But be a number 9 you must have that type of arrogance – but the trust on you.
Kelly excluded for feet injuries
Chloe Kelly It was excluded from the games of the women’s nations of England against Belgium with a foot injury.
Kelly – who joined the Gunners on loan by Manchester City on the day of the expiry of the transfer – has already been confirmed as absent from the device on Friday evening in Bristol, but now he will no longer play part in the lionesse field.
A declaration of Fa recited: “Chloe Kelly returned to Arsenal for a foot injury and will not participate in the next UEFA Women’s Nations League matches against Belgium.
“Yesterday Sarina Wiegman confirmed Kelly’s withdrawal from waiting tonight and followed more evaluations has now been decided that she will return to her club to help her rehabilitation”. The lionesses will travel to Leuven for the return device against Belgium on April 8 (PA Media)
News of the teams
Sarina Wiegman makes a change from the England team who beat Spain in February, with Beth Mead coming for Jess Park. For Belgium, who has a new coach in the form of Elisabet Gunnarsdottir, the title is that Inter Milan’s Tessa Wullaert Manca with an ankle injury.
England (4-3-3): Hampton, Bronze, Williamson (Capt.), Bright, Charles; Clinton, Walsh, Toone; Mead, Russo, James. Substitutes: Morgan, Earps, Le Tissier, Carter, Park, Parker, Beever-Jones, Parris, Moorhouse, Symonds.
Belgium (3-5-2): Evrard; Tysiak, Iliano, Cayman; Janssens, Teulings, Vanhaeamemer, Philtjens, Mission; Toloba, Eurlings. Substitutes: Bastiaen, Blom, de Caigny, Delacauw, Deloose, Detruyter, Dhont, Elyn, Lichtfus, Mathys, Van Kerkhoven, Wijnants.
Referee: Marta Huerta de Aza (ESP)
Preamble
In three months and one day, the lionesse will begin their defense of the European Championship against France in Zurich. Between today and then Sarina Wiegman’s team has two games against Belgium – home tonight and on Tuesday – before a Wembley appointment with Portugal next month and a trip to Spain in June.
This female Nations League, for England, partly concerns the preparation for the euros of the summer and in part the positioning well for the balance of the qualifications of the 2027 World Cup.
The 1-0 of February victory against Spain saw the European champions in office produce a Appropriately “English” performance To get the better of the world champions: Portugal hosts Spain in the other appointment tonight in League A, Group A3.
England and Portugal are on their heads with four points from two games each. Play their cards well and the side of Wiegman could be at the top of the battery in a few hours. Let’s go!
