Colombia’s gamers danced and sang on the sphere lengthy after the workforce secured its historic first-ever journey to the Girls’s World Cup quarterfinals on a day that noticed France ending Morocco’s run within the World Cup.
Catalina Usme’s second-half objective gave Colombia a 1-0 win over Jamaica. Each groups had been aiming for a primary victory within the knockout stage, with the winner shifting on to the final eight at soccer’s greatest event.
“After the objective went into the online, I had all types of feelings,” Usme mentioned. “Throughout all of the years in ladies’s soccer, it’s such a good looking second, giving us the likelihood to make historical past for our nation. However we are able to transcend. We got here right here to play seven finals. And we have to go step-by-step.”
Colombia, a workforce that didn’t even qualify for the 2019 event, performed a bodily, scrappy match. Linda Caicedo, the workforce’s 18-year-old sensation who performs for Actual Madrid, created alternatives and examined a Jamaica protection that didn’t concede a objective within the group stage.
Colombia strikes to Sydney for a Saturday knockout match in opposition to European champion England, which superior on penalties after a scoreless draw with Nigeria.
“The sport in opposition to England, we got here right here to play seven finals,” Usme mentioned. “We’re sure in our preparations. We’re dreaming large. We all know we are able to pull it off. We will do it.”
Usme yelled in celebration after trapping a protracted move from Ana Guzman and calmly ending within the 52nd minute. When she was subbed off late within the sport, the Colombia followers chanted her title and he or she bowed to the gang.
France thump Morocco
France coach Herve Renard high-fived his employees on the sideline because it turned clear his workforce was on its strategy to the quarterfinals of the Girls’s World Cup.
Solely 23 minutes had been performed at Adelaide’s Hindmarsh Stadium on Tuesday, however France was already 3-0 up in opposition to Morocco and on track for a showdown with co-host Australia.
The French scored as soon as extra within the second half to win 4-0 and finish Morocco’s historic debut run on the World Cup.
“The consequence speaks for itself,” Renard mentioned. “We had been capable of rating 4 instances and now we’ve obtained a foot within the door for the quarterfinals. Issues are getting slightly bit heated. Solely eight groups left within the operating. The target now’s to tug off the most effective efficiency that the French workforce has ever carried out.”
France took fourth place in 2011 and that is the fourth straight time it has superior to the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
A 3-goal burst in 9 minutes took the sport away from Morocco, with Kadidiatou Diani, Kenza Dali and Eugenie Le Sommer all scoring early within the match.
Le Sommer, who’s France’s all-time main scorer, headed in a fourth within the seventieth minute to finish the win. She has now scored 92 objectives for her nation — greater than any French participant, male or feminine.