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Cameroon has a goal ruled out by VAR and the players have emotionaly lost it. If FIFA wants to claim women's football is on the way up to men's this is the worst example.

England leads Cameroon 2-0 at the half. Sadly the African teams are of no use in the knockout stages again.

Horrendous penalty shooting from Australia esp. team star Sam Kerr. Norway cool as ice there.

Australia will probably defend all they can in the 2nd half of extra time.

12 minutes ago, NearPup said:

I don’t think you quite understand how good that is for Brazil xD

 

This is really no different than having a Brazilian ref a Portugal / England game or whatever.

I read she speaks both French (duh) & Spanish so that probably explains a lot but Idk whether people from Quebec are for or against France? I'd suspect the former

Extra time in vs   Australia equalised directly from corner in 83rd minute. They had a goal ruled out with offside (correct) & a VAR reversal on penalty (looked correct too).

6 minutes ago, Jur said:

I'm really nervous, I really though we were out but the boys are bringing it today!

Let's get real, Poland was expected to lose three game in these finals. Italy & Belgium simply blew their chances big time.

Nigeria with a full-blown collapse. Two minutes after going down 1-0 a horrible miskick from the defender results in penalty and it's 2-0 Germany. And Nigeria's best striker is on the bench! This sucker is over.

France working the home court magic, a Canadian referee who has lived her entire life in Quebec has been chosen for the vs game  

I'm all in for Mediolan over Stockholm. Forget the luge at Sigulda (which actually doesn't favor Germany for once) but alpine skiing at Are could be equally as disastrous as this year's World Champs. 50 second downhill for Olympic Gold? You gotta be kiddin' me.

17 minutes ago, bestmen said:

Football is not for you , you focus on score only , Asian win because they play for themselves not for spectators , just like robots 

Very ugly game 

 

Please, football is #1 sport in Poland. Don't teach me how to love football or not. Asian teams are small size by default, they are hard work & defense. They will never play for the applause. But they've got huge results from junior level in the women's game and are way ahead of Africa right now. Those are just facts.

45 minutes ago, bestmen said:

they are not better than African teams , football is not" scoring" only

the Asian football is such ugly that  i can't finish watching  5 min

In 3 of 7 World Cup final games there has been an Asian team involved. How many African teams played in a World Cup final?

Not to mention Asian teams also won 3 of 8 U-20 World Cups and 4 of 6 U-17 World Cups. It's a no contest. Asia is by far the second strongest continent in women's football.

4 hours ago, bestmen said:

about Africa : the real score of NGR -FRA is 0-0 all the referees of world said that against this fake penalty

Cameroon vs NZL was 2-0 , this own goal

even South Africa showed one good game vs Spain by leading 1-0 during the 2/3 of match unlucky after that

 

 African teams are much better than Asian , South/central America (except Brazil) , Mali could defeat Argentina Chile Korea thailand Jamaica very easily

 

 

Africa deserves 4 quotas instead Asia

 

 

 

Considering Australia represents Asia now, it's basically impossible. Japan, China & Australia are better than any African team and then we have North Korea who got screwed by the seeding this time. And you keep forgetting Asia actually has 5 spots

12 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

So looking at the bracket, France will probably be hoping one of Australia/Canada/Japan sneak into the semi-finals to force a European play-off for the last Olympic spot(s). Sadly, things don't look so great for Spain, it's hard to see fewer than 3 European teams advancing to the quarter-finals. England and Germany will be heavy favourites to advance while France will be the favourite against Brazil and even then it would require all of Norway, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden to lose their match as well.

Japan & China have looked pretty bleak in this tournament, Netherlands have some weaknesses at the back and Italy are doing much better than expected tbh. If Canada beats Sweden, they'll still have to go thru Germany in QF. The closest QF could be Norway vs England for de facto Olympic spot. Netherlands vs Italy could be really close too.

2-0 for Chile so they go out. Germany vs Nigeria, England vs Cameroon & France vs Brazil are the last three matches in R16.

Chile misses a penalty for 3-0 (crossbar). Keeper stayed on the line all the way...

Canada plays Sweden    USA play Spain if they win the group.

Sweden rested 4 players so they've punted this one away. USA 1-0 after 2 minutes...

20 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

overall, not an easy task for us...

but surely easier than facing any other European rival...

China has been pretty lacklustre tbh. This ain't the 90s anymore. If you can't beat then now, you probably never will. I'd say Italy is the favorite in there.

The whole Olympics qualifying could be sorted out very quickly. England vs USA and Netherlands vs Germany are very feasible as World Cup SF and that would take care of all that.

Yes, I added this reference at the end

If Chile beats Thailand they will play England in R16.

Italy vs China is fixed now.

Germany only plays Nigeria if Thailand beats Chile or there is a draw. Otherwise it's Germany vs Brazil. Chile actually needs to win by 3+ goals.

Yeah, that's correct both these games have to end in a draw so goes through with 2 pts.

A 1-0 win for Cameroon leaves them equal with Nigeria on goal difference so yellow/red cards come into play and Cameroon is ahead there.

Chile needs to win by 3 goals, a 2-0 win still gives Nigeria the better goal difference.

It's been retaken... 3-3!!! This is happening too fast for my writing now... both teams are out if the draw stands though.

Argentina has a penalty saved in the 90th minute... Nigeria must be livid right now...

It's 3-2 now...