Both players are enjoying successful tournaments with their respective nations. Bright in particular has earned plenty of plaudits, with her performance against Spain in the quarter-finals earning her the Player of the Match award.

Bright and Eriksson share a special bond at the heart of the Chelsea defence with the pair having helped the Blues to a whole host of trophies in recent years. Ahead of this evening’s meeting in South Yorkshire, Bright says that she will be putting her friendship with Eriksson to one side as both players battle it out to help their respective nations to a Wembley final on Sunday.

'I know how she plays but she knows the same about me,’ Bright said when speaking on Lionesses Live.

‘I always say there are no friends in football. Once I’m with my country, that’s it when I step over that white line. It’s everything for England and that’s always been my mentality.

‘It’s always exciting coming up against your team-mates but the team-mates I’m concerned about right now are in the England squad.’

Bright and her international defensive colleagues have been exceptional so far, with England conceding just once in four UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 matches. The centre-back went on to say that the Lionesses pride themselves on their qualities in defence as much as their free-scoring attack.

She said 'It’s so important in tournament football. The longer you keep a clean sheet, the better for your team.

‘It’s something that we pride ourselves on just as much as scoring. We want to be hard to beat, we want to be strong defensively.

‘I think all the defenders were a little bit annoyed with that goal (against Spain). We don’t want to be overly critical of ourselves, but we do want to be the best.

‘Against teams like that, you have to give a little as well. You have to accept that you’re going to concede at some point in a tournament, so we take it with a pinch of salt and move on to the next one.’

England’s quarter-final against Spain was a tense evening for everyone involved but Bright said that the team didn’t feel the pressure and they were just focused solely on doing their absolute best.

'It was so exciting, it was a proper game of football,’ Bright said. ‘Going to extra-time made it feel like a real tournament game.

‘We were actually all quite calm on the pitch, even at one-nil down. We knew what we needed to do and got it done.

‘Playing extra-time is more mentally tough, especially against an opponent like Spain where they do dominate possession. You can't afford to slip up on anything, especially defensively, you've just got to stay tight. As a group, we did everything that we could do.’

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