{"id":97867,"date":"2023-08-20T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=97867"},"modified":"2023-08-20T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T08:08:17","slug":"scoring-crucial-goals-is-how-ella-toone-has-silenced-her-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/sport\/scoring-crucial-goals-is-how-ella-toone-has-silenced-her-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoring crucial goals is how Ella Toone has silenced her critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How Ella Toone silenced the haters: Scoring crucial goals is the ideal way to answer critics for the England striker after her thunderbolt strike against Australia<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Ella Toone has been criticized\u00a0in the past season for not scoring enough goals<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>But she silenced her haters scoring a vital goal in England&#8217;s win against Australia\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WATCH: Wiegman CAN&#8217;T recall Lauren James, Mail Sport&#8217;s Chris Sutton says<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ella Toone is known for her fake eyelashes, infectious sense of humour and penchant for scoring vital goals, but the popular Lioness has also fought hard to prove her haters wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, the Manchester United midfielder announced her arrival on the big stage by scoring in the Euro 2022 final, as Sarina Wiegman\u2019s side beat Germany 2-1 at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>She was at it again on Wednesday, lashing home a delightful shot as England overcame Australia 3-1 to book their place in today\u2019s World Cup final against Spain.<\/p>\n<p>During the past season, though, Toone has faced criticism at times over her form, despite helping United to qualify for the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>United team-mate Leah Galton said: \u2018After what Tooney did at last summer\u2019s Euros came added pressure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/08\/74519029-0-Ella_Toone_pictured_-a-12_1692516465908.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ella Toone\u00a0 (pictured) has silenced her critics at this year&#8217;s Women&#8217;s World Cup, helping England reach the final with some excellent performances<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/08\/74519037-0-image-a-13_1692516515964.jpg\" height=\"366\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Toone (bottom-middle) notably scored the opening goal during England&#8217;s 3-1 victory against Australia<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/08\/74519051-0-image-a-4_1692516249864.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>She is well known for her infectious sense of humour and is penchant for scoring vital goals<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She got some hate for not scoring enough goals and people said: \u201cIs she tired from the Euros?\u201d but she handled it really well.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t think Tooney was at her best at times last season and teams started marking her extremely tightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yet what people didn\u2019t see was maybe the recovery runs she made to defend for the team. Sometimes you need to look beyond just the stats over goals and assists, especially as a midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That\u2019s why I was so happy when Tooney scored against Australia \u2014 she showed the haters that she\u2019s a special talent who deserves to be in this England team.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>With Fran Kirby absent from the World Cup through injury and Chelsea team-mate Lauren James suspended for the past two games, Toone started in the No10 role against Colombia and Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/08\/74519107-0-image-a-9_1692516349020.jpg\" height=\"526\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Toone (right) and her partner Joe Bunney (left) who is also a footballer\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She took her chance with deadly aplomb against the Matildas but has generally underwhelmed so far during the tournament and could be replaced in today\u2019s starting line-up by James.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Galton says her club-mate\u2019s star will continue to rise, adding: \u2018I\u2019ve played with Tooney pretty much since the formation of United women\u2019s team in 2018 and to see her progression from then to now has been quite staggering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I gravitated towards Tooney when we first met because she was funny and just herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She didn\u2019t really care about what other people thought \u2014 if she had something to say, she would say it and I\u2019ve always loved that about her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tooney\u2019s still working towards her full potential and that\u2019s scary because she\u2019s only 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Scoring in a World Cup semi-final will be huge for her confidence and she proved once again that she can do it on the highest stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I hope she gets the chance to show what she can do in the final now.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Toone is in a relationship with footballer Joe Bunney, 29, and Galton said: \u2018I\u2019ve met Joe a few times, he\u2019s really nice and watches our games at United with my partner.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I definitely think Tooney\u2019s life away from the football pitch is helping her on it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Galton represented England at every age group from Under-15 to 23s and has spent the past few seasons playing for United with Lionesses stars Toone, goalkeeper Mary Earps and striker Alessia Russo, before the latter joined Arsenal this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Galton added: \u2018Mary\u2019s improved so much in the past couple of seasons and I think Sarina Wiegman has poured a lot of confidence into her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She\u2019s played Mary in a lot of big games where there have been penalty shoot-outs and she\u2019s made big saves.<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/08\/74519087-0-image-a-5_1692516284029.jpg\" height=\"446\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Toone (left) celebrates a goal with Leah Galton (right) who is hopeful her Man United team-mate would get a chance to show what she can do in the final\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/08\/74519047-0-image-a-10_1692516358572.jpg\" height=\"406\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Toone (right) has featured in five of England&#8217;s World Cup matches throughout the tournament<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/08\/74519125-0-image-a-11_1692516378667.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Galton also said that she believes Mary Earps (pictured) &#8216;is the best goalkeeper in the world right now&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018For me, Mary is the best goalkeeper in the world right now and the way she handles pressure is unbelievable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Away from football, she\u2019s quite a private person but I know she enjoys making her garden look amazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Alessia is one of the nicest people I have ever met and, when she was at United, every morning we would greet each other with a little hug.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It made me feel like we\u2019re going to take on the day together.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Alessia looked scarily good alongside Lauren Hemp against Australia in the semi-final and I love watching this team of Lionesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The final will be the biggest test but the best is yet to come from this team. I firmly believe they can go all the way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12425629\/How-Ella-Toone-silenced-haters-Scoring-crucial-goals-ideal-way-answer-critics-England-striker-thunderbolt-strike-against-Australia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Ella Toone silenced the haters: Scoring crucial goals is the ideal way to answer critics for the England striker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scoring crucial goals is how Ella Toone has silenced her critics - Celebrity Cover News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/sport\/scoring-crucial-goals-is-how-ella-toone-has-silenced-her-critics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scoring crucial goals is how Ella Toone has silenced her critics - 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