Defender Lucy Bronze admitted England “usually are not blissful” with their World Cup performances to date however vowed the Lionesses will step up in Saturday’s quarter-final in opposition to Colombia.
The European champions crushed China 6-1 of their third group-stage contest, however that match stays an outlier in a event that has in any other case seen them rating only one different objective from open play.
That profitable strike got here in opposition to Denmark from Lauren James, who will miss the Lionesses’ last-eight encounter whereas she serves at minimal a one-game suspension after she was despatched off in Monday night time’s last-16 victory over Nigeria.