England head coach John Mitchell says there may be extra to come back from his aspect following their 69-7 opening Girls’s Rugby World Cup win towards the USA.
The Crimson Roses kicked off the match in entrance of a record-breaking crowd of 42,723 on the Stadium of Gentle, scoring 11 tries.
“It was a fantastic atmosphere, to represent your country in the opening match,” Mitchell stated. “I think we built into the performance slowly and lifted our intensity in the second half.
“We have solely simply obtained began and there is quite a lot of progress left in us.”
“I really enjoyed the way the girls built pressure on USA. We forced their negativity, I guess, and then we took advantage of that.”
In addition to notching their first factors of the World Cup, victory additionally prolonged England’s profitable run to twenty-eight video games in complete.
The second half proved to be a very ruthless show from the Crimson Roses towards a crew ranked tenth on this planet.
“Firstly, we’re the Red Roses. Even before my time they’ve set outstanding standards,” he stated.
“We’re in a fortunate position, we’re also grateful to have great depth. We’re constantly creating pressure.
Loosehead prop Hannah Botterman was one other standout performer and among the many strive scorers
“The girls are extremely driven and don’t like to be beaten, like anyone, they don’t like to fail.
“Our coaching requirements are very excessive and it is as much as us as leaders to make it possible for we preserve that every day.
“That’s in our control, we can’t control outside of that. We can’t control where teams are ranked, we’ve just got to deal with what we’re confronted with.
“As I stated earlier within the week, we’re hunted and we love being hunted. Each crew’s going to rise bodily and mentally 10 or 15 per cent, we anticipate that, however we’re additionally going to develop as nicely.”
Ellie Kildunne put in a particularly-impressive shift across the back three and Mitchell also praised England’s scrum, adding that there were still areas to improve.
He said: “It is good to see Ellie again on the sphere, doing what she loves doing. She’s very intuitive and her skillset was superb tonight.
Kildunne, 2024’s world participant of the 12 months, scored twice in addition to helping twice on the Stadium of Gentle
“That’s an individual, but then you’ve got to go and look at some of the effort areas by other players and also the scrum was outstanding tonight.
“The scrum buried USA. Quite a few penalties most likely may have despatched some gamers to the bin as nicely due to continued negativity in that space.
“We’ll just go where we can apply pressure, if it has to be in the scrum.
“You may’t simply at all times depend on people and as this match progresses, we’ll should get even higher in our connections and dealing collectively.”
What’s next?
England play their second Pool A fixture against Samoa on Saturday August 30 at Northampton’s Franklin’s Gardens (5pm).
The USA’s second Rugby World Cup Pool A clash comes against Australia in York on Saturday August 30 (7.30pm).
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Girls’s Rugby World Cup 2025 schedule
Pool stage
Pool A
August 22: England 69-7 United States – Sunderland
August 23: Australia vs Samoa – Salford, 12pm
August 30: England vs Samoa – Northampton, 5pm
August 30: United States vs Australia – York, 7.30pm
September 6: United States vs Samoa – York, 1.30pm
September 6: England vs Australia – Brighton, 5pm
Pool B
August 23: Scotland vs Wales – Salford, 2.45pm
August 23: Canada vs Fiji – York, 5.30pm
August 30: Canada vs Wales – Salford, 12pm
August 30: Scotland vs Fiji – Salford, 2.45pm
September 6: Canada vs Scotland – Exeter, 12pm
September 6: Wales vs Fiji – Exeter, 2.45pm
Pool C
August 24: Eire vs Japan – Northampton, 12pm
August 24: New Zealand vs Spain – York, 5.30pm
August 31: Eire vs Spain – Northampton, 12pm
August 31: New Zealand vs Japan – Exeter, 2pm
September 7: Japan vs Spain – York, 12pm
September 7: New Zealand vs Eire – Brighton, 2.45pm
Pool D
August 23: France vs Italy – Exeter, 8.15pm
August 24: South Africa vs Brazil – Northampton, 2.45pm
August 31: Italy vs South Africa – York, 3.30pm
August 31: France vs Brazil – Exeter, 4.45pm
September 7: Italy vs Brazil – Northampton, 2pm
September 7: France vs South Africa – Northampton, 4.45pm
