England Women head coach Sarina Wiegman hailed the incredible Old Trafford atmosphere during their 1-0 win over Austria in the opener of Euro 2022. She believes that the three points were the most important but they should have won by a wider margin. Prior to the tournament, they had scored 84 goals in her first 14 games in charge. Beth Mead scored the only goal of the game.
“It was an incredible occasion. There are no more words. Unbelievable. Playing here at Old Trafford, with 70,000 people making lots of noise, getting behind us, it was really incredible and I hope they keep coming, which they will,” England Women head coach Sarina Wiegman said. “We were a little rushed in (the) final third. We did create lots of chances, but the final touch or the choice on the ball to shoot or to cross or take on someone, we can do that better. But the most important thing was that we scored one, kept a clean sheet, which was nice, and got the three points.”
“In the huddle after the match, I said it was a good win and congratulations for the first win in the tournament. This start is so important, it gives such a boost to the team and the crowd so that was very important,” she added. “We had some very good moments in the game, we should have scored more, but we also had some hard moments which we got through, which was good. We had a couple of phases in the game. We started not great, then we got control of the game and pushed them back to their half. That made it very compact, very physical, and well organized. We did well, we kept the ball moving, we found Keira (Walsh) a lot then we scored the goal, it was a really good goal, it would have helped to score the second goal straight after.”
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