Victorious Great Britain make it two from two against Japan

Great Britain were forced to come from behind to defeat Japan in the first of their two games the day previous but there were no such problems on Monday.

Alex Danson, scorer of both goals on Sunday, opened the scoring on 18 minutes before Laura Unsworth slapped home from a penalty corner to put Great Britain in control at the half-way stage.

Akiko Kato did pull a goal back for the improved Cherry Blossoms in the fourth quarter but three goals in four minutes from Helen Richardson-Walsh, Sophie Bray and a second for Danson rounded off a solid afternoon's work for Great Britain.

The Japan matches were serving as valuable preparation for the World League Semi Finals in June, which also double up as Olympic qualifiers, and Kerry was delighted with the application shown by his players.

"It's good to get into the mindset of bringing your best game to every moment of the match so these types of series are ideal for us," he said.

"Japan are a very disciplined side, strong in defence and pose good counterattacking threats. It's about concentrating for the whole game and it was perfect for us.

"I'm very happy with the first half - it's probably the best we've played since September 2014. We were dominant, in control and deservedly 2-0 up," he said.

"The second half was sloppy and we could easily have let Japan back in. Fortunately they came out to chase the game and that allowed us to cut them open a bit more, but it wasn't a complete performance.

"We created and took our chances which was positive and Sabbie Heesh played well in the second half, saving some good corners."