‘powerful’: Leah Williamson Talks Legacy As England Prepare For Final Against Spain

Leah Williamson says England do not want their bequest to beryllium a “flash successful nan pan” arsenic they hole to take sides their European title against Spain.

The Lionesses could make history connected Sunday by becoming nan first elder England broadside to assistance 2 awesome trophies, while nan skipper could subordinate an elite group of players who person tasted European occurrence for nine and state successful nan aforesaid year.

“The consistency and nan scenery keeps changing and we’re trying to alteration pinch it and that’s a really difficult point to do,” she said. “Us staying successful nan tourney until nan extremity proves nan finance and nan value of nan crippled successful England is continuing to rise.

“You don’t conscionable want to beryllium a flash successful nan pan, a memory, and erstwhile we said earlier Euro 2022 we said it was nan commencement of something. We’re still trying to play our domiciled successful that, we cognize really powerful that is and I dream what we do continues to turn and nan respect for nan women’s game, nan respect for women and women’s athletics successful general, continues to grow.

“You consciousness for illustration you stock those things. Somebody has to deterioration an armband, personification has to do that role, but we each conscionable consciousness together and it’s little of an ‘I won this’ and much ‘we’, always,” she said.

“There’ll beryllium beautiful things to talk astir later down nan statement if you want to look astatine occurrence that way. I would astir apt opportunity that occurrence to maine is happiness successful your condition and your company.”

“We want to beryllium champion prepared, that’s our style of play. We’re besides trying to hole for what tin hap successful nan crippled and what we need. We figured retired what players we mightiness request successful definite circumstances if we want to alteration things. That’s what we talk astir each nan clip and that’s really we hole for a game. We person spoken done each nan scenarios, but past during nan crippled it’s a consciousness of what you consciousness is necessary.”

There person been concerns astir nan fittingness of Lauren James, who came disconnected against Italy pinch an ankle injury. But nan guardant played a portion successful training successful Zurich earlier nan squad travelled to Basel.

Williamson rolled her ankle against Sweden. “My ankle is great,” she said. “My mum rolled her ankle a mates of days ago, truthful she’s taken each nan attraction distant from maine now.

“I tin speak for each azygous personnel of nan squad erstwhile I opportunity arsenic agelong arsenic we get nan greenish ray we would play done perfectly thing to beryllium progressive astatine this stage.”