TOP duo Georgia Stanway and Kelsey Pearson will pull on the England shirt again tomorrow for the Under-17s European Championships.

The South Cumbrian pair are among the 18-strong squad who flew to Belarus at the weekend for the tournament finals.

Manchester City Women’s Super League ace Stanway and Blackburn Rovers youngster Pearson were part of the squad which sent England to Belarus with victories in two qualifying phases.

They will take on Norway in their Group A opener tomorrow, before facing hosts Belarus on Saturday and Serbia next Tuesday.

Coach John Griffiths’s side scored 38 goals in qualifying, with Stanway and Chelsea’s Alessia Russo leading the charge with nine goals each.

The Barrow-born former Dowdales School pupil was part of the squad which flew to the USA during the winter, alongside Pearson, and played some of the world’s top teams in the shape of the USA, Japan and South Korea.

The aim for the Young Lionesses is to set up further encounters with teams of their ilk, with the two finalists in the European Championships, plus the third-placed team, qualifying for the FIFA Under-17s World Cup in Jordan in September.

Coach Griffiths said: “The target for this year was to try and get to the World Cup and we need to win matches to do that. We’ve got a period of 10 matches that we need to get through to get us to Jordan.

“A World Cup will give the players more tournament experience which will help them, if and when they get into the senior squad.”

There are eight teams playing in Belarus, with Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and holders Spain in Group B. The final takes place on May 16.