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Hello and welcome to live coverage of a brand-new tournament featuring | :00:00. | :00:30. | |
four of the top five teams in the world. England have a chance to | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
prove themselves once again across the Atlantic, against some mighty | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
foes and some of the biggest stars in the game. It is the USA, Germany, | :00:39. | :00:54. | |
France and England battling it out for the SheBelieves Cup. I am | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
delighted to be joined by Rachel Brown Finne and Rachel Janke who | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
scored. Good Brown Finne and Rachel Janke who | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
scored. Good members Rachel? Great memories. We were positive and | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
produced a goal like. I bet you don't mind watching that back again | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
and again. No, not at all. It was pretty good. Rachel number 2, | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
England would normally be in Cyprus Cup action at this point in time. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
How important is it for them to playing regularly? I think the | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
Cyprus Cup has created certain difor them. We -- certainty for them. We | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
win it on a fairly regular basis. This is a unique, brilliant | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
opportunity to step up and play the best teams in the world which | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
doesn't come around every day. The USA has proven it's a good recipe | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
for success. It is the world's top three ranked FIFA teams, what do you | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
think the chances are? I I -- I think it will be difficult but you | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
need to challenge yourself. It is difficult because we're not in | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
season. That's a really hard thing. Off the back of the World Cup, I | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
think that's it. It is a good one. Fingers crossed we can do it. OK. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Well, let's find out about about the team selection now. Joe Curry has | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
been spoking to Mark Sampson. I think we have a similar team to what | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
played in Germany. That was an excellent performance. We are very | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
strong in both sides of the park. We're strong in transition and to | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
make chances. We have a lot of the players who played in that game. | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
Only one change with -- -- Duggan coming in for Kirby. The Americans | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
are the world champions and best team in the world. There is no fear | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
but respect. We'll do our best to queet a positive result. Just -- get | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
a positive result. Just excited. We're excited to get out there play | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
as a team. It has been a long chance since we've played as a team, not | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
like the Americans, who have played every week since the World Cup. This | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
is a great chance to play as a team, enjoy ourselves together. One player | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
that has more knowledge than anyone of tonight's opponents is Jodie | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
Taylor. She's team-mates with four of the current squad and has seen | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
first-hand the boost the World Cup win has given the American game. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
Women's soccer has always been massive in the States anyway but we | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
saw a big difference in club games in attendance before and after. My | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
club we were averaging between 14 and 15,000 before the World Cup and | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
post-World Cup we were selling out at 20,000. It is just the attention | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
in general of the US women winning the World Cup. There's a great | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
belief and confidence amongst the team. We all play in Germany and | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
elsewhere. To be honest, anyone can win it but to me, it shows how far | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
we have come and how far we've come along to be competing with the | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
world's best. Rachel, thoughts on team selection tonight? Yes, it's | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
looking good. He's put a strong team together, only one change from the | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Germany game. It is pretty strong. I'm a little bit confused and | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
looking forward to watching how it goes with Fara Williams playing more | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
on the right side. I've not seen ta before. But, yeah, I think it will | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
be strong and hopefully we can do well. What do you think England's | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
game plan will be tonight? Well, having seen Fara kind of starting on | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
the right I'm anticipate that four in midfield will play fairly narrow | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
and hopefully constrict thement a of possession they can have -- the | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
amount of possession they can have the middle. We know Carli Lloyd is a | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
danger play, so I imagine the stem of flow to that sort of player who | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
can shoot from any distance will be a target for England. It is not just | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
about what the USA can do. I think England will come into this with a | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
positive mentality. It will be about what they can do and what they can | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
take to the USA as well. What is it about the USA, I know they're the | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
world champions, but do they have this aura about them? Yes, simply, | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
they do. Previous England teams I've been a part of have been kind of | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
over-awed by that. It's a powerful thing they've got. It comes from | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
winning games, winning tournaments, winning World Cups, winning | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
Olympics, playing very regularly together. That momentum never stops. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
How are England perceived now? Before last summer they wouldn't get | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
past the knockout stage. Now they're third. I think I the sheer fact | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
they're at this tournament is that they're viewed very highly and | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
they're a threat to other teams. People now want to play against | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
England. They're scared of what England can actually bring. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Predictions, very quickly? I'm still going to go with the 2-1 win to the | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
USA? OK. I'm going you on that. Time to cross live to Tampa, Florida. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Commentary from Sue Smith and first Jonathan Pearce. Thank you very | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
much, good evening, everyone. Welcome to the home of the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Buccaneers, twice Super Bowl champs. Many people in Canada last summer | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
believed the US would have had a far more difficult task in the final in | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
the World Cup had they been playing more difficult task in the final in | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
England rather than Japan. It will be interesting to see how far both | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
teams have come. England's performances last summer have heard | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
them a place in this invitational tournament. While the USA players | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
have only been apart for two weeks since the World Cup, England's team | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
has only been together for about a fortnight. England have played just | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
five matches, the last back in November, and the players were in | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
the middle of their pre-season training at various clubs. Here | :07:25. | :07:38. | |
comes the various anthems. ENGLISH NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYING | :07:39. | :08:17. | |
# Can you see by the dawn's early light | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
# What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
# Whose broad stripes and bright stars, | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
# Through the perilous fight, # O'er the ramparts we watched | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
were so gallantly streaming? # And the rocket's red glare, | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
the bombs bursting in air, # Gave proof through the night | :08:42. | :09:05. | |
that our flag was still there. # Oh, say | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
# Does that star-spangled banner yet wave | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
# O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? | :09:18. | :09:46. | |
Carli Lloyd, very much, of course, was involved last summer. And she, | :09:47. | :10:12. | |
Sue, is the world Footballer of the Year. Rightly so. She's a key player | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
for the United States. England's defence are going to have to be | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
careful of her and Alex Morgan, the way they link up together. The way | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
Alex Morgan likes to stretch the play and Lloyd will come and | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
receive. She is so effectively where she plays now. The rest of the US A | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
substitutes. Engen was involved in the World Cup squad, Johnston played | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
in the World Cup final as did Krieger. The one thing from the | :10:49. | :10:58. | |
England side that knew 0-0 in -- drew 0-0 Germany, Toni Duggan | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
preferred to Kirby. Fara Williams in her 14th international but only | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
second this season is set to be on the right of the midfield. I'm not | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
too sure they'll stick with that. I'm not either. I think Fara | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
Williams will drop in. I'd probably like Stokes, Demi Scott to drop in. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
I think her best position is just sitting just in, in front of the | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
back four 6789 A few of those England players have been in the USA | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
for spells, Jodie Taylor has four team-mates from Portland in the US | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
squad. And the goalkeeper was born in the US. Eniola Aluko will be | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
hoping to come off the bench and score as she approaches a milestone | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
in her England career - 98 cups she has. Already seen one game in the | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
tournament. You'll be seeing the highlights of the France-German game | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
at half time -- France-Germany game at half time so we'll keep you in | :12:14. | :12:30. | |
suspense. I tell you what, the national anthem of that match had | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
the German girls in fits of giggles. Holds 70,000 here. Not that many | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
here tonight but women's football very much on the here. For example, | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
in January, they played Ireland in front of 23,000. At the same time | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
the men were playing Iceland in front of just 8,000. It will be a | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
hot evening. Temperatures, round about an hour ago, were 30 degrees | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
Celsius. A little bit cooler now. And England in red. The goal awaits | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
you on your right-hand side in the first half. Captain Steph Houghton | :13:16. | :13:27. | |
raring to go. Alongside Gilly Flaherty, and it is the USA who are | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
off and under way. They're looking for a bright start as they got | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
against Japan in the final. Here is Carli Lloyd looking to team-mate up | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
straightaway the youngster Mallory Pugh. It is only her seventh cap. | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
She was brilliant in Olympic qualifying. She's the youngest | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
player the US have ever had in Olympic qualifiers - 79 days shy of | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
her 18th birthday - and they're talking very, very highly of her. | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
She is a real talent. It is quite novel for a player of her age to be | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
playing for the USA. They normally take them away on camps. But this | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
girl is so good, she's starting with them. She's starting on the | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
right-hand side which means that Tobin Heath starts on the left. She | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
started the World Cup on the right-hand side. Hope Solo has kept | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
five clean sheets in a row and hasn't been beaten in the US goal | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
for 481 minutes. WHISTLE | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
A major factor about this whole US setup is that they treat their | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
national side like a club team. They keep them together. They had a week | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
off at Christmas. After they played Ireland they had a few days after | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
before they prepared for their Olympic qualifying. Once they won | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
that tournament they had a few days off but that's it for the year. It | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
makes a big difference. Our girls don't manage to get together that | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
much. That's why the United States are so good because they do play | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
like a club team. They know exactly how each other play. It obviously | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
works for them. I think that's something we can look into for the | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
future. Fara didn't play any of the group | :15:23. | :15:34. | |
games. There's Mark Sampson. He has recently signed a contract extension | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
to 2019. Marion Spacey, the assistant to Mark. | :15:43. | :16:03. | |
It is 0-0. Not our graphics, I apologise for that. That is Jill | :16:04. | :16:13. | |
Ellis, who has very much an English connection. She was born near | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
Portsouth. England on a raid here. Stokes played at left back in the | :16:24. | :16:42. | |
warm-up for the World Cup throughout the qualifiers, then wask -- then | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
was axed for the World Cup finals but is very much present. It is | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
credit to her she continued to play for her club Manchester City and | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Mark Sampson picked her again. She is very versatile. She can play left | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
back, left midfield and play in the centre in midfield as well. I think | :17:04. | :17:04. | |
we'll need her energy tonight. Toni Duggan. You'll be able to hear | :17:05. | :17:21. | |
the girls shouting to each other. You won't be able to... Well you | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
might be able to mistake Toni Duggan because her accent very similar to | :17:28. | :17:39. | |
Alex Greenwood, very scuose girls. I don't think they'll mind me saying | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
they have strong accents. Strong characters, the both. I'll tell you | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
what they're saying. This is a bright start by England. Just | :17:52. | :18:13. | |
Harper. Klingenberg, wearing 7, started 38 out of the last 48 games. | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
This is the England captain, Steph Houghton, ever-present. Had a strong | :18:22. | :18:35. | |
World Cup. Emily Sonnett alongside Becky Sauerbrunn, just | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
Heath is switched back to the right-hand side now. Jill Scott wins | :18:45. | :18:59. | |
it for England - tallest player out there tonight. Taylor makes good | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
runs. She is an intelligent footballer. In support here now | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
comes Lucy Bronze. Typical run from her. England have a corner. This is | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
where she proved so useful in fact World Cup final. She scored against | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
Norway, she scored against Canada. And they targeted her at setpieces. | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
Duggan in there as well, of course. U | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
Greenwood will take it, which means it will swing in. Was the youngest | :19:30. | :19:44. | |
in the squad last summer. In it goes to the penalty area. Headed away. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
Duggan had been holding deep. Williams, that's... Oh, cross-wires. | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
And she's got some pace, Mallory Pugh, the teenager. Klingenberg, | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
goes after the youngster again. CROWD: Boo! Boos from the crowd. | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
They wondering if that should have been a free-kick. If you're | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
wondering what the SheBelieves Cup means, that term 'she believes', was | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
a campaign launched in the run-up to the World Cup, developed by the USA | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
themselves, and it has grown ever since. Morgan Brian had a very good | :20:38. | :20:56. | |
World Cup final. Lindsey Horan played in the Olympic qualifying | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
campaign. They won that mini tournament. They beat Canada in the | :21:00. | :21:11. | |
final 2-0, so they're off to Rio. A foul against the youngster. Yes, | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
she's quick, and she wants to just run direct at players. And I think | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Jordan Nobbs just actually stopped her in her tracks but I don't know | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
if she picked up a little knock, she's combn limping a lit -- been | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
limping a little bit then but she looks OK. Just got to university, | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
UCLA, and play for the Bruen side there. Kelley O'Hara has lost a lot | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
of international football through injury. Had a very good start to the | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
World Cup qualifying campaign. Hope Solo take it is free kick. Best | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
goalkeeper at the World Cup finals. She get -- she kept a clean sheet | :22:10. | :22:30. | |
there. These USA internationals really stay with the national squad | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
as we've been saying. Don't play as many club games as the English | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
players now play. Lindsey Horan pushes it forward. A very good spell | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
at Saint-Germain, bypassed university to go to Paris. Is now | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
back in the USA, in Portland, team-mate of Jodie Taylor. | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
All eyes on Mallory Pugh. Three state league titles, Colorado, her | :23:02. | :23:15. | |
junior side. Meghan Klingenberg, the left back. She won the Under 20 | :23:16. | :23:27. | |
World Cup in 2008. They tend to bring their players through in | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
waves. Four of the current squad won that tournament in 2012, the | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Understood 20s. I think Mark Sampson mentioned it in his interview there. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
They get a few of the players, they retire or go off and have babies, | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
and the players they bring through are just as good. I think that's all | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
credit to the American system. You look at Mallory Pugh coming through | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
now and we've only seen glimpse of her but she's a top player. It shows | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
that things are working for them. Becky Sauerbrunn, out to Kelley | :24:00. | :24:09. | |
O'Hara. England are equipping themselves well here at the moment. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
One or two of them were feeling the effects of jet lag over the past | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
couple of days in the preparation for this. It is too long for Jodi | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Taylor, who has had her long flight to get here across the USA from | :24:27. | :24:40. | |
Portland on the far coast. O'Hara, Olympic gold medallist in London in | :24:41. | :24:41. | |
2012. Not a good ball. Interesting to hear Rachel's | :24:42. | :25:09. | |
thoughts before the game about the role the Cyprus Cup has played for | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
England and Mark Sampson really came to the fore in winning that | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
competition in 2015, having just taken over a year earlier, he | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
finished runner-up at it. What was she trying to do there, whip it in | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
for Taylor? I'm not sure if she's having a shot at goal there. She has | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
the ability to do that. She's nodding her head. She was trying to | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
test the keeper out. You can see straightaway the four in midfield | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
are staying very, very tight. They're trying to prevent anything | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
from happening in the centre of the park. You can see the four fullbacks | :25:52. | :26:01. | |
are pushing on at every opportunity to try and push the ball. Goodness | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
me, she is is lightning quick Pugh. It was a decent ball looking for | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Alex Morgan. This is a star in the making - Mallory Pugh. It really is. | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
Very, very direct. Very pacey. Lucy Bronze is quick, so to be able to | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
outpace Lucy Bronze, she's definitely got speed on her side, | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
then a decent ball into the box as welt. Well, if she carries on | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
playing as long as Abby Wombach did, she could be around for the next | :26:40. | :26:54. | |
five World Cups! That's frightening. An interesting front two for the | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
England against the Germany game. I think these two, both of them will | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
run, do like to get into the channels but I think Toni Duggan | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
will come to feed a lot, and the combination of Jodie Taylor and Toni | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
Duggan linking up, I think it will work well for them especially if | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
they're coming for a counterattack, which I'm predicting they'll have to | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
do at times. England call for a free kick. You saw them appealing for it. | :27:28. | :27:40. | |
They've got it. Jill Scott that was. They certainly don't look overawed | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
against the best team in the world at the moment, ranked number 1 in | :27:45. | :27:54. | |
FIFA, and a team not here ranking outside the top four is Japan. | :27:55. | :28:09. | |
Hit the wall, disappointing, Fara Williams. Haven't seen a great deal | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
of the England cat tain at the moment -- captain at the moment. | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
That was offside. There's Hope Solo. She's had a checkered life, I think | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
it's fair to say. She's something... Has been something of a... Well, | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
she's been on the front pages of magazines in the USA, TV shows but | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
shen she's been involved in -- then she's been involved in court cases | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
as well. A controversial character. She's a very controversial character | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
off the pitch, but on the field, fantastic keeper. O'Hara nips in. | :28:48. | :29:02. | |
England covering well. They have the ball and are finding spaces. And | :29:03. | :29:10. | |
when they haven't, they're denying space for the likes of Carli Lloyd. | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
25 games for the USA. 85 goals. 17 this season in 15 appearances. | :29:18. | :29:41. | |
They've played Costa Rica a couple of times and Haiti. In four wins | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
against those two countries they've managed to score 28 goals. They beat | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
Brazil, Trinidad. They had a couple of games against China and lost at | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
home to China in New Orleans. They've loss one home game in 110 | :29:58. | :30:06. | |
internationals over 12 years. Lindsey Horan is from Lakewood, | :30:07. | :30:24. | |
California. For -- California. She was at Stanford University. | :30:25. | :30:47. | |
Again, that's the route that so many of these US international players | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
take. She's just off to UCLA. They get their scholarships. They go to | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
college football where they play a lot of games. And they have all the | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
facilities and they get big crowds watching them. So they're used to | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
that sort of standard of play. Horan making that run. Just a natural | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
profession for them into the national team. Makes that run, | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
doesn't she, Alex Morgan. Tries to get in beind and Lloyd lid -- | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
behind, Carli Lloyd arrives late. That's what Japan simply couldn't | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
cope. They were blown away. We were blown away in the opening 15 | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
minutes. We couldn't quite believe what we were seeing in the World Cup | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
final. It was great to commentate on though, there was loads happening, | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
lots to talk about. Carli Lloyd in the third minute, seconds later it | :31:40. | :31:48. | |
was two. Then Holiday after 4 minutes, then Carli Lloyd's | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
hat-trick with a lob after 16 minutes. So the goals continued to | :31:52. | :31:58. | |
flow. England on the counter here. Jordan Nobbs had an injury-hit World | :31:59. | :31:59. | |
Cup. Just played the one game. Klingenberg was pushed. She's very | :32:00. | :32:15. | |
consistent and is right up there, possibly, at the moment the best | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
left back in the world. One of them anyway. Yeah, I've got the agree | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
with. I also think Kelley O'Hara has really put a name for herself after | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
the Olympic qualification because I know Krieger was one of the, you | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
know, starters and she just, whether it's her attacking ability, O'Hara | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
likes to get forward, and I think that's what Jill Ellis likes, | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
Krieger is very much a stay-at-home defender, and she seems to have | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
cemented her place in the team. Out comes Bardsley, had to get there, | :32:53. | :32:59. | |
and was fouled. She took a real blow there from Alex Morgan. Who had to | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
go for the ball. It was there, hesitation at the pack for England. | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
I -- back for England. I think she's winded, Karen Bardsley. You will | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
remember she had to go off against Canada in Vancouver. She picked up | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
an inflammation of the eye. She was something to do with a reaction to | :33:19. | :33:20. | |
the artificial surface there. Karen Bardsley did the right thing. | :33:21. | :33:32. | |
She had to come out and she had to cover. Just on the blindside of | :33:33. | :33:40. | |
Steph Houghton. She did well, Karen Bardsley. She's from Santa Monica in | :33:41. | :33:51. | |
California. Her parents are English, I think. Yeah, they're from | :33:52. | :33:59. | |
Manchester. And that's where she plays, Manchester City. She played | :34:00. | :34:11. | |
in Estonia earlier this season in one of the qualifiers for Euro 17. | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
England got off to a good start there. Very awkward conditions that | :34:17. | :34:28. | |
day. Toiling with rain, a howling rain and the visitors parked the | :34:29. | :34:36. | |
team bus in front of their goal. Oh, that's a bad, short pass and Duggan | :34:37. | :34:41. | |
can pick it up here! Approaching midway mark in the first half then | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
it comes back to Scott. In this opening game in the SheBelieves Cup. | :34:47. | :35:01. | |
Nobbs. That was a bad pass and Toni Duggan straightaway is onto that, | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
but the American defence, the speed at which they get back, there's two | :35:05. | :35:12. | |
or three players around her and she can't find a space. Becky | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
Sauerbrunn, I remember she should have been sent off in the World Cup | :35:17. | :35:26. | |
final, adamant to this day. Klingenberg has to drop back. | :35:27. | :35:44. | |
England are more than matching the USA in the midfield. They've forced | :35:45. | :35:56. | |
a throw off Tobin Heath. We'll be together for the next | :35:57. | :36:22. | |
England Euro qualifier. You can see it on the BBC. It's at New York | :36:23. | :36:35. | |
Stadium in Rotherham. It is a 7:55 kick-off. Well worth going to | :36:36. | :36:42. | |
support the Lionesses, who are holding the World Champions here. It | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
is really good value for money, the fact that you can take the whole | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
family for under ?25. You probably wouldn't get a ticket in the men's | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
game for that, would you? You wouldn't. | :36:57. | :37:03. | |
This is a bit of a knock to the England fullback, Alex Morgan. She | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
has been in startling goal-scoring form - six in her last six | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
internationals. 10 this season. She's in real pain there. Uhas she | :37:15. | :37:28. | |
popped her shoulder out there? Looks most uncomfortable. Well, Demi | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
Stokes could go back in there. They have... Certainly have alternatives. | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
The rest of the squad can be named on the bench. And they are tonight. | :37:39. | :37:52. | |
Although, Siobhan Chamberlain, one of the cover goalkeepers, has an | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
injury and I don't think will be able to come on. If she's officially | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
named unfit she can't sit on the bench. Themes are -- thems the rules | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
and she'd have to sit up in the stand by herself. That must have | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
been the incident. They sort of got their arms tangled. Thankfully, I | :38:15. | :38:16. | |
think she's OK. 25 minutes gone. Williams is still there with her. | :38:17. | :38:37. | |
Got the cross in. Morgan Brian played a major part in fact World | :38:38. | :38:48. | |
Cup final. Set up the last goal. Emily Sonnett graduated from the | :38:49. | :38:59. | |
University of Virginia. She's the Atlantic Coast Conference College | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
Defender of the Year last year, the 22-year-old. Good shout from Karen | :39:03. | :39:12. | |
Bardsley. Right at the start of the World Cup she had a shaky moment and | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
then she grew in confidence. In the end, I seem to remember was second | :39:17. | :39:24. | |
only to Hope Solo in the goalkeeper rankings. | :39:25. | :39:38. | |
Solo, herself, was a striker until her teenage years. Then someone put | :39:39. | :39:45. | |
her in goal for a game, she stayed. Then she was on a mission to improve | :39:46. | :39:54. | |
the standard of goalkeeping. She was aware that goalkeepers in the | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
women's game had been harshly criticised, according to her, and | :39:59. | :40:04. | |
she wanted to prove people wrong. I think she's probably done that, in | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
her 119th international. She certainly has. So approaching the | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
half-hour mark. A littleway short of that. Thank you very much for | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
staying up and watching it if you're watching it with us in real-time. | :40:21. | :40:27. | |
There's Demi Stokes, who has changed her hairstylesince we last saw her. | :40:28. | :40:39. | |
I still find it strange, she played such a massive role throughout | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
qualifying to the World Cup, then she was axed, now she's back in. She | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
was one of the biggest, I think, shocks of the squad when it was | :40:48. | :40:56. | |
announced. But when questions were raised of young Mark Sampson's Mt -- | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
management decisions, she got them all right. He has taken England to | :41:02. | :41:08. | |
their highest position in any World Cup final since Bobby Moore lifted | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
the trophy at Wembley in '66. Here's Carli Lloyd. A big game, a big | :41:14. | :41:19. | |
goal-scorer, twice scored in Olympic finals. | :41:20. | :41:27. | |
Sauerbrunn to Emily Sonnett. Her twin Emma also plays. She's at the | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
University of Georgia. The referee is allowing a fair | :41:34. | :41:42. | |
degree of physicality. WHISTLE | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
We'll have the blow there on the foul on Alex Greenwood, who, it is | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
fair to say, Sue, getting some rough old treatment. She is. I've been | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
really impressed by how England is pressure rising America and stopping | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
them from playing. You can see. So of the American girls are getting | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
frustrated, a few balls are going astray. That's credit to how England | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
are defending at the minute. I'd like to see them when in possession | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
be more creative and keep the ball up top. Defensively, they've been | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
excellent. Haven't conceded a goal in five games. Lost only five of | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
their matches in 2015 in England. 10 of the England players in the | :42:26. | :42:32. | |
squad have played for USA clubs. Certainly cageyer than the opening | :42:33. | :42:57. | |
-- cagier than the opening game between France and Germany. We'll | :42:58. | :43:00. | |
see the action of that at half-time. Greenwood. I don't think the | :43:01. | :43:09. | |
referee... I think she guessed. The assistant didn't help at all. Didn't | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
look particularly interested. Tobin Heath, just that one game in | :43:15. | :43:31. | |
the finals. 111 caps and, this time, there's a little bit of revenge and | :43:32. | :43:39. | |
for that she gets a yellow card and quite rightly so, Alex Greenwood, | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
one of the five England players who started the playoff game against | :43:46. | :43:57. | |
Germany back in the summer. That was a little bit of frustration | :43:58. | :44:04. | |
of grood grood grood. It was -- for Alex Greenwood. It was late. It was | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
a booking. I think she was getting her own back there. I think she was. | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
That was a message, "You may be a World Cup winner but you're not | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
going to get away with the nonsense you've been trying so far." But | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
Heath has goalside, checks back, gets the cross in, important | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
defending by the captain, getting it away and then looped over from | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
Lindsey Horan! Who was a striker when she first came into the squad. | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
Dropped out for a little while. Came back in, now a midfielder. | :44:41. | :44:53. | |
England's first international in the USA since they played in Birmingham, | :44:54. | :45:01. | |
Alabama. They were beaten 6-0 that day. I seem to remember the forwards | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
and especially the wide players not tracking back that day. Bit of a | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
lazy performance by some of the wide players. Were you playing in that? | :45:11. | :45:12. | |
LAUGHS No, I'm sure, I'm sure not. I seem | :45:13. | :45:19. | |
to remember you starting a run one day and finishing it the next. | :45:20. | :45:20. | |
LAUGHS Here's Greenwood. I think that | :45:21. | :45:29. | |
shows, as well, how far England have come and how they've progressed, | :45:30. | :45:32. | |
especially over the last 12 months. The fact that we did get beat 6-0. | :45:33. | :45:40. | |
I'm sure I did track back, but the gulf between the two sides now, it's | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
so much closer. Do you look now, because the facilities are better, | :45:46. | :45:50. | |
the money invested in the women's game, it's jumped so dramatically in | :45:51. | :45:59. | |
the last, what, 36 months, four years let's say, do you regard that | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
with a pang of jealousy or do you think 'this is all fantastic. It is | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
a great story'. I wish I was 10 years younger like I'm sure a lot of | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
us do. But I think it is just great for the game. It is fantastic to see | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
it grow and to see these girls improving and competing with some of | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
the top nations in the world. But, yeah, I am a bit jealous. Just the | :46:24. | :46:25. | |
10 years? Some of us wish we here's Lloyd. Likes to run from | :46:26. | :46:38. | |
these deep positions. We haven't seen Mallory Pugh in recent minute | :46:39. | :46:41. | |
z. Lucy Bronze, good defencing. Didn't look at the body movement of | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
Pugh. Kept her eyes glued on the ball. Of course, was in the All Star | :46:48. | :46:56. | |
team in the summer. Her first thought is to go forward and to run | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
at the defence, Mallory Pugh there. That was well-read by Alex | :47:02. | :47:23. | |
Greenwood. You can hear the England bench shouting to Toni Duggan, "Go | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
on! Go on!" That's when you want your centre forward to pressurise, | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
keep her in there and make sure the team go with her when they're | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
running back towards the goal. She hopes for a third Olympic gold in | :47:38. | :47:54. | |
the summer in Rio. The German coach, who is here, bows out after Rio and | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
she'll be determined to make up for what was a disappointing, | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
ultimately, World Cup for Germany. Early on in the competition while | :48:06. | :48:13. | |
the USA were patchy, Germany looked very good. Oh, she's appealed for | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
handball there and that seemed to bounce up and hit Becky Sauerbrunn | :48:20. | :48:29. | |
on the arm! England win it back and the referee, quite right to pull up | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
Morgan Brian there for the foul. She was dispossessed. Is this handball. | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
I think it is handball and you can tell by Jodi Taylor's reaction. When | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
a player reacts like that. Do you know, I think the telling point as | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
she made the initial run with Jodie Taylor, she lost her bearings and | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
she looked to see where Jodie Taylor was. Then I think she panicked and | :48:55. | :48:59. | |
pushed the ball away with her arm. England should have had a penalty. | :49:00. | :49:03. | |
Yeah, definitely. That was good play by Jodi Taylor as well. | :49:04. | :49:16. | |
WHISTLE Unlucky for the fullback to attack | :49:17. | :49:26. | |
Tobin Heath in the air there. This is Meghan Klingenberg, the left back | :49:27. | :49:43. | |
on the right-hand side. Had a spell at North Carolina Taheals, a very | :49:44. | :49:53. | |
successful university side, that. Well, England should have had a | :49:54. | :50:02. | |
penalty against the wampbs. They come on the -- world champions. They | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
come on the attack now but there's no rhythm and England have played | :50:07. | :50:16. | |
them very well. World champions. They come on the attack now but | :50:17. | :50:19. | |
there's no rhythm and England have played them very well. Let's not | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
forget that the WSL football returns at the end of this month for the | :50:24. | :50:30. | |
next season. Nine teams in the top flight. Including your Doncaster | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
Bells. Yes. It will be nice to compete with the best teams in the | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
country again. I think the fact that these girls haven't played | :50:40. | :50:46. | |
competitive football for a good few months, they're really matching | :50:47. | :50:49. | |
Mathew Leckie in all departments --matching America in all | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
departments. I'm sure we'll see match fitness coming towards the | :50:54. | :50:56. | |
second half but I didn't think they'd have that sharpness. For me, | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
I don't see any signs of them not having played for a few months. | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
Here's Jill Scott. Looking agitated, the world | :51:05. | :51:31. | |
champions. Trying to force one or two things and rushing their | :51:32. | :51:48. | |
control. Here's Lindsey Horan, after winning the Understood 20 Concacaf | :51:49. | :51:57. | |
title --Under 20 Concacaf title. Sauerbrunn, US Defender of the Year | :51:58. | :52:05. | |
on a couple of occasions. The only player to start all 24 games for the | :52:06. | :52:09. | |
USA in that fantastic calendar year of 2015. Here's Klingenberg. | :52:10. | :52:13. | |
WHISTLE Rather significant that that switch | :52:14. | :52:19. | |
from left-to-right seems permanent for her and she's gone on there. | :52:20. | :52:37. | |
No change out of the England midfield or defence. | :52:38. | :52:57. | |
Pugh has given away a free kick here. That's the rashness of youth. | :52:58. | :53:06. | |
It's interesting you mention Carli Lloyd because England have done | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
very, very well to deal with her because she tries to find those | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
little pockets of space and she gets on the ball and makes things happen | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
but you can see she's going deeper and deeper to get on the ball. She | :53:18. | :53:26. | |
scored a hat-trick against Ireland, scored a hat-trick against Haiti. | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
Sixth highest scorer in the US history. We've had a couple of texts | :53:32. | :53:41. | |
in asking us what's happened to the other stars of the US World Cup | :53:42. | :53:56. | |
success. Amy Rodriguez is expecting. Meghan Rapone is injured. And Abby | :53:57. | :54:04. | |
Wambach retired. There you are. Klingenberg down the linement you | :54:05. | :54:14. | |
wander -- you wonder what the future holds for one or two of the English | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
players not included by Mark Sampson. White, I think Moore would | :54:21. | :54:27. | |
have been here but not fit. Danielle Carter is out with the Under 23s. | :54:28. | :54:38. | |
Should one or two of those players be anxious? I think it just shows | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
what quality he has to pick from now. The fact those players you've | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
mentioned aren't even getting in the scaud -- squad. The competition for | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
places means it's even more exciting for England going forward. The next | :54:57. | :55:13. | |
game is against Germany on Sunday. They finish off next Thursday | :55:14. | :55:14. | |
against France. WHISTLE | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
That's offside, against Alex Morgan, running in behind. Has just moved | :55:21. | :55:36. | |
clubs to Florida. She's just joined the Orlando Pride. Very successful | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
in her own right outside of football. She has written a series | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
of books, mind you, that was about football, a teenage player. A series | :55:47. | :55:51. | |
of books called The Kicks, or something like that. But her profile | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
in the USA is much higher than the profile of women's football in the | :55:56. | :56:02. | |
UK still. They're on chat programmes and many of them are on TV shows. | :56:03. | :56:12. | |
They've got a free-kick here, the USA, for a bundling foul on Alex | :56:13. | :56:21. | |
Morgan. Lucy Bronze with her. The girl whose middle name is Tough. | :56:22. | :56:32. | |
Who's half English, half Portuguese. She was short-listed for Sports | :56:33. | :56:41. | |
Personality of the Year. Here comes Pugh, Houghton is there with her, | :56:42. | :56:45. | |
didn't clear. Lloyd gets the shot - blocked! Blocked wheel by Alex | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
Greenwood who was covering across. That's the first chance she's had! | :56:51. | :56:58. | |
Klingenberg gone back to the left! What's this for? Foul by Carli | :56:59. | :57:10. | |
Lloyd. This just show it is pace and the power and they're prepared to | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
run in behind. Gilly Flaherty, it was, with the... Tried to... Well, | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
she got the tackle in but just couldn't quite clear it and Alex | :57:19. | :57:22. | |
Greenwood I had ever so well to see the danger and come across an clear | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
it --and clear it. Apologies to Steph Houghton, it wasn't her | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
mistake, it was Gilly Flaherty. A little bit of inexperience there. | :57:32. | :57:34. | |
Only her fourth international for England. She made her debut against | :57:35. | :57:40. | |
China. She got the touch but couldn't quite get rid of the ball. | :57:41. | :57:49. | |
We're into the last 30 seconds of the half. A good, strong first half, | :57:50. | :57:54. | |
has Alex Greenwood. Hougth hout felt she was fell -- | :57:55. | :58:12. | |
Houghton fell she was fouled and Bronze squeezed it back under | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
pressure. She's one of the fastest I've seen in a long while. She | :58:18. | :58:25. | |
really is and she's just not... She isn't scared at all. You can see | :58:26. | :58:32. | |
there that youth where she wants to attack the defenders, she wants to | :58:33. | :58:36. | |
score goals. She's been the main threat. Into the one-minute of added | :58:37. | :58:45. | |
time. Klingenberg back on the left-hand side. Here's Morgan Brian, | :58:46. | :58:51. | |
fourth international. She's still only 23. And plays for Houston Dash. | :58:52. | :59:11. | |
Through the box by Horan - downward header by Pugh, and it's dropped | :59:12. | :59:18. | |
wide... What are your overall thoughts of the first half, Sue? I | :59:19. | :59:21. | |
think defensively, England have been excellent. I think they've stopped | :59:22. | :59:25. | |
America from playing, which was what we were scared of - the two | :59:26. | :59:28. | |
forwards, Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan. I think England have dealt | :59:29. | :59:32. | |
with them very well. I'd like to see them, when they go forward, with a | :59:33. | :59:36. | |
little bit more quality and maybe giving Jodie Taylor and Toni Duggan | :59:37. | :59:39. | |
a chance. It's a little bit too high - they've got to chest it down or | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
head it on. Just a bit more quality on their forward play. But | :59:44. | :59:48. | |
defensively, excellent. Hope Solo - 526 minutes without conceding a | :59:49. | :59:53. | |
goal. England have gone 3.5 games without conceding a goal. That's | :59:54. | :59:59. | |
why, here in Tampa, the half-time score line is USA 0, England 0. | :00:00. | :00:06. | |
Well, it's a battle, but one that England have been more than up to so | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
far. Chances for both sides, but should USA have paid the penalty? | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Rachel, your thoughts on the first half? I think it's been very | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
encouraging for all England fans. I think the England | :00:26. | :00:25. | |
encouraging for all England fans. I think the England team have started | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
on the front foot. They look very, very composed, but they also look | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
very, very positive and energised. You can see that they're up for the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
occasion. So, real positive start for me from the team. OK. Rachel? | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Yeah, definitely. I mean, Mark Sampson's statement before was that | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
he was not gonna fear anyone, he was gonna show 'em respect, but no fear. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
That's definitely what they've gone and done. OK. Let's talk about this | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
penalty. Should it have been a penalty - handball? Not for me, to | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
be honest. If it was the other end, and one of our defenders, I think | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Jodie Taylor just nudges her in the back there, and - it does hit her | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
hand, yes, but I think that nudge in the back puts her off. Yes, you | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
could see them be given. So I wouldn't complain if we did get a | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
penalty, but if it was down the other end, I wouldn't appreciate it. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
You can see from Jodhi's reaction, she thought it was a penalty | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
straightaway. It certainly redirects the ball away from Jodie Taylor, so | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
you can see why England claim the penalty. Do you think the tactics | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
have paid off in the first half? Certainly. Not only have England | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
reduced the USA to virtually zero chances - they've been banking up | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
very, very well, England, as units in the back four, the midfield four. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Their pressing game has been very, very strong right from the front | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
two, through the midfield. Midfield, as we've suggested, has been working | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
very, very narrow, but England have been doubling up fantastically well | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
all around the pitch. We're seeing examples of it here - right from the | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
very, very top, the ball goes past Jordan Nobbs, Jill Scott sweeps for | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
her. The ball goes past Jill Scott, Jordan Nobbs sweeps up for her. All | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
around the pitch, as soon as the ball passes one of the England | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
players, someone else is putting pressure on them. It's causing the | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
USA to - all it's allowing them to do, really, is forcing them into | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
errors and playing these hopeful long balls, which we very rarely see | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
the USA resort to. Andrea Barzagli here was fantastically -- Karen | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Bardsley was fantastically aware to play that long ball. But the USA | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
playing hopeless, aimless balls is something we don't see very often. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
They look frustrated, don't they? Can we keep this up for the second | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
half? That's the big question, considering our lack of game time. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
But look at the subs England have got to bring on - the experience and | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
also the pace of people. I think it will be a good second half for them. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
I think Mark Sampson was adamant that he didn't want to use England | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
not having many games and just be coming out of pre-season as an | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
excuse. I think we saw the USA maybe creep into it literally the last | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
couple of minutes of the first half, and maybe create the odd opening, | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
but generally if England can come out and play the first 45 - sorry, | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
the second 45 as they did the first 45, they're absolutely flying and | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
have got every chance in this game. OK. Well, half-time and it's 0-0. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Earl a E.ON, France met Germany in the opening match of the tournament | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
- a repeat of the World Cup quarterfinal, which was won on | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
penalties by the Germans. Only 11 of the 22 that started that match began | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
tonight, but plenty of quality on show. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
There were plenty of giggles in the warm-up as the German team found the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
singing of their national an them... Most amusing. | :03:47. | :04:20. | |
Commentary comes from JP Dellacamera. | :04:21. | :04:59. | |
There's the long shot from distance - that may have gone in... | :05:00. | :05:15. | |
France has the numbers in a five-on-five situation... Back | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
across - far post! Saved! Off the line by Schul! | :05:24. | :05:39. | |
Schul had to come across her line to make the save... | :05:40. | :05:58. | |
Great save by Schul with the right foot! She tried to go to the | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
keeper's right, and the foot keeps it scoreless! | :06:05. | :07:13. | |
That may have been Mayer. We'll see who was lined up there. As that ball | :07:14. | :07:31. | |
came across off the dangerous corner kick, it's 1-0 Germany. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
What a good start for Germany! Next up is England on Sunday: | :07:36. | :07:54. | |
Kick-off at 10:45. So, Germany - Sunday, England. What | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
do you think? What do England need to look out for? It's always an epic | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
battle, Germany against England. It's been good for England to have | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
the opportunity to have viewed this match, and they'll obviously take it | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
away and analyse it. But it's the same old Germany. Obviously they've | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
lost a couple of names from this summer's World Cup, but another | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
great challenge for England, and a very different challenge, I | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
anticipate, to the USA this evening. Alex Greenwood's going to have to be | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
careful if she wants to play in that match, picking up a booking in the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
first half. It's a silly booking, as well - a needless booking. This | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
cover - Gilly Flaherty and Jordan Nobbs are both covering her. She | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
doesn't need to do it. I think she's got a little bit frustrated, to be | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
honest. Alex Greenwood's done very, very well against Tobin Heath, | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
against Alex Morgan down that left-hand side. So yeah, that | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
booking was probably a bit disappointing, because it's maybe | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
going to put Alex Greenwood on the back foot a little bit - she's going | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
to have to be careful with challenges of that sort of nature. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Until then, I think she's been frustrating the US players. She | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
hasn't had an outstanding game so far. She reads the game so well. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Good tackle by Gillibrand, but what a block that is in cover there. We | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
need her on the pitch, really, but we need her to be sensible and | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
disciplined, like she was at the beginning of the game. She'll need | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
more protection from Demi in the second half? Potentially. Alex | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Greenwood may potentially end up with a second yellow - USA will be | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
clever and push everything onto Alex Greenwood down that side and maybe | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
lead her into that territory. So yes, she'll have to be disciplined | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
in the second half. Demi and the players around her, I'm sure, will | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
cover. We were talking about Claire Rafferty being a big part of the | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
World Cup but not featuring so far... I'm sure Mark Sampson has his | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
reasons for going with Alex Greenwood and Demi Stokes, who | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
obviously wasn't a part of the World Cup squad. But this is her home | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
territory, where she went to university - this is where Demi | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
Stokes has lived for the last five years. It seems that Mark Sampson | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
has a plan and a way he wants to play. I'm sure he would have planned | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
for this 0-0 at half-time, although he would have liked them to be 1-0 | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
up. He would have planned to make some changes, maybe to the left back | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
or other players, in the second half. We've come to learn to trust | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
Mark Sampson's cunning plans, I think! Let's see if we can continue | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
to do so. It's 12 months to the day since Steph Houghton led England out | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
against Finland, as the Lionesses beginning their World Cup | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
preparations. Now, the defender's been reflecting on the World Cup and | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
what they achieved in Canada. If you go through the whole tournament, we | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
gained confidence with each match, and we hit a lot of milestones. We | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
reached the first knockout stage, we beat Canada with 50,000 in the | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
stadium. We were so close to beating Japan, and we won a bronze medal. I | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
think, with the squad that we have, we did gain confidence. Don't get us | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
wrong - we have a very, very talented squad, and we have players | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
that are hungry for success on a personal and a team level. The most | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
important thing for us is to stick together. We have a squad of 23, and | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
it's not just about 11 people on the pitch - it's about the 23 as a | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
whole, and that's what our major strength was in the World Cup - | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
being able to be probably the most together team in that tournament. We | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
come against a lot of setbacks, but we also had some joy in that | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
tournament. Now it's all about using that confidence to produce the level | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
on a more consistent basis against the best teams. Most importantly was | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
all about me as an individual playing well and making sure I was | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
in form. I felt as though I did have a World Cup. I mean, to be able to | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
lead my country out was a massive achievement and a massive honour, | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
and I'm very privileged to have the support of all the girls and some | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
fantastic individuals. I feel as though I have grown not only as a | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
player in learning to play at centre-half and how Mark wants us to | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
play here, and playing against the best strikers, but also as a person | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
and a leader. It's something that I do work hard on, and hopefully can | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
continue to develop over the next few years. Steph Houghton played | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
every minute of the World Cup for England. How impressive is she? As | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
captain, she's really got into that role, hasn't she? She certainly has | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
big shoes to fill, for Steph, at a fairly young age. But as soon as | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
Mark Sampson came into the role as manager, he designated her as his | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
captain. As Steph mentioned there, she's had to work at that. She's led | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
her country to its best results so far in its history. She's obviously | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
doing something well, along with the rest of the team. But she's got a | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
job on her hands tonight to lead the team and to - you know, a historic | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
win it would be in the US. Certainly. What do you think Steph | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
would be saying right now in the dressing-room? I think just keep | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
doing what they've been doing. They've been very disciplined and | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
worked hard for each other. I think now they need to concentrate on | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
making sure they keep it at 0-0 but, as it gets to the 70th minute or | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
something like that, really go for it. Make some changes, get some subs | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
on, and really go for the win. It's so important to keep their | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
concentration right now. They nearly got caught out at the death at the | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
end of the first half. That's it. It was literally the switch-off - just | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
that fraction of a second bit slower, and it led to a free, | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
uncontested header, really - not for the debutant, but for the young Pugh | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
for the US. That's as simple as it is. They're the world's best team. | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
They're going to be clinical and make the most of those chances. So | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
England got away with that one. Hopefully they'll have learned the | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
lesson that they cannot afford to switch off. However tired they are, | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
they've got to stay switched on. What do you make of the Americans? | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
How impressed are you with the superstars? They haven't really been | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
in the game, to be honest. I think Pugh's been the superstar. I | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
suppose, for a young kid, you probably wouldn't expect that. It's | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
a big crowd. There's a lot of expectation for her. But there | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
hasn't really been a lot from, you know, the likes of Alex Morgan. | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
Yeah, Carli Lloyd's virtually had no touches until literally... I think | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
that's down to England. You've got to credit them. Absolutely. The | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
pressure throughout the midfield is not allowing the ball to go through | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
the midfield very easily. It's not allowing the ball to be fed and to | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
be kearvel in possession for the forwards. They're not getting any | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
chances. Do you want to change your predictions at this point? Um, yes, | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
I'm glad that England are upsetting my prediction. I want England to go | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
on and win 1-0. I could see them making it 1-0! Let's see! It's | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
goalless at half-time. Time to rejoin Sue Smith and Johnathan | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
Pierce. Thank you very much. Players out for the second half. Doesn't | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
look as if there's any changes to either side. Tobin Heath hasn't been | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
able to get going, really, for the USA. Mallory Pugh, the youngster, | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
has been their star, as we've just heard from back in the studio. The | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
way that England have dealt with Carli Lloyd, I think, has been most | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
impressive - the world's best player, voted Fifa's top woman | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
earlier this year. She's not had a sniff of a chance, really, as | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
England are in red, kicking left to right, getting us off and under way | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
in this second half, with the captain - Steph Houghton - looking | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
for Jill Scott. Lucy Bronze on the attack... Scott wriggling through, | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
and in the end, young Pugh was back defensively, doing an astute job - | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
as she has done going forward! She stopped England there. I thought | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Jill Scott was just going to wriggle her way through... Good play from | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Lucy Bronze as well, straight from the off. She's forward, she's | :15:48. | :15:48. | |
looking to play into the box. As you heard from the girls back in | :15:49. | :15:58. | |
the studio, Sue, he does mathematically work out his games, | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Mark Sampson. He spoke to us in Canada last summer. He said, "If we | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
can do this until 60-75, then I think we can do this in the last 15. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
If it goes to extra-time, we can do this..." He's very methodical. I | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
think he would certainly have a game plan for the last 30 minutes, if | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
England are still in there with a chance of winning this. Yeah, I | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
totally agree. I think he'll be very happy with 0-0 at half-time. That's | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
probably something he said - "We'll contain America, then go for it from | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
the 70th minute." I wouldn't like to predict what Mark Sampson was going | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
to do! He completely changes things. They called him the Tinker Man in | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
the World Cup. All of his team formations and personnel that he | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
ticked - at times, we questioned it, and it always seemed to work. So | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
he's doing something right. Klingenberg clears it away. Good | :16:48. | :17:03. | |
pressure there from Jodie Taylor. It's a throw to England. | :17:04. | :17:16. | |
We heard what was said in the studio at half-time about the penalty | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
incident. Did it change your mind? Should England have had a spot kick | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
from the handball by Sauerbrunn? I think so. It changed the position of | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
the ball - the ball moved in a different direction. I think Jodie | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Taylor was right in appealing. I'm going to be slightly biased, though, | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
aren't I? I'm with you - I think it certainly was a penalty. | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
53 games played, 41 wins for the USA coach. | :17:51. | :18:22. | |
They've given away a free kick here for a little nudge on Lindsey Horan, | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
who I think has played well for the USA. | :18:28. | :18:45. | |
They've lost just twice in 34 games since the start of 2014 - such a | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
momentous year. Deflected through. Gilly Flaherty | :18:49. | :19:11. | |
keeps it in play. It was USA's win at the Stadium MK last year against | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
England, back in February, that started their long unbeaten run. | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
Controversy in that game as well, because Jodie Taylor had a goal | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
chalked off that should have stood. That was a very close game, as well. | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
Stuck it in from a rebound, didn't she? And she was flagged for | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
offside. I think Mark Sampson will be really | :19:42. | :19:59. | |
pleased with the high percentage of 50-50s England have won. | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
He mentioned the fact beforehand, the USA are in full flow of another | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
national season - 15 games played since the World Cup, England are in | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
pre-season. He wasn't going to use that as an excuse. I think they've | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
acquitted themselves well in the physical aspect of their game. They | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
really have. When you play America, you've got to match them physically, | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
fitness-wise, and I think England have done that in all departments. | :20:31. | :20:45. | |
Jill Scott scored a very important goal against Bosnia back in | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
Bristol... Will she be frustrated with the role | :20:50. | :21:07. | |
she's been asked to play for? I don't think it's her most effective | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
position. I like to see her just in front of the back four, because she | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
can get on the ball a lot more and make things happen. But she's done a | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
job on that right-hand side. But I know that I'm sure Farah will have | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
preferred to have played in that position, just getting on the ball a | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
bit more. She scored a hat-trick on her debut, | :21:23. | :21:38. | |
and the goals have flowed ever since, really. Scored in major | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
tournaments... Scored three last summer, including a goal that earned | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
the bronze medal against Germany from the spot. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
You weren't at that game, Sue. Were you watching it at a bar in | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
Vancouver, I seem to remember? May have been drunk... | :22:06. | :22:06. | |
LAUGHS Big screen, wasn't it? What a | :22:07. | :22:17. | |
dramatic place that is - Vancouver, a big screen overlooking the water | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
and mountains in the background, England beating Germany - it was a | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
great day. Really was. Pub up the road called The Elephant | :22:23. | :22:34. | |
In Cars, would you believe? I'm surprised I can remember it so well | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
- it all seems to be a bit of a blur! | :22:38. | :22:52. | |
Lindsey Horan is only 21 - she's outshone the more experienced Morgan | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
Brian at times. That's a foul from Mallory Pugh. Wry smile from Lucy | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
Bronze, with the free kick against the youngster. Played for it and got | :23:11. | :23:11. | |
it. She'll learn... This is a really | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
ever vessant talent... A big women's football week | :23:21. | :23:47. | |
initiative coming up from the FA. Check your county level clubs and | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
schools for information on that. The response to last year's events was | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
huge - they're trying to surpass that this year. | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
If you are a young player, get involved with the game. England need | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
to get involved and closer to Alex Morgan... | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
In the end, a tame shot easily dealt with from Karen Bardsley. She might | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
have hurt herself there - that was a good chance for a player of that | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
quality. She found herself in a lot of space. For me, she should have | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
cut the ball back. There were two players coming in at the edge of the | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
box, and she went for the shot. Wrong decision. | :24:25. | :24:38. | |
Just a little frustrated shrug of shoulders from Lloyd as she came | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
away... You can hear Mark Sampson shouting | :24:41. | :24:58. | |
"Tackle, tackle" from the sidelines. England have been playing a | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
high-pressing game - they've been quick to press. | :25:02. | :25:21. | |
Just a sense, ten minutes into the second half, that the USA are | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
beginning to step up a gear. Not a good ball in from O'Hara. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
Williams mistimed it as well. Technically very gifted centre-half, | :25:32. | :25:56. | |
Becky Sauerbrunn. Didn't miss a minute of the World Cup finals, | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
Sauerbrunn. US College Athlete of the Year when she was at the | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
University of Virginia. Eight years in the squad now. | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
Talk about the USA bringing players through at younger age groups to win | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
things - Lucy Bronze was part of England's Euro under-19 winning | :26:29. | :26:29. | |
squad. Success at junior levels has | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
improved. Again, that's another step forward. In terms of development of | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
the game in the UK, we have to admit we are light years behind the USA. | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
But getting there. We are getting there. I think that's something we | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
have to look back at maybe ten years ago, when we didn't have that | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
structure in place. I think you look at myself, Rachel Brown, Rachel | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
Yankee - we went straight into the full senior squad at 16, 17. Now | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
they've got that development and progression through. | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
If you are involved in a local club out there, you can apply for grants | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
to set up teams, set up girls' teams, women's teams. If you haven't | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
got one, there are more and more charter clubs around, which is good | :27:31. | :27:31. | |
to see... As I mentioned in the first half, | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
their collegiate system for sport is astounding, really. But highly | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
pressurized, I hasten to add. England cutting some frustrated | :27:50. | :28:23. | |
figures out there now... That was a foul. Jodie Taylor | :28:24. | :28:24. | |
pleading her innocence... Look at this for England! Toni | :28:25. | :28:33. | |
Duggan's in here... She had options. Taylor was to her | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
left-hand side... Big chance for England has come and gone. | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
That was a real lapse in concentration from the American | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
defence - Toni Duggan completely free. Just a long pwol over the top | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
by Fara Williams, and she was completely open. You can see she was | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
really disappointed she didn't get that pass. The first touch took her | :29:05. | :29:05. | |
a little bit away from the goal. Hasn't scored since September 2014 | :29:06. | :29:24. | |
against Montenegro. Finished off last season in crackerjack fashion | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
for Manchester City after an injury problem. She missed the first three | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
internationals this season with an ankle problem. | :29:32. | :29:50. | |
It's an England throw. The referee's been very good, apart from denying | :29:51. | :30:00. | |
England a blatant penalty - despite what the girls said in the studio. | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
LAUGHS Mind you, England could do with a | :30:08. | :30:22. | |
Rachel Yankee-type goal when in England's last victory against USA. | :30:23. | :30:23. | |
2-1, they won that one. Germany started with a win, which | :30:24. | :30:41. | |
you saw earlier. The right back, Mayer, scored the goal - she had a | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
very, very good World Cup. Mark Sampson yelling constantly from | :30:44. | :30:55. | |
the sidelines. I think that's a problem - when they go Inler ones, | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
they're very isolated. Jodie Taylor was very isolated, but the rest of | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
the team didn't come up. That's when America can play the ball around | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
you. You have to do it in groups, don't you? 10.5 hours of | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
international football now, the USA, without conceding a goal. Mind you, | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
England's record isn't bad at all. Tobin Heath is not a bad player at | :31:16. | :31:41. | |
all. Olympic gold medallist twice - three college titles with the | :31:42. | :31:42. | |
University of North Carolina. I think, at some stage, she's going | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
to get a chance... Lindsey Horan is going to come off, | :31:47. | :32:27. | |
and Christen Press will come on... She scored one goal in the World Cup | :32:28. | :32:36. | |
finals against Australia. More than attacking option. | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
I was just going to say that Horan likes to sit in a little bit, | :32:42. | :32:48. | |
whereas Press will be that runner in behind. They haven't really had | :32:49. | :32:59. | |
that, America. Midfield, at times, have been dominated by England | :33:00. | :33:00. | |
before. Morgan Brian, a World Cup winner | :33:01. | :33:36. | |
back in 2012. Gilly Flaherty clears it away. Well, 63 minutes into a | :33:37. | :33:45. | |
game against the world champions, and though England haven't created | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
much at all, they've denied the USA any sort of space, room to find | :33:51. | :33:53. | |
their rhythm, and they're going to make a substitution themselves here. | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
Izzy Christiansen's going to come on. Alex Greenwood's going to come | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
off. I imagine Demi Stokes will go back to left back. Definitely that's | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
what will happen. I think that's protecting Alex Greenwood after that | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
booking. I think she's had a very good first half. | :34:09. | :34:32. | |
Izzy Christiansen has been ever-present in the past four or | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
five games. She scored in their away game at Estonia in the first of the | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
Euro '17 qualifiers. Manchester City player - was at Everton and | :34:44. | :34:45. | |
Birmingham before that. She was at Manchester United as a | :34:46. | :34:56. | |
youth player. It's strange that Manchester United, in terms of wins, | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
haven't really been competitive. Maybe that will change. Interesting | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
- she's had a very good season with Man City last year, and got a call | :35:06. | :35:08. | |
up to their international set-up. She links up very well with Toni | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
Duggan and Jill Scott. That will be quite good to watch, to see if they | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
can do that on an international stage. She goes a little bit | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
unnoticed - clever, intelligent player. | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
Carli Lloyd has dropped into a deeper position now, getting the | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
ball there with the substitute on, Christen Press. | :35:33. | :35:43. | |
England looking comfortable, but the USA can change a game so very, very | :35:44. | :35:46. | |
quickly. Worked hard for that... That was a | :35:47. | :36:17. | |
clever play by Jodie Taylor. Three USA players around there, and just | :36:18. | :36:19. | |
managed to win her team a foul. I think this is probably England's | :36:20. | :36:28. | |
best opportunity to get a goal from the setpiece, especially with the | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
well-worked setpieces I know Mark Sampson does in training. We've seen | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
them at the World Cup. Germany next up for England on Sunday. | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
The young girl, Mallory Pugh, is going to go off, to be replaced by | :36:44. | :36:53. | |
Crystal Dunn. She was in the preliminary squad for the World Cup. | :36:54. | :36:55. | |
Didn't make the final squad. Played in every game bar two this | :36:56. | :37:03. | |
season - scored ten goals in 13. She picks it up straightaway. She's | :37:04. | :37:16. | |
a runner, too - loves to carry the ball. Like for like - fresh pair of | :37:17. | :37:23. | |
legs. Yeah, she's a real athlete. Can play wingback, so she's used to | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
that. Getting forward, getting back to defending. You can see she's got | :37:28. | :37:28. | |
pace as well. Plays for the Washington Spirit | :37:29. | :37:42. | |
side. She was top-scorer in the NWSL last season, and the Most Valuable | :37:43. | :37:43. | |
Player. Jordan Nobbs has gone through a lot | :37:44. | :38:31. | |
of work off the ball. This is promising - Jill Scott, Fara | :38:32. | :38:39. | |
Williams to the right-hand side. It's deflected away off | :38:40. | :38:40. | |
Klingenberg... Again, a move of promise for | :38:41. | :38:50. | |
England. Hope Solo saying "Watch the | :38:51. | :39:07. | |
runners." No-one has won more games for the USA than her. | :39:08. | :39:30. | |
Demi Stokes covering up at the back. In a quiet way, she's had a very | :39:31. | :39:44. | |
solid game. She's got through a lot of work, like Jordan Nobbs and Jill | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
Scott. When you play America, there is a lot of work off the ball. | :39:49. | :39:56. | |
She's the greatest women's goalkeeper of all time now. Angerer | :39:57. | :40:05. | |
of Germany, who's retired, may have something to say about that. | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
Germany's goalkeeper, Almuth Schult, had a very good save in her game | :40:09. | :40:16. | |
against France earlier today. But Hope Solo's a got to be in the | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
conversation, despite all the controversies about her. | :40:20. | :41:19. | |
Dunn gets inside, shoots, and scores! England are behind! From the | :41:20. | :41:27. | |
moment she cut inside, England were in trouble, and arrowed into the top | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
corner with 19 minutes to go, USA 1, England 0. What a fantastic strike | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
from Dunn there! From the minute she's come on, she's looked lively, | :41:37. | :41:39. | |
she's wanted to get on the ball, she's wanted to dribble and drive. | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
She just literally took the turn - you can see this is good play. Keeps | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
the ball, doesn't force it, and then it's just a little - just turns, | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
steps and gets that yard of space. And that's a rocket into the top | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
corner. Karen Bardsley couldn't do anything about that. Just before she | :41:59. | :42:01. | |
got the ball, she had a look over her shoulder and saw that there was | :42:02. | :42:09. | |
a gap in there, she could turn Houghton and she'd be on goal. I | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
think Steph Houghton will probably be a bit disappointed she didn't get | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
closer to her. But it was a good turn. In the recent Olympic | :42:17. | :42:22. | |
qualifying campaign, she scored five goals in one game against Puerto | :42:23. | :42:25. | |
Rico - that equalled the US record by any one player in a single game. | :42:26. | :42:34. | |
That's her 11th of this season in 14 internationals. | :42:35. | :42:52. | |
One moment of brilliance separates the sides. I think that's what was | :42:53. | :43:09. | |
needed - just a spark, a little bit of something - a bit of quality. I | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
think that's what you can say. Because Pugh was excellent, taking | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
players on and making things happen, but Crystal Dunn's obviously come on | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
and wanted to show what she's all about. That's the strength and depth | :43:25. | :43:27. | |
that the American national team have. They bring players on and they | :43:28. | :43:30. | |
can just change the game. Mark Sampson was saying to me | :43:31. | :43:46. | |
yesterday that, "Just when you think you've seen off the likes of Wambach | :43:47. | :43:53. | |
and Shannon Box and so on, they produce another one, another two, | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
another three..." They have such a huge pool of talent. These girls | :43:59. | :44:07. | |
play from a young age, and the attitudes are different there - it's | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
very much "Get girls into football as early as possible." Really | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
competitive football. There's state titles at junior school level. With | :44:18. | :44:18. | |
that does come extra pressure. England will need her now, in the | :44:19. | :44:42. | |
final third. She's an adventurous midfield player, Jill Scott. England | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
will need her there. She's only missed one of England's last 15 | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
games - that was one of the World Cup games. | :44:52. | :44:53. | |
Again, Solo organising her penalty area. | :44:54. | :46:00. | |
The poor girl who was singing the national anthem - I think that's | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
going to go viral - the German players were in fits... It's an | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
interesting speaker system at this arena. | :46:13. | :46:14. | |
Christiansen got in there to support, and she can do that... Her | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
game is scoring goals - nine for Manchester City. She scores vital | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
goals, as well. Just anticipated where it was gonna go. Right idea, | :46:26. | :46:27. | |
just not the best execution. Off goes Fara Williams, on comes | :46:28. | :46:37. | |
Karen Carney, who's not played international football this year. | :46:38. | :46:40. | |
She had a back injury after the World Cup. She was rested so that | :46:41. | :46:47. | |
she could recuperate properly. Just moved clubs from Birmingham after a | :46:48. | :46:49. | |
long while there to go to Chelsea. In comes Michael Kirby and on goes | :46:50. | :47:17. | |
Jodie Taylor - fresh pair of legs up front. She got off to such a | :47:18. | :47:23. | |
fantastic start in the World Cup finals against Mexico. Sat on the | :47:24. | :47:25. | |
bench for the last four. What do you make of those changes, | :47:26. | :47:37. | |
Sue? I spoke about America's strength and depth, and it just | :47:38. | :47:39. | |
shows that England have also got that. Three quality players have | :47:40. | :47:42. | |
come on for England, and all three of them have got the ability to | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
change the game. It's nice to see Karen Carney back - I know she's | :47:46. | :47:51. | |
worked really hard in her rehab programme to get her back back to | :47:52. | :47:54. | |
how it should have been throughout the World Cup. I know she's raring | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
to go and can't wait to get some international football in. Michael | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
Kirby, we've seen what damage she can do. It's nice to see Mark | :48:04. | :48:08. | |
Sampson actually going for this, and going to get the goals now. Whether | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
there'll be a change in formation, I'm not sure. | :48:13. | :48:20. | |
She wants to send on Krieger... Ali Krieger, Washington Spirit - | :48:21. | :48:30. | |
best right back in the tournament at the World Cup finals. Not my words - | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
they were - she was selected as the best right back. She was desperately | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
disappointed to miss out on the Olympics in London. She had a bad | :48:43. | :48:50. | |
knee injury at the time. Jill Ellis seems to be preferring Kelley | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
O'Hara, and I think that's just because of her attacking ability | :48:55. | :49:01. | |
from fullback. Krieger's very much someone who likes to defend and is a | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
solid defender, but doesn't get forward too much. | :49:07. | :49:14. | |
Karen Carney is very experienced - seven major tournaments. Two changes | :49:15. | :49:22. | |
- Julie Johnston's going to come on, at centre-half. | :49:23. | :49:24. | |
CHEERING They're going to keep us waiting - | :49:25. | :49:51. | |
don't change your plans for Christmas, you could still be | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
here... In she goes - on comes Johnston. | :49:57. | :49:58. | |
CHEERING 11 minutes to go. What a | :49:59. | :50:12. | |
conservative move that is - presumably they'll go to three at | :50:13. | :50:18. | |
the back. They've taken off one of the world's best goal scorers, and | :50:19. | :50:23. | |
they've brought on a centreback - the captain of their Under 20 World | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
Cup-winning side of four years ago. Had a very good World Cup, but | :50:29. | :50:31. | |
scored an own goal in the final. Very strong athletic World Cup, I | :50:32. | :50:42. | |
should say. Once or twice, she looked a bit error-strewn, I have to | :50:43. | :50:43. | |
say. She has not been in the game at all | :50:44. | :50:57. | |
- that's all credit to England, to keep out the world's top player, | :50:58. | :51:00. | |
Carli Lloyd. But the score line is no | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
consolation. England will look back to that | :51:06. | :51:32. | |
incident in the first half where they should have had a penalty. A | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
handball by Sauerbrunn. Here's Bronze... Running out of play... | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
Corner? I thought that had gone out of play, I must admit. I think she's | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
got a bit lucky there. The crowd agrees with you, as well... Tobin | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
Heath's been forcing the defence. She's not really got into the game. | :51:56. | :51:58. | |
So there have been positives for England. | :51:59. | :52:13. | |
Hope Solo wins it unopposed. That's disappointing for England. Although | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
she's one of the world's top goalkeepers, she's not the tallest | :52:19. | :52:20. | |
out there. She's very athletic and very | :52:21. | :52:27. | |
commanding. I think when you're taking a corner, you've got to make | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
sure you miss her out or at least get somebody in front of her, making | :52:32. | :52:34. | |
it difficult. That was too easy a catch. Very popular in the USA - her | :52:35. | :52:46. | |
book Solo: A Memoir Of Hope - it got to number three on the bestsellers' | :52:47. | :52:48. | |
list a few years back. Let's just put this in context. | :52:49. | :54:07. | |
She's one of the world's best defenders, Becky Sauerbrunn. Lloyd | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
is the current world number one. Morgan - so talented, such a good | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
goal scorer. Heath - such a good player. Klingenberg - probably the | :54:17. | :54:19. | |
world's best left back. Says he's using this as a major | :54:20. | :55:36. | |
tournament - they're to pick their best team for every game. That | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
doesn't necessarily mean he'll pick the same 11, as we found out in the | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
World Cup - he has his game plan for each separate match. I like that | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
he'll change personnel and change tactics depending on the opposition. | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
But I think it's important to play games like this, and play the top | :55:55. | :55:57. | |
nations in the world, cos that's how you learn. When you're winning games | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
8-0 and 9-0, you don't learn anything from that. You might get a | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
bit of confidence, but you need to be playing these teams. And yes, it | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
might be a defeat, but they will learn lessons from it. Lucy Bronze | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
has given away a free kick here, with four minutes to go. | :56:17. | :57:10. | |
Eniola Aluko's going to come on for England, replacing Toni Duggan. | :57:11. | :57:42. | |
Oh, how she'd love to score here... She felt frustrated in the World Cup | :57:43. | :57:51. | |
finals. She started the first two - she played about an hour against | :57:52. | :57:55. | |
Germany. This is her 99th appearance for England. | :57:56. | :58:01. | |
Made her debut some 12 years ago. We've told the story before, Sue, | :58:02. | :58:09. | |
but it is still a remarkable one. She made a substitution appearance | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
at Euro 2005 against Denmark, just hours after taking a History A-level | :58:16. | :58:16. | |
exam on the same day. The USA have their game in the | :58:17. | :58:38. | |
grip... They'll slow the pace down to hold | :58:39. | :58:55. | |
possession, and manage the game well. England simply will not be | :58:56. | :58:58. | |
able to get enough of the ball to get back into it. | :58:59. | :59:08. | |
It was Press, and it was dipping, and the shot was just wide - but not | :59:09. | :59:14. | |
a bad effort at all from the LA-born striker. It's a quick turn, and just | :59:15. | :59:19. | |
gets a yard and I think Karen Bardsley did have it covered... They | :59:20. | :59:22. | |
just look dangerous at times. You know what they would have been | :59:23. | :00:14. | |
saying on the bench, then, don't you? "Don't foul. Not at this | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
stage." Meghan Klingenberg's going to come | :00:16. | :00:44. | |
off, and Whitney Engen's going to come on. A defender from Torrance, | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
California, who sat on the bench throughout the World Cup finals. 30 | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
caps to her name. Last appearance was in January in | :00:52. | :01:07. | |
the win over the Republic of Ireland. Won that game 5-0. ..In San | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Diego. USA fans screaming for a free kick | :01:11. | :01:42. | |
there - didn't get it... Jordan Nobbs has gone for goal from a long | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
way out. With that, perhaps England's last chance has come and | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
gone. She scored a belter in the Under 19 European Championship final | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
against Sweden a few years ago, but not on this occasion... | :01:58. | :02:24. | |
This could be England's last chance, then! | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
Carney looking for Scott... There was a foul. Surely that means that | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
England have opened up this She Believes Cup Tournament - the first | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
of its kind - with defeat, and the USA will hold on. Your overall | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
thoughts, Sue? I think lots of positives for England. I know | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
they're not going to be thinking that, with a loss in their first | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
game, but they're playing against world champions. They've kept those | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
players quiet that you mentioned - world-class players - and | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
defensively very good, apart from the one maybe little lapse in | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
concentration. But for me, it was just a little bit of brilliance. | :03:08. | :03:17. | |
For a moment, the USA were squirming... I think also the fact | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
that they've matched USA in fitness and physicality - which is something | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
that we've found difficult in the past - is promising. I think they | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
can be proud of themselves. WHISTLE | :03:29. | :03:44. | |
CHEERING The roars you can hear mean that the | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
USA have opened the inaugural She Believes Cup. The champions have | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
kept another clean sheet - for Hope Solo, her sixth in a row. Jill Ellis | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
and her side get off to a winning start, with the only goal of the | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
game scored by Crystal Dunn, so very late on, after a very solid England | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
display. But it's an opening defeat here for England in the USA, beaten | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
by the hosts 1-0. A brave performance from the | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
Lionesses. Very little to separate the teams over the 90 minutes. It | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
took a bit of sparkle from Crystal Dunn to win the game for the | :04:26. | :04:26. | |
Americans. The Americans topped the group on | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
Fifa ranking. That's how it's settled if everything else remains | :04:35. | :04:35. | |
the same: What did you make of the second | :04:36. | :04:47. | |
half? Do you think the score line reflects England's performance? | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
SIGHS I think possibly, but I think | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
England will take great credit and strength from the fact that it's | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
taken something pretty outstanding to separate the two at the end of | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
the day. I think England's performance started very, very, | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
um... Um.....energetically. I just don't think England could maintain | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
that level of energy. Ultimately, that's when things started to open | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
up and the quality of the US kind of... You know, they got the chance, | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
and it was a stunning finish. Crystal Dunn made an impact | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
immediately, as soon as she came on. How impressive was she? She was | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
really good. She was so positive. As soon as she came on, she wanted to | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
run at the players. That's exactly what you needed. She's got good | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
positional awareness. Here, she nicks the ball and she's off down | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
the pitch. There's no second thought - just straightaway, want to take | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
people on. What I've found is that her positional awareness there - to | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
pick up the ball and then straightaway she's going at them, | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
but her passing... She was really tidy, I thought. She's a young | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
player. She hasn't played that much. She might have been a little bit | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
nervous. But she's willing to get into the box. Wants to play things | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
nice and tidy and just be composed on the ball She's certainly very | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
hungry. Every single pass, she was on the move. Finding space in | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
behind. You can see here, she lays it off to Klingenberg, who - again, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
she's on the move, finding space. You'll see, she just checks her left | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
shoulder, creates a good amount of space, and what a finish! That is a | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
beautiful strike. First touch was amazing. Takes her into so much | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
space. She knew exactly what she was doing there. She knows exactly where | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
Steph's marking her. Brilliant. Into the space. No-one's stopping that. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
No male or female keeper in the world is stopping that. That's worth | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
the five, six, seven runs of showing this. After five minutes of her | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
being on the pitch, she covered a lot of ground, but ultimately that | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
was top, top world-class. Similar to your goal that you scored against | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
USA a few years ago! LAUGHS | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Let's talk about the game plan. We talked about it in the fist half - | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
Mark Sampson stuck to it. Putting the pressure on, forcing USA to make | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
mistakes? Yeah, I'd say he stuck to it. Certainly the first half, they | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
were very, very disciplined, England, and they were good at | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
moving up and maintaining space between the backline and the | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
midfield, and basically not giving a lot of room for the USA to play in. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
That was typical of the first half. It continued in the second half - | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
the pressing from the front, the tight-knit formation of the midfield | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
remaining quite narrow, and again not giving a lot of space for the US | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
to work with. Every time the US were on the ball - whether Carli Lloyd or | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
any of the other players - they didn't have time on the ball. That | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
was forcing errors for the US. Non-typical play by the US. Being | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
knocked off the ball, playing long, hopeless, aimless balls. That's | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
really what England limited the US to. That shot was never going to | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
beat Karen Bardsley from that angle. Yes, it was a ball in from behind, | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
but world-class players were really limited to scraps. Your thoughts on | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
England's offensive tactics? They got in a bit more, didn't they? They | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
did. In the second half... Well, no - I think more so than in previous | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
games, certainly against the US and maybe against Germany... Had a few | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
chances, but I just don't think they were clinical enough. That's | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
probably been the problem. They're getting down the sides, and here we | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
seem to crowd each other out and then run into players and limit our | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
own chances. Ball in from the box. That ball's not good enough. Maybe | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
take one more extra pass to keep it moving. I think we're better at | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
passing the ball to players' feet. This is a good ball into space. It's | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
clever. Toni Duggan here - I think what she sees -- when she sees this | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
back, she'll be disappointed. Obviously she's not gonna hear Jodie | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
at the back post shouting, but she should have looked up. That was the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
golden chance. Two against one, it really opened up. Great vision from | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
Fara Williams to flick the ball on and have seen that two-versus-one | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
opportunity. I'm sure Toni will be disappointed. They played well, | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
England, and started to create at the end, but I think there needs to | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
be a little bit of quality... Nothing wrong with having a shot | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
there - there wasn't other options - but in future games, they maybe need | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
to take one more extra pass. Possibly the best chance could have | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
been in the first half - if England had had a penalty. I know this has | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
divided opinion on Twitter in the studio... It falls into that cliche | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
category of "Could have been given." As England players and England fans, | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
we want that to be given. I think, if anything, Jodie Taylor kind of | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
earns it by harassing Becky Sauerbrunn from behind, and almost | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
forces her into that error. But it's not a clear-cut one for me. So, | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
England, as much as they were limited to opportunities by the US, | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
we limited them. I think that's something we can take forward. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Thoughts ahead of Germany? After tonight's performance? I think it's | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
positive. I think you wouldn't go and fear Germany. I don't think | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Germany are a better team than USA. So I think they should go in with | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the same sort of game plan. Just need to get those goals. If | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
anything, England have got the upper hand. They beat Germany in the | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
summer pretty convincingly. They deserved that win, that bronze | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
medal. Certainly England will have nothing to fear and will just want | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
to beat Germany again to compound their how -- compound how much | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
better they've become. Let's cross over to Joe Kerry, who's | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
with Mark Sampson. Only one goal in the game - a bright | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
one from Dunn. It was. She just spun her defender, created enough space | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
for herself... Look at that move right there... | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
OK, I think we've got some problems with sound, but I've interviewed | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
Mark Sampson a few times before - it didn't sound like the female voice | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
we just heard! England need to be tested against | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
the best teams, especially looking ahead to the Euros next year, | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
especially if they're to have a chance to win it. That's no | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
disrespect to the opposition to the qualification in the Euros, but they | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
are not going to provide them with the test they need for the standard | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
of teams they're gonna face in the latter stages of the Euros. England | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
wanted to win the European Championships. This is the best | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
opportunity England have ever had to play against the top nations in the | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
world. And also test the players. You can use a squad - this is just a | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
friendly tournament. You can use everybody and see what players he's | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
got for the Euros. Is this tournament a bigger challenge - | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
playing the world's top three teams - a bigger challenge than the World | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Cup? I think there's no pressure on this tournament, for a start, | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
because it is a friendly tournament. Not that "friendlies" mean | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
friendlies, but nothing's at stake. I think England will feel pressure, | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
because on the bigger stage they've performed in, they're now in | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
everybody's eye. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been invited to this | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
tournament. They want to consolidate their status as the team to beat, | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
with performances, continued performances, of a certain standard. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
So in some ways, there'll be pressure within the team to continue | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
these good performances. But it's a wonderful opportunity. If you had to | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
sum up the opening match in a few words? It was brilliant! I think | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
very positive for England. OK! Thank you, both, very much. A reminder - | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
we are back live on Sunday for Germany against England. We kick off | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
on the red button at 10:30. The second half will be straight after | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Match of the Day two live on BBC One at 11:35. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
We'll be live on the red button from 9:50 next Wednesday for England's | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
game against France. That's all we have time for. Thank | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
you for watching. Thank you to both reachals. England close but, in the | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
end -- Rachels. England close but, in the end, it was job done for the | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
US. Goodnight. | :13:06. | :13:07. |