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Full time: England 7-0 Jamaica
England will head to Switzerland in good heart after a crushing victory over Jamaica at the King Power Stadium. Ella Toone scored twice and there weer also goals for Lucy Bronze, Georgia Stanway, Alessia Russo, Aggie Beever-Jones and Beth Mead.
Sarina Wiegman couldn’t have asked for much more. The returning players impressed, Stanway in particular, there were no injuries and Lauren James had an instant, effortless impact from the bench. England also passed the ball with an eyecatching rhythm, particularly in the first half.
Wiegman knows that infinitely tougher tests are round the corner. But the mood feels much more positive than it was three hours ago.
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Beth Mead completes the scoring with a classy finish. Beever-Jones flashed a pass across the area to Mead, who dummied a defender superly and pinged a close-range shot past Brooks.
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Updated at 19.05 BST
GOAL! England 7-0 Jamaica (Mead 90+6)
Yep, she’s fine.
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90+2 min Mead is receiving treatment to her right knee. She’s able to bend it but the physios do look a bit concerned.
Mead gets to her feet and jobs over the touchline, ready to return after 30 seconds; I think she’s fine.
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90+1 min Mead lies face down after a clash of legs with Thomas. This is a concern for England because her leg did seem to buckle slightly.
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Updated at 18.56 BST
90 min Five minutes of added time.
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89 min: Double substitution for Jamaica Jade Bailey and Ricshya Walker replace Nyema Ingleton and Kameron Simmonds.
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86 min That goal was England’s 33rd attempt at goal, 16 on target. Jamaica have had none (their disallowed goal isn’t included in the match statistics).
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GOAL! England 6-0 Jamaica (Beever-Jones 85)
Aggie Beever-Jones, who has been a constant threat since coming on, makes it six. Charles galloped onto a crossfield pass and screwed a low cross that was finished deftly by the sliding Beever-Jones.
Aggie Beever-Jones makes it six for England. Photograph: Darren Staples/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 18.53 BST
84 min Ingleton is back on the field. A weary Jamaica team look ready to hear the final whistle.
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82 min Nyema Ingleton is down with cramp, and will need treatment. England have had 80 per cent of the possession, which means the Jamaica midfield, of which Ingleton is part, have had to run a helluva lot of sour metres.
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Excellent goalkeeping by Brooks!
80 min Another James cross is hooked towards goal by Beever-Jones and tipped away acrobatically by Brooks. Thirty seconds later she makes another good reaction save to deny Beever-Jones, this time from a far-post header.
Beth Mead has a shot saved by Liya Brooks. Photograph: Molly Darlington/The FA/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 18.51 BST
79 min Chantelle Swaby is okay to continue. Beever-Jones makes a dangerous run into the area and is denied a shooting chance by Cardoza’s excellent challenge.
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77 min There’s a break in play while Chantelle Swaby receives treatment. Her team may be 5-0 down but she’s played really well at centre-back.
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Updated at 18.42 BST
75 min: Triple substitution for England Grace Clinton, Aggie Beever-Jones and Niamh Charles come on for Lucy Bronze, Keira Walsh and Alessia Russo.
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74 min Stanway takes a return pass on the edge of the area and cracks a low shot this far wide.
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73 min Nothing Lauren James has done since coming on the field has been a surprise, yet I’m still reeling from how utterly, effortlessly brilliant she is.
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GOAL! England 5-0 Jamaica (Russo 71)
Alessia Russo finally gets her goal, heading into an empty net from three yards after another devastating cross from James. She is frighteningly good.
Williamson found James on the right side of the area, with Sampson coming across to challenge. James twisted back onto her left foot and floated a wonderful cross that took all the defenders and the goalkeeper out of the game. The girl’s a genius.
Alessia Russo makes it five for England. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPAShare
Updated at 18.47 BST
69 min Kelly wanders across from the left to hit a shot that spins behind off Cardoza. England’s substitutes, who are all keen to impress, have energised a game that was drifting to sleep.
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67 min Kelly curls a nice pass/cross towards Mead on the right side of the area. She touches it back to the onrushing James, who lashes the bouncing ball over the bar.
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Fine save by Brooks
66 min James, in the inside-right channel, teases a brilliant ball into the six-yard box. Mead’s volley on the stretch is bravely blocked by the flying Brooks; the two players collide in their follow throughs but they seem fine.
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65 min England appeal for handball when Stanway’s header is blocked on the line by Amelia Van Zanten. Replays shows it was chest rather than arm.
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63 min: Triple substitution for England Lauren James, Esme Morgan and Chloe Kelly replace Ella Toone, Alex Greenwood and Lauren Hemp.
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Updated at 18.28 BST
62 min: Double substitution for Jamaica Natasha Thomas and Reanna Blades replace Atlanta Primus and Kalyssa Van Zanten.
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61 min Cardoza trips the flying Hemp and is booked.
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GOAL! England 4-0 Jamaica (Stanway 59)
Stanway’s shot is beaten away by Brooks, then Toone’s follow-up is blocked by a defender. But Jamaica can’t get the ball away and eventually Stanway makes just enough room to spank a shot past Brooks from 12 yards. That’s a deserved reward for a brilliant allround performance in midfield; at her best Stanway is a force of nature.
Georgia Stanway scores the fourth for England! Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/ReutersShare
Updated at 18.28 BST
57 min Bronze’s cross is behind Russo, who tries an acrobatic volley but mishits it well wide.
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54 min Hemp shoots over from the edge of the D after an excellent first-time pass from Mead in the inside-right channel.
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51 min England are yet to rediscover the intensity of their play in the first half. It must be difficult starting again when you’re 3-0 up and you know there’s a huge game only six days away.
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49 min Mead is forced to concede a corner after a bit of scruffy defending from England. Amelia Van Zanten’s drags it towards the near post and Stanway clears.
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48 min The fact Sarina Wiegman made no half-time changes supports the view that this will be the starting XI against France on Saturday. If it was between, say, Toone and Jess Park you’d expect them to get a half each.
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47 min Jamaica made a half-time substitution, bringing on Vyan Sampson for Olufolasade Adamolekun.
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46 min The second half is under way.
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“Is Russo the one real upgrade for this side compared with the one that won three years ago?” wonders David Wall. “There is so much in common between the two sides and while many of the players have maintained their form I’m not sure many have made significant steps up (perhaps Hemp?). And where players from 2022 have been replaced you’d probably say that those in the earlier team were at a higher level (which you might expect as those newer players are at an earlier stage in their careers). But Russo seems like the complete centre forward now, giving the team so much more than either Ellen White playing her last games, or her younger self as an impact substitute. Given that, might England benefit from playing more direct to her more often to make the most of her quality?”
I think they’ve mixed it up pretty well today, although I know what you mean about playing to that particular strength of Russo’s. Maybe they will do that more in games when they have less of the ball; in the first half of this game they had 81 per cent possession.
I’d have to think about your question, although there is one huge upgrade in Lauren James – whether she plays from the start or comes off the bench. You could also argue that Jess Carter is a better allround left-back than Rachel Daly.
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Half-time reading
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Half time: England 3-0 Jamaica
Beth Mead’s shot deflects over the bar, the last attempt at goal in a dominant first-half performance. Ella Toone scored either side of a neat Lucy Bronze header, but it was the rhythmic passing and movement that will give Sarina Wiegman most encouragement going into the European Championship. In the best possible sense of the phrase, England looked like a club side.
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Hat-trick chance for Toone!
45+5 min Toone plays a one-two and pokes a shot that is too close to Brooks. England are creating chances almost at will.
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Stanway, who has been superb, broke down the right and cut the ball back sharply towards Toone. She was tackled but then got the ball back on the edge of the area and floated a speculative shot across goal with her left foot. It drifted away from Brooks, hit the inside of the post and bounced into the net.
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GOAL! England 3-0 Jamaica (Toone 45+4)
Ella Toone celebrates sheepishly after scoring her second and England’s third.
Ella Toone fires in the third for England! Photograph: Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 17.56 BST
45 min That injury and the VAR check for the Jamaica goal that wasn’t mean there will be six minutes of added time.
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44 min: Jamaica substitution An enforced change for Jamaica. The captain Allyson Swaby has suffered an injury and is being replaced by Naya Cardoza.
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42 min Another half chance for Russo, who volleys wide on the run after a making an excellent near-post run.
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