WSL Full-Time
·8 April 2022
WSL Full-Time
·8 April 2022
Beth Mead netted four goals and Ella Toone notched a hat-trick while there were also two goals for Georgia Stanway and one for Ellen While as England ran riot again.
It took just five minutes for England to take the lead with Mead tapping in from a Lauren Hemp cross. Mead then scored both her’s and England’s second goal with a looping cross before Ellen White saw a header thump the crossbar.
Toone then drilled home the third goal from 18 yards before White headed in number four, her 50th goal for the Lionesses.
England would go into the break five goals to the good thanks to a powerful strike from Stanway from inside the box.
There was a further flurry of goals early in the second half. First, Mead converted another Hemp cross before the same players combined again for goal number seven. Hemp’s effort was saved but the ball fell kindly for Mead who slotted in from a few yards.
Stanway then drilled home her second goal on the turn before Toone hit England’s ninth goal of the game. The Manchester United forward soon completed her hat-trick with a clinical effort from the edge of the box as the Lionesses went 10-0 up.
Substitute Nikita Parris thought she had headed in the 11th goal of the game late on but she netted from an offside position as England ended the game 10-0 winners.
The Lionesses are back in action again on Tuesday evening when they face Northern Ireland at Windsor Park in Belfast.