Leicester City’s pitch is normally a glorious carpet, one that now looks as if it has been eaten by moths.
As the ball bobbled awkwardly outside the penalty area, Ella Toone looked as bewildered as anybody as to how she twice managed to score. Leah Williamson watched a tumbleweed of a pass laze along to Greenwood as she tried to mount a counter-attack.
“You expect in England to have the best groundsmen and pitches in the world,” echoed her manager, Sonia Bompastor.
But this was a half-hearted attempt to get the King Power ready for a rare opportunity to host the national side in front of local fans. England Men have had their fair share of sub-par pitches away from home – including at last summer’s Euros against Denmark in Frankfurt – but it is hard to imagine them playing on a surface like this in the UK.
They have been questionable, to put it mildly, at the Arnold Clark Cup in the past, but never with such implications for a summer of this magnitude.
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Georgia Stanway, Alex Greenwood and Lauren James are all being quietly nursed behind the scenes. All have had significant injury problems in the past 12 months.
With Hannah Hampton starting – and surviving a howler that was disallowed due to Jamaican obstruction – the two back-up goalkeepers Anna Moorhouse and Khiara Keating will go to Switzerland without a single cap between them.
These are the moments that mean everything and nothing in the build-up to a major tournament. England hardly need reminding that greater tests lie ahead, especially given that this was a Jamaica side missing Khadija Shaw, Becky Spencer and Drew Spence.
Leicester, too, might feel they have bigger fish to fry as they search for a men’s first-team manager, brace themselves for a potential points deduction and prepare for another season in the Championship juggling myriad, complex financial rules. It might be an idea to get their house in order first.
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