England needed at least a point from their final group game against Germany in order to progress to the Semi Finals of the UEFA Under 17 Women’s Championship but it was not to be, as Germany smarting from their loss to Spain gave a tremendous performance to beat England by 5-0. Switzerland meanwhile surprised France
England put in a mighty team performance last night to surge into the Women’s World Cup Semi Finals for the first time since – well since ever. Jodie Taylor capitalised on a defensive error to open the scoring after just 11 minutes and Lucy Bronze headed home just three minutes later to effectively quieten the
England are through to their first Semi Final of a World Cup tournament with a 2-1 win over hosts Canada. Jodie Taylor and Lucy Bronze hit early to stun Canada and silence the crowd although Sinclair scored just before half time to reduce the deficit and give the home side some hope. In the other
UEFA Under 17 Women’s Championship : Iceland Group A Spain Germany Iceland England Group B Norway Rep of Ireland France Switzerland Results: 22 June 2015 England 1-1 Spain Rep of Ireland 0-1 France Switzerland 2-2 Norway Iceland 0-5 Germany 25 June 2015 Germany 0-4 Spain Rep of Ireland 0-1 Switzerland France 2-0 Norway Iceland 1-3
I attempted to read another article on the Women’s World Cup yesterday, that someone had tagged as interesting – it started with something like – let’s face it women are not as good at football as men and this could be proven because the women’s team could never beat Roy Hodgson’s men’s team … Now
The last eight teams are now known and some interesting matches are thrown up. China will make the USA work, but can they overcome the strong USA team? Germany v France is perhaps the pick of the ties with both teams hitting form, Germany have in their side the two leading scorers of the tournament so far;
England claimed their place in the quarter finals with an emphatic second half performance against Norway last night. As predicted, and perhaps dreaded, the first half was a cagey affair and England played with just Toni Duggan fighting a lost cause up front, isolated and losing out constantly to the solid Norwegian defence. England struggled
FIFA Women’s World Cup : Results : Last Sixteen Game 44: Canada 1-0 Switzerland (Belanger 52′) Game 43: Norway 1-2 England (Gulbrandsen 54′) (Houghton 61′, Bronze 76′) Game 42: Japan 2-1Netherlands (Japan: Ariyoshi 10′, Sakaguchi 78′) (Netherlands: Van ven Ven 90’+2′) Game 41: Brazil 0-1 Australia (Simon 80′) Game 40: France 3-0 Korea Rep (Delie 4′, 48′,
The Women’s World Cup First Stage is over and we say goodbye to the Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Nigeria, Spain, Mexico, Thailand and Costa Rica – all of them have added value to the tournament and shown that increasing the number of teams to 24 was the right thing to do. Many people will be surprised
FIFA Women’s World Cup : Stage 2 : Last Sixteen Fixtures All times specified are local time Game 37 20 June – 17.30 hrs Edmonton China PR v Cameroon Game 38 22 June – 18.00 hrs Edmonton USA v Colombia Game 39 20 June – 16.00 hrs Edmonton Germany v Sweden Game 40 21
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