After Australia and New Zealand, the co-organizers of the Ladies’s World Cup, began the event with victories, the main focus now shifts to the following group matches and three prime contenders getting into the sector: Canada, Spain and the USA.
Spain and the USA aren’t any strangers to the ultimate rounds of the Ladies’s World Cup, they usually must stand up to the stress of a goal on their backs. Canada faces a unique type of stress: the hitherto unrealized expectations on the World Cup stage. Nigeria drew 0-0 on Friday.
After these matches, there can be a clearer indication of which of those contenders are able to go on a championship run, and which have points to handle.
Spain vs Costa Rica
Spain, whose squad contains a number of gamers from main European membership Barcelona, has misplaced simply as soon as previously 12 months. Spain is one more program in a battle with its federation: a truce was declared earlier than the staff left for the event, however tensions stay.
When Spain and Costa Rica performed within the opening sport of the 2015 Ladies’s World Cup, the Costa Ricans managed to carry the Spaniards to a 1-1 draw, a feat they wish to repeat.
United States vs Vietnam
Vietnam, enjoying its first Ladies’s World Cup match, has an opportunity to win the event by simply 50,000 to at least one, however the staff shocked the extremely regarded German staff on June 24 by holding a pleasant – the ultimate rating was 2-1.
America drew criticism after their opening look in 2019, when the staff defeated Thailand 13-0. Main as much as this Ladies’s World Cup, none of this 12 months’s gamers would decide to refraining from the same purpose fury, and as a staff seeking to make historical past with a 3rd straight title, the USA would win in any kind.
Nigeria vs Canada
Each groups quickly put apart battles with their federations over investments and equal pay to play of their opening sport, which led to a scoreless tie.
Canada, the reigning Olympic champion, reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup in 2015, however misplaced within the spherical of 16 in 2019. Nigeria has received the Africa Cup of Nations 11 occasions, however faces a tricky problem in a bunch that additionally contains hosts Australia.
Philippines vs Switzerland
The Philippines, of their first Ladies’s World Cup, has a roster with 18 American-born players. It misplaced on Friday to Switzerland, a staff that had performed on the Ladies’s World Cup solely as soon as earlier than (in 2015). Neither staff is predicted to go very far on this event.
