Greece 1-3 England: Lionesses with 'work to do' despite World Cup play-off victory

Sarina Wiegman feels there is plenty for England to work on ahead of their World Cup play-off semi-final second leg against Greece following a 3-1 victory in Crete.Georgia Stanway opened the scoring for the Lionesses to give them a half-time advantage before Maya Le Tissier and Alessia Russo gave them a three-goal lead.England were denied a clean sheet when Kallisti Brouksair scored for the hosts to cut the deficit to two and breathe life into the contest ahead of the return game in Leicester on Tuesday.Boss Wiegman was happy with the result but thinks her side should have won by more.She told ITV: “I think we started well, they started aggressive too but we stayed calm, that’s what I’m most pleased with but a couple of things to work on too.“At moments in the game we were tight, ball wasn’t moving quick enough. Especially when we got the ball in the pockets, high up the pitch, we need to be tighter, more aligned.Goalscorer: Georgia StanwayGetty“With these opportunities we had, we could’ve scored a lot more goals, sometimes we were offside, so there are some things we need to work on, and I’m not happy with the goal we conceded.”Manchester United’s Le Tissier notched her first goal for her country with a powerful strike which proved to be too powerful for Greek keeper Fafailia Petaloti.Wiegman was happy with what she saw from her defender.She added: “There were more positives but she’s really improving her game with club, she’s more comfortable, covered a lot of space today.“She needed to defend but at the same time played in attack really high up the pitch. She got there at the far post and it was a great shot.”The 24-year-old was denied earlier in the game due to a save from Petaloti but finally got her reward.The defender was happy to get off the mark for her country.She said: “I didn’t really know it went in to be honest. I thought the keeper saved it but I just smacked it.“Really glad, feels good to get the first goal so happy. I’m a defender and I thought I’d just be stopping goals but always good to get out there.“We wanted to come here and get the win, gutted to concede a goal but in a good position going into the Leicester game on Tuesday.”