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England scraped done to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup with a melodramatic punishment shootout triumph implicit Nigeria aft surviving a gruelling onslaught having gone down to 10 players.
Despite the archetypal penalty-taker, Georgia Stanway, firing wide, Nigeria missed their adjacent 2 efforts and the European champions secured their spot successful the past 8 erstwhile Chloe Kelly smashed successful the winning kick.
In an outburst of frustration, Lauren James stamped connected Michelle Alozie's backmost successful the 87th infinitesimal aft losing possession and was rightly shown a reddish paper pursuing a video adjunct referee (VAR) review.
England were fixed an almighty scare but volition look Colombia oregon Jamaica next.
It was an excruciating ticker for England supporters successful Brisbane arsenic England played 120 minutes connected a knife's borderline and were mostly 2nd champion to Nigeria.
James' petulance meant England had to navigate other clip 10 players, and Nigeria had their tails up pursuing a sustained play of unit anterior to the Chelsea star's sending-off.
The 11-time African champions executed their gameplan to perfection, frustrating England, causing them problems connected the interruption and winning astir each duel.
They deed the crossbar successful each half, Ashleigh Plumptre's almighty thrust ricocheting disconnected the woodwork earlier Uchenna Kanu's header looped implicit goalkeeper Mary Earps and bounced disconnected the apical of the bar.
Earps was kept engaged throughout, needing to nutrient astute saves to contradict Plumptre astatine her adjacent station successful the archetypal fractional and aboriginal keeping retired Uchenna Kanu, who had an fantabulous performance.
Sarina Wiegman's England broadside thought they had a punishment successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile Rachel Daly went down claiming a propulsion by Rasheedat Ajibade, but it was overturned by VAR.
Eventually, England stumbled to the extremity of mean clip lacking the fluidity they showed successful abundance successful the awesome show against China and held connected to seal the woody successful a shootout.
Only 24 hours earlier, back-to-back champions the USA were knocked retired of the competition, and England were forced to amusement resilience to flooded 1 of their astir challenging matches of Wiegman's tenure.
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Line-ups
England
Formation 3-4-1-2
- 1Earps
- 16Carter
- 6Bright
- 5Greenwood
- 2Bronze
- 8Stanway
- 4WalshSubstituted forZelemat 120'minutes
- 9Daly
- 7JamesBooked astatine 87mins
- 23RussoSubstituted forKellyat 88'minutes
- 11HempSubstituted forEnglandat 105'minutes
Substitutes
- 3Charles
- 10Toone
- 12Nobbs
- 13Hampton
- 14Wubben-Moy
- 15Morgan
- 17Coombs
- 18Kelly
- 19England
- 20Zelem
- 21Roebuck
- 22Robinson
Nigeria
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 16Nnadozie
- 22Alozie
- 3Ohale
- 14Demehin
- 2Plumptre
- 10Ucheibe
- 18AyindeSubstituted forEcheginiat 90'minutes
- 12KanuSubstituted forOrdegaat 81'minutes
- 7PayneSubstituted forOparanozieat 114'minutes
- 15Ajibade
- 6OnumonuSubstituted forOshoalaat 58'minutes
Substitutes
- 1Oluehi
- 4Ogbonna
- 5Ebi
- 8Oshoala
- 9Oparanozie
- 11Monday
- 17Ordega
- 19Echegini
- 20Imuran
- 21Okoronkwo
- 23Balogun
Referee:Melissa Borjas
Attendance:49,461
Live Text
Match ends, England 0(4), Nigeria 0(2).
Penalty Shootout ends, England 0(4), Nigeria 0(2).
Goal! England 0(4), Nigeria 0(2). Chloe Kelly (England) converts the punishment with a close footed changeable to the apical near corner.
Goal! England 0(3), Nigeria 0(2). Christy Ucheibe (Nigeria) converts the punishment with a close footed changeable to the apical close corner.
Goal! England 0(3), Nigeria 0(1). Alex Greenwood (England) converts the punishment with a near footed changeable to the bottommost close corner.
Goal! England 0(2), Nigeria 0(1). Rasheedat Ajibade (Nigeria) converts the punishment with a close footed changeable to the centre of the goal.
Goal! England 0(2), Nigeria 0. Rachel Daly (England) converts the punishment with a close footed changeable to the apical near corner.
Penalty missed! Bad punishment by Michelle Alozie (Nigeria) near footed changeable is excessively high. Michelle Alozie should beryllium disappointed.
Goal! England 0(1), Nigeria 0. Bethany England (England) converts the punishment with a close footed changeable to the precocious centre of the goal.
Penalty missed! Bad punishment by Désiré Oparanozie (Nigeria) close footed changeable is close, but misses to the left. Désiré Oparanozie should beryllium disappointed.
Penalty missed! Bad punishment by Georgia Stanway (England) close footed changeable is close, but misses to the left. Georgia Stanway should beryllium disappointed.
Penalty Shootout begins England 0, Nigeria 0.
Second Half Extra Time ends, England 0, Nigeria 0.
Bethany England (England) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Francisca Ordega (Nigeria).
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.
Substitution, England. Katie Zelem replaces Keira Walsh due to the fact that of an injury.
Delay successful lucifer due to the fact that of an wounded Keira Walsh (England).
Attempt missed. Bethany England (England) header from the centre of the container misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Greenwood with a transverse pursuing a acceptable portion situation.
Georgia Stanway (England) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
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