{"id":601910,"date":"2025-11-29T19:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601910\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:37:22","slug":"georgia-stanway-treble-helps-england-thrash-china-at-wembley-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601910\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Stanway treble helps England thrash China at Wembley \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia Stanway scored a hat-trick as England made a triumphant return to Wembley with a 8-0 thrashing of China.<\/p>\n

Stanway\u2019s treble, a quickfire double from Beth Mead and further goals from Lauren Hemp, Ella Toone and Alessia Russo secured a comfortable 50th win in charge for boss Sarina Wiegman.<\/p>\n

England were playing their first match at the national stadium since they successfully defended their title at Euro 2025 in Switzerland earlier this year.<\/p>\n

It was the third instalment of the four-match homecoming series, with England narrowly beaten by Brazil in their first friendly after the Euros before bouncing back against Australia.<\/p>\n

\"Ulster<\/a>\"Jude<\/a><\/p>\n

They will round off another memorable 12 months \u2013 and continue the build-up for next year\u2019s World Cup qualifiers \u2013 with a final match against Ghana at St Mary\u2019s on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

With goalkeeper Hannah Hampton and deputy Khiara Keating absent through injury, Wiegman handed 30-year-old Anna Moorhouse her England debut.<\/p>\n

The Orlando Pride keeper need not have brought her gloves such was England\u2019s dominance against an under-cooked China, with the Asian champions playing their first match since July.<\/p>\n

It took the hosts just 12 minutes to go ahead after Lucy Bronze overlapped down the right and played in Mead.<\/p>\n

The Arsenal forward needed one touch to control the ball with her left foot before lashing it home with her right.<\/p>\n

Moments later the Lionesses doubled their lead when Hemp fed Toone down the opposite flank and her cross was finished by Mead at the far post.<\/p>\n

It was three goals in four minutes when Hemp, playing her first international since the Euros after a spell out injured, got on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n

Russo swept the ball out to Stanway, who raced into the area and squared for Hemp to tuck in from six yards out.<\/p>\n

The fourth came after 23 minutes when China goalkeeper punched Pan Hongyan punched Hemp\u2019s cross straight to Stanway, who volleyed it back through a crowded penalty area into the net.<\/p>\n

The fifth arrived in the 38th minute via a VAR check which showed Rangers defender Li Mengwen stuck out an arm to block Russo\u2019s volley, with Stanway dispatching the penalty.<\/p>\n

Stanway completed her first England hat-trick eight minutes into the second half when she played a neat give and go with Toone before slotting the ball home.<\/p>\n

Toone struck after 71 minutes, capitalising on a bad mix-up in the Chinese defence to roll the ball into an empty net, and seven minutes later Toone teed up the tireless Russo who slid in number eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgia Stanway scored a hat-trick as England made a triumphant return to Wembley with a 8-0 thrashing of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,188763,393,188764,4884,10031,16,15,62575,10101],"class_list":{"0":"post-601910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-china-pr-ladies","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-england-vs-china-pr","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-womens-international","17":"tag-womens-sport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115634678156013888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601910","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=601910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}