For me, the issue is that if you've been watching the WSL/Champions League, you know that Leah Williamson is really out of form. Then Alex Greenwood is in the top 3 performing WSL CBs this season, and naturally plays left sided CB as she's left footed. The fact that Wiegman chose Williamson over Greenwood is concerning as it shows a real lack of judgement. Karen Carny put it well in the ITV analysis. If Greenwood sat in front of Sarina Wiegman and asked why she's not playing, Wiegman could not give her a sound answer. Additionally, Tooney isn't starting as the 10 at united, Grace Clinton who was on the bench is uniteds starting 10. This aversion to experimentation is going to fuck us at this rate for the summer. I'm just concerned that she has her favourites, and we are going to not be able to integrate a generation of talent becuase she does not want to stray from that.
The England/Germany game was fun to watch as a neutral. The defending on both ends for periods of the game was terrible, no doubt. I actually thought England's front 3 looked good - Russo especially. Seeing that side of her says A LOT about how she is limited at Arsenal, and truthfully, she is not the type of 9 that's going to bang in the goals, but she offers so much. With the right setup, it would be lethal. I'm sure Wiegman will figure it out because some of the decisions were odd. Better to have these issues early, though, and have the time to get them sorted vs. to be sensational now and then on a decline before the Euros!
The Germans were more up for it & played well . Lionesses came back into it after going 3-0 down . I remember the uproar when Matilda’s beat us in a friendly before the World Cup we beat them when it counted in the semi final . Hopefully this loss gives us a kick up the arse too lol
My heart goes out to Ella Toone, her father passed just days before this game. Germany's kits are by far the best. Cleats/Boots touched each other ----- play on! That being said and done I will state the obvious; Georgia Stanway is Queen beast. Superstar 💥⚽ status is her future.
Very poor result… Wrong choices made by Serena… and Lionesses underestimated the German team… No one should ever do that!!!… Alex Greenwood should have started… and sadly Leah Williamson was ineffectual… and really should not have played ( was obvious in recent interview ( with Serena) that there was something wrong??!… maybe stemming from problems at Arsenal??…She gave away one goal and could not match the speed of the Germans when they attacked. Keira Walsh was completely closed down !!…Hemp and Stanway did their best but had little organised support… Also some dubious decisions by officials… It was certainly a sweet revenge for Germany after Euro’s defeat …. and at Wembley too!!… Does not bode well for 2025…. If this is all they can do against ‘really quality opposition ..Hate having to say all of this…but that is what I saw…. And when England down 2 goals in very short space of time… it seemed that the result would not be favourable…. 😥😥
100% agree Williamson starting was a huge mistake. She's been in poor form all season and IMHO still hasn't fully recovered from her injury. At one point play was still going on near her (around the 58th minute) and Williamson was hunched over hands on knees.. she looked knackered.
The goal keeper Hannah Hampton had a shocker between the posts. You could say that the 4th goal could have been avoided if she had held onto the ball. Furthermore Leah Williamson looks well out of form and the same goes for Beth Mead as well. They just don’t look in form and could be occupied by what is happening at their clubs. Arsenal has recently sacked their manager and that can not be good for the players either
Don’t know what all the hype is about. During Sarina’s tenure there has been 6 defeats over 56 games! As for Leah, she is not fully match fit yet, so playing her for 60 minutes obviously was deemed fit. Leah opined the international break was perfect timing. No doubt some fallout from Looks like Sarina is in for some “Gareth Southgate treatment”. Chill people it is a friendly! Lots of issues to be addressed for sure, let them get on with it and show their improvement when it matters. This about the EUROS.
Just a question of fine tuning 4/3 is not a disaster yes England were ruffled and Germany were sorted but we still have class ladies fine tuning needed where was Mary ❤
I think it's not as dramatic as the press or the fans make it seem. The early game was dominated by individual mistakes by both sides. But germany had only three training sessions with the new coach. Popp, Schüller, Hegering, Freigang, Oberdorf and Hendrich were missing. Should this english team have won against such a weakend german team? Yes, maybe. But the coach said he didn't yet try to implement a new system and some key german players were still there. They had a bad day. Let's wait and see. I still think england is one of the best teams in the world and a lot can changge in 6 months.
England will be fine. They're still figuring out their rhythm defensively- losing rachel daly and then having Leah and Millie lose time for injuries- yeah they aren't going to look the same as the euros or even world cup. But they'll figure it out. Thye have time to work on it, regain chemistry, and figure out what works. It's better to have this result now than in the tournament, it'll be fine. That being said, I think Leah needs a rest. She missed a couple games for concussion protocol this season and I don't think she's better from that. With her questionable passes/decisions, I think she may still have some brain fog or something. But again, there is time for that to heal and for players to take responsibility and get better any way they can and I have full trust that they will!
I think starting decisions are still being made as a result of the Euro win & WC with the old guard of players. But we began to see the need for a changing of the guard when England failed to qualify for the Olympics. You can’t pick based on past performance and length of time in the team. Every spot needs to be earned by current performance. These are professional players, there is an expectation they will perform and an expectation that they will figure out a way to get back into form. When it comes to international duty, they should be humble enough to rule themselves out of selection when they know they are under performing, so that their spot can be given to someone more in form. You can’t be a competitive team if you give spots away for free.
LW was bullied by Ramírez against Chelsea, not sure if that's a cause or a symptom of something else. But she will be back, she's top class. Expect the young players to beat South Africa.
Hello Sarah and Sara. Many of the Germans I saw by watching Bayern Munich, as per previous comments. This was not so unexpected, as I almost predicted it by comments on GOTB videos from U17 World Cup. US are looking to the future, as I also commented before on videos about Emma. At least the Wembley loss was soon enough to make it clear something needs to change. I asked on another comments if Georgia Stanway might be a potential new captain as others had said Leah Williamson already seemed troubled in comments for the pre match press conference.
The NWSL is the only league I know that continues playing during a time international matches are taking place. This is a bid disadvantage with many international team players. I havent seen the whole England vs. Germany match, but from what I did see, the English defence was not at it best and neither was the midfield. It was a friendly match where the result is secondary and conclusions can be made for further matches, especially as 2 top national teams were playing against each other. The penalty caused by Russo was correct. It was unfortunate, but was called correctly according to the rules. According to my sports app, Georgia Stanway and Beth Mead received the best marks of the match. Great to see the USWNT win against a very uncomfortable team, Iceland. I'm especially delighted that Alyssa Thompson was able to come back and score.
it wasn't the best advertisement for the women's game tbh. Defensive mistakes, goalkeeping mistakes, referee giving penalties that weren't really penalties (except the opening one) and SO many missed easy chances. The score should have been closer to 7-6!
Milly Bright and Leah Williamson were SO awful it was almost fun to watch…I mean, how on EARTH did Sarina keep carthorse Bright on…she was embarrassing! The match was actually fun to watch, and I think the press etc were too harsh in their post match analysis? Stanway (❤️) and Lessi battled the whole match, and England who - let’s face it - have been poor since they last beat the USA in 2022, battled back and it was entertaining to watch the individual battles. Sarina needs to bring in Alex Greenwood fgs - what is it with Sarina never picking her??? Also maybe Maya Le…nope, don’t know how to spell that. I feel for Leah: she is SUCH a brilliant asset re being an engaging and personable England Captain, bless her. Ps. I have tickets to see the USA game at Wembley…hoping it’s not too embarrassing an England performance!! 🤪😨🏴
don't forget how come we can not go to OLYMPIC... and Mary is good Hampton is good... in this game 48 mins is the best save for Hampton... and thx Germany the best angle goals.. thx thx thx...
im gonna leave this here : england were rubbish in general , the hallowed leah w passed the ball to a german after 3mins, later all eng players on wrong side when gwinn got second , the only plus( for me) is first 5 goals were all bayern munich players yey!! (and all players left the pitch ok) i think the captain has problems
So everybody in the UK had to endure watching ITV coverage England ladies playing a friendly international. All the soaps were cancelled, nobody else wanted to watch this garbage which was on for 3hrs...This is what the rest of the UK have to put up with...Absolutely ridiculous! Congratulations Germany from the whole of Scotland.
@@SarahDilley-dy7ci Typical! English attitude, don't care about who else has to endure this garbage, It's like watching bad under 15s boys football. I'll tell what you can do, you can get the fk off our screens with your crap football.
@@BonnyScot-w1b Never said I was English did I. How are you blaming the English public for Scottish broadcasting as if they make the decisions what’s shown on TV’s in Scotland utterly ridiculous. Scottish always looking for anything and everything to bash their neighbours with no matter how nonsensical it sounds.
@@SarahDilley-dy7ci Tell me something....how would you like it if on a Friday night and your elderly mother was wanting to watch their soaps but instead you had to watch 3 hrs of Scotland ladies playing against Hungary in a friendly international. Nothing to do with bashing our neighbours as i have many relations in England. It's the presumption that everybody wants to follow how the lionesses are fairing.
@@SarahDilley-dy7ci ....and i wasn't blaming the English public. ITV hold the rights to England ladies therefor STV hands are tied and have to show this game.
Im not sure why I said "i mean" and "you know" a million times! I will not do that again! Sorry about that!
For me, the issue is that if you've been watching the WSL/Champions League, you know that Leah Williamson is really out of form. Then Alex Greenwood is in the top 3 performing WSL CBs this season, and naturally plays left sided CB as she's left footed. The fact that Wiegman chose Williamson over Greenwood is concerning as it shows a real lack of judgement.
Karen Carny put it well in the ITV analysis. If Greenwood sat in front of Sarina Wiegman and asked why she's not playing, Wiegman could not give her a sound answer.
Additionally, Tooney isn't starting as the 10 at united, Grace Clinton who was on the bench is uniteds starting 10. This aversion to experimentation is going to fuck us at this rate for the summer.
I'm just concerned that she has her favourites, and we are going to not be able to integrate a generation of talent becuase she does not want to stray from that.
Both teams were more focused on scoring goals than anything else. allowing us to see the result 4-3 Bringing fun and excitement to us. Thank you.
The England/Germany game was fun to watch as a neutral. The defending on both ends for periods of the game was terrible, no doubt. I actually thought England's front 3 looked good - Russo especially. Seeing that side of her says A LOT about how she is limited at Arsenal, and truthfully, she is not the type of 9 that's going to bang in the goals, but she offers so much. With the right setup, it would be lethal. I'm sure Wiegman will figure it out because some of the decisions were odd. Better to have these issues early, though, and have the time to get them sorted vs. to be sensational now and then on a decline before the Euros!
The Germans were more up for it & played well . Lionesses came back into it after going 3-0 down . I remember the uproar when Matilda’s beat us in a friendly before the World Cup we beat them when it counted in the semi final . Hopefully this loss gives us a kick up the arse too lol
My heart goes out to Ella Toone, her father passed just days before this game. Germany's kits are by far the best.
Cleats/Boots touched each other ----- play on! That being said and done I will state the obvious;
Georgia Stanway is Queen beast. Superstar 💥⚽ status is her future.
Very poor result… Wrong choices made by Serena… and Lionesses underestimated the German team… No one should ever do that!!!… Alex Greenwood should have started… and sadly Leah Williamson was ineffectual… and really should not have played ( was obvious in recent interview ( with Serena) that there was something wrong??!… maybe stemming from problems at Arsenal??…She gave away one goal and could not match the speed of the Germans when they attacked. Keira Walsh was completely closed down !!…Hemp and Stanway did their best but had little organised support… Also some dubious decisions by officials… It was certainly a sweet revenge for Germany after Euro’s defeat …. and at Wembley too!!… Does not bode well for 2025…. If this is all they can do against ‘really quality opposition ..Hate having to say all of this…but that is what I saw…. And when England down 2 goals in very short space of time… it seemed that the result would not be favourable…. 😥😥
100% agree Williamson starting was a huge mistake. She's been in poor form all season and IMHO still hasn't fully recovered from her injury. At one point play was still going on near her (around the 58th minute) and Williamson was hunched over hands on knees.. she looked knackered.
The goal keeper Hannah Hampton had a shocker between the posts. You could say that the 4th goal could have been avoided if she had held onto the ball.
Furthermore Leah Williamson looks well out of form and the same goes for Beth Mead as well. They just don’t look in form and could be occupied by what is happening at their clubs. Arsenal has recently sacked their manager and that can not be good for the players either
Don’t know what all the hype is about. During Sarina’s tenure there has been 6 defeats over 56 games! As for Leah, she is not fully match fit yet, so playing her for 60 minutes obviously was deemed fit. Leah opined the international break was perfect timing. No doubt some fallout from Looks like Sarina is in for some “Gareth Southgate treatment”. Chill people it is a friendly! Lots of issues to be addressed for sure, let them get on with it and show their improvement when it matters. This about the EUROS.
Just a question of fine tuning 4/3 is not a disaster yes England were ruffled and Germany were sorted but we still have class ladies fine tuning needed where was Mary ❤
I think it's not as dramatic as the press or the fans make it seem. The early game was dominated by individual mistakes by both sides. But germany had only three training sessions with the new coach. Popp, Schüller, Hegering, Freigang, Oberdorf and Hendrich were missing. Should this english team have won against such a weakend german team? Yes, maybe. But the coach said he didn't yet try to implement a new system and some key german players were still there.
They had a bad day. Let's wait and see. I still think england is one of the best teams in the world and a lot can changge in 6 months.
England will be fine. They're still figuring out their rhythm defensively- losing rachel daly and then having Leah and Millie lose time for injuries- yeah they aren't going to look the same as the euros or even world cup. But they'll figure it out. Thye have time to work on it, regain chemistry, and figure out what works. It's better to have this result now than in the tournament, it'll be fine. That being said, I think Leah needs a rest. She missed a couple games for concussion protocol this season and I don't think she's better from that. With her questionable passes/decisions, I think she may still have some brain fog or something. But again, there is time for that to heal and for players to take responsibility and get better any way they can and I have full trust that they will!
sarina is not playing the young ones enough!"
I think starting decisions are still being made as a result of the Euro win & WC with the old guard of players. But we began to see the need for a changing of the guard when England failed to qualify for the Olympics. You can’t pick based on past performance and length of time in the team. Every spot needs to be earned by current performance. These are professional players, there is an expectation they will perform and an expectation that they will figure out a way to get back into form. When it comes to international duty, they should be humble enough to rule themselves out of selection when they know they are under performing, so that their spot can be given to someone more in form. You can’t be a competitive team if you give spots away for free.
Do not start Leah! Play greenwood! We miss Lotte! Parris should be in camp and Toone understandably hasn’t got her head in the game
LW was bullied by Ramírez against Chelsea, not sure if that's a cause or a symptom of something else. But she will be back, she's top class. Expect the young players to beat South Africa.
Hello Sarah and Sara. Many of the Germans I saw by watching Bayern Munich, as per previous comments. This was not so unexpected, as I almost predicted it by comments on GOTB videos from U17 World Cup. US are looking to the future, as I also commented before on videos about Emma. At least the Wembley loss was soon enough to make it clear something needs to change. I asked on another comments if Georgia Stanway might be a potential new captain as others had said Leah Williamson already seemed troubled in comments for the pre match press conference.
You guys kept the faith in USWNT during the Vlatko years. Now we see what they can do
World championship Spain has no medals at olympic.This time it's tied with Canada It's just friendly.
The NWSL is the only league I know that continues playing during a time international matches are taking place. This is a bid disadvantage with many international team players.
I havent seen the whole England vs. Germany match, but from what I did see, the English defence was not at it best and neither was the midfield. It was a friendly match where the result is secondary and conclusions can be made for further matches, especially as 2 top national teams were playing against each other.
The penalty caused by Russo was correct. It was unfortunate, but was called correctly according to the rules.
According to my sports app, Georgia Stanway and Beth Mead received the best marks of the match.
Great to see the USWNT win against a very uncomfortable team, Iceland. I'm especially delighted that Alyssa Thompson was able to come back and score.
It was Russo who was fouled, should have been a freekick to England.
it wasn't the best advertisement for the women's game tbh.
Defensive mistakes, goalkeeping mistakes, referee giving penalties that weren't really penalties (except the opening one) and SO many missed easy chances. The score should have been closer to 7-6!
Milly Bright and Leah Williamson were SO awful it was almost fun to watch…I mean, how on EARTH did Sarina keep carthorse Bright on…she was embarrassing! The match was actually fun to watch, and I think the press etc were too harsh in their post match analysis? Stanway (❤️) and Lessi battled the whole match, and England who - let’s face it - have been poor since they last beat the USA in 2022, battled back and it was entertaining to watch the individual battles. Sarina needs to bring in Alex Greenwood fgs - what is it with Sarina never picking her??? Also maybe Maya Le…nope, don’t know how to spell that. I feel for Leah: she is SUCH a brilliant asset re being an engaging and personable England Captain, bless her.
Ps. I have tickets to see the USA game at Wembley…hoping it’s not too embarrassing an England performance!! 🤪😨🏴
can you talk about the Canada vs Spain match please? I'd love to know your take on it!
don't forget how come we can not go to OLYMPIC... and Mary is good Hampton is good... in this game 48 mins is the best save for Hampton... and thx Germany the best angle goals.. thx thx thx...
What a match!!!!
didnt know a thing about the summer cup. Didn't even know the championship happened. England though.... wow they are not what they used to be.
esme better play on weds ,fancy coming across the pond to sit on the bench
im gonna leave this here :
england were rubbish in general , the hallowed leah w passed the ball to a german after 3mins, later all eng players on wrong side when gwinn got second ,
the only plus( for me) is first 5 goals were all bayern munich players yey!! (and all players left the pitch ok)
i think the captain has problems
tbf Hampton has been good for England so far but I have to say Earps would have probably saved that 3rd Germany goal
She was at fault leading up to the final penalty too
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leah 😢😢😢
gulia gwinn had a good captaincy (bayern)
it was a fine pass .... to a german !!!
if iceland could have won ,shouldnt you be worried iceland are not that good
Come on people be real, you can’t win every game every time. The players are only human. We all have off days.
Give em a break.
I will take the tie vs Spain. 🇨🇦
❤❤11xStanway und England hätte 10:4 gewonnen 😅😅
So everybody in the UK had to endure watching ITV coverage England ladies playing a friendly international. All the soaps were cancelled, nobody else wanted to watch this garbage which was on for 3hrs...This is what the rest of the UK have to put up with...Absolutely ridiculous! Congratulations Germany from the whole of Scotland.
What do want the English to do about it? Cry you a river as if it’s personally their fault?
@@SarahDilley-dy7ci Typical! English attitude, don't care about who else has to endure this garbage, It's like watching bad under 15s boys football. I'll tell what you can do, you can get the fk off our screens with your crap football.
@@BonnyScot-w1b Never said I was English did I. How are you blaming the English public for Scottish broadcasting as if they make the decisions what’s shown on TV’s in Scotland utterly ridiculous. Scottish always looking for anything and everything to bash their neighbours with no matter how nonsensical it sounds.
@@SarahDilley-dy7ci Tell me something....how would you like it if on a Friday night and your elderly mother was wanting to watch their soaps but instead you had to watch 3 hrs of Scotland ladies playing against Hungary in a friendly international. Nothing to do with bashing our neighbours as i have many relations in England. It's the presumption that everybody wants to follow how the lionesses are fairing.
@@SarahDilley-dy7ci ....and i wasn't blaming the English public. ITV hold the rights to England ladies therefor STV hands are tied and have to show this game.
TBH I don't think Leah's been the same since her ACL.
And Beth Mead. She was no where to be found yesterday