Lionesses learning: what England gained from their SheBelieves Cup campaign

Mar 08, 2017

England may have lost two of their three games in the tournament, but to beat the world champions and more than match France and Germany shows a team evolving well under their canny coach Mark Sampson

England return from America’s east coast and the SheBelieves Cup with room for improvement but reason for cautious optimism ahead of this summer’s European Championships in the Netherlands.

If the euphoria of beating the USA, the world champions, was tempered by narrow defeats to France and Germany, the England full-back, Demi Stokes, reflected that “something special’s happening with this team”.

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