England overran tournament hosts Lithuania in their opening group game at the UEFA Women’s U-19 Championship.
John Griffiths’ side raced into a three-goal lead inside quarter of an hour, Poppy Pritchard following up a parry from Mia Bose’s effort for the first.
Katy Watson burst into the box to slot home the second, Michelle Agyemang bundling in the third from almost on the line.
After a scramble in the box from a corner, Agyemang again finished from close range, Pritchard also doubled her tally via the post from Watson’s cut-back for a 5-0 interval advantage.
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The second half was only 39 seconds old when Pritchard completed her hat-trick, Agyemang following suit direct from a free kick.
Vivienne Lia was next to find the net, Lexi Potter worked space in the box before slotting home, Maddie Earl making it 10-0 from an Araya Dennis cross.
Next up for the Young Lionesses is Serbia on Wednesday at 12pm BST, followed by France on Saturday 20 July at 4pm. England’s matches are broadcast live on BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport Website and uefa.tv, the latter showing all games.
France began with a 3-1 win over Serbia, scoring three times in the last 25 minutes to overturn a half-time deficit.
Republic of Ireland and Spain start the Group B games at noon on Monday, Germany then play Netherlands at 4pm.
