Alessia Russo and Hannah Hampton star for England in slender win over Iceland – response | EUROtoday

That was a superb cease, nevertheless it turned the Hampton present within the closing phases.

First she denied Sandra Jessen from point-blank vary earlier than England someway survived a goal-mouth scramble. Jessen hit the publish earlier than a mixture of Niamh Charles and Hampton blocked Dilja Zolma’s observe up.

Hampton was then required to make one other close-range save from Alexandra Johannsdottir as Iceland continued to bombard England late on.

“It’s my job isn’t it really? Let’s be honest,” Hampton mentioned. “We’re in it as a team, I can’t be the one scoring goals but I can stop them.

“We’re a right pack, they call us, so Lessi [Alessia Russo] got a great finish at one end so I had to do my job at the other.”

Wiegman was getting increasingly irate on the touchline and have to be bewildered at how her workforce can beat the world champions on one evening and battle towards a lower-ranked opponent 4 days later. The Lionesses are an enigma. But they’re a workforce that continuously finds a option to win.

Match particulars

Iceland (4-3-3): Runarsdottir 7; Arnardottir 6, Viggosdottir 6, Sigurdardottir 6, Heiðarsdóttir 5 (Halldorsdottir 61); Hermannsdottir 5 (Antonsdottir 61), Johannsdottir 6, Asgeirsdottir 6; Jonsdottir 6, Boama 5 (Jessen 61), Zomers 6 (Eiriksdottir 86).
Substitutes: Ivarsdottir, Birkisdottir, Tryggvadottir, Vilhajalmsdottir, Georgsdottir, Olsfsdottir Gros, Palmadottir.
England (4-3-3): Hampton 8; Bronze 6, Williamson 6 (Wubben-Moy HT, 6), Morgan 6(Carter 89), Greenwood 6 (Charles 78); Walsh 6, Stanway 7, Blindkilde Brown 6 (Park 63); James 6 (Mead 63), Russo 6, Hemp 6.
Substitutes: Moorhouse, Roebuck, Le Tissier, Wubben-Moy, Hinds, Kelly, Kendall, Parkinson.
Goals: Russo 21.
Referee: Michalina Diakow (Poland).