This is the first time England have won their first  two group games at the Women's World Cup.

Jodie Taylor has also now scored six goals in her last five major tournament appearances for England.

More from England boss Phil Neville: "Jodie Taylor was phenomenal tonight. "It should have been more but I stood in the warm up and saw their goalkeeper and she was unbelievable even in the warm up - if you're like that before the game you're not always like that in the game but she was outstanding - what you've seen tonight is an unbelievable goalkeeping performance. "We want to beat Japan, they were outstanding against Scotland today. "We'll go to Nice now and get some sun on our backs. Our players and enjoying it, we're having the time of our lives."

"We're really happy. I thought we played with confidence and composure like they have done for the past two days in training. Winning is a by-product of what you do during the week.

"Japan struggled to create chances against Argentina but we didn't. There is a lot of criticism about goalkeepers in the women's game but the keepers today were excellent.

"You always have a bit of a dip [after missing a penalty]. We composed ourselves after that. The main message before the game was don't get frustrated. We knew it would be an attack v defence game. Because it’s a World Cup you think 'don't get frustrated and keep passing the ball'. The most important thing is they're having the time of their lives and so am I.

"It was brilliant from Jodie [Taylor]. Brilliant from Ellen [White] the other day. If I could pick anyone to score it would be my forwards. When you have a happy centre-forward you have a happy house. We have a real competition for places."

Nobody was thinking about gender, nobody was worrying about male and females and traditional roles, it was a game of football, a chance to support your country in a World Cup, in a game they were expected to win. It was supposed to be fun and felt like it

They were on their way to a women’s game, England vs Argentina, but it was just football, England were playing, that is all that mattered.

England next play against Japan in Nice on Wednesday evening