Saturday, June 25, 2022

^*^ England ‘won’t sit on pink cloud’ after orange walk against Netherlands

Sarina Wiegman says Lionesses still have plenty to do after the Netherlands were thrashed in latest Euro 2022 warmup game

Sarina Wiegman’s England will spend the majority of next month’s Euro 2022 based at the Lensbury, a luxury resort hotel in south-west London where the Dutch suite is the finest room type on offer. It sounds thoroughly appropriate accommodation for Wiegman, a native of The Hague who, having led the Netherlands to Euro 2017 glory, is now making a very decent job of dressing the Lionesses for success.

On Friday, her team even wore a Dutch-style orange kit as, having weathered a sometimes less than convincing first half littered with cheap concessions of possession, they ultimately thrashed Mark Parsons’s Oranje class of 2022, running out 5-1 winners in a friendly at Elland Road.

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