ShareEngland booked their place in the next round of Women's World Cup qualifying play-offs with a resounding five-star win in Leicester.England stormed into the next round of the Women's World Cup qualifying play-offs after a 5-0 second-leg victory at King Power Stadium, which secured an 8-1 aggregate win.Lauren James starred with two goals and an assist, with Alessia Russo and Georgia Stanway also on the scoresheet as they set up a meeting with Ukraine in the next round.It took just over two minutes for Russo to break the deadlock; James profited from a midfield mix-up and teed up the Arsenal striker, who skipped away from Eleni Markou's challenge to coolly slot past Styliani Katergiannaki.Moments later, Hannah Hampton was alert to keep out Ioanna Papatheodorou at the other end before James doubled England's lead 16 minutes in, rifling a stunning strike into the top-right corner after meeting Maya Le Tissier's lay-off.Le Tissier then blazed over from two yards out under pressure in the 29th minute, but it mattered little as England got two more goals in the following five minutes.Stanway got in front of her defender to glance in Lauren Hemp's cross in the 30th minute before James ghosted in behind Greece's defence to meet Hemp's low delivery shortly after.Lexi Potter thought she had marked her England debut with a goal on the stroke of half-time, as her drilled strike nestled into the bottom-right corner, but Stanway was penalised for a foul in the build-up.Stanway continued to prove a threat, though, and had a goal disallowed herself after the break. She leapt to bring down Alex Greenwood's long pass before volleying past Katergiannaki, but she had just strayed marginally offside.Stanway and Beth Mead both had chances to add to England's tally, but it was Russo who added some more gloss to the scoreline as Greece's defence were drawn to the ball, and she fired the fifth into an empty net.Freya Godfrey also came close to a debut goal, with her low curler pushed away by Katergiannaki, and despite England piling on the pressure late on, they could not find a sixth.England find their clinical edgeDespite scoring three goals in the first leg, one thing Sarina Wiegman highlighted as an area of improvement for the Lionesses was their finishing, having had 26 shots in Crete.The first half proved England still have the golden touch in front of goal with four first-half goals, and they could have had more with two more disallowed on either side of the break.James only played the first 45 minutes, but impressed, having three shots worth 0.66 expected goals (xG), scoring with both of her efforts on target, as well as getting an assist with the one chance she created.But Stanway's fine form in World Cup qualifying continued as she is now England's top scorer under Wiegman with 33 goals, edging away from Mead (32).Stanway is also just the second player to reach 50+ goal involvements (also 17 assists) under the Dutch manager, after Mead (58 – 32 goals, 26 assists).Greece offered little going the other way, accumulating just 0.07 xG to England's 4.75, and it means the Lionesses have now won their last seven home matches in all competitions without conceding (24-0 on aggregate) for the first time in their history.England will now face Ukraine for the second time in World Cup qualifying, having been in their group originally; they won both of those meetings by an aggregate 9-1, and they will be hoping for something similar with a place in the tournament on the line.England booked their place in the next round of Women's World Cup qualifying play-offs with a resounding five-star win in Leicester.England stormed into the next round of the Women's World Cup qualifying play-offs after a 5-0 second-leg victory at King Power Stadium, which secured an 8-1 aggregate win.Lauren James starred with two goals and an assist, with Alessia Russo and Georgia Stanway also on the scoresheet as they set up a meeting with Ukraine in the next round.It took just over two minutes for Russo to break the deadlock; James profited from a midfield mix-up and teed up the Arsenal striker, who skipped away from Eleni Markou's challenge to coolly slot past Styliani Katergiannaki.Moments later, Hannah Hampton was alert to keep out Ioanna Papatheodorou at the other end before James doubled England's lead 16 minutes in, rifling a stunning strike into the top-right corner after meeting Maya Le Tissier's lay-off.Le Tissier then blazed over from two yards out under pressure in the 29th minute, but it mattered little as England got two more goals in the following five minutes.Stanway got in front of her defender to glance in Lauren Hemp's cross in the 30th minute before James ghosted in behind Greece's defence to meet Hemp's low delivery shortly after.Lexi Potter thought she had marked her England debut with a goal on the stroke of half-time, as her drilled strike nestled into the bottom-right corner, but Stanway was penalised for a foul in the build-up.Stanway continued to prove a threat, though, and had a goal disallowed herself after the break. She leapt to bring down Alex Greenwood's long pass before volleying past Katergiannaki, but she had just strayed marginally offside.Stanway and Beth Mead both had chances to add to England's tally, but it was Russo who added some more gloss to the scoreline as Greece's defence were drawn to the ball, and she fired the fifth into an empty net.Freya Godfrey also came close to a debut goal, with her low curler pushed away by Katergiannaki, and despite England piling on the pressure late on, they could not find a sixth.England find their clinical edgeDespite scoring three goals in the first leg, one thing Sarina Wiegman highlighted as an area of improvement for the Lionesses was their finishing, having had 26 shots in Crete.The first half proved England still have the golden touch in front of goal with four first-half goals, and they could have had more with two more disallowed on either side of the break.James only played the first 45 minutes, but impressed, having three shots worth 0.66 expected goals (xG), scoring with both of her efforts on target, as well as getting an assist with the one chance she created.But Stanway's fine form in World Cup qualifying continued as she is now England's top scorer under Wiegman with 33 goals, edging away from Mead (32).Stanway is also just the second player to reach 50+ goal involvements (also 17 assists) under the Dutch manager, after Mead (58 – 32 goals, 26 assists).Greece offered little going the other way, accumulating just 0.07 xG to England's 4.75, and it means the Lionesses have now won their last seven home matches in all competitions without conceding (24-0 on aggregate) for the first time in their history.England will now face Ukraine for the second time in World Cup qualifying, having been in their group originally; they won both of those meetings by an aggregate 9-1, and they will be hoping for something similar with a place in the tournament on the line.