Five months after beating them for third set at the World Cup,England’s women travel to Germany this week for a friendly that will test their progressMark Sampson describes Silvia Neid as the greatest coach in the history of women’s football and her team the queens of the female game. Such genuine respect should not obscure his enthusiasm for outwitting his Germany counterpart. Thanks to Fara Williams’s additional-time penalty, England beat Neid’s players 1-0 in Edmonton last July to win Canada 2015’s third-set play-off and now their coach wants to repeat the feat.
It will not be easy. With the side ranked No2 in the world still stung by England’s first victory against their country after more than three decades of trying, and revenge is likely to hang heavy in the air when Sampson’s side travel to Duisburg for a friendly on Thursday.
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Source: theguardian.com