Sarina Wiegman was delighted to return “again to enterprise” after England thumped Portugal 6-0 in Friday’s Nations League conflict.
Aggie Beever-Jones performed a starring function, scoring a first-half hat-trick on her Wembley Stadium debut, together with objectives for Lucy Bronze, Beth Mead and Chloe Kelly.
It capped a powerful response to a troublesome week that noticed England goalkeeper Mary Earps retire from worldwide soccer, with Wiegman lauding the end result.
“In fact, that’s what we wished. You return to enterprise and also you need to present it on the pitch,” Wiegman instructed ITV.
“It was an essential recreation, we need to do effectively within the Nations League, we need to maintain within the working to win it. We wanted a win and it’s actually good to see the crew displaying up like this.
“There are all the time issues to enhance, however it’s a good scoreline.”
Spain beat Belgium 5-1 earlier on Friday, leaving all of it to play for when the highest two meet on Tuesday.
England will qualify for the Girls’s Nations League finals in the event that they overcome Spain, who’re two factors clear on the high of Group A3.
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“After we performed Spain right here, we dropped slightly deeper, so we’re going to overview this after which make closing selections,” Wiegman added.
“Spain is so tight on the ball and so good, so you need to do that actually effectively. Now we have not made that closing resolution but, however I’m actually completely satisfied how the crew did at this time.”
Beever-Jones grew to become the primary England participant to attain a first-half hat-trick since Mead did so in a 20-0 win towards Latvia in November 2021.
“Sarina stated earlier than the sport it’s a brand new package, it’s new England, we have now a brand new squad,” hat-trick hero Beever-Jones stated to BBC Sport.
“We’re the holders, and folks need to come right here and beat us and provides us a bump within the highway. For us, it’s specializing in what we will management. We executed that actually effectively.”
As for the monumental conflict arising towards Spain, she added: “To be the most effective, you need to beat the most effective. Spain are an unbelievable nation and shall be a great problem proper earlier than the Euros.”
