{"id":243042,"date":"2025-07-06T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243042\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T15:57:09","slug":"england-lionesses-sarina-wiegmans-analysis-of-france-loss-at-euro-most-important-of-career-fran-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243042\/","title":{"rendered":"England Lionesses: Sarina Wiegman&#8217;s analysis of France loss at Euro most important of career &#8211; Fran Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite beginning the tournament with defeat, there is no shortage of confidence in the England ranks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We look forward to the challenge of winning those two games [against the Netherlands and Wales],&#8221; defender Esme Morgan told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think when you have a situation where you can do nothing but win it brings the best out of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You have to fight your absolute hardest knowing that if you don&#8217;t you could be on the plane home, so I think this situation is going to bring out the very best in us and we&#8217;ll rise to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We always tend to come out when things are against us. I feel like we produce our best. We&#8217;d always kind of been built that way as a nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow defender Maya le Tissier added: &#8220;You have the leaders in the team, of course Leah [Williamson], Bronzey [Lucy Bronze], the very experienced ones to say their piece &#8211; and they are massive leaders in our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite beginning the tournament with defeat, there is no shortage of confidence in the England ranks. &#8220;We look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-243042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114807114576794624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}