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#WEURO2017 Action and Reaction: Group Stage Matchday 3
She Kicks, issue 43, September 2017 p.13
Scotland throw everything at Spain in Deventer and win 1-0 through a scrappy Caroline Weir finish, but needed two and go out on goal difference. There are tears and there is pride: captain Gemma Fay says nobody gave them a chance and nobody should ever write off the badge, and argues that with the right work at grassroots level and a professional set-up things can be great. Anna Signeul, in her last game after twelve years, says they had everything to win and nothing to lose, and predicts they will qualify for the World Cup. England, with Sampson changing all but one of his starting eleven, beat Portugal 2-1 less convincingly than the travelling support wanted. Toni Duggan says she was happier about Nikita Parris’s first goal than her own.
