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Dominic Young is the tournament's starring scorer with 8 tries| England (44) 94 |
| Tries: Lees, Young 4, Hall 2, Burgess 2, Williams, Makinson, Sneyd, Batchelor, Ackers 2, Pearce-Paul, McMeekan Goals: Sneyd 11 |
| Greece (4) 4 |
| Tries: Taukamo |
Dominic Young scored 4 first-half tries arsenic a rampant England ran successful an unthinkable 17 successful full to crush debutants Greece 94-4 - their biggest triumph successful a World Cup match.
Shaun Wane's men had already qualified for the knockout stage, but a thoroughly nonrecreational show successful Sheffield allowed them to decorativeness apical of Group A.
The people comfortably surpassed England's erstwhile grounds successful the tourney which came successful 2000, erstwhile a broadside led by John Kear thrashed Russia 76-4 astatine St Helens.
Greece enactment up a combat aboriginal connected and trailed 10-4 erstwhile teen Siteni Taukamo slid implicit but England dominated from that point.
The irrepressible Young, Matty Lees, Ryan Hall, Tom Burgess and George Williams each crossed arsenic England led 44-4 astatine the break
The barrage continued successful the 2nd play arsenic Tommy Makinson and Marc Sneyd some touched down, Burgess and Hall added to their tallies, portion debutants Joe Batchelor and and Kai Pearce-Paul besides ran successful either broadside of 2 tries from Andy Ackers.
In the quarter-finals, England volition look the runner-up of Group D successful Wigan adjacent Saturday (kick-off 14:30 GMT).
Tonga are presently apical but Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands and Wales each person a mathematic anticipation of reaching the knockout stages.
More to follow.
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