The match hosts scored six occasions in a rampant first-half show, with Georgia Stanway’s Twelfth-minute penalty and a end from Lauren Hemp three minutes later being adopted by a brace apiece from Ellen White and Beth Mead.
That equalled essentially the most quantity of objectives scored by one crew in a Ladies’s Euros match, and England went on to register the competitors’s greatest ever victory, surpassing their 6-0 win over Scotland in 2017, following a 66th-minute effort from substitute Alessia Russo and Mead finishing her hat-trick late on.
England boss Sarina Wiegman hailed her gamers’ efforts on an “unimaginable night” after they secured their place within the quarter-finals of Euro 2022 with a record-breaking 8-0 hammering of Norway on the Amex Stadium.
Requested to explain her facet’s show, Wiegman mentioned: “Only a nice efficiency.
“We saved simply enjoying the sport, additionally within the second half, and generally when you find yourself 6-0 up gamers attempt to do various things, however we didn’t – we saved enjoying collectively and doing our job.
“An unimaginable night, very good – (however) keep grounded, as a result of we don’t have something but.”
With the exceptional win in entrance of a crowd of 28,847 – from which cries of “soccer’s coming house” rang out at varied levels – seeing them seal high spot in Group A, the Lionesses can be returning to Brighton per week on Wednesday to play a quarter-final in opposition to the runners-up in Group B, which options Germany and Spain.
Their group fixtures conclude with Friday’s assembly at St Mary’s with now-eliminated Northern Eire, who had misplaced 2-0 to Austria earlier on Monday.
England had opened their marketing campaign with final Wednesday’s 1-0 win over Austria at Outdated Trafford, with a competition-record attendance of just below 69,000.
And when it was put to Wiegman that if folks didn’t know there was a Ladies’s Euros on, they did now, she mentioned: “I don’t know, I feel they already knew final Wednesday, as a result of that was good too.
“I simply hope they take pleasure in, and that’s what we hope to do – make the nation proud.
“We’ve had two video games now, we’re attempting to play our greatest sport, and at this time we did. Nevertheless it’s simply three factors – in the event you win 1-0 or 8-0, it doesn’t make a distinction – we didn’t win something but.”
Whereas Norway boss Martin Sjogren had mentioned pre-match that his crew had been “positively” underdogs heading into the sport, how issues performed out was some shock to the system for the facet ranked three locations beneath England at eleventh on the planet, who had been 4-1 victors over Northern Eire of their opener at St Mary’s final Thursday.
Sjogren mentioned when requested for his emotions post-match: “It’s not straightforward to place into phrases.
“In fact everybody felt devastated about the best way we regarded tonight. I actually, actually really feel horrible for the gamers’ sake, to be on the market and to be overwhelmed by England 8-0 in a sport we had been wanting ahead to for fairly a while.
