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Anita Asante

England face the world champions USA – but that fear factor has gone

Alex Morgan (right) takes on England’s Lucy Bronze and Steph Houghton during USA’s 2-1 World Cup semi-final win in 2019.
Alex Morgan (right) takes on England’s Lucy Bronze and Steph Houghton during USA’s 2-1 World Cup semi-final win in 2019. Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty Images

Welcome to Moving the Goalposts, the Guardian’s free women’s football newsletter. Here’s an extract from this week’s edition. To receive the full version once a week, just pop your email in below:

When England welcome the USA to Wembley on Friday night we are in for a treat. It is a great match-up and a great opportunity for England to get a measure of where they are, even if everything doesn’t go to plan against the world champions. They’ll want to win, but draw or lose and there is time, before the World Cup kicks off next summer, to say: “OK, we’ve got time, let’s work on this.”

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