Spain is set to face England in the women’s World Cup final Sunday.
fielded a question about whether it worried her how England looked in a 0-0 round-of-16 draw with Nigeria, settled on penalties. “I think when we say I’m worried,” Wiegman said, “then we underestimate Nigeria.”“It’s not a big difference,” Sundhage put it, “between failure and success.”
“I think at this level,” Canada Manager Bev Priestman said, “margins are fine,” and she said so as she, too, departed at the group stage — with her reigning Olympic champions. As much as this final brims with Spain’s Aitana Bonmatí or the English scoring duo of Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo,, it also nods toward the preposterously young. The tournament has been unusually good at that, given the beyond-years input from Colombia’s Linda Caicedo , Haiti’s Melchie Dumornay , Australia’s Mary Fowler and Kyra Cooney-Cross , the Netherlands’ Esmee Brugts .
The two players epitomize the internationalism enhancing the game just as it has the men’s, from Paralluelo’s lineage from Equatorial Guinea on her mother’s side to James’s from Grenada and Dominica on her father’s. The well-financed England, which has nibbled at this kind of thing for a while, will appear in the nation’s second World Cup final ever . It has conceded only three goals this tournament, when it took the booming talent of Australia’s Sam Kerr to get one of those and a disputed penalty for China to get another.
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