Scotland captain Rachel Corsie has branded these questioning their integrity forward of Tuesday’s Ladies’s Nations League sport with England “extremely disrespectful”.
World Cup runners-up England want a high-scoring win towards already-relegated Scotland to assert high spot within the group, the end required to maintain the Lionesses in competition to safe Paris 2024 Olympic qualification for Nice Britain.
With England success on that entrance the one manner Scottish gamers will be capable to play on the Video games, Andries Jonker, head coach of group leaders the Netherlands, described the scenario as “strange”.
However forward of internet hosting England at Hampden Park on Tuesday, Corsie hit out at these daring to name Scotland’s integrity into query.
“Truthfully, I think it’s extremely disrespectful,” the 34-year-old stated. “It is an enormous insult to us.
“To have played for my country as many years as I have, to know the girls sitting in there [the dressing room], the ones who want to be here but are injured and cannot be here, it’s absolutely outrageous to question anyone’s integrity.”
Corsie added: “It is a sport we completely look ahead to.
“The position we are in the group is difficult because it’s not where we want to be, but at the same time we have the opportunity to finish the year against a team that is one of the best and is a huge rivalry for our country.
“To get the possibility to play England at Hampden Park is one thing everyone seems to be relishing.”
Wiegman: No manner Scotland will assist England
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England Ladies’s supervisor Sarina Wiegman believes that Scotland will give their all towards her aspect, regardless of a beneficial end result resulting in an improved likelihood of Crew GB qualifying for the Olympics.
England boss Sarina Wiegman has careworn there may be “no way” Scotland are going to “give away” the sport when the edges meet at Hampden Park on Tuesday of their closing Nations League group fixture.
Wiegman informed a press convention on Monday: “I understand the conversations about it. But if you have seen our group, seen Scotland and know the history of Scotland and England, then there’s no way that they are going to give away this game. They really want to beat England and we want to beat them, of course.
“There’s such a rivalry that that’s completely not going to be the case. We noticed it once we performed in England (a 2-1 win for England in September).
“I don’t have the solution. This is the first time we’ve played the Nations League, and how are you going to solve this situation? Maybe you don’t want them in the same group, but then if Scotland topped another group, we topped one and we went into the finals, you’d have the same situation.
“It is nearly truthful play, about soccer, and in soccer everybody desires to win, and we all know the rivalry.
“We have professional players here who really want to show up – England players and Scottish players. I think it’s going to be a good game where everyone wants to perform at their highest level.”
Ought to there be any concern over Scotland method?
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Sky Sports activities’ Laura Hunter and Gail Davis analyse England’s sensational comeback towards the Netherlands and assess their probabilities of qualifying for the Nations League finals.
Sky Sports activities Information reporter Gail Davis:
“It’s a very strange situation that Sarina Wiegman finds herself in. She understands the comments from the Netherlands’ manager that this game and its integrity is questionable.
“England simply have to crack on and pay attention to the situations forward of them. If the Netherlands are profitable [against Belgium], then England must be profitable themselves, by at the least 4 objectives.
“England certainly have the firepower but they just have to get the job done.”
