England boss Sarina Wiegman has said she is “very hopeful” as she waits to see if she can attend Wednesday’s Euro 2022 quarter-final against Spain after testing positive for coronavirus last week.
The Dutchwoman, absent from Friday’s 5-0 group-stage victory over Northern Ireland at St Mary’s following the positive test, with assistant Arjan Veurink taking the lead from the dugout, has been watching training from a distance with a mask on.
And she told a press conference on Tuesday ahead of the last-eight match at the Amex Stadium: “I’m good, I’m feeling well. I’m actually ready to go, but still have to wait.
It's not the worst nightmare, just a situation we have to deal with. I'm around and still doing my job.- Sarina Wiegman “Of course I’m very hopeful but we’ll see what happens, and we do know if I can’t be there I’ll be around in another way. “We had a line so I was in contact with the technical staff all the time during (Friday’s) game, watching it of course from here (at the team’s south-west London base).