Vicky Sparks
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Podcast Appearances
And I do think they played with a point to prove.
No, and that will be tough.
And, you know, Kira sums it up perfectly.
When you do play a team like Spain and they're in this flow, it feels like they have more players than you on the pitch.
You press in one of them and then you've got two on either shoulder.
When they're in full flow, when they're moving and doing everything that they're good at, it's near impossible to know what is the right solution.
So it's going to be really raw emotions, as you said, obviously being the biggest loss under Serena.
But they can learn from it.
They will learn from it because it's the first time it's happened.
It's the first time that they've been beaten the way that they have been beaten by Spain, by any team.
So they have things to learn from now and they will know that feeling.
And when you're an athlete and when you're a sports person, a footballer, you don't want to feel that again.
You don't want to walk off the pitch feeling that kind of way again.
Spain were incredible tonight and everything that they did, but it will be a massive learning curve for England because they're going to come up against the likes of Spain in the World Cup, against the USA, against the Brazil, against Japan, who are also very good on the ball.
So it will be a massive learning curve for them because...
This hasn't happened before, so they have to learn from it, and they have to learn from it quickly.
Yes, Ukraine is a different element in terms of maybe the quality, you know, it's not going to be the same as Spain, but this will be a learning for a year's time, and I think that's how Serena will look at it as well.
Right, let's hear it from the lioness's boss then, Serena Wiegmann with Nibcar.