by Durhamfootman » Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:53 pm
Perhaps!
After saying in the first two games that England weren't quite at their fluent best, they were right on it tonight for large parts of the game. This was probably Wiegman's strongest side and it showed. There was period in the first half between the first two goals, where they became a little too intricate and tried to walk the ball into the net, but that didn't last too long.
Kelly was outstanding tonight and fully deserved her POM. It was a measure of her influence that in the first half when she played wide left, that was where much of the danger came from and when she swapped sides to accommodate Hemp, the biggest threat came from wide right. It was also interesting to note that once Kelly swapped sides, Bronze became much more of a threat too. That has to be the thing James needs to work on. She tends to run with the ball because that's her strength, but Bronze could help her a lot more if James would let her.
I'm half tempted to think, now that Russo starts games, that she was more dangerous when she came on as an impact player. Now that Sarina has seemingly decided to play Daly as a striker, perhaps she should be the starter. Equally, I might be overthinking it
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