WORLD Cup goals ace Georgia Stanway is looking for England to shoot down reigning champions Japan in the quarter-finals.

The Under-17s ace will miss the last-eight showdown through suspension, as her team-mates look to defeat the only side with a 100 per cent record in the tournament and advance to the last four (5pm kick-off BST).

Barrow-born Stanway scored both England's goals from the penalty spot as they beat Brazil 2-1 on Saturday to qualify in second place from their group, behind 2008 champions North Korea.

Those strikes added to her goal against the Koreans, but a yellow card – her second of the tournament – picked up in the early stages of the Brazil game means she will not feature against Japan and will instead cheer them on from the sidelines.

Fellow South Cumbrian Kelsey Pearson, from Flookburgh, will be in the squad. The Blackburn Rovers star played all 90 minutes against North Korea, but missed out on the matches with Nigeria and Brazil.

Manchester City forward Stanway and Pearson were part of the England side which drew 1-1 with the Little Nadeshiko in the NTC Invitational Tournament in California in February.

That display gave the Young Lionesses confidence they carried into the European Championships, where they finished third to qualify for the World Cup in Jordan.

“We played Japan back in February, so we already know the kind of thing we can expect and how to best go about playing them,” 17-year-old Stanway told FIFA.com about the showdown with the tournament's top-scorers.

“They’re a very technical team, they never stop moving, so we’ve got to make sure we’re ready for that.

“We definitely won’t underestimate them — we know they’re a quality team — but the main focus for us will be on our game plan.”

On her three goals at the World Cup – fulfilling a dream she told the Evening Mail about before heading to Jordan – she told thefa.com: “It is a massive personal achievement to say that I’ve scored at a World Cup. It’s not something many people can say they have done and it was an unbelievable feeling.

“But to score the goals that got us into the quarter-finals was more important; goals that actually meant something for the team.”

England and Japan have met once before in the Under-17s World Cup, in the quarter-finals in 2008. On that occasion in New Zealand, England triumphed 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw.