England booked their place in the quarter-finals of Women’s Euro 2022 in some style as they secured an incredible 8-0 win over Norway.
After scraping past Austria in the tournament opener, many would have felt England could meet their match in the form of Norway, who boast the likes of Ballon d’Or winner Ada Hegerberg in their ranks.
But the Lionesses have made their very capable opponents look like minnows at Brighton’s Amex Stadium, scoring SIX inside the first 41 minutes of the match.
Sarina Wiegman’s side got off to a somewhat shaky start but took the lead against the run of play as Georgia Stanway struck home from the penalty spot after Ellen White was fouled.
From then on it was pure dominance from the hosts, who scored five more goals to go in at half time 6-0 up.
Lauren Hemp doubled England’s advantage on 15 minutes before Manchester City teammate White made it 3-0 just shy of the half hour mark.
Arsenal’s Beth Mead, who scored the only goal against Austria, netted twice in the space of five minutes before White made it six on 41 minutes.
“England have been absolutely brilliant,” former Lionesses star Lianne Sanderson said on commentary for talkSPORT.
“People will say Norway haven’t been great but England haven’t allowed them to be. Hegerberg has barely touched the ball… long may it continue!”
Unsurprisingly, England weren’t able to keep up the staggering rate of scoring goals, but they did net two more for the 28,847 inside the ground to cheer on.
Manchester United forward Alessia Russo headed England into a 7-0 lead on 66 minutes before Mead completed her hat-trick as she finished on the rebound to register the biggest ever win in women and men’s European Championship history.
At 4-0 fans were heard chanting ‘it’s coming home’, in reference to Frank Skinner and David Baddiel’s 1996 hit which is regularly played when England’s men’s team are playing in a major tournament.
These chants only got louder in the second half as England put Norway to the sword.
Other nations have suggested the song is a symbol of English arrogance but the rest of Europe surely won’t have any objections to these chants this time.
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