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Lucy Bronze has started each 4 of England's matches successful the tourney truthful farEngland's quality to find a mode to triumph during the Women's World Cup has lone added to the squad's belief, Lucy Bronze has said.
The Lionesses edged past Nigeria connected penalties successful the past 16 and person coped with the nonaccomplishment of cardinal players during matches.
And Bronze believes that Sarina Wiegman's players person built assurance acknowledgment to the tests they've overcome.
"We're the ones who are inactive successful the competition," Bronze said.
"There are galore apical teams who are going location due to the fact that they haven't been capable to get that triumph oregon been capable to spot the games retired - and we have.
"We've shown that broadside of our squad and that we cognize what it takes to win. We person our mentality.
"The content is huge."
England, who look Colombia successful the quarter-finals connected Saturday astatine 11:30 BST, are favourites to triumph the Women's World Cup for the archetypal clip aft back-to-back champions the USA, Euro 2022 finalists Germany, Olympic golden medallists Canada and South American champions Brazil were each knocked out.
But it has not been an wholly creaseless transition for the European champions - midfielder Keira Walsh suffered an injury successful the triumph implicit Denmark, earlier guardant Lauren James was sent off successful the triumph against Nigeria.
The reddish paper near Wiegman's broadside a subordinate abbreviated for much than fractional an hr but they managed to bent connected astatine 0-0 done other clip to instrumentality the crippled to penalties.
"We're rather a assured squad anyway," defender Bronze said.
"We had content successful other clip and during the penalties. We cognize our strengths, we cognize what we're susceptible of and we showed that to the world.
"We tin springiness more. We're a fantastic squad with highly talented players but the important happening is we got done to the adjacent round.
"There's nary constituent playing our champion performances successful the archetypal games. We mightiness arsenic good prevention them for the quarter-finals oregon further than that.
"We've taken thing from each crippled - whether that was the Haiti crippled that was physical, the Denmark crippled erstwhile we mislaid our cardinal subordinate [Walsh], the China crippled wherever we changed enactment completely, and against Nigeria we had a reddish card.
"Everything that has been thrown astatine us, we've dealt with. I don't spot galore different teams who person had that adversity.
"If they have, I don't deliberation they person managed to flooded it successful the mode we have."
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