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Jill Scott warns England to expect "difficult" Norway test

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England face their next World Cup opponents in Le Havre.

Jill Scott thinks England will encounter both a physical and technical challenge when they face Norway in the Women's World Cup quarter-finals on Thursday.

The sides meet at Le Havre's Stade Oceane, four days on from the Lionesses' bruising last-16 win against Cameroon in Valenciennes.

Norway are 12th in the world rankings, nine places below England, and midfielder Scott said: "I think Cameroon brought that physicality and Scotland (whom England beat 2-1 in the group stage) brought that technical ability, but I think if you combine both of them then you get a Norway.

Cameroon's Raissa Feudjio, left, and England's Jill Scott battle for the ball (Richard Sellers/PA)

"That's why it's going to be difficult, because they can bring so many different parts to the game.

"But I think if you look at us as a team, we've got the technical ability, we've got the physical as well.

"So it really is, in a one-off game, just going to come down to the day, who's going to best perform and who's going to get that result."

Sunday's match, which England won 3-0, saw Phil Neville's players get some notably rough treatment, including Nikita Parris receiving an elbow in the face early on from Yvonne Leuko, and Steph Houghton being left hurt by a poor Alexandra Takounda challenge just before the final whistle.

England's Toni Duggan, left, reacts after she is spat on by by Cameroon's Augustine Ejangue (John Walton/PA)

There was also an incident in which Toni Duggan had her arm spat on by Augustine Ejangue, and twice it looked as if Cameroon may not continue playing as they complained angrily about VAR decisions.

A FIFA spokesperson on Monday said the governing body was "looking into" Sunday's events and would update in due course.

Scott feels England handled the game "fantastically well" and believes a key factor was the work the players have done with psychologists.

"We do a lot of work away from the pitch about how to kind of conserve our emotion in certain times in games and always think logically," said the 32-year-old, who surpassed Peter Shilton to stand alone as England's record World Cup appearance maker on Sunday as her tally moved to 18.

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