England defeat 'won't get us down' says Gemma Fay

Published 20th Jul 2017

Scotland manager Anna Signeul has been giving her reaction to their 6 - 0 defeat in their opening Women's European Championship match against England : "I think it was a really tough debut for us. We played against a very, very good side in England, a team that is a contender in this tournament.

"I think they were good in all areas and we knew that from the beginning.

"Obviously we were disappointed to lose so many goals. It was 3-0 at half-time and that's tough.

"We didn't want to do that, but what we learn from this is we'll work on our resilience and we come back.

"It's not over for us. We came here as a team. We've had losses on the way here in terms of personnel and I think that we are playing as a team and losing as a team and we're rising again.

"In a few days' time we play Portugal and that's the main focus now.

"You learn all the time and we'll rise again, that's what Scotland stands for.''

Signeul said striker Jane Ross had suffered a shoulder blow that could rule her out of the game against Portugal on Sunday. She was substituted and taken to hospital for the injury to be assessed.

"Unfortunately I think we lost another player in Jane Ross who was one of our best players on the pitch, but we don't know that yet,'' Signeul said. It's the shoulder and she couldn't really move it.''

Scotland captain and goalkeeper Gemma Fay said her team would not let the result get them down ahead of their second Group D game against Portugal.

Fay said: "We're not hiding anything tonight. England are one of the best teams in the world and they proved that.

"This is a tight-knit group and we've had our ups and downs over the past year preparing for this tournament, so we're used to having to regroup and it won't get us down.

"We're proud every time we put this jersey on and we'll stand up and be counted in the next game.''

Jodie Taylor said it felt "awesome'' to become England's hat-trick hero.

England's win surpassed the previous highest margin by any team in the history of the tournament, with three previous 5-0 successes recorded by Norway, Germany and Sweden.

Taylor's treble in Utrecht was added to by goals from Ellen White, Jordan Nobbs and substitute Toni Duggan.

The star of the show proudly carried the match ball into a post-match press conference, and said: "I'm happy to get off the board and score. To get three goals has been awesome.

"But I wouldn't be able to score without the service from my team-mates so all credit to everyone else for supplying me the ball.'