International Action: 2019 World Cup Qualifying, September and October 2017

A single page covers the whole international window and catches England mid-upheaval: a 6-0 defeat of Russia at Tranmere, Jodie Taylor scoring at her first club, turns out to have been Mark Sampson’s last game in charge, and by the time the Lionesses next played, Mo Marley was interim coach and they lost narrowly in Valenciennes to an eighty-ninth-minute header. Elsewhere Shelley Kerr began her Scotland tenure with two wins, 2-1 in Minsk and 5-0 against Albania on a rain-swept night in Paisley. Wales came back from St Petersburg with a goalless draw and a valuable point. Northern Ireland lost in Norway and at home to the Republic, whose second successive 2-0 win came in Slovakia.