Jodie Taylor: ‘I’m sure Canada have got 2015 at the back of their minds’

Striker scored for England Women in their World Cup quarter-final win and is bullish for Friday’s rematch at Manchester City’s Academy Stadium

It was a mood-changing moment with transformative repercussions and Jodie Taylor will never forget it. By scoring a fine goal and silencing more than 50,000 extremely noisy Canadians at Vancouver’s BC Place, Taylor set the Lionesses on course to win a first World Cup quarter-final.

Almost four years later the England striker is at St George’s Park, preparing for France 2019 – and, more immediately, Friday’s rematch with Canada – but can still transport herself back to that warm, brilliantly sunny Saturday afternoon a long goal-kick from the Pacific.

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