Crisis: Sarina Wiegman took the floor on board and went against a rejection, almost confused that it had been introduced in the conversation.
Why even go there? She had tackled the big conversation point – the decision of three loyal loyalty to withdraw from her team – and wanted to look to the future. Wiegman was right to say that nothing is being achieved by looking back and her focus was purely on a peak on July 5 in Zurich.
The problem for her in St George's Park on June 5, however, was the fact that the cards she had received left her with the kind of hand that a national coach would cause, regardless of gender, nightmares on the eve of a tournament. For the informal observer, it seemed that this ship was about to run into.
“There is always noise,” Wiegman went against, thanking the retired pair of Mary Earps and Fran Kirby and offered words of support to the mentally and physically emptied Mille Bright. “We expect noise until we enter the tournament.”
She can expect that the noise will increase now that the tournament has started. Group D always went to work with Jeopardy, every competition in this mini competition with the Netherlands and Wales that looked like a role of the dice in a game of snakes and ladders.
Get the right combination and England would be up and gone; Put it wrong and slid back to the edge was an omnipresent danger. For Wiegman in Zurich, while France bully the ruling European champions close to the entry, a false step brought its team to the traps.
No one will forget the glorious summer of 2022, when Wiegman came up with the campaign that ended in a shine of glory, but changes and things further and the reason that the “crisis” became a subject with which she had to deal with the story that began to develop.
Wiegman hated it when a comparison was made with the men's team, but if Thomas Tuchel, an avid observer in Zurich next to his Starstruck director Mark Bullingham, was hit with three important withdrawals and then had an anemia opening tournament -the noise would cover.
Many new eyes will be in the English team in the coming weeks, informal observers with great expectations, and everyone who tunes for the first time will have been perplex why Wiegman was powerless to put a gap that became sobering in the sobering opening.
It was in that one -sided half that France, with their well -timed approach and ruthless run, removed the game from England. Wiegman denounced the fourth official about decisions that never went the way of her team, but it was Camouflage, a distraction of the serious shortages for her.
You would hope that Wiegman knows in private what is wrong and what needs to be tackled, but with the Netherlands on Wednesday in Latzin rund, but tournament feet ball does not give a coach much time to come up with solutions.
So yes, crisis was the right word then and it is now the right word. A false step against the land of her birth and they will fall down the ladder to the point of no return.
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