Lionesses sit top of World Cup qualifying group
Saturday’s match will be 500th in team’s history
Sarina Wiegman has said it is important England get the right result against Iceland in Saturday’s World Cup qualifier to make the win against Spain at Wembley on Tuesday “even more valuable”.
England put themselves in pole position in their qualifying group with the tight 1-0 victory over Spain, with Lauren Hemp’s early goal the difference. The European champions have three wins from three and with only the top team from each group in League A securing automatic qualification and avoiding the playoffs, the incentive to keep winning is high.
Iceland are next up and a positive result at the Laugardalsvöllur Stadium with two games remaining in early June – Spain in Mallorca and Ukraine at the Hill Dickinson Stadium – is “what we want”, according to Wiegman. She said: “It will be a different challenge but we need to make the win on Tuesday even more valuable by having a good result tomorrow. That’s absolutely what we want to go for, it’s different circumstances and with a different opponent, but we’re ready.”
