England 2-1 Colombia: Lionesses book Women's World Cup semi-final with Australia

Lauren Hemp has present scored 12 goals successful 43 appearances for England including 2 astatine this Women's World Cup

England set-up a Women's World Cup semi-final with co-hosts Australia aft taking their chances against a unsafe Colombia side.

Largely composed successful defence and hard-working successful attack, the Lionesses were rewarded with 2 slices of luck which they capitalised on, aft goalkeeper Mary Earps had been beaten by a quick-thinking lob successful the archetypal half.

Lauren Hemp poked successful the equaliser, conscionable 7 minutes aft Leicy Santos had caught retired Earps, erstwhile Colombia goalkeeper Catalina Perez spilled a regular stitchery successful the six-yard country nether unit from Alessia Russo.

Arsenal striker Russo, who had lone scored erstwhile successful 4 World Cup matches anterior to Saturday's quarter-final, worked tirelessly retired of possession, earning her accidental erstwhile she pounced connected a benignant deflection to drill successful England's second.

Earps was called into enactment later, tipping Lorena Durango Bedoya's effort implicit the bar, portion England were enactment nether further unit by Colombia's talented attacking line-up, which included Real Madrid's teenage sensation Linda Caicedo.

The Lionesses, who had to woody with a assemblage of 75,784 who were mostly backing Colombia, look co-hosts Australia adjacent connected 16 August astatine 11:00 BST, unrecorded connected BBC.

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'England grind retired different win'

England person had to conflict their mode done the competition, needing 1-0 wins to creep past Haiti and Denmark successful the radical stages, earlier a punishment shootout triumph implicit Nigeria successful the past 16.

They were without suspended top-scorer Lauren James, who is serving a two-match prohibition pursuing her reddish paper against Nigeria, but England did capable successful beforehand of extremity to seal triumph successful a pugnacious encounter.

Colombia, ranked 21 places little than England, had already proven their worthy successful Australia, seeing disconnected Euro 2022 finalists Germany successful the radical stages and progressing successful style.

Their attacking line-up caused England problems and they pushed desperately precocious connected for an equaliser, investigating the Lionesses' backmost five.

However, spearheaded by the centre-back trio of Millie Bright, Alex Greenwood and Jess Carter, England held their ain against the physicality and tenacity of the Colombians.

Stadium Australia was filled with yellowish shirts successful the stands - Colombia fans were connected their feet waving scarves astir their heads pursuing immoderate beforehand implicit the halfway enactment and they whistled loudly erstwhile England were successful possession.

This was by nary means an casual triumph but the resilience and grit that England person been forced to show truthful acold successful the tourney erstwhile again helped them implicit the line, deservedly so, connected Saturday.

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