England were singing along to ABBA in the dressing room after Monday’s 8-0 win over Norway secured qualification for the quarter-finals, but Northern Ireland would be wrong to think that is a sign the Lionesses could take their eye off the ball tonight.
The game is a dead rubber for England, who face either Denmark or Spain in Brighton next Wednesday for a place in the last four, but although head coach Sarina Wiegman has the luxury of changing her whole XI and resting the players from that record win, such a plan is not in her thinking.