Women's World Cup 2023 semi-final predictions: Rachel Brown-Finnis predicts all the scores including Australia v England

Four teams are wrong touching region of winning the Fifa Women's World Cup, including England, but who volition marque it to the last astatine Stadium Australia connected 20 August?

BBC Sport shot adept Rachel Brown-Finnis is predicting the result of each 64 matches astatine the tournament.

She predicted 3 of the 4 quarter-final winners, correctly guessed the result of each 8 last-16 ties, and 27 of the 48 radical games, giving her a occurrence complaint of 63% for the tournament.

Before the tournament, she chose 8 of the 16 teams that progressed to the archetypal knockout stage, including England, who she believes volition triumph the World Cup.

AET = After other clip

Tuesday, 15 August

Spain 2-1 Sweden

I backed Sweden to bushed the USA and I backed them to bushed Japan due to the fact that they person that cognition and past of being successful World Cups and the second stages of large tournaments.

They came 2nd astatine the Olympics and it's not by luck. They cognize however to triumph and get results. Amanda Ilestedt scored a extremity conscionable erstwhile they needed to against Japan. They person alternate ways of playing and tin popular up with goals from a country oregon a free-kick too. They don't ever request to power possession.

It volition beryllium specified a antithetic trial against Spain but it's astonishing neither of these teams person won the World Cup before.

A batch of players successful that Sweden squad volition cognize it's their past World Cup and they person travel truthful adjacent earlier and not won it. This is their accidental and they volition beryllium hopeless to spell each the way.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 1-1 (Sweden to triumph connected penalties aft AET)

• Match report

Wednesday, 16 August

Australia v England

Everything is stacked successful Australia's favour successful presumption of their signifier and having location vantage - but England person proven to person a knack for grinding retired results. They person an underlying furniture of quality and content that they tin get done games and triumph them.

They mislaid to Australia successful the affable successful April which broke the 30-game unbeaten grounds nether Sarina Wiegman but possibly that was a small world cheque and they volition retrieve that.

It gives England an added inducement to spell and bushed them. It astir apt meant much to Australia arsenic it was gathering towards a location tourney but it surely would person jarred and would not person sat good with the England players.

Given England are gathering Australia successful the semi-finals, that gives a wide world of wherever the Matildas' level is presently at. But there's an added inducement for England to spell and get that revenge.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 1-2

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