England’s Lionesses send Euro records tumbling in 8-0 demolition of Norway

England despatched an announcement of intent to the contenders for this summer season’s Girls’s European Championship crown, en path to a record-setting win over Norway on Monday night.

The Lionesses, after all, have been again in motion a short while in the past.

After kicking the nation’s pursuit of Euro 2022 glory into gear courtesy of a hard-fought 1-0 downing of Austria, Sarina Wiegman’s troops turned their attentions in direction of a gathering with the aforementioned Norway, eyeing a 2nd successive three-point haul.

And, when all was mentioned and achieved, make it two wins from two is exactly what England managed. Secure to say, although, that their newest triumph proved significantly extra easy.

This got here as a fully rampant show finally culminated within the Lionesses operating out 8-0 winners on the Falmer Stadium.

Beth Mead proved the star of the present, bagging a hat-trick, with Ellen White’s brace having been added to by strikes on the a part of all of Georgia Stanway, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo, to spherical out what proved a historic night time for all related to ladies’s soccer in England.

Beth Mead carving up Norway’s protection ⚡ pic.twitter.com/OFVa32RrZ6

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And such stellar efforts on the a part of Wiegman’s aspect, as alluded to above, have since seen the Lionesses etch their names into the historical past books.

First, contained in the opening 45 minutes of play, England equalled the benchmark for probably the most targets ever scored in a fixture on the Girls’s European Championships:

6 – In a single half, England have equalled probably the most targets ever scored by a crew in a full sport in UEFA Girls’s Euros historical past (Germany 6-2 v England in 2009 and England 6-0 v Scotland in 2017). Floodgates. pic.twitter.com/R2L5xCEcnn

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Then, earlier than even taking their eighth of the night time into consideration, the event hosts established themselves as the primary nation (males’s or ladies’s) to ever notch seven targets in a single Euros outing.

7 – The Lionesses have change into the primary aspect in European Championship historical past (each males’s & ladies’s) to attain seven targets in a single sport. Dreamland. pic.twitter.com/7UzfmOMgPF

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