Jonas Eidevall has given his opinion on Northern Ireland manager Kenny Shiels suggestion that women are "more emotional" than men, meaning they are more likely to concede goals in quick succession.
The 65-year-old stated after his side's 5-0 defeat to England in a World Cup qualifier, in which Lauren Hemp scored eight minutes after Ella Toone netted the Lionesses' second and Georgia Stanway managed a brace within the space ten minutes, that part of the reason they had conceded so close together was the emotional state of his players.
"In the women's game, you'll have noticed if you go through the patterns, when a team concedes a goal they concede a second one within a very short period of time," Shiels said. "Right through the whole spectrum of the women's game, because girls and women are more emotional than men, so they take a goal going in not very well."
