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Reminder of the stakes right here: If the remainder of this group goes to type, with Germany successful its subsequent two video games and Morocco shedding each, the winner right here advances as the second-place staff within the group.
I’m not even positive Germany beats Colombia all that simply. This was a grasp class in pushing the ball into the ultimate third, successful all of the midfield battles and disrupting something South Korea tried.
On the brilliant aspect for South Korea, Peter Oh says, “At least Korea is certain to earn the Phair Play award.”
We can’t finish with that, can we? Let’s see what else we’ve got …
Ah, right here we go … John Cartmell begins our dialog on crop rotation. “For us, it’s alternating beans and corn. (Soybeans and feed corn, to be precise.) Go Hoosiers! Plenty of soccer in Indiana.”
OK, we’ll choose up from there once I’m subsequent on obligation, which I imagine is throughout the USA-Netherlands grudge match. Unless the Netherlands can elevate their degree bit from their opening sport, we’ll have loads of time to speak about crop rotation.
Before providing a remaining thought on the sport, I’ll go alongside another thought on the “Not Mexican” Wave, this from Eric Moberg: “Responding to Alan, the wave may have come to the Detroit Tigers in part from the nearby 100,000+ seat University of Michigan stadium which features an impressive wave to this day. This article shows that even in 1983 when it had its Michigan debut “that stupid display” was controversial, even resulting in threats of firing.”
One of the explanations I really like this gig is that Guardian readers are masters of the arcane. I feel we’ll spend a part of the USA-Netherlands sport speaking about crop rotation.
Final: Colombia 2-0 South Korea
Fears that Colombia was going to get out on the sector and wreak extra mayhem than the man within the insurance coverage adverts have proved to be unfounded. The South Americans took a deserved 1-0 lead on a well-taken penalty from the veteran star Usme, then took a barely fluky 2-0 lead on a goalkeeping howler off a shot from their prodigy Caicedo.
What happened subsequent was essentially the most spectacular half. Up 2-0, they allowed South Korea to do completely nothing. OK, one half-decent likelihood on the very finish of the primary half. But that’s it. Throughout the second half, Colombia regarded just like the most definitely staff to attain, and that saved South Korea far-off from anyplace harmful.
90 +4 minutes: Sometimes you win, typically you lose, typically it rains. So says the quote from the good movie Bull Durham, and no, it wasn’t referring to the Ashes.
It’s simply a type of days for South Korea. Since Colombia took the lead on the Usme penalty, South Korea has simply by no means regarded like something was going to return collectively for them.
A turnover places Colombia off to the races, however Usme’s indecision is expensive.
90 +3 minutes: Ramirez deserves a objective, and that was effort from the highest of the field. Yoon atones for her error, cleanly snaring the ball.
90 +2 minutes: I can’t bear in mind the final time any South Korean attackers accomplished a significant go. There’s a number of hitting and hoping, punctuated by the occasional quixotic one-woman run.
90 +1 minutes: FIVE minutes of stoppage time? I’d’ve figured at the very least seven.
89 minutes: We’ve reached the purpose within the sport by which each Colombian participant who picks up a slight bruise goes to remain down on the sector lengthy sufficient to take a nap. This staff has performed superbly, however they’ll nonetheless delve into the Dark Arts.
88 minutes: Diana Ospina comes on, seeing motion in her third World Cup. Moon Mi-Ra is on for South Korea.
86 minutes: Montoya and Vanegas are each down. Welch permits play to proceed as a result of Colombia nonetheless has the ball, and in the event that they wish to play it out to are likely to their gamers, go forward. Ramirez goes 1v4 and is reasonably profitable, however Welch finally decides to blow the whistle.
84 minutes: Full credit score to Colombia for recognizing that the perfect protection is an effective offense. They simply aren’t letting South Korea have any form of common possession inside 80 yards of the objective, and no South Korean participant goes to attain from 80 yards out.
83 minutes: Phair almost grew to become the youngest Women’s World Cup participant to concede a penalty kick. She manages to get a head to ball earlier than wiping out a Colombian participant.
81 minutes: That was disappointing from Caicedo. Great cross from Ramirez, dummied by a participant working within the heart, and the phenom has the ball and acres of area 20 yards away. She takes a contact in towards the recovering South Korean protection and may solely get a nook kick that involves naught.
79 minutes: Never cease taking part in the ball in expectation of getting a handball name. The common soccer participant has no thought what referees are literally on the lookout for earlier than they blow the whistle. With the ball close to the highest of the South Korean field, Colombia mainly stops taking part in and appears for a name. Thus endeth the assault.
16-year-old Casey Phair units World Cup file
The New Jersey teen enters the sport for South Korea. She’s the youngest participant ever in a Women’s World Cup sport – 16 years and 26 days.
77 minutes: South Korea blasts a cross from the suitable flank, on the lookout for Park, however Perez will get it.
75 minutes: We have drums, we’ve got metallic clangs, we’ve got chants … this venue is on the smaller aspect, however it’s rocking.
Restrepo replaces Santos for Colombia.
72 minutes: South Korea earns a succession of throw-ins, shifting the ball ahead little by little.
Colombia regains possession on a trivial bump proper in entrance of the AR, who raises a flag and will get the smooth foul known as.
Anyone who tells you there’s no diving and flopping in ladies’s soccer both (A) is stretching the reality or (B) doesn’t watch ladies’s soccer.
70 minutes: Lee fees into the center of Colombian protection and attracts contact. South Korea tries to take the kick shortly, however Welch makes them herald again.
Ji’s free kick drops into the field and causes Colombia a nervous second or two.
But now it’s out on the left to Caicedo. She leaves it to Usme to shoot, however the shot is blasted straight at a defender.
68 minutes: At final, substitutions. Park Eun-Sun, the 6-foot ahead, is available in with … Rimbappé!
67 minutes: Ramirez will get judo-tossed close to midfield. Another free kick. Partially cleared, however Bedoya surges ahead with the ball and unleashes a shot that slams into the South Korean protection.
66 minutes: Still no subs for both staff. US males’s supporters are absolutely shuddering on the considered all of the instances Gregg Berhalter left his bench gamers on the bench late in a match.
65 minutes: Ji’s free kick floats to the far put up and takes an eternity to get there. The Colombian protection has little bother getting the ball out.
64 minutes: South Korea earns a free kick. The replay exhibits that Welch may need been fooled on that one. The English ref has achieved effectively with this sport, powerful.
61 minutes: CHANCE as crosses simply hold flying into the South Korean field. Ramirez heads simply broad.
60 minutes: A South Korean counterattack bogs down, after which a really lengthy hopeful ball lands safely in Perez’s palms.
Colin Bell must be contemplating some adjustments.
58 minutes: Caicedo attracts yet one more foul. At some level, we may even see a yellow card for all this.
The free kick from simply contained in the South Korean half bounds over the massed gamers after which causes some concern for Yoon in objective. South Korea nonetheless seems to be extra more likely to concede a 3rd than they do to attain a primary.
55 minutes: Colombia is solely pinning South Korea in its personal half just like the canine herding sheep in these viral movies of a canine herding sheep. Nothing significantly harmful, however whereas I’m no tactical wizard, I feel South Korea must get the ball to the opposite aspect of the sector to attain.
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51 minutes: Carolina Arias flirts with a second yellow card in a very careless problem. Dropping to 11v10 will surely make the subsequent 40 minutes attention-grabbing.
49 minutes: Nice backheel by Lee, however it’s intercepted. Improved possession right here from South Korea, at the very least.
47 minutes: A quick little bit of possession for South Korea to start out the half, however then we’re again on the different finish.
Alan Terlep seeks some credit score for Detroit when it involves the Wave: “While “The Wave” dates again to 1981, it first gained nationwide consideration within the US in 1984, when Detroit Tigers followers (baseball) began it throughout the Tigers’ run to successful the World Series (their final victory BTW). A New York Times article from 1984 notes the connection.”
We’ll see if we get extra waves within the second half, which has kicked off.
The irony of Yoon’s howler is that I had simply been pondering earlier than this sport about ladies’s soccer goalkeeping and the way a lot it’s improved. Obviously, I must cease pondering. I’m solely doing hurt.
Steve Taylor writes to say our stats say South Korea has 2 % of the possession. That is most undoubtedly not appropriate. I’ll ping somebody to see what’s up with that.
Halftime studying: Why the “Mexican wave” isn’t Mexican.
British reporters weren’t conscious of it till the 1986 World Cup, therefore the attribution to Mexico.
Halftime: Colombia 2-0 South Korea
South Korea regarded terrific for quarter-hour. But when Colombia bought rolling, they only tore the South Korean protection to shreds.
What will Colin Bell, the Englishman in command of the South Korean staff, change on the half?
45 +9 minutes: CHANCE for South Korea, with Choe brilliantly slicing by means of defenders and chipping the ball into the field for Lee, whose header is effectively saved by Perez. The Colombian keeper was actually extra alert than the protection there. Nearly a expensive lapse in focus.
The ensuing nook involves naught.
45 +6 minutes: Yellow to Carolina Arias in an odd sequence involving an excellent evasion of a South Korean slide deal with after which a hand to the face that referee Rebecca Welch ignored at first however then punished.
And now yellow to Lim, who knocked her ft into Usme’s, however you’d should Usme did a fairly poor Neymar impression to promote that one.
Welch, although, has been a big enchancment over officers we’ve seen in different matches right here.
45 +5 minutes: South Korea strings collectively some passes earlier than going again to taking part in direct. There’s a distinction, although, between “direct” and “impatient,” and so they’re simply not in a position to get the ball in a harmful area.
45 +2 minutes: Caicedo pursues and dispossesses a hapless South Korean opponent, however she’s somewhat careless with the ball after that.
Vanegas, nonetheless adjusting her head bandage, wins a free kick in her personal half with … let’s say “minimal contact.”
She decides to discard her large head wrap.
45 minutes: TEN minutes of stoppage time? TEN? Yes, we had a few stoppages for head accidents, together with two targets, however TEN?
44 minutes: Another conflict of heads, and Vanegas is getting a crown fabricated from gauze.
Peter Oh as soon as once more: “The most talked-about subs of these two teams are arguably (My) Phair Lady.”
Will we see the US highschool scholar within the second half?
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