National coach Wiegman: England can do much better
England coach Sarina Wiegman was happy with the 1-0 win over Austria in the opening match of the European Football Championship, but she was not satisfied with the performance of her team. “It’s not that I’m frustrated, but we can do a lot better,” she told the BBC after the game in Manchester.
“We had chances in the second half, but we were too sloppy on the ball. We should have scored more often, then we would have made it a little easier for ourselves. But winning the first game in the tournament is important,” said Wiegman, who called the atmosphere in the packed Old Trafford stadium “incredible”. “I couldn’t give my players any instructions, because they didn’t hear me. But this atmosphere is what we want,” she said about the 70,000 spectators present, a record for the European Championship for women.
