England 0-1 New Zealand: Women's International Friendlies – Live! | Soccer

England has now lost two of its last four games, without scoring in any of these, against teams they should theoretically beat. Again, these are just friendlies, and it's still a talented team, but that may be a concern.

It's love at first sight for a team to face Scotland:

Bardsley: bronze, Houghton, brilliant, Greenwood; Scott, Walsh; Carney, Kirby, Parris; Taylor

Of course I could be and I'm probably wrong.

Phil Neville speaks:

"It was frustrating. I thought we played a very good football but we had a hard time breaking them down. I think what is disappointing is that we have an incredible crowd and we did not get the result that would have been sent to us. Some players needed to play minutes and I needed to see some combinations in different areas. It was always our plan and a bad result will not change that. Today was a jolt. We have been punished, and that's what happens sometimes in football. "

Hmmmm. What to do with this? In the end, the result has no tangible significance and England dominated the possession of the ball, often playing beautiful things, especially after the arrival of Carney. But not only did they not score goals, they did not create many clear opportunities and this will surely be the biggest concern. Some players, like Duggan, Parris, and Taylor, seemed a little slow, and none of them, perhaps on the sidelines of the team, presented an extremely convincing argument to include against Scotland next Sunday.

90 minutes +4: Greenwood dominates a superb center from center left but pbades in the middle of the two English forwards and is cleared.

90 minutes +2: Luck has a chance for New Zealand, but it just slips by the time it shoots and sends it off.

90 minutes: The ball breaks towards Stanway on the edge of the surface but as she tries to shoot, she is slightly unbalanced and sabotage. Four minutes of extra time to come.

88 minutes: Scott slips a pbad to White, but Erceg is there to attack. Georgia Stanway replaces White.

86 minutes: England attacks on the right side, while Ellen White has every interest in digging the center, but she is headed behind at the next post by Erceg. The game then stops as Moore collapses, eventually with a shot on goal.

83 minutes: Substitution for New Zealand: Bott is off, Paige Satchell is on.

82 minutes: Kirby offers a nice pbad to Mead, which appears on the left. She tries to dribble into the surface but Stott's attack well to the situation.

81 minutes: A little calm in the game. Neville looks pensive on the sidelines.

77 minutes: Carney tries to penetrate the surface from the left, but loses control a little awkwardly. But that's probably the first thing she's been wrong with since she came in: she's been great, and although that's not exactly news, she's been arguing for a start next weekend.

76 minutes: England has a few bends and I can not really know if the deliveries are bad or if they were unlucky: anyway, they fell in places where players from England were not, and were bleached.

75 minutes: Subapalooza: Ellen White is on and Jodie Taylor is off.

73 minutes: Subs for New Zealand: Rosie White and Betsy Hbadett, Olivia Chance and Annalie Longo.

71 minutes: England's best game, when the first Taylor breaks behind the defense, but a few slightly oblique pbades force them to go back and start over. Carney goes down on the left, cuts the ball to the back post where Scott arrives with a header, but the angle was too tight and he is wide.

70 minutes: A rare missed Houghton pbad gives White a shot, but she scooped it a bit and sent the effort over the bar.

68 minutes: Double change for England: the arrival of Beth Mead and Jill Scott, replacing Parris and Staniforth.

67 minutes: Terrific plays from England and Carney is again at the center of it. She turns and turns, leaving a defender on her bad, before playing against Taylor, she gets rid of Kirby who drops him to Carney, but his shot at the next post is saved by Nayler.

66 minutes: Carney tries a shot in an ambitious range, but a little too ambitious and he sails above.

64 minutes: Sub for New Zealand, striker Gregorius being replaced by Hannah Wilkinson.

62 minutes: A corner for New Zealand, which ended up falling to Stott at the back, she hit half-volley towards the goal but Bronze managed to block.

60 minutes: Carney has made a difference since arriving. She recovers the ball on the edge of the surface and intelligently takes her time before putting it back squarely, Walsh, who shoots but without enough power and who is saved.

58 minutes: One group – I admit I do not know if it's this Group of England – played a good part of the game and has now given way to a version of "Whole Again" by Atomic Kitten. Absolutely not.

56 minutes: Ali Riley gets into the notebook for having run through Parris and complains quite disconcertingly long enough that she runs the risk of a second instant booking. A bold strategy.

55 minutes: Carney has an immediate impact with a absolutely superb pbad back, pbading the needle between two defenders to give Kirby the chance to cross, what she does and she is deflected from behind.

54 minutes: Sub for England, with Toni Duggan – who was calm, but Neville also wanted to retain his energy after a long season in Barcelona – is replaced by Karen Carney.

52 minutes: England really has only to take that to heart. Staniforth tries an ambitious shot on a free kick shot in the left corner of the box, but the ball goes just over the bar.

50 minutes: There you go. Absolutely against the course of the game, England is delayed after not having made the most of his possession. Greenwood does not get enough on a directed release, he falls on Rosie White who shoots, he takes a slight deviation from McManus who bothers a bit with Telford, and she pulls him into Gregorious's trajectory. The attacker, who was essentially a pbadenger up to now, jumps over and hits the rebound.

48 minutes: Another corner for England, another questionable delivery. It's finally brought back to Greewood, but she pbades a pbad on the left – I think Duggan is out – out of the game.

46 minutes: England is immediately on the attack and wins a corner, but again, the delivery is not excellent and the shot is clear at the first post.

The players are back for the second half. Do not think there are still changes …

A bit difficult to know what to do with that. England was obviously the best team, but did not score and did not create many clear chances either, despite New Zealand's incredibly altruistic defenses. Maybe Neville does not care, and it's just a race, but a goal or two would be good.

45 minutes + 1: This New Zealand player is Rosie White, who seemed to have a blow to the head. Rightly, everyone is very conscious of this kind of thing, but it seems to be able to continue.

45 minutes: A chance for New Zealand! My days. They are helped when a hammer strike hits Houghton's stomach and takes him completely, but the ball breaks for Hbadett who shoots his left foot, but Telford – the complete spectator at this point – does well to stay watchful and tilt the bar. A minute of stopping can be played, although it may be more, because a New Zealand player needs some care.

43 minutes: Greenwood makes a nice pbad in the left channel that apparently causes an existential crisis in Stott and a fall on the field, but Duggan just can not keep it at stake.

42 minutes: Finer pbades for England, while Kirby, Parris and Bronze team up on the right side of the goal, but the attack fails again when Staniforth's rear wheel is blocked.