Women's Football FIFA World Cup 2023

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8 hours ago, thepharoah said:

This Philippines Team is something like Israel in Baseball , they are all born outside Philippines basically from USA like the scorer today Sarina Bolden , some were in Australia , one in Poland , one in Norway , i'd say also something like Morocco and Algeria in Men's football , but ofc not exactly as these teams have some local players , anyway it's a historic victory , great upset especially because NZ is the host and they defeated Norway in 1st game , this group looks like way wide open before last match 

I can say the same about 80% of Filipino athletes in other sports too. wherever I see a Filipino quality athlete I just automatically assume he/she is not home grown. nothing wrong with that though.  just my observation 

[Monzanator 4,510]

beat 2-0 so Spain can control the goal difference ahead of the final group match. In fact they lead Zambia 2-0 after just 13 minutes

[Monzanator 4,510]

Finally an offside goal that is overturned on VAR. But the referee from South Korea still mixed it up by saying "no goal & no offside". It was the latter. 4-0 Spain after 73 mins.

[Monzanator 4,510]

Another wrong offside call on the Spanish goal from the Korean referee team. VAR has to bail them out. 5-0 Spain and they take the group lead on goal difference over Japan.

[thepharoah 2,405]

Zambia loses 5-0 for 2nd time in a row 

[Monzanator 4,510]

Four minutes in and scores directly from a corner

[Monzanator 4,510]

turns it around. Late own goal in the first half and now they take the lead 2-1 after 53 mins.

[Rafa Maciel 1,594]

In hunting around for more information on Gracenote's Olympic predictions, I stumbled upon their assessment of the world cup brackets

 

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Not the results they had hoped for but a great achievement for our girls to qualify for a first World Cup.

[vinipereira 3,240]

4 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

In hunting around for more information on Gracenote's Olympic predictions, I stumbled upon their assessment of the world cup brackets

 

Accurate so far (aside from which should be eliminated), but Group A is anyone's game. Wish a team from Africa could qualify for Round of 16, I think is the only one possible.