Its Rivals Filled the Nets. England Showed It Can, Too.

White had the crowd, and her teammates, holding their heads in their hands when she delivered her second, and England’s sixth, with a sliding finish at the back post in the 41st minute. But England wasn’t done: Alessia Russo replaced White in the 57th minute and nine minutes later she was on the score sheet, too.

Norway went to a back five after that, but it hardly mattered. By the time England got No. 8, with Mead completing her hat trick off a rebound, the Norwegians had called it a night: Ada Hegerberg, a dominant striker who never got a sniff of the goal, and the playmaker Caroline Graham Hansen had already been withdrawn, pulled to live to fight another day. Guro Reiten, a crafty wing, left soon afterward.

“We made it a little bit too easy for them,” Sjogren said, “losing the ball in dangerous places. We made some very, very bad mistakes.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/sports/soccer/england-norway-euro-2022.html