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Japan continued its run via the FIFA Women’s World Cup on Saturday, advancing to the quarterfinals with a 3-1 win over Norway in Wellington, New Zealand.
Japan was 3-0 in group play, outscoring the opponents 11-0. Against Norway, Hinata Miyazawa capped the scoring within the 81st minute along with her fifth objective of the match, main all scorers and tying the targets file for a participant from Japan in a World Cup.
Ingrid Syrstad Engen’s personal objective within the fifteenth minute gave Japan a 1-0 lead, however a Guro Reiten header within the twentieth minute despatched the match to a 1-1 tie at halftime.
For Japan, Risa Shimizu’s objective within the fiftieth minute proved to be the sport winner.
With 14 targets, Japan already has outscored the 2011 staff that received the World Cup.
Norway did not have a lot of an opportunity to struggle again on Saturday as Japan possessed the ball for 65 p.c of the match.
“We knew Norway were going to play to their strength but all of our players really worked hard,” Japan coach Futoshi Ikeda stated. “We made several adjustments in the second half and it was great that they led to the goals and the win.”
Japan will play the winner of the match between Sweden and the United States within the quarterfinals.
Spain 5, Switzerland 1
Aitana Bonmati scored within the fifth minute and added a objective 31 minutes later to steer Spain to a victory and a quarterfinals berth in Auckland, New Zealand. The win is the primary ever within the knockout stage of any main match for Spain.
The Spaniards possessed the ball for 75 p.c of the match and managed 9 pictures on objective in comparison with only one for Switzerland. The solely objective for the Swiss got here on an personal objective by Spain’s Laia Codina when her cross evaded goalkeeper Cata Coll and went into the web.
But that was all Switzerland would get. Bonmati’s second objective of the match, plus scores by Alba Redondo within the seventeenth minute and Codina within the forty fifth. gave Spain a 4-1 halftime lead. Jennifer Hermoso completed the scoring within the seventieth minute.
Spain outshot Switzerland 18-0 within the first half.
In the quarterfinals, Spain will face the winner of the match between South Africa and the Netherlands.
–Field Level Media