Attempts have been made to dull Lauren James’s star, to quell the rising excitement around the dynamic starlet as she has grown and developed. No more. With two goals and three assists in England’s 6-1 defeat of China, and only denied a hat-trick by a controversial VAR call, James helped England make an emphatic statement of intent and announced her arrival on the world stage.
The result booked England’s place in the last-16, setting up a tie against Nigeria and breathing life into a campaign that had yet to lift off.
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