Making their return to Wembley for the primary time in two years, the Lionesses ran out 4-0 winners regardless of a tough first-half, in no small half all the way down to the Arsenal ahead’s magic.
The guests had defended resolutely at Wembley and put their our bodies on the road till Mead’s introduction however she scored along with her first contact simply moments after coming onto the sphere, an excellent end on the flip previous goalkeeper Jacqueline Burns.
One other substitute, Bethany England, scored the Lionesses’ second with the ultimate contact on Lauren Hemp’s goalbound cross-shot.
Mead then volleyed house Hemp’s cross on the again put up earlier than tapping into an empty internet within the 78th minute to carry up her hat-trick.
“In fact she feels good, that we will see and she or he did effectively, in fact I’m actually completely happy for the group that she scored three objectives and for her particularly,” Wiegman stated.
“However I believe the group does rather well too and when the gamers really feel comfy and we really feel like we’re collaborating collectively then gamers can shine too.
“She began shining when she got here on so she did a extremely good job however general I believe this group exhibits – we don’t have the toughest opponents for the time being however right this moment was a reasonably onerous recreation, however we’re working collectively and we’re feeling good and we simply need to go ahead and ahead.”
The consequence ensures England stay high of the group, with this their lowest variety of objectives within the marketing campaign to date after thrashing North Macedonia 8-0 and knocking 10 previous Luxembourg.
“In fact I’m very proud of this win, to start with I assumed it was a really onerous recreation as a result of they dropped deep very far – we knew that in fact and we created numerous probabilities, we simply needed to maintain affected person to create much more probabilities and rating the objective,” Wiegman stated.
“Lastly we did, we introduced some new gamers on the pitch and so they made a distinction in order that’s actually good which you could see this group has depth, can play very effectively but when we have to change and convey some new vitality that that’s actually good too.
“I’m actually proud of this group accomplishment.”
Northern Eire’s eight-game successful run in aggressive fixtures got here to an finish and supervisor Kenny Shiels admitted his facet weren’t bodily capable of sustain with England.
“I don’t suppose we performed wherever close to what we will. England have gotten superior health, superior energy, superior measurement, superior pace, which restricted our regular recreation,” the Northern Eire boss stated.
“In the event you take a look at the full-time and the half-time (rating) there’s an ideal instance of it and we couldn’t get near them and so they beat us by means of their athleticism and their stronger bench.
“At 0-0 they have been frightened as a result of the primary quarter-hour of the second half we have been threatening sporadically and there have been events, we had two probabilities on the again put up and we weren’t scientific in that space.
“You might see the energy and energy that that they had and I felt that we will’t disagree with the ultimate end result of 4-0.
“However we confirmed numerous braveness and for the primary hour – I wouldn’t say we have been comfy however we negated every little thing they threw at us and so they scored with a flick and that was it, the gamers from the bench have been too robust and too fast and there wasn’t a lot we may do about it.”
Further reporting from PA