I remember Souness doing it years ago at Rangers v Dinamo Kiev. I think Wales just recognised Englands better players were the wide ones. No's 3, 7 & 11 stood out to me.

Trev wrote:No way would the wonens england team compete with league 2 men they were better than wales though who reminded me of county under westley feeney butcher etc long ball hoof and very generic created virtually nothing all game plenty of effort but no end product sorry to say .

Physically no but fitness and technique most definitely.

a lot of the Welsh players are part time, I thought they did well in the campaign, the tickets were sold out within 22 hrs according to the BBC so this shows that there is a demand for women's football.

What they lacked in technique was made up by physicality, some of those tackles would still have Neymar rolling around today.

newgroundrodney wrote: I wasn't getting at anything, I was just asking the question. So it was tactical then. I'm glad it wasn't made smaller just because they're females.... not that I care about international football of any gender.

I was "getting at anything", I was just unsure which point you were referring to in my original post: the reduced capacity or the pitch width.

Good write up of the match in the "I" today.....Knowledgeable and a generous reference to "the unquenchable spirit that enabled the local team to survive"
Nice one