The tactical tweaks that helped England survive Sweden's strong start

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🇸🇪 Surprise line-up 🇸🇪 Making it hard for England CBs to pass to each other 🇸🇪 Targeting Walsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 White coming short to help progress ball 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mead’s crucial opener 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Better decisions in 2nd half Zonal_Marking breaks down England's semi-final win

And it was particularly difficult to picture considering the way England had started last night’s game.

Curiously, at times it felt like the more Sweden sustained pressure, the more comfortable England were. Throughout this tournament, Sweden have proved better at breaking into space than finding a way through a deep defence, and in Millie Bright, England have one of Euro 2022’s best penalty-box defenders. Leah Williamson also made some superb headed clearances.

“We had trouble with that. We were too loose on the ball, and you know with Sweden that when there are moments when you lose it when you shouldn’t, then they were gone .”“I think I can say now, afterwards, we tried to get Keira Walsh away from playing as much ,” he said. “And I think we did that very well, especially for the first 25 to 30 minutes. I don’t think in the game against Portugal we had so many open chances like we did here. Against Portugal and Belgium, it was more set pieces.

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