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Kelly backs England’s ‘positive clique’ of finishers to deliver against Sweden

Beth Mead celebrates a goal with Chloe Kelly
Chloe Kelly and Beth Mead click their fingers in delight after the positive clique’s valuable contribution for the Lionesses. Photograph: Annegret Hilse/Reuters

There was confusion among England’s starters on Sunday night when both Beth Mead and Aggie Beever-Jones scored and wheeled away clicking their fingers. It was an in-joke between the substitutes, or “finishers” as they are referred to internally, viewed as an important a piece of the team’s puzzle as much as those who step out of the tunnel before kick-off.

“It’s great,” the Arsenal forward Chloe Kelly says. “We have a little group of us, the finishers, the positive clique [pronounced click by Kelly, a play on words] we call it. We said if one of us comes on to score then we should do that as our celebration.

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