England might go into this summer’s Women’s World Cup as the European champions, but their task of backing that up with another major tournament triumph will certainly be tricky. The Lionesses are without a number of key players through injury, they’ve landed in the extremely top-heavy side of the draw and the weight of expectation is certainly higher now they have a title in the bag.
That said, there is a reason they have that trophy in the cabinet after all. There might be new challenges for Sarina Wiegman’s side to overcome in Australia, but they have plenty of qualities that can help them adapt and overcome those.
England are certainly one of the favourites to win this World Cup title – and here are six reasons why they can do it...
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