Leah Williamson acknowledged England's shortcomings in ball control and defended weakly during the 2-1 loss to France. She remarked on the team's tendency to lose the ball cheaply, leading to difficult situations that necessitated emergency defending. Despite the defeat, Williamson conveyed a sense of responsibility among players to reflect on their individual performances. She expressed optimism for improvement in the upcoming match against the Netherlands, focusing on adapting strategies and taking advantage of different spaces and opposition strength.
When you're losing the ball really cheaply, and then you're in emergency defending... we hold ourselves to higher standards, in the individual battles.
We learnt from those mistakes in fairness and grew in the game, but on the ball, [we were] not good enough, we couldn't keep it in the areas that we needed to keep it.
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