No parking of bus. It was a quite open game. Norway clearly better in the first half, Sweden a little better in the second. More match stats:
just got this from youtube, France vs South Africa. Let's see if France contiunes it's new, more direct style approach from their last game International Friendly. Women. France - RSA (22/01/2017) - YouTube
What?? That is truly bizarre. If the game is not standard duration of 90 minutes does it not count as an official FIFA friendly? Regardless 8-1 is an impressive result for Spain!
Sad news out of France. Delphine Cascarino, U20 star and perhaps the most exciting French prospect, suffered a left ACL injury in training. She was tipped to be a breakout star at UEFA Euro 2017 but now it will not happen.
Were these both their A teams? I doubt that this counts as an official friendly because an official match needs to follow the Laws of the Game, which mandates 2 equal periods of 45 minutes. The Laws do allow for each period to be reduced if its mutually decided before the game (typically though that's for youth games or an unlighted field where the sun will be ending before the end of the game, etc.). AFAIK, the "two equal periods" of the Law is not up for debate though. But who knows...maybe there's some crazy loophole?
FIFA website does not show it as an official result (assuming it was played on 1/23). It did not show on 1/22 nor 1/21, as well. ESP vs. SUI, that is. Monday 23/01/2017 FTParalimni Denmark 1 - 1 Scotland FTSan Pedro Del Pinatar Romania 2 - 0 Slovakia
Sweden-England was so boring the official stat sheet had no possesion for either side! But tbf both teams had a few chances, and Sweden got a penalty which was stopped by England keeper Siobhan Chamberlain (who also had some great saves against Norway).
17.01 Portugal 1 - 0 Northern Ireland (Silva 51') 18.01 Russia 0 - 2 Finland (Danielsson 83' 88') 19.01 Portugal 0 - 1 Northern Ireland (Callaghan 66') Norway 2 - 1 Sweden (Utland 21', Minde 27' - Jakobsson 20') Myanmar 0 - 4 Ukraine (Kozyrenko 28' 45+1', Boychenko 27', Khimich 90+3') China 2 - 0 Thailand (Wang Shuang 21', Lou Jiauhi 90+3') https://www.facebook.com/chinawomensfootballteam/videos/646463445561066/ 20.01 Denmark 2 - 2 Scotland (Harder 6', Rasmussen 32' - Ross 21', Cuthbert 72') Netherlands 7 - 1 Romania (Beerensteyn 44’, Roord 48’ 50’, Van der Gragt 62’, (og.) 75’, Miadema 88’ 90’ – Olar 21’) 21.01 China 2 - 0 Myanmar (Zhang Rui 49' 61') https://www.facebook.com/chinawomensfootballteam/videos/646463445561066/ Ukraine 0 - 1 Thailand (Sirmanee 38') Bahrain 5 - 1 Maldives
22.01 Finland 3 - 0 Slovakia (Tunturi 32’, Kemppi 49’, Westerlund 87’) Montenegro 0 - 1 Croatia (Dujmović 11') England 0 - 1 Norway (Ada Hegerberg 26’) France 2 - 0 South Africa (Mbock 9’ 34’) 23.01 Denmark 1 - 1 Scotland (Brown 5’(og) – Little 75’) Romania 2 - 0 Slovakia (Olar 35’, Carp 87’) 24.01 Russia 0 - 4 Netherlands (Miadema 42’ 59’ 90+1’, Beerensteyn 84’) Montenegro 3 - 3 Croatia (Saranović 9’, Bojat 50’, Dukić 58’ – Żigić 3’, Dujmović 25’, Mihić 44’) Thailand 3 - 0 Myanmar (Sung-Ngoen 22’ 45+2’, Dangda 60’) Ukraine 0 - 5 China (Wang Shuang 22’ 44’(p), Ren Guixin 26’, Tang Jiali 30’, Yan 83’) https://www.facebook.com/chinawomensfootballteam/videos/648114368729307/ Sweden 0 - 0 England Bahrain 3 - 1 Maldives
These teams also played on March 2. Azerbaijan won 3-2. This was Azerbaijan's first matches since Aug. 2010.
05.04 Wales 3 - 1 Northern Ireland 06.04 China 2 - 0 Croatia (Wang Shuang 6', Wang ShanShan 90+2') https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=684256825115061 Cyprus 0 - 1 Bulgaria Slovakia 0 - 2 Iceland (Jensen 19', Þorvaldsdóttir 78') Sweden 0 - 1 Canada (Beckie 33')
Netherlands 1 France 2 Peach of a goal from Le Sommer. average France performance against a very physical Dutch team. Two different systems used. A win is always nice good to take. Players are tired due to club season ending and big targets coming up.
here's the full France vs Netherlands game just noticed I posted this on the wrong threat, but here's again the replay of Canada vs Sweden gam, but without commentary, got to fast forward this to about the 40th minute mark for the start of the game. You might want to click on to that Canadian channel tomorrow for probably their game against Germany
England - Italy 1-1 (70' Taylor - 73' Cernoia) I couldn' find so far any highlights of the match but, accordingly to the match report on the english federation website, England (as expected) had most of the chances, with some good saves by our GK Schroffenegger. Bad news for italian midfielder Alice Parisi who, during a clash with Millie Bright, supposedly broke her shinbone; I don't know the recovery timing for this kind of injury, but I don't think we'll see her back for the Euro in July. Now with her and Rosucci out our midfiled is a bit in trouble...
thought it was great game by France, only due to free wheeling 6 subs in, they were a bit unorganized towards the end. I guess super fans like debzy got to get used to seeing Eloise Thomis becoming the most relevant player on the field again as vs the US, it's all about getting long balls send up before the opposing teams can set up defenses.
Full Match: Final score Germany 2-1 Canada... but it probably should have been 1-1... Besides 4-5 players, I'm not really familiar with Canada's team; but as somebody who's given far more time to Germany's program, I will say this was another underwhelming performance from Steffi Jones still highly disjointed side. The new formation and tactics are clearly in place, the players are there to execute it perfectly, but for whatever her latest excuse is now, Jones still won't accept that a certain core of players have a clear inability to cement starting places based on traditional elitist club bias, or simple past reputation. As usual, the consistently poor defensive selection process remains a key issue with Germany's senior coaches, but I think everybody got a glimpse of the coming future with Maier - Elsig - Simon all making significant 2nd half improvements to an otherwise often exposed 1st half defensive unit in need of a serious long term overhaul. Yeah... I keep reading how much "high level experience" is key to the success of teams, but to me this just sounds like an old fallacy regurgitated by people who prefer to dismiss the improved nature of modern club football; you know, as if the global scene were still the early 2000's, where wnt's remained the only places to gauge the highest standards of the women's game. Anyway, lacking a regular world class goal scoring #9, Germany can still fall back on the major bonus of possessing a healthy plethora of excellent goal scoring AM's. But if Jones is ever going to take her team to the next level, she really needs to relinquish established ideas of club bias, as there's no way a back 5 of 4 Wolfsburg players makes any sense lol.