🎥 Lionesses off to a flier with two early goals vs Portugal 🙌
🎥 Lionesses off to a flier with two early goals vs Portugal 🙌
England know they needed to win tonight's Women's Nations League clash with Portugal, and they have gotten off to the dream starts with two goals inside five minutes at Wembley.
Aggie Beever-Jones got the first with a neat finish after being slipped. It was the second goal of her young international career, as she won her fifth cap.
The Portuguse barely had a moment to gather their breath before it was 2-0, and this time it was Beever-Jones' Chelsea teammate, Lucy Bronze, who got the goal.
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It might have been the easiest goal of her career, after fine work from Lauren Hemp.
Will the Lionesses go on and score more tonight? It certainly looks like it.
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