England vs Norway LIVE: Euro 2022 result and reaction as Beth Mead nets hat-trick in record goal haul

54 mins: Close! Lauren Hemp is found with a low diagonal pass from Keira Walsh and she floats a cross into the box from the left. Guro Pettersen flaps at the ball and punches over to Beth Mead who goes for a first time volley and spoons her effort over the crossbar.

51 mins: Kirby feeds the ball over to Hemp on the left side and the England winger drives up the pitch. She runs into trouble and attempts to dribble around Caroline Graham Hansen before losing possession.

48 mins: None of England’s players will want to come off and all of the substitutes will be itching to get on. The game has been won and England are heading into the knockout stages.

Will the Lionesses ease up and conserve some energy or will they continue to go all out in search of more goals?

Kick off: The Lionesses get the match restarted and Sarina Wiegman hasn’t made any changes at the break.

Norway have made one change. Defender Guro Bergsvand is on for forward Karina Saevik.

In just one half of football England equalled the record for most goals scored by a single team at the Uefa European Women’s Championship.

It matches England’s 6-2 loss to Germany in the 2009 final and England’s 6-0 win over Scotland in a group stage match in 2017.

That 6-0 win was the biggest margin of victory in the tournaments history before tonight.

The biggest ever margin of victory in a Euros or World Cup is USA beating Thailand 13-0 in 2019. Is that record going to fall too?

Ellen White then added another goal to her incredible England record when she met Fran Kirby’s cross with a tap-in at the back post.

Her second of the net capped off a record-breaking first half for the Lionesses. No team has led by more goals after the first half of a European Championship match.

Most of the talk before the tournament was about who would start on the right side for England. Would it be Chloe Kelly or Beth Mead?

Sarina Wiegman elected to have faith with Mead who is repaying her and then some. Mead scored the winner against Austria and has added a brace tonight.

Georgia Stanway started things off by converting a penalty won by Ellen White. The decision was a soft one but Stanway belted it home with sheer confidence.

Lauren Hemp then added a second with a simple tap-in, just getting to the ball ahead of Ellen White. She needed the help of VAR after the goal was initially ruled offside but Hemp has her first goal in the European Championship.

Ellen White then finished off a brilliant solo effort to put England three goals up and give the Lionesses a firm grip on the game.

45+2 mins: England have blown Norway away in 45 minutes at the Amex Stadium.

Six goals for the Lionesses has broken any resistance from the visitors and England are cruising into the knockout stages.

Georgia Stanway, Lauren Hemp, Beth Mead (x2) and Ellen White (x2) are all on the scoresheet.

45 mins: Two minutes of added time to play at the end of this half.

What have we witnessed here? England have been exceptional.