England’s defeat by Brazil kickstarted the first of four friendly matches which are forming a “homecoming series” to celebrate their Euro 2025 victory. <\/p>\n
Several key players are missing from the squad through injury, including captain Leah Williamson, forwards Lauren Hemp and Lauren James, and midfielders Jess Park and Grace Clinton. <\/p>\n
However, there could be a boost for Wiegman with goalkeeper Hannah Hampton set to return after missing Saturday’s defeat with a minor elbow injury.<\/p>\n
West Ham defender Anouk Denton has also been called up to the squad to provide extra cover as players return to full fitness and manage knocks.<\/p>\n
Of Hampton, Wiegman said: “She’s good and she’s progressing really well. She has ticked all the boxes so far. There is another training session to come through but things look really good.<\/p>\n
“We have all seen what she can bring. She is a good goalkeeper. The first task for any goalkeeper is to stop the ball going in the net, together with the team. <\/p>\n
“But she is also very good with her feet and that long-distance kick she has. That is really her super-strength.”<\/p>\n
England have conceded first in their last four games but Wiegman said her side have not been guilty of”starting slowly despite finding themselves behind. <\/p>\n
“Against Spain [in the Euros final] we started well and could have been 1-0 up. The Italy [semi-final] we could have scored one goal,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Against Sweden we didn’t start well and then against France we started well. So I don’t agree that we have slow starts but I do agree, that on Saturday we didn’t start well enough and needed to be more physical. <\/p>\n
“We will definitely do everything we can to start better on Tuesday.”<\/p>\n
England’s game against Australia will be in front of a sell-out crowd at Pride Park (19:00 GMT).<\/p>\n
The attendance at Etihad Stadium against Brazil was 37,460 after the Football Association said before the match that over 43,000 tickets had been issued. For Saturday’s game, a Premier League game in the same city clashed with the kick-off time.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s really nice,” Wiegman said of Tuesday’s match being so well supported. <\/p>\n
“The fans have shown so much support for us here in England but also in Switzerland for the Euros,” said Wiegman. <\/p>\n
“It really helps us and it’s one of the reasons why we go around the country. Now it’s sold-out and that’s incredible. We never take that for granted. <\/p>\n
“It’s also on a Tuesday evening. There will be great support again. We really appreciate it and enjoy it. We try to connect with our fans all the time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s defeat by Brazil kickstarted the first of four friendly matches which are forming a “homecoming series” to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-228604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}