England, who swept wildly on the field, crushed Norway in the A group match of the European Football Championship with goals 8–0. The defeat was the biggest for Norway and in the history of the European Championships.
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England, the host country of the European Football Championship, did not give Norway a drop of mercy in their second match of Group A. The “Lionesses”, one of the biggest championship favorites of the games, knocked out Norway, which was considered the biggest competitor in their group, with 8–0 goals.
England started their overrun already in the first half. Brighton Stadium saw a total of six goals in the opening half. The one who started the scoring in the game with a penalty kick was responsible for these Georgia Stanway, Lauren Hemp and twice hit Ellen White and Beth Mead. Out of the two, Mead completed his hat trick in the second half, one more goal with a header Alessia Russo.
The loss was the biggest ever for Norway. Before the robbery offered by England, it had lost in the summer of 2021 to the Netherlands, who took a 7-0 home victory over the Norwegians. The co-author of those matches was England’s current head coach Sarina Wiegmanwho coached Holland last summer.
Höykytys was also the biggest ever victory for any country in EC history. No team had ever before scored eight goals in one match on the men’s or women’s European football championships.
England–Norway 8–0 (2022)
England–Scotland 6–0 (2017)
Finland–Sweden 0–5 (2017)
Germany–Russia 5–0 (2001)
Denmark–Norway 0–5 (1997)
You can watch all eight English goals in the match in the video below.
The Norwegians’ defeat drew merciless criticism from the fjord media.
– Humiliation, shouted the first headline of VG magazine’s website already at halftime.
– A pure horror film, said the person in charge of the Norwegian public broadcasting company NRK.
The rough performance of the women’s national team nicknamed “Grasshoppene” did not give rise to positive words even from the TV experts.
– This has just been a struggle between girls and grown women. This is horrible to watch. stated (you switch to another service) Expert commentator for NRK’s match broadcast Carl-Erik Torp.
The statistics from the match were really rough. England managed 26 scoring attempts in the match, Norway only four. The Norwegian players did not get a single shot at the home team’s goal in the game.
“There are no excuses for this”
The outcome of the match was not only the failure and weakness of the Norwegians, but also the superiority of England.
Enjoying the support of the sold-out Brighton Stadium home crowd, England constantly broke the Norwegian defensive line with their passes and advanced effectively to excellent scoring positions. Its exploitative game worked effectively, and Norway was unable to stop the white shirts’ continuous slide.
– There is quite a bit of confusion in my own mind. English was excellent, especially in the first period. Especially the individual skills, passing ability, Explosiveness and speed of their wing players were excellent. Furthermore, their clinical finishing was one of the many things they used to build their scoring, which mainly came through those wings, ‘s studio expert Marianne Miettinen stated right after the match ended.
Beth Mead and Lauren Hemp, who played as England’s wings, were able to score more goals for their teammates in addition to their own hits. Excellent joint play between the two, who built England’s game Fran Kirby with was top class.
– I still don’t agree to believe that Norway is such a much weaker team. They will surely be able to realize that this game ended like this and they will still play for big things against Austria, Miettinen concluded.
Norway’s star player Ada Hegerberg did not analyze her team’s chaotic struggle in depth in her post-match sweat interview.
– There are no excuses for this. You just have to understand what led to this. The Austria game will be tough. One game left of the group stage and we have the goal of getting to the next round. It still lives. Now we just have to represent Norway in a better light, Hegerberg said.
– Now it’s about how we put ourselves together. It was a tough day at work, he continued.
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