{"id":145833,"date":"2025-05-31T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145833\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T04:00:09","slug":"match-report-england-6-0-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145833\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: England 6-0 Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aggie Beever-Jones helped herself to a first-half hat-trick at Wembley to fire England to a 6-0 win over Portugal that sets up a winner-takes-all clash with Spain on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lionesses had to settle for a 1-1 draw the first time the two sides met in the UEFA Women\u2019s Nations League opener back in February.<\/p>\n

This time around, though, they were 5-0 up by half time, with Beever-Jones having followed in the footsteps of Beth Mead in becoming a Wembley hat-trick hero for the Lionesses.<\/p>\n

Mead chipped in with a goal of her own, with Lucy Bronze having already notched her 18th goal for her country as England flew out of the blocks.<\/p>\n

Chloe Kelly came off the bench to add a sixth as England rounded out a complete performance.
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With Spain running out 5-1 winners over Belgium, it means that top spot in UEFA Women\u2019s Nations League A Group 3 will be decided in Spain in the final game, with England needing a win over the world champions to top the group.<\/p>\n

It was a dream start for Sarina Wiegman\u2019s side, who took the lead after just two minutes. Taking advantage of Portugal losing possession in their own half, Beever-Jones twisted away from the defence before firing back across Ines Pereira and into the net.<\/p>\n

They were two to the good after five minutes, Bronze rewarded for getting forward as she nodded home following good work down the right by Lauren Hemp, with Beever-Jones and Mead having both been denied before the full-back found the back of the net.<\/p>\n

England were not going to let up and Beever-Jones showed great movement to find herself unmarked in the six-yard box, powerfully heading home from Bronze\u2019s perfect cross from the left.<\/p>\n

They had four before the half-hour mark, this time Mead the scorer after Portugal had again been dispossessed in their own half.<\/p>\n

England were rampant and Beever-Jones completed her hat-trick when Leah Williamson played in a beautiful through-ball, the Chelsea forward controlling before going it alone and firing low past Pereira at the near post from the corner of the box.<\/p>\n

Having opened up such a healthy advantage, England extended it in the second half after Wiegman had made a raft of substitutions.<\/p>\n

Two of them combined, Alex Greenwood with a deep ball to release Mead, who then delivered the ball to the back post where Kelly guided her header back past the keeper and into the net.<\/p>\n

England nearly made it seven with 15 minutes remaining, Greenwood finding the bar from a free-kick, with Pereira\u2019s fingertips crucial in denying her, before Kelly could not quite guide the rebound home.<\/p>\n

Beever-Jones also came close to her fourth when she forced a good save out of Pereira after being played in by Mead.<\/p>\n

That proved to be the final chance of note, with England now turning their attentions to Tuesday\u2019s decisive clash with Spain.<\/p>\n

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England: <\/strong>1 Hannah Hampton (Chelsea), 2 Lucy Bronze (Chelsea), 3 Jess Carter (Gotham FC), 4 Keira Walsh (Chelsea), 5 Leah Williamson (Arsenal), 6 Esme Morgan (Washington Spirit), 7 Beth Mead (Arsenal), 8 Grace Clinton (Manchester United), 9 Aggie Beever-Jones (Chelsea), 10 Jess Park (Manchester City), 11 Lauren Hemp (Manchester City)<\/p>\n

Substitutes: <\/strong>14 Maya Le Tissier (Manchester United) for Bronze 57\u2019, 17 Chloe Kelly (Arsenal) for Hemp 57\u2019, 15 Alex Greenwood (Manchester City) for Morgan 57\u2019, 20 Fran Kirby (Brighton & Hove Albion) for Park 67\u2019, 16 Georgia Stanway (Bayern Munich) for Walsh 75\u2019<\/p>\n

Subs not used: <\/strong>13 Khiara Keating (Manchester City), 21 Anna Moorhouse (Orlando Pride), 12 Niamh Charles (Chelsea), 18 Missy Bo Kearns (Aston Villa), 19 Nikita Parris (Brighton & Hove Albion), 22 Lotte Wubben-Moy (Arsenal), 23 Michelle Agyemang (Brighton & Hove Albion)<\/p>\n

Goals:<\/strong> Beever-Jones 3\u2019, 26\u2019, 33\u2019, Bronze 5\u2019, Mead 29\u2019, Kelly 62\u2019<\/p>\n

Yellow cards: <\/strong>Clinton 58\u2019<\/p>\n

Head coach: <\/strong>Sarina Wiegman<\/p>\n

Portugal: <\/strong>1 Ines Pereira, 2 Catarina Amado, 6 Andreia Jacinto, 8 Andreia Norton, 9 Ana Borges, 11 Tatiana Pinto, 13 Fatima Pinto, 14 Dolores Silva, 15 Carole Costa, 16 Diana Silva, 21 Ana Capeta<\/p>\n

Substitutes: <\/strong>10 Jessica Silva for Dolores Silva 46\u2019, 19 Carolina Correia for Jacinto 69\u2019, 17 Andreia Faria for Norton 69\u2019, 3 Beatriz Fonseca for Capeta 87\u2019, 18 Carolina Mendes for Diana Silva 87\u2019<\/p>\n

Subs not used:<\/strong> 12 Patricia Morais, 22 Sierra Cota-Yarde, 4 Samara Lino, 5 Barbara Lopes, 7 Stephanie Ribeiro, 20 Ana Dias, 23 Telma Encarnacao<\/p>\n

Yellow cards:<\/strong> Capeta 79\u2019<\/p>\n

Head coach: <\/strong>Francisco Neto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aggie Beever-Jones helped herself to a first-half hat-trick at Wembley to fire England to a 6-0 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[62752,748,393,62750,62751,4884,32421,32419,32418,3046,32420,8635,2963,32415,24414,6574,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-145833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-aggie-beever-jones","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-england-women-6-0-portugal","12":"tag-friday-30-may","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-kick-off","15":"tag-live-coverage","16":"tag-match-preview","17":"tag-portugal","18":"tag-post-match","19":"tag-reaction","20":"tag-report","21":"tag-the-lionesses","22":"tag-tickets","23":"tag-uefa-nations-league","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114600452348154939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}