Women’s World Cup LIVE: England vs Nigeria result after Lauren James red card

When Chloe Kelly rushed home England’s winner versus Germany in the Euro 2022 final last July, Sarina Wiegman attained a task just imagined given that Sir Geoff Hurst’s sensational hat-trick versus the exact same challengers at the exact same location in 1966: she brought football home.

Since being successful Phil Neville as the Lionesses’s coach in September 2021, the Dutchwoman, 53, has actually hardly put a foot incorrect, winning 28 of her 35 video games in charge, drawing simply 6 and losing just as soon as: a chastening 2-0 friendly defeat to Australia in Brentford in April that might in fact have actually acted as a prompt reality check ahead of this summer season’s Women’s World Cup in the Matildas’ yard.

It’s 3 out of 3 for her group in Australia and New Zealand up until now, with the Lionesses’s putting 2 nervy 1-0 wins over Haiti and Denmark behind them with the 6-1 trouncing of China, which saw them leading Group D in design and head into a round of 16 clash versus Nigeria overflowing with self-confidence.

Nigeria’s head coach Randy Waldrum discussed his group’s journey through the competition and the pride her feels for what they attained.

“If you look at it, we didn’t lose a game. I’m so proud of them,” he said, “There’s such a bright future for this group.

“I take away that can be and should be one of the top teams in the world. I hope the Fifa ranking reflects that.”

How lots of video games is Lauren James’ restriction?

She will absolutely miss out on the quarter-final as a red card is an instant one-match restriction.

Anything more that is at the discretion of Fifa’s technical committee however due to the nature of the event, James marked on Michelle Alozie, the restriction will be at least a two-matches and most likely 3.

Swedish goalkeeper Zećira Mušović was called gamer of the match following her group’s thrilling 5-4 charge shootout win versus the United States on Sunday, however the star was rather shocked when asked a ‘disrespectful’ concern at an interview later on.

One reporter asked the goalkeeper if she understood previous Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimović. Mušović appeared rather shocked. She responded: “In Sweden, everyone knows Zlatan.”

Here’s how the quarter-finals are taking shape:

– Spain vs Netherlands (QF1)

– England vs Colombia/Jamaica (QF3)

– Australia vs France/Morocco (QF4)

When the group phases were done and cleaned it searched paper as though England would have among the simpler paths to the semi-finals. They drew Nigeria in the last 16 and among either Colombia or Jamaica in the quarter-finals.

The Lionesses can still get to the last 4 however they’ve made it harder.

England were beat by a fantastic Nigeria side, who produced the very best opportunities regardless of Lauren James being sent for marking on Michelle Adozie.

Sarina Wiegman showcased why she’s one of the very best coaches around and made a tactical change to change from a 3-3-2-2 to 4-4-1 as the Lionesses safeguarded for their lives in extra-time.

They’re now without Lauren James for the next knockout video game and Wiegman will need to adjust her line-up once again.

The quarter-finals are taking shape with England and Australia making it through to the last 8 today. They are now waiting to discover who they will next deal with.

The last 2 last 16 ties happen tomorrow. Here’s what’s showing up:

Colombia vs Jamaica (09:00 BST)

France vs Morocco (12:00 BST).

The winners of Colombia vs Jamaica will go on to deal with England while which ever group wins in the clash in between France and Morocco handles Australia.

Sarina Wiegman’s side squeezed past their opposition with a 4-2 win on spot-kicks, after a goalless 120 minutes.

Given the country’s record on charges, it’s not a surprise that environment was tense in Boxpark as the latest shootout unfolded – particularly after Georgia Stanway missed out on England’s very first.

Here’s the immediate from England’s winning penalty taker, Chloe Kelly, who said:

“It’s amazing, anything this team has thrown at us, we’ve shown what we’re capable of. We dig deep, we believe in our ability.

“We’ve been practicing a lot actually and it’s working. It’s the team, this team is special, we did it at the Euros, we did it at the Finalissima, there’s more to come from this team.”

For the teams left in this World Cup, there were mixed feelings when the USA went out, and not just because of the emotions that remarkable penalty shoot-out produced. There is obviously a general excitement that the champions are out, theoretically opening up the whole tournament. A few players watching on, however, have confided that the US were “underwhelming”. Many would have liked the chance to take the champions on and beat them, asserting their standards.

Such sentiments would no doubt have aggravated the Americans, if they were in any mood to look back on this worst ever performance by a team that were defending champions. One frustrated argument within the US camp has been that it has largely been about a ludicrous amount of missed out on chances, and a bit of bad luck. Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher pointing to the line as she disputed Lina Hurtig’s ludicrously tight charge appeared the most apt meaning of this.

It actually did boil down to the narrowest of spaces. But, in fact, just on the night.