New Women's football thread (inc World Cup) 2023-26

[sussexpob]

Guiliani is like a wall so far

[Gingerfinch]

It's going to be one of those nights

[Gingerfinch]

Blimey! Italy were time wasting after an hour. Serves them right

Still, it's only 1-1

[sussexpob]

Come on girls

[sussexpob]

Agyemamg just absolutely flattened the full back then. Don't understand why England don't just launch balls at her, she's an absolute unit

[sussexpob]

Chloe Kelly too..England have to find a way to start her.

[Gingerfinch]

Pens again?

[Gingerfinch]

What an effort

[Gingerfinch]

Penalty

[Gingerfinch]

That's why we have rebounds

[sussexpob]

Bit lucky, but she made up for a rubbish penalty by slotting it in

[sussexpob]

Wonder if a team has ever missed this many penalties and progressed to a final!!

No chance v Spain in the final imo, but another final is doing well.

[Gingerfinch]

YES

Rode our luck but who cares. Italy were negative and got what they deserved.

[bigfluffylemon]

Wonder if a team has ever missed this many penalties and progressed to a final!!

No chance v Spain in the final imo, but another final is doing well.

Third final in four years - it's very good. You're probably right about Spain, but there's always a chance in football. This England team has come back from the brink several times now in this tournament.

Five successive finals in major tournaments for Wiegman, two victories and one to play still. Quite the record.

[Durhamfootman]

this is why I don't watch

my nerves are shot to sh1t as it is, without watching England live

I'll watch it later, but Italy are a team that England should be beating comfortably, even allowing for their good form and any knockout nerves. Anyone looking at the other 6 six quarter finalists and asked to pick the team they'd most like to play in a semi final would have picked Italy.... literally 100% of people would have picked them. Still..... there we are... 3rd consecutive final. That's no mean feat, so well done to the lionesses

I still think that of all the teams in this comp, Germany are the team most likely to beat Spain, even if they probably won't