ALISHA LEHMANN was hailed as being “so brave, so strong” and “so sexy” after suffering a bloodied face in action for her country.<br /><br />The 24-year-old, who has been dubbed ‘the world’s sexiest footballer’, currently stars in the WSL for Aston Villa.<br />But she is currently on international duty for Switzerland and helped them to beat World Cup semi-finalists Sweden 1-0 on Friday.<br /><br />In snowy conditions in Luzern, Lehmann was involved in a nasty collision during the Nations League clash that forced her out of the action.<br /><br />She was left with a bloodied nose and had to be replaced on the 70 minute mark.<br /><br />Fortunately she does not appear to be in too much distress as after the game she took to Instagram to post a message to her huge 16 million following.<br />Lehmann shared several snaps from the game, which included one of her running with the ball, another of her celebrating Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic's goal and then a clip of her going to get treatment for her injury.<br /><br />She captioned the photos with: “Big fight yesterday, so happy with the 3 points and so proud of the team.”<br /><br />A flood of supportive comments soon flooded in, with Lehmann’s ex-Aston Villa team-mate Ruesha Littlejohnm among them.<br /><br />She wrote: “So brave, so strong, so sexy.”<br />Switzerland’s win secured their first points in the Nations League after a poor start to the group that also includes Italy and Spain.
