England Women’s manager says White is still his first choice‘Beth’s got to keep improving, got to keep challenging’ Phil Neville has urged Beth
England to “keep driving forward to get that No 9 shirt” from first-choice centre-forward Ellen White after the
Chelsea striker scored a hat-trick in Friday’s internal friendly.
“I think she’s getting fitter and stronger and has more confidence and more belief,” said the manager at the close of England’s last camp of 2020. “I’ve worked really closely with Emma [Hayes] at Chelsea – we’ve both been challenging Beth to get up to the levels she was. It was eight months ago that she won all those awards – that’s a long time in
Football – and now this camp has been her best camp so far.”