Greenwood for Stokes; Kirby for Stanway; Parris for Daly. 🎉 Your starting 11.....#Lionesses pic.twitter.com/mi219r2J7D— Lionesses (@Lionesses) June 23, 2019 Identical, but Feudjio RB => DM, and Abam RM <=> RW Nchout. #CMR sticking with the same personnel that beat #NZL 2-1. #CMR, however, does change their formation after employing a 5-4-1 vs. #NZL.Raissa Feudijo moves from RWB to central midfield with Gabrielle Onguene and Ajara Nchout moving up front on the wings with Gaelle Enganamouit.— Sam Ficarro (@SamFicarro) June 23, 2019 TEAM NEWS | #ENGCMR 🏴🇨🇲 ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ pic.twitter.com/OLIwUN2y7T— FIFA Women's World Cup (@FIFAWWC) June 23, 2019
Jill Scott's 18th WWC cap sets England's FIFA (W)WC record (Some chap had 17 ) Nice weather! 1142814729112576001 is not a valid tweet id
04' 0-0 Parris pokes past Leuko at 15m right touch and chases, Leuko moves to interpose body, then throws right elbow backward into Parris's chin/throat. Foul, yellow card on Leuko. Today’s game plan for Cameroon... #ENGCMR pic.twitter.com/TNTYwZmZOj— SoccerCoachProblems (@soccrcoachprobs) June 23, 2019 04' 0-0 England fk at 14m right touch, Duggan dummies over, White crosses to 12m right post, headed away.
10' 0-0 Tricky chest-high bounce straight up at England's 10m 1/3 left, Bright heads it down almost off Houghton's shoes, Houghton clears. 13' 0-0 Duggan counters to arc top mid-right, pass down box right for White chasing to 0.5m. Backpass to 4m left post, Ejangue taps it back to Ngo Ndom -- who picks it up. Foul, handled backpass, indirect free kick at 6m! Here's a look at the infraction leading to the #ENG goal. Ndom picks up the back pass from Ejangue. As @ChristinaUnkel confirms, that's not allowed. 🙅 pic.twitter.com/sf2Gf4G5TG— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 23, 2019 What the heck ... 1142821190714761216 is not a valid tweet id 14' 0-0 England ifk at 6m left post, Cameroon's line are on their goalline. There are gaps 14' 1-0 Duggan rolls ball live, Houghton blasts right instep past a sea of legs coming out not fast enough, beats Aboudi Onguene holding right post, just behind right post low hard. That's ... at the same time, easier and more difficult than a pk. Well you don't see this very often... England take the lead on an indirect free kick after a deliberate back pass, as Steph Houghton places it PERFECTLY. #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/CK0pSr7Zhu— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 23, 2019
I wonder if 2nd post in the group couldn't reveal a blessing in disguise for Japan. England are tough enough to deal with Cameroon even should they choose the over-physical way. Japan could have had more problems with them. For a moment I wondered how on earth Cameroon wasn't starting Nchout: it appears the FIFA website and the FOX captions prefer the form Ajara Njoya for her.
At this level, players are assumed to know all the rules and the ref are well trained, not biased but sometimes it's not the case...
After reviewing, I completely agree: this looked as deliberate as it gets! If Cameroon keep playing this way they're not going to finish this match in 11. By the way: hi, @W.A.S.P.! I wasn't seeing you on these boards since... WWC 2015, I'd say? Lots of old friends showing up again, these days!
One of the more unusual goals you'll see at the #FIFAWWC this year! #ENGCMR 🏴🇨🇲 pic.twitter.com/eaABOXrg7I— FIFA Women's World Cup (@FIFAWWC) June 23, 2019 💥 England captain @stephhoughton2 threads the needle to give #Lionesses the lead...#ENGCMR #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/gNckuOAPkk— Sport on Sporting Life (@SLSport_) June 23, 2019
Do undirect FKs in the box always use to be defended this way? Or was it because it was particularly close to the goal line? Anyway, You can't say that Cameroon's supporters on the standings lost their enthousiasm so far: you basically can't hear anything but their chants!
21' 1-0 Kirby passes up centerline slightly behind White at 18m center. White reaches back for ball, backpass to Kirby, one-touch pass to Duggan unmarked at 15m mid-left. Duggan shoots a quick mini-lob, high over right 90. 23' 1-0 Aboudi Onguene lands poorly at circle back left, stays down hurt. Stoppage. 24' 1-0 Aboudi Onguene limps off with trainers, returns.
I guess the Law for free kick walls is: 10 yards or to the nearest boundary of the field, whichever is closer. Since the only boundary that matters is the goalline, that means you can set up on your own goalline if the kick is < 10 yards. Then having all 11 players between your goalposts is probably optimal, and still isn't enough.