The second Lionesses’ hearts broke: Emotional England Girls collapse as they’re informed they are going to NOT play on the Olympics of their post-match huddle, regardless of profitable 6-0 in opposition to Scotland

England star Lucy Bronze was seen collapsing to the pitch in disappointment after affirmation that Group GB is not going to function within the girls’s soccer event at subsequent summer season’s Olympic Video games.

The Lionesses have been tasked with securing a spot at Paris 2024 because the nominated nation within the Olympic qualifying cycle.

England wanted to complete high of their UEFA Girls’s Nations League group to stay in rivalry for qualification, with the 2 finalists in February becoming a member of hosts France on the Video games.

Sarina Wiegman‘s staff wanted to raised the Netherlands’ outcome by three clear targets on Tuesday evening to succeed in the Nations League finals.

England had appeared to have performed sufficient by thrashing Scotland 6-0 at Hampden Park, just for the Netherlands to attain a Ninety fifth-minute aim to beat Belgium 4-0.

Because of the Netherlands late fourth aim, England missed out on aim distinction to the Dutch of their Group A1 standings to advance to the semi-finals of the competitors.

The 4 League A gaggle winners – that are the Netherlands, France,  will face off in a knockout competitors between 23 and 28 February to find out the inaugural UEFA Girls’s Nations League winners.

The winners of the 2 semi-finals advance to the ultimate and the defeated groups contest the third-place match.

The 2 finalists qualify for the 2024 Girls’s Olympics, becoming a member of hosts France – who qualify robotically. If France attain the ultimate, the third-placed staff fills the remaining slot on the Olympic Video games.

Footage has revealed the heartbreaking second the England squad have been knowledgeable in a staff huddle of the late Dutch aim, which dashed Group GB’s Olympic hopes.

A member of the Lionesses’ employees, who was watching the closing levels of the Netherlands match on a cell phone, was seen telling the squad ‘they’ve scored’.

Striker Lauren Hemp was seen turning away in disappointment, whereas Bronze collapsed down onto the pitch and positioned her arms over her face.

Bronze had earlier appeared to have been the participant who had stored Group GB’s hopes alive.

The defender had scored within the third minute of stoppage time to place England again to the highest of the standings, just for one other late twist because the Dutch regained high spot.

England have been left to rue an earlier loss to the Netherlands within the group, in addition to a shock 3-2 defeat by Belgium in October.

Group GB would have certified for the Olympics beneath the earlier qualification format, which noticed UEFA’s three locations decided based mostly on the efficiency of groups on the Girls’s World Cup – the place England completed as runners-up.

‘I am very, very disenchanted,’ Wiegman mentioned post-match. ‘That is the most important emotion I’ve now. I believe we delivered tonight. The staff confirmed numerous character.

‘When Lucy scored that aim I assumed “we will get this”, however that is soccer. The Netherlands scored a late aim and that is how shut it was. We have been ready, these have been lengthy minutes.

‘We actually thought we bought it. I really did not know what to say [to the players] as a result of I am actually pleased with this efficiency, however we’re not via and I am very disenchanted.’

Group GB certified for the primary time for the ladies’s soccer event at Tokyo 2020 after an settlement between the 4 British soccer associations.

Their solely different look got here at London 2012, the place Group GB have been granted a spot because the host nation.