2023-08-05 12:51:19
The Japanese won against Norway after a tight eighth on Saturday in Wellington, thanks in particular to a second period during which they deployed a quick transition game. In the quarterfinals, the Japanese will face a big client: either the United States or Sweden.
Published on: 05/08/2023 – 12:51
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Japan eliminated, on Saturday August 5, Norway (3-1) from Ada Hegerberg in Wellington and qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup-2023.
Thanks to an own goal from Norwegian Ingrid Syrstad Engen (15th), Risa Shimizyu (50th) and the tournament’s top scorer with five goals Hinata Miyazawa (81st), the Japanese eliminated the Scandinavians, who had returned to the score thanks to a header from Guro Reiten (1-1, 20th).
Norway, a strong nation in women’s football since its world title in 1995, appears on the downward slope after being eliminated from the group stage of Euro-2022.
Even the late entry of star Ada Hegerberg, the first winner of the Women’s Golden Ball, did not counter the perfectly oiled collective game of her opponent.
Japanese women, titled in 2011, who will meet another leading nation in the quarter-finals. Sunday, a tenor will fall by the wayside between the United States, in search of a hat-trick but in doubt after an unconvincing group stage, and Sweden, Olympic vice-champion and third in the last world.
With AFP
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