Wiegman: “Both teams are under pressure”
Sarina Wiegman knows what it’s like to be a European champion as a coach. In 2017, the Dutchwoman triumphed with the Oranje team at the European Championships at home, now she can win the trophy with the English.
Wiegman wanted nothing to do with the fact that Voss-Tecklenburg put more pressure on the hosts, since the vast majority of the 87,000 fans admitted will support England. “Both teams are under pressure, both teams want to win. We don’t feel any more pressure than Germany,” said the 52-year-old. 3000 German fans got tickets at short notice.
The national coach, on the other hand, didn’t want to hear the question of whether the DFB selection around captain Alexandra Popp had already achieved so much that she had nothing left to lose. “Of course we have something to lose. Namely a game that we don’t want to lose,” said the 54-year-old. How will their players deal with the backdrop? “I can’t quite estimate how quickly we can push that aside,” said Voss-Tecklenburg.
Apparently, Svenja Huth was already very impressed at the press conference in a kind of cinema hall in Wembley’s belly. Sitting next to Voss-Tecklenburg, she turned the tables and photographed all the media representatives with their cameras, microphones and laptops. “Our perspective,” she wrote with two emojis.