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England handed World Cup final reunion with Spain in Women´s Nations League

SoccerNews in General Soccer News 7 Nov 2024

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England will face a re-run of the Women’s 2023 World Cup final after being drawn in the same group as Spain in the 2025 Women’s Nations League.

Sarina Wiegman’s side will face the world and Nations League champions for the first time since the August 2023 World Cup final, where they lost 1-0 in Australia.

The Lionesses are joined in Group A3 by Belgium, who stunned England in the previous edition of the tournament with a 3-2 win in Leuven last October, and Portugal.

During the October international break, England were beaten 4-3 by Germany, but responded with a 2-1 triumph over South Africa.

They face Emma Hayes’ United States at Wembley in an international friendly at the end of this month before taking on Switzerland in December before the tournament starts.

“It’s an exciting draw. We have Spain – a top, world-class team – which I think is exciting because it’s another opportunity to play at that level,” Wiegman said.

“It’s really good that we play Belgium because in the last Nations League we lost when we played them away, and we really underperformed.

“We can prove to ourselves now that we can do much better than that in the two games. I’m happy with that one, they’re tough.

“Portugal are a very talented team. We played them before we went to the World Cup, and we drew with them.

“We had a lot of the ball, but we couldn’t score, and they were very dangerous on the counter-attack. They have a lot of technical players.

“There are different opponents, and I’m really looking forward to it because we’ll be challenged in different areas of the game. And of course we’ll give them challenges too.”

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