England supervisor Sarina Wiegman hailed her facet’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 lead to Zurich.
In opposition to the nation of her beginning, Wiegman masterminded a much-improved efficiency from the one proven within the 2-1 loss to France on Saturday.
Coronary heart and need ❤️
An amazing efficiency and end result for the #Lionesses tonight 🙌 https://t.co/JJpC0g4LqV
— England (@England) July 9, 2025
Defeat in opposition to her native nation would have virtually definitely meant Wiegman’s facet would progress nom additional within the match. As it’s, the end result provides a serious increase to England’s probabilities of qualifying from the so-called ‘group of loss of life’.
They go into their last group sport in opposition to neighbours and match debutants Wales figuring out a win ought to be sufficient to see them safely by means of to the knockout phases.
Requested what happy her most concerning the victory, Wiegman instructed the BBC: “The response of the crew after the France sport. How we got here collectively and the way we performed on the pitch.
“I’m very proud of the rating as a result of that’s a large assist and purpose 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 crew.
“We aren’t there but however that is an unbelievable response.”
Whereas the Lionesses boss was thrilled with the end result, she admitted that such a powerful scoreline was not one thing she thought would occur.
“I might not count on 4-0. Completely not,” mentioned Wiegman.
“Initially you wish to win and you must win. If you win by greater than two targets then you might be in the perfect place going into the Wales sport. So, yeah, all simply excellent tonight.”
England tackle Wales in St Gallen on Sunday, with kick-off at 20:00 UK time.