00:00following the international friendly defeat against brazil at manchester city's etihad
00:07stadium on saturday evening england women were back in action this time at pride park in derby
00:14against australia in another friendly and this time the lionesses came out with a positive
00:21result 3-0 was the final score thanks to goals from aggie beaver jones lucy bronze and then the
00:28georgia stanway penalty in stoppage time however the game was overshadowed by an injury to michelle
00:34angiemang in the 80th minute she was stretched off for what has now been confirmed as an acl
00:41rupture serena wiegman spoke after the game um of course i'm happy with the results uh 3-0 uh is a
00:49very good score i think we start really well um dominated the game and played on their half and
00:56if they will come well i want to put them under pressure in possession but also out of possession
01:01or when we would lose the ball and i think that's exactly what we did and of course the game changed
01:06no the game didn't really change they they went down with 10 and which does change a couple of
01:11things we wanted to keep the pace in the game i think we created a lot of very good moments into
01:18the final third and i hope that we are going to improve that um because i think i saw a lot of good
01:24things but we need to get even better aligned better execution and the final pass final cross
01:29and getting there that's what we want to do better you want to see this team develop how difficult is
01:35it to do so against 10 players again like what you should you want a proper challenge yeah of course
01:41that was disappointing and yeah those are the rules like if someone yeah gets you down takes you down
01:46and you go to the goal then that's the red card in a friendly when it's a qualifier i don't care
01:51uh but with a friendly yeah yeah but with a friendly uh of course you actually want to play 11
01:57for 11 because that's those are the challenges you get get the most and that's what you're practicing
02:01for but we tried um to to adapt to that straight away to to force them even more back and of course
02:08they drop even deeper um so the spaces become very small very tight and that that's another challenge
02:15then so and yeah we had hope to do some other things at the end of the game but unfortunately um
02:21we had some injuries i know it's early obviously how is michelle and how concerned are you considering
02:28just just just the fantastic young talent yeah she may have to go through it yeah well of course that
02:35was an awful moment um it doesn't look good and of course we don't know yet because she first needs
02:41to be assessed um but yeah i'm not very positive about what i've seen
02:48thank you thank you um yeah congratulations thank you um i just want to ask about aggie um obviously
02:56there's been a bit of debate about whether or not you know she could start more game three
03:00than she started alongside the lesson today which i thought was interesting to see the two um how did
03:06you think they played obviously with that in up front three but those two particular playing kind
03:11of together yeah well i think there's more connection than those two and they've played there before
03:17also before for example uh belgium away um but um no i think aggie of course we have in our squad we
03:26have three players that could play center forward and they're all three good and all three are very
03:32different center forwards and aki can also play on the on the side um so that's what we wanted to see
03:37today and she's very agile and um scored a nice goal of course uh very agile quick with the ball which uh
03:44today uh was uh in those tight spaces was helped the team and lucia i just thought i had a fantastic
03:52debut she looked really composed i know you weren't surprised about her quality but you may be surprised
03:58at just how comfortable she seemed to be honest i was not really surprised uh because she has done so
04:06well with aston villa the first uh part of the season uh she came in our environment and in although we
04:13didn't have them in training session but straight away you saw her her understanding of the game and
04:19reading the game and connecting with players uh uh very quickly and very well but also keeps things
04:26very simple well it looks simple it's not simple so i i had hoped maybe hoped expect like you never know
04:34exactly when you what you can expect the first game but i i did expect a little bit and i of course i
04:39hoped and i just wanted to go out there and play and enjoy herself and i think that's what she did
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