Here is John Brewin’s lovely match report.
Ella Toone reacts
“I’m over the moon. To score one goal for England is an amazing achievement but to get a hat-trick was a proud moment for me and my family. It’s a day I’ll never forget.”
“We know the depth of the squad we have and tonight showed that, with seven different goalscoring. Now we’re looking forward to being tested against even better opponents.”
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Full-time: Latvia 0-10 England
Earps runs over to take the ball from the referee at the final whistle - I think that’s the first time England’’s goalkeeper has touched it since kickoff. It was a monumental mismatch and England may be miffed that they did not win by a record margin. Their decision-making and precision around the opposing box - which is where most of the match was played - was often lacking. But hey, they won by ten goals so let’s not be too critical. That brings their tally for the campaign so far to four wins from four matches, with 32 goals scored and none conceded.
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88 min: Walsh and Mead try to tip-toe their way through the middle of the massed home defender ... and they nearly succeed, but for a last-gasp tackle on Walsh.
86 min: Parris, who has been electric since her introduction, charges down the right again. Then she picks out Daly at the edge of the box, but the forward’s weak shot is blocked by a defender.
84 min: Not long left but England are so dominant that that 13-0 record looks eminently beatable ...
Latvia 0-10 England (Daly 82)
Mead splits the defence with a lovely pass after darting in-field from the right. Daly gets to it before the keeper and then taps into an empty net to bring up double figures.
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GOAL! Latvia 0-9 England (Stanway 80)
Parris with the set-up, Stanway with the neat finish, thwacking a low shot into the net from 12 yards.
GOAL! Latvia 0-8 England (Williamson 79)
A lovely finish from eight yards after a well worked short corner. Williamson controlled the ball well and then showed composure to curl the ball around a defender and beyond the reach of the keeper.
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77 min: England have six players in the Latvia box - against nine defenders - but can’t work a clear opening.
75 min: Daly, leaning back, lashes one over the bar from 20 yards.
74 min: Mead flights a cross in from the left. Weubben-Moy nuts it wide from six yards.
Latvia 0-7 England (Daly 70)
Beth England’s shot is saved but it ricochets off Lubina and back into the path of Mead, who fires it across the face of goal. Daly is on hand to tuck it into the net from close range.
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England substitution: Wubben-Moy on, Toone off
GOAL! Latvia 0-6 England (Toone 68)
Toone claims her hat-trick thanks to a delicious feint near the left-hand byline. That eliminated Voitane, and then she smashed a shot in at the near post from an acute angle. The keeper got both hands to it but failed to keep it out.
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67 min: Mead’s low drive from the edge of the area is kicked clear by a defender.
64 min: Parris stands up her defender at the right-hand side of the area, then plays a clever pass in to Mead and goes for the return. Mead delivers perfectly, but Parris’s skews the shot wide from eight yards.
61 min: You have to admire Latvia’s spirit and discipline. Although they can’t match England’s fitness and passing, they’re managing to get in the way of shots and crosses even now, when visibly tired. England’s crosses haven’t been of the highest quality, though.
59 min: The match is being played entirely in the Latvia final third. Vaivade denies Toone a hat-trick, making a diving save to push the latest shot around the post.
GOAL! Latvia 0-5 England (Mead 55)
There had been a lack of precision about England at the sharp end, especially in the second half, but Mead showed how to do it just now. Taking a nice through-ball from Stanway, she drives towards goal from the left and then steers a low shot beyond the keeper and into the far corner.
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52 min: A couple of wayward shots from distance by England, first by England, then by Stanway.
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50 min: Mead flies down the left, looks up and picks out Toone at the edge of the area. Toone sweeps a decent effort at goal from 20 yards, but the keeper saves comfortably.
49 min: England flicks a header towards goal from eight yard. Vaivade paws it away at the second attempt.
47 min: Parris makes a good first impression, racing down the right and providing a dangerous centre. But a minute later Williamson gives her a chance to claim a goal, but Parris get her header all wrong, nodding wide from seven yards.
46 min: England have made four changes for the second half. On come Parris, Stokes, Daly and Stanway for Hemp, White, Greenwood and Kirby.
Half-time: Latvia 0-4 England
A comfortable scoreline after 45 minutes of utter domination by England, who may not be particularly satisfied: they could and should have scored many more, and not only because of a penalty. While the forwards have not been at their sharpest, the defenders have had practically no defending to do, and goalkeeper Mary Earps hasn’t had a shot to save: so far in 3.5 qualifiers, she has faced one shot. It’s hard to say how useful these matches are in terms of preparing England for bigger tests.
45 min: Mead fizzes the ball back from the right byline, but Hemp shanks a shot over from 14 yards with her right foot.
44 min: After her penalty heroics, the goalkeeper makes a mess of a freekick from Kirby, dabbing a feeble punch against her own defender and out for another corner for England.
43 min: Bright swings over a freekick from the right. England leaps to meet it, sending a loopy header arcing into the air from seven yards ... and it drops down on to the bar and away!
Penalty save!
Vaivode goes the right way and blocks White’s soft penalty, then the keeper jumps up to save Bright’s rebound too!
37 min: Hemp latches on to a through-ball. The keeper rushes out and Hemp guides the shot past her and against the post! But the keeper takes her down with the follow-through and is rather harshly penalised! Spotkick to England.
34 min: Williamson ambles forward and then feeds Kirby. She cuts inside from the left and aims a curler towards the far corner. Vaivode plunges to her left to tip it around the post. An excellent save to deny Kirby a goal on her 50th cap.
GOAL! Latvia 0-4 England (Bright 32)
Kirby floats over the freekick. White glances it on, and Bright arrives at the back post to tap into the net from close range.
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31 min: Hemp jinks in-field from the left and is dragged down by Voitane. England size up a freekick just outside the left-hand corner of the box ...
28 min: Lubina slides in to dispossess Mead as England threaten a fourth.
GOAL! Latvia 0-3 England (White 25)
That’s the sort of goal England won’t expect to score against better opponents but they have to take them when they’re on offer. A dreadful kick out by the keeper goes straight to Mead. White makes a run off the back of the last defender and is duly supplied with the ball, which she raps past a goalkeeper who never looked like saving it.
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22 min: Sevecova scampers down the left wing .... and into the England half! She keeps going and even has a teammate offering a passing option, but the attempted pass trickles to an opponent. England saunter clear.
21 min: A bad miss by White, who nods wide from six yards under little pressure.
20 min: Mead nutmegs Tumane near the right touchline and then gets tripped by the defender. Yellow card.
18 min: Greenwood sends England’s latest corner to the edge of the area, where Toone’s shot is blocked. Bright then loops a shot over the defence ... and against the post. The keeper, who apparently thought it was sailing over, looks relieved.
17 min: Bright slips the ball through to Williamson on the right. William’s cross is headed just past her own post by Tumane.
16 min: I don’t think Latvia have had a touch in the English half yet. And the pitch and the rain haven’t posed much problem to England either. It’s been total dominance. And Kirby has just presented Toone with a chance to bag her hat-trick, but Lubina reacted smartly to charge down Toone’s shot
14 min: It should be 3-0, but England scuffed the ball wide after another lovely tee-up by Kirby.
GOAL! Latvia 0-2 England (Toone 12)
That’s a beautiful goal. Superb passing and movement, plus some impressive composure. Kirby took Mead’s low ball in from the right and feigned to shoot before dinking the ball into the path of Toone, who calmly curled it into the net from 10 yards to claim her and her country’s second goal.
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11 min: England catch out the hosts with a quickly taken short corner. But the Latvian defence scrambles enough to block Mead’s shot.
10 min: This seems like a good time to remind you that England’s record competitive win is the 13-0 they enjoyed over Hungary in 2005...
GOAL! Latvia 0-1 England (Toone 8)
After patient dominance, England break through pretty easily. Hemp’s cross from the left is hardly cleared, allowing Toone to walk on to it and guide a curling sidefooter around straggling defenders and into the net from 14 yards.
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6 min: Kirby runs on to the ball in the right-hand side of the Latvia box. She clips it beyond the back post, where Hemp arrives and tries to steer it goalward. But a defender makes an important block.
4 min: Kirby pulls a low corner out to England near the penalty spot, but the forward can’t get it under control well enough, and a defender rushes in to welly clear.
3 min: Hemp and Mead sounds like the name of a handy medieval village store. But, of course, here it refers to England’s winers, who are playing very high up, effectively forming a four-person front-line for England.
1 min: Latvia kick off but England win possession with 10 seconds and the hosts file back into a defensive shape - two banks of four - that they will probably occupy for most of the match.
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Here comes the teams. It’s a wet and moderately windy evening in Riga, where there are no fans in attendance. But the formalities proceed nonetheless, so the teams line up to perform their signing duties.
“Leah Williamson has been superb in the recent England games and magisterial for Arsenal; terrific though Steph Houghton has been, it’s hard not to want Williamson to keep the captaincy and her place,” writes Charles Antaki. “It’s not very likely that Latvia is going to trouble anyone tonight, but it will be another chance to see some assured control and distribution from the back (if the ball ever gets that far).”
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Wiegman explains her thinking behind the three changes to her lineup: “The reasons are that we started in a little different shape than we did on Saturday - we’re starting the way we finished on Saturday. I also wanted to see Keira [Walsh] in midfield.”
Her aim for today? “Let’s make it a big win with a nil. Let’s go home with 12 points and lots of goals.”
There may be 94 places separating the countries in the world rankings, but there’s a chance that the bobbly pitch in Riga could be a leveller of sorts. Wiegman warned in advance that her players are going to have to adapt to the surface if they are to make their quality tell.
For her fourth match in charge Sarina Wiegman has made only minor modifications to the side that beat Northern Ireland 4-0, with Rachel Daly, Demi Stokes and Nikita Parris dropping to the bench to be replaced in the starting lineup by Beth Mead, Beth England and Kiera Walsh.
Teams
Latvia: Vaivode; Voitane, Gergeleziu, Lubina, Tumane; Miksone, Rocane; Zaicikova, Fedotova, Sevcoca; Baliceva
Subs: Skujerska, Lodzina, Gaike, Girzda, Eglite, Cemirtane, Lindermane, Vitmore, Gricijenko, Silova, Brahmane
England: Earps; Bright, Williamson, Greenwood; Mead, Kirby, Walsh, Toone, Hemp; England, White
Subs: MacIver, Daly, Stanway, Wubben-Moy, Staniforth, Parris, Stokes, Scott, Hampton, Russo, Carter
Referee: K Lisiecka (Pol)
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Preamble
World Cup qualification has been plain sailing so far for England, and Latvia don’t look capable of knocking them off course today. So far it’s three wins from three matches, with 22 goals scored and none conceded. Thanks to that record England go into the fourth round of games at the top of Group D, level on points with Austria but above them on goal difference. They’ll expect to increase that goal difference today at Riga’s Daugava Stadium, where Latvia two matches so far have ended in defeats (1-8 to Austria and 1-4 to North Macedonia). The chances of Fran Kirby marking her 50th cap with a goal are high, and if the Chelsea midfield continues her midfield partnership with Ella Toone, then this could be an entertaining show.
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