‘My girls will handle pressure’

MARK SAMPSON vowed his Lionesses won’t crack under pressure tonight when they play Holland in the Euros semi-final.

A record TV audience for a women’s game – around five million – is expected to see if skipper Steph Houghton can lead England into the final in front of a sell-out 30,000 crowd in Enschede.

But Sampson, who believes his team will do the nation proud, said: “We’ve played a lot of big games – at the World Cup, in America and here.

“We’ve talked about how we perform in them and how we have to use the pressure. We can be at our best in these

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