FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

[Twist]

Australia knock out France!

[Twist]

If England go through the atmosphere for the semi final is going to be wild.

[gunnar hendershow]

Wow, just watched the highlights. What a truly unhinged penalty shootout.

[Plubby]

I am deceased. It's been a pleasure.

[gunnar hendershow]

This poor official is going to lose control of this match.

[therockbox]

Great Seaman impression there.

[gunnar hendershow]

Going to say that's the first former student of Iowa Central Community College to score a goal in a FIFA World Cup.

Some truly unfortunate goalkeeping there.

[Bobfoc]

With the semi-final against Australia, England will have played against teams from six different continents. Yes, Australia play in the Asian confederation, but it's geographically an accurate statement.

[gunnar hendershow]

Good work by England to go through. Felt Colombia were going to get the English to lose their cool with how physical they were playing early on, but that never came to pass. Just a lot of "trading blows" as the pundits like to say.

[Lineker]

 

[Lineker]

Spain knock out Sweden in an absolute thriller to face either England or Australia in the final!

[The Kraig]

21 minutes ago, Lineker said:

Spain knock out Sweden in an absolute thriller to face either England or Australia in the final!

What a goal to win such an even game! Sad to see the World Cup end for co-hosts NZ, but we got some great games over here.

[gunnar hendershow]

And wouldn't you believe I had a window of time this morning to watch the final 20 minutes and didn't do so. Ah well.

[Lineker]

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England have found themselves on the receiving end of a spying controversy after a training session before their World Cup semi-final against Australia was photographed from a helicopter.

The Daily Telegraph newspaper in Sydney sent up the aircraft to capture images from the Lionesses’ behind closed doors session at their training base as they finalised plans for the semi-final against the co-hosts on Wednesday.

Published under the headline “Eleven Poms against a nation: Welcome to the jungle, Lionesses,” the pictures show the head coach, Sarina Wiegman, and her staff putting the players through their paces before the eagerly anticipated last-four match.

The newspaper wrote: “If England’s Lionesses thought they would happily fly into the World Cup semi-final under the radar they were in for a rude shock. We’ve sent the chopper up to see how the old enemy are preparing … Welcome to the jungle, Lionesses, we’ve got fun and games.

“It might not be in the spirit of football, but after last month’s men’s Ashes cricket series we will let the moral arbiters England pass judgment on what is and isn’t acceptable in the world of sport.”

The Football Association has declined to comment on the incident.

The European champions are assured of a hostile welcome at a sold-out Stadium Australia in Sydney as they attempt to end the Matildas’ dream of World Cup glory on home soil. Their exploits have galvanised a nation which revels in its sporting rivalry with England and is still in celebratory mood having retained the Ashes and won the Netball World Cup at the expense the old enemy this summer.

Wiegman and her players have brushed aside that element of the fixture, although back at home memories of Alex Carey’s controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow in the second Test at Lord’s, which prompted booing and chants of “Same old Aussies, always cheating” throughout the remainder of the series, are still fresh in the collective mind.

 

[Twist]

23 minutes ago, Lineker said:

 

I didn't clock which newspaper that was at the top of article and by the end thought to myself 'sounds like a Rupert Murdoch kind of dickhead'.

[Lineker]

Sam Kerr starts!

[Tigerstyle]

That is what you call a big old super hit

[gunnar hendershow]

SAM KERR

[therockbox]

Been giving the ball away cheaply since the restart, especially Russo.

[Adam]

What a goal that was.

England have been poor since the restart, aye. Momentum could be a big factor now with this crowd - England have got to start doing what they were in the first half, controlling the pace and flow of the game.