How can a team who won 5-0 so convincingly be beaten by the same opponents just four days later?
That is the problem with the Lionesses right now. You do not know what you are going to get from one game to the next.
It had seemed as though they had fixed their defensive frailty after conceding four against Germany in October. But in a stadium that so often brings them misery, England were worryingly exposed by Belgium’s veteran striker Tessa Wullaert.
It was Wullaert who destroyed the Lionesses defence with ease on the same turf in October 2023, and Wiegman had said on the eve of this game that England wanted to “take revenge on themselves” for that poor performance.