Logo





  About us
  Advertising
  Privacy
  Terms
  Directory
  Submit Feed
  Analytics
  Trending
  Bias
  Trust Ranking
  API

The Guardian // World // Europe

Sarina Wiegman’s selections backfire after failing to pick players on form | Tom Garry

Friday 25th October 2024, 9:03PM

Maya Le Tissier and Grace Clinton must be wondering what else they have to do to impress the England managerA common theme across Sarina Wiegman’s successful tenure has been a notion that she would only pick players who were performing for their clubs. Friday’s team selection at Wembley was truly at odds with that principle, and in a chastening half an hour’s chaos against European women’s football’s most decorated nation, the England head coach’s decisions backfired in spectacular fashion.In naming an unchanged starting side from that which played the previous fixture in July, it was almost as if Wiegman did not feel any of the club fixtures so far this season held sufficient significance to trump any of the performances in that goalless draw away to Sweden three months ago. Yet for the match-going fans at Women’s Champions League and domestic games this term, that notion will have been truly baffling, as some of England’s most in-form players were harshly overlooked. Continue reading...

Full Story