Lionesses look to throw down a marker ahead of Euros

England Ladies v Netherlands Ladies Worldwide Pleasant preview: Lionesses look to throw down a marker forward of Euros

World heavyweights England and Netherlands conflict forward of the UEFA Ladies’s Euros. Will one of many favourites assert their authority?

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England girls look to keep up unbeaten streak

At present within the type of their careers and on the again of a 12-game unbeaten streak, stretching again to April final yr, England girls have properly and really bounced again from their disappointments within the semi-finals of the 2019 World Cup and 2017 Euros.

Going into the UEFA Ladies’s Euro 2022 match in July as second favourites at 4/1, England Ladies are in no want of a heat up however a pleasant in opposition to high-quality opposition in Netherlands will give them the observe of enjoying in opposition to the elite, and a squad of the form of pedigree they’ll certainly must face within the knockout rounds.

England are marginal favourites at 11/8 and after scoring a thoughts boggling 53 objectives of their final 9 video games, albeit in opposition to weaker opposition, are seething with momentum and properly positioned to come back away with a win of their ultimate match earlier than the opener of the Euros.

Ellen White who has develop into England Ladies’s all-time prime scorer, scored a hattrick within the 20-0 destruction of Latvia and is the favorite to attain first within the tie at 9/2, whereas she is simply 13/8 to attain at anytime.

The Netherlands’ means and maybe additionally the historical past between the edges sees each groups to attain a probable incidence at 4/5.

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Netherlands to go for 18th purpose in three matches

The Dutch women are third favourites at 5/1 to win the Euros in July and like England will view this fixture as a first-rate alternative to play some prime quality opposition in preparation for the opening match.

Identical to their counterparts, Netherlands have had some unbelievable latest kind, netting 17 occasions of their final two matches. A 12-0 win in opposition to Cyprus and a 5-1 victory over South Africa sees a Netherlands crew that beat England within the 2017 Euros semi-final come into this match as solely slight underdogs at 9/5.

The boldness Netherlands ought to take into the fixture after beating England within the Euro semi-finals of their final assembly, mixed with the scintillating latest type of the Lionesses, sees the potential of a draw much less doubtless at 2/1.

Vivianne Miedema, who’s cementing herself as one of many world’s greatest in girls’s soccer, is the spotlight of the Dutch squad and their probably to attain first at 5/1 and 9/5 to seek out the online at anytime.

Very evenly matched on paper and in latest outcomes, England v Netherlands is anticipated to be a decent affair with each groups keen to point out what they’re made from within the precursor to the ladies’s Euros. A 1-1 draw is the probably consequence at 9/2.

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