Key occasions
If gamers have been booked earlier than this recreation and obtain a yellow on this match they are going to be banned for the semi-final ought to their staff undergo. The gamers already booked for Sweden are Asllani and Schough, whereas Japan have nobody within the e-book.
It’s one other spherical of knock-out soccer and I all the time marvel what the gamers are feeling earlier than a match. So I assumed I’d ask all of you in the event you had skilled one thing related, albeit on a smaller scale! Ever have a faculty championship match? Were you in a neighborhood manufacturing? Let me know the moments the place you needed to carry out underneath strain! You can get in contact through Twitter or electronic mail.
There is a lot to absorb throughout a World Cup and chances are you’ll miss a factor or two so I’ve put a bit collectively on 10 issues you’ll have missed. Have a learn of it:
Anita Asante is the author of our weekly girls’s soccer publication Moving the Goalposts this week and she or he has predicted how every of the quarter-finals will shake out. She has stated Japan v Sweden will see Japan come out as 2-1 winners, see her clarification as to why right here:
The first semi-finalist of this Women’s World Cup has been determined! The Netherlands and Spain performed each other earlier as we speak and it was Spain who acquired via to the final 4 after an additional time Salma Paralluelo winner. The Barcelona participant has competed so effectively all match and her celebrations present how a lot it meant! Read the report:
Sweden have additionally named their beginning XI! They haven’t made any modifications to the staff who beat the USA.
Starting staff: Musovic, Bjorn, Ilestedt, Eriksson, Andersson, Angeldahl, Asllani, Rubensson, Kaneryd, Blackstenius, Rolfo.
The staff information is in! Let’s begin with Japan they usually make one change from their win over Norway with Sugita coming in for Endo.
Starting XI: Yamashita, Shimizu, Minami, Kumagai, Sugita, Miyazawa, Nagano, Tanaka, Takahashi, Hasegawa, Fujino.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to the second quarter-final of the Women’s World Cup! What a tasty conflict now we have with Japan taking over Sweden with each international locations profitable all of their video games thus far and solely conceding one aim every.
Japan are being thought-about one of many strongest groups on the match. They have been dominant in each match they’ve performed and even thumped Spain 4-0 within the group stage. They even have Hinata Miyazawa of their ranks who presently occupies high spot within the Golden Boot race.
Sweden, in the meantime, haven’t been as medical in entrance of aim however they’ve floor out outcomes. Their finest coming towards defending champions USA within the final 16 the place Sweden knocked them out on penalties. Japan will pose an excellent stronger attacking risk within the last-eight recreation and so goalkeeper Zećira Mušović will likely be prone to have one other busy match.
Both groups will reveal their beginning XI’s quickly so keep tuned for all of the updates forward of kick-off in a hour’s time.
:quality(85):upscale()/2023/08/09/993/n/1922283/fc439b6464d4184914ad14.18249362_.jpg?resize=75%2C75&ssl=1)
Discussion about this post