“I feel like some people have the expectation of you to be as good as you were when you left it,” says Beth Mead, pondering her return from close to a year out with an ACL injury. The forward was back with England in December and scored the team’s fourth goal in a 6-0 defeat of Scotland that was not quite enough to earn a place in the Nations League finals and Olympic qualification for Team GB.
Now she is further along on her journey to being back at her “Euro level”, but is not there yet. The next step will be two England friendlies in Marbella against Austria and Italy.
