“First of all, I want to note the excellent organization of the competition. It was a top-level tournament. Apparently, Saudi Arabia clearly wants to host the World Cup in the coming years.
As for the final result in Neome, we are not entirely satisfied. We believe that we should have played in the final at this tournament. For example, in the first match against the Spaniards, we started well and took the lead. However, then our functional state and as many as four technical errors that we made in one match ultimately prevented us from giving Spain a real fight.
After this meeting, we held a general meeting, talked with the girls and decided how to play the next matches for a positive result. In principle, we had no problems with England. We understood how the opponent would act, imposed our tactics on him, the girls fulfilled the game setup and won “with a margin”. In the decisive match with the Brazilian women for the final, we actually beat the opponent. They did not give space to their attacking players, blocked the flank positions, played tight in the central defense zone.
We withstood the starting pressure from Brazil, scored two goals, and everything was going well. But our technical errors intervened again. We missed the second ball due to a misunderstanding when changing fours. An unpleasant moment that should not have been allowed at this level. With the third goal into our goal, the referees did not see a clear foul by the opponents on our goalkeeper. They did not score a clean penalty against Brazil with the score 4:4. We have even gotten used to such refereeing mistakes – a kind of immunity has developed. Well, we have drawn conclusions and are moving on.”
Source: sport.ua