Northern Ireland net eleven to smash record as Rachel Furness ties David Healy’s scoring tally in huge win over North Macedonia.
Rachel Furness has now scored 36 goals for Northern Ireland, the same number as David Healy as Northern Ireland smashed their record margin of victory with an 11-0 win over North Macedonia in Thursday afternoon’s Women’s World Cup qualifier.
It took just four minutes for Northern Ireland to open the flood gate of goals at the Petar Milosevski Training Centre in Skopje, as Furness finished off Demi Vance’s cross from close range for her third goal of the campaign.
Mckenna doubled the lead six minutes later and in the 11th minute Magill then fired home the third before Furness converted the fourth from the spot kick, five minutes later.
She could have had another in the 23rd minute but missed from the penalty kick, before Lauren Wade eventually scored Northern Ireland’s fifth goal in the 26th minute while Kirsty McGuinness and Simone Magill scored another to make it 0-7 before half time break.
Furness’ hat-trick was completed in the 68th minute when she crashed home McGuinness’ cross. Two more goals from Simone Magill, and the other from Rebecca Holloway– who scored her first international goal on a landmark day– completed the rout.
Liverpool forward, Furness wasn’t the only one to net a match ball, her trio bettered by Everton forward Simone Magill’s four goal haul.
However, they were still some way short of the biggest win in Women’s World Cup qualifying. On at least five separate occasions, scorelines of 21-0 have been posted, first by Japan against Guam in 1997, then by Canada against Puerto Rico, New Zealand over Samoa and Austria against American Samoa, all in 1998, before Jordan matched the feat against Kuwait in 2013.
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