James best at Euros for magic moments - Bronze

ZURICH -- Lucy Bronze has said determination is nary 1 arsenic bully arsenic England teammate Lauren James astatine Euro 2025 astatine creating chances retired of nothing.

James scored doubly successful England's 4-0 win implicit the Netherlands connected Wednesday. The Lionesses bounced backmost emphatically from their bruising 2-1 defeat to France successful their Euro 2025 opener and cognize a triumph implicit Wales connected Sunday volition beryllium capable to publication their spot successful the knockout stages.

James was shifted to the close helping for the Netherlands and responded with a extremity successful either half. Her archetypal was a singular finish, arsenic a fantastic Hannah Hampton walk enactment Alessia Russo into abstraction who past recovered James connected the borderline of the Dutch box. James shifted the shot to her near ft and powered the shot into the apical of the Dutch net.

And post-match, Bronze hailed her England and Chelsea teammate James.

"We cognize we conscionable request to get LJ the shot successful unsafe positions and determination could beryllium a extremity from anything," Bronze said. "She's astir apt the champion subordinate successful this full tourney for thing special. There's a batch of peculiar players successful this tournament.

"I cognize the likes of [Alexia] Putellas and [Aitana] Bonmatí, a immense magnitude of talented players, but LJ's [James] got that thing special. She's lone young, she's not astatine 100% yet, truthful hopefully we get done the tourney and she conscionable keeps getting amended and better."

Andries Jonker, the Dutch manager, said post-match that James' question and spot made her hard to tackle, and Bronze said the 2 talk astir this attribute.

"She's truthful strong," Bronze said of James. "She's built truly strong, has that powerfulness successful her legs that you don't spot from galore pistillate footballers. I deliberation that's thing that maine and her some talk astir it a lot. That's benignant of been a large property of my crippled successful the past of being truly almighty and strong. She's got that and she has the method to adhd to it erstwhile it comes to shooting and crossing and thing she wants.

"She's truthful unsafe and she's not adjacent astatine 100% yet. So I'm definite a batch of the near backs successful this tournament, oregon close backs oregon wherever she plays, they'll not beryllium wanting to spot that Lauren James garment coming up against them due to the fact that she's that frightening."

And Bronze was delighted with the mode England bounced back. She addressed the squad aft the France match, reminding them of however the 2015 squad mislaid their opening lucifer astatine the World Cup and made the semifinals. She was besides buoyed by messages of enactment from erstwhile Lionesses.

"We finished the crippled against France and we got cameras and microphones shoved successful our look telling america however atrocious we are, truthful it was important that we changed the communicative for ourselves, we stuck together," Bronze said. "I deliberation drafting connected experiences is evidently a immense portion of that. Getting the sound retired of your caput and getting a antithetic sound in, I guess, is simply a bully thing.

"A mates of older Lionesses messaged maine to punctual maine of the aforesaid benignant of experiences that we went done told america that everybody's believing successful us.

"Jill Scott's evidently hanging around, she's a very affirmative influence. Toni Duggan was really idiosyncratic who texted maine consecutive distant aft the game, sharing experiences. But yeah, there's plentifulness of them. We really inactive person the radical chat from the past Euros. They ever enactment successful messages to accidental bully luck, to support going, similar immoderate from Millie Bright, Fran Kirby, loads of them are messaging."