England will face a re-run of the Girls’s 2023 World Cup closing after being drawn in the identical group as Spain within the 2025 Girls’s Nations League.
Sarina Wiegman’s facet will face the world and Nations League champions for the primary time because the August 2023 World Cup closing, the place they misplaced 1-0 in Australia.
The Lionesses are joined in Group A3 by Belgium, who shocked England within the earlier version of the match with a 3-2 win in Leuven final October, and Portugal.
Through the October worldwide break, England had been overwhelmed 4-3 by Germany, however responded with a 2-1 conquer South Africa.
They face Emma Hayes’ United States at Wembley in a world pleasant on the finish of this month earlier than taking over Switzerland in December earlier than the match begins.
“It’s an thrilling draw. Now we have Spain – a prime, world-class crew – which I believe is thrilling as a result of it’s one other alternative to play at that degree,” Wiegman stated.
“It’s actually good that we play Belgium as a result of within the final Nations League we misplaced once we performed them away, and we actually underperformed.
“We will show to ourselves now that we will do significantly better than that within the two video games. I’m pleased with that one, they’re powerful.
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“Portugal are a really proficient crew. We performed them earlier than we went to the World Cup, and we drew with them.
“We had a number of the ball, however we couldn’t rating, they usually had been very harmful on the counter-attack. They’ve a number of technical gamers.
“There are completely different opponents, and I’m actually wanting ahead to it as a result of we’ll be challenged in numerous areas of the sport. And naturally we’ll give them challenges too.”