Thank you for joining us for this short but sweet live text today, we'll be back with you tomorrow for coverage of England v Australia live from Pride Park.

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Australia

Meanwhile, Australia head coach Joe Montemurro has been speaking this week about how to take the women's game to the next level.

Since hosting the World Cup in 2023, the Matildas haven't taken off in the same way that the Lionesses did, for instance, after hosting Euro 2022 - albeit Sarina Wiegman's side won the thing.

Football Australia opted not to renew the contract of coach Tony Gustavsson after he failed to lead the Matildas beyond the group stage at Paris 2024, and the hunt for his replacement was protracted, leaving Australia fans wondering - what next?

"I say this in a positive way: I think we just need to do more," Montemurro said. "We need to play more. We need to coach more. We need to get players exposed to more high-performance, international football and international games."

"Sometimes we put everything in Australian football in the pot of negativity, 'oh, we haven't got that, we haven't got this.

"The one thing that I've definitely observed, there are issues overseas with a lot of organisations and we're not that far behind."

England

England manager Sarina Wiegman on Esme Morgan: "She's doing really well. Over the last two years she has developed really well. She moved from England to the US, and she's been challenged in the 1v1 duels, defending space in behind, those are the types of games played over there. I think that really helped her play consistently. I think she's really developing on the pitch but also off the pitch you can tell she's developing as a human being too. It's really nice to see that development, and to help her. Of course, it's up to her what it will look like in the near future. I'm happy with what she shows at the moment.

"She can improve at everything. She has a lot of pace. She's good in her possession game. She sees pictures and can speed up the game. In moments like defending the space I think she has improved a lot but there's still something to do - we have talked about defending in the box, I see improvement in there, and she's still working on that."

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England midfielder Ella Toone on the new coaches: "I think it's really important to create connections with the new members of staff. They've made a really good first impression, they've been really positive, we've enjoyed the training sessions. They're very good at the tactical information that they're giving us. Obviously, it takes time. But it's something we're willing to try out and so far so good, and it's important to build those connections in the time we're spending together.

"We've only had about four sessions on the grass. They've been really positive, you can see that in the way that they coach, but also the information that we get tactically has been really important. They're fitting in really well and we have to make use of the time that we have on camp together."

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England manager Sarina Wiegman on dynamics with new staff: "It takes time to build relationships. I don't want to replicate literally what we had before. My personality, with [former assistant coach] Arjen [Veurink]'s - we worked together for eight-and-a-half years, and that worked so organically and smoothly that basically we didn't need words, any more. So I don't want to replicate that.

"We have new dynamics, different personalities, also different qualities. We want to bring that together and get the best out of ourselves. If we get the best out of ourselves, we can support the team in the best way possible. Probably things will be different - things are different. But that doesn't mean that it's not ok.

"Different energies and dynamics - this is good."

We're all off to Pride Park for the first time in a full women's international, with England facing Australia at the home of Derby County.

The stadium has hosted major women's matches previously, notably last year's League Cup final where Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-1.

That game was marred by a poor quality pitch, with notable bare and sandy patches blighting the turf. Hopefully the surface tomorrow is up to scratch.

England

England midfielder Ella Toone on Manchester United teammate Jess Park: "It's been really positive. It's been a great move for Man Utd, having Jess come in. She's performed consistently, helping us with goals and assists. The relationship that we've built is really exciting. She's someone I enjoy playing with, I know that I can give her the ball in tight areas and she can get out. It's still building connections, but it's working well so far and she's been a great addition to the club.

"I think it's really important that you make connections at club and bring them to the national team. It's key when you're in the national team to make connections with players you don't play with at club. For me, Keira [Walsh] and Georgia [Stanway], we've played together in the midfield quite a few times so we've definitely learnt those connections on the pitch and I think they work really well.

"So yes, it's important to have those club connections, but also, making sure we make those connections when we're here, 10 days on international camp and we make use of the training."

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England manager Sarina Wiegman on the Lionesses' slow starts: "First of all, we didn't start slow in the games you mention. I think the Spain game, we started well and we could've scored 1-0, the Italy game we could've scored 1-0, the Sweden game we didn't start that well, the France game we started really well and scored a goal. So I don't agree that we have slow starts all the time - we just got behind.

"I do agree, on Saturday we didn't start well enough. We had to get more physical. We talked about that - the players felt the same. So we're definitely going to give everything to start better tomorrow."

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England manager Sarina Wiegman on Hannah Hampton's potential return: "She's a good goalkeeper. First task of a goalkeeper is to keep the ball out of the net, together with the team. She's also very good with her feet, the long distance kicks and also playing possession game. That's a super strength of hers."

Sarina Wiegman and Ella Toone have just made their exits from the media room at St George's Park, but we will continue to bring you what they had to say today.

And we will provide further build-up to tomorrow's match at Pride Park.

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England manager Ella Toone on Maya Le Tissier: "I play with Maya week in week out at club. I see what type of person and player she is. She's the ultimate professional, for such a young player as well. She's the captain of the club, she puts in consistent performances.

"But I know Maya as a person, and I know that wherever she's asked to play - she'll go out there and give absolutely everything for the team. And we saw that the other day in the Brazil game. She started off as a right back and moved to centre back. She'll give 100% no matter what.

"I don't think it affects her much. She still does what she does day in day out at club, works hard, always in the gym, always last one out on the training pitch. I know she'll give her best."

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England midfielder Ella Toone on Tuesday's opponents: "Physical games aren't my cup of tea usually. I thought we did really well against Brazil, they definitely posed a threat that we haven't come up against before and we know that we're capable of putting up with that. We know that Australia will be the same, physical all over the pitch.

"For Australia, we broke a lot of their hearts out there at the World Cup so, for them, it'll feel like a revenge game. For us, we just want to go out there and put on a big performance. We know that it's going to be difficult but we want to put on a performance for the fans who are going to be watching us.

"We're England, we want to win every game. These games are friendlies - but there are no friendlies in football. It's difficult when you lose a game but there's a game right round the corner to put things right and we're going to go out there, put on a big performance, and hopefully go out there and get the win."

Tomorrow's friendly may be a little less auspicious than the last time England played Australia - in the semi-finals of the 2023 World Cup, at Stadium Australia in Sydney.

England managed to puncture home hopes with a 3-1 victory. Ella Toone, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo grabbed the goals to send the Lionesses through to their first ever World Cup final.

Nevertheless, as whenever England and Australia meet in a sporting contest, expect tomorrow's match to be keenly contested.

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England manager Sarina Wiegman on Australia: "With Joe Montemurro, they have a new coach since the summer, they've played a couple of friendlies. What he has expressed and what we have seen - Australia are a top team, very powerful. They're playing more direct, they're starting to play more in the build-up too. That's what we're expecting tomorrow. We'll see how we can challenge them."

While Pride Park is not the biggest arena the Lionesses have played at, the reasoning behind going to Derby seems sound.

England confirmed yesterday, external that the game is a sell-out, with 33,500 tickets sold.

"It's really nice, the fans have shown so much support for us," says Wiegman on the sell-out.

"Going around the country gives people a chance to come to our games, we don't take a sell-out for granted on a Tuesday evening. We appreciate and will enjoy it."

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England manager Sarina Wiegman on learning lessons from defeat to Brazil: "Brazil challenged us in ways we haven't been challenged that much in games. That's why I was so happy with this game too. They just want to play 1v1 all over the pitch, which was harder later on because then we had an overload because we had 11 v 10.

"I think tomorrow's game will challenge us in different ways. In general, what we want to get to is when we're in possession be a bit quicker in our decision making, do a little bit better in execution technically - your first touch, the pace of the ball, where do you pass it too and then execution and connection. In general, that's what we talked about, that's what we can take into the game tomorrow."

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England manager Sarina Wiegman on team news: "We have a squad of 25 now. After the match, we had some niggles. Things have gone well - everyone will be on the pitch, so we're in preparing stage for tomorrow. So if things go well, we have to make a decision for the 23s.

On injuries: "They're not big things to share - they're football players, there's always small things. I just didn't want to take the risk. We're still building some players - Lucy Bronze, Niamh Charles."

On Hannah Hampton: "She is progressing really well, has ticked all the boxes so far. Today there's another training session which she has to come through but things look really good. We are still one day to go, and today we have a good session for her today. If things go well, then she will be available tomorrow."