Portugal Women vs England
Womens Internationals
7:00pm Tuesday 8th October
Estadio do Bonfim
England Women recorded a first win in six games since they defeated Portugal 1-0 in Setubal thanks.
The Lionesses entered the match at the Estadio do Bonfim in urgent need of a victory to ease the strain on manager Phil Neville, who hadnt seen his side win since they beat against Norway at June in the World Cup quarter-finals,
However, in spite of dominating large parts of the struggle in Setubal, they needed to wait until 18 minutes from time to earn the breakthrough, and even then their winner had been the consequence of a dreadful error in Portugal No 1 Sousa Barros Morais.
The people held on, however, despite Portugal coming urgently close to a last-minute equaliser when Pires Netos free-kick struck on the pub, much to Nevilles huge relief.
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