Beth Mead’s angry side has launched her into elite, says Phil Neville

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Phil Neville has said the Arsenal forward Beth Mead has gone from wanting to go to Blackpool on holiday to wanting “to go to the moon”, after he warned her in January that she had one game to prove herself and had to stop being nice.

Mead was named player of the match on Saturday after she provided a pinpoint cross on to the head of Jill Scott for England’s second goal in a 2-0 win against Denmark and took the corner that led to Nikita Parris opening the scoring.

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