Women's World Cup 2023: Philippines cannot create miracles, host New Zealand is regretfully eliminated

After the opening whistle, Norway quickly asserted their dominance when they opened the score in the 6th minute against the Philippines. With the goal, the 12th ranked team in the world created stormy attacking opportunities for the Southeast Asian representative. Before the end of the first half, the Philippines conceded 2 more goals in the 17th and 31st minutes. At the end of the first half, the Norwegian team temporarily led 3-0.

Norway showed off their power with 3 goals in the first half

Back from the break, 4 minutes into the game, the Norwegians had a cross into the box. The Filipinos were in the box and tried to block the Norwegians but Barker tapped the ball into his own net. This gave Norway a 4-0 lead.

At the end of 90 minutes of play, the Norwegian team won 6-0.

In the 53rd minute, the Philippine goal shook again after Reiten's difficult shot from the 11m mark. Before that, Reiten was blocked from behind by Philippine players and VAR determined that there was a mistake and Norway was awarded a penalty.

In the middle of the second half, the Philippines had more trouble when they were 5 goals behind and received a red card in the 67th minute when Sofia Harrison blocked Bjelde's ankle. In the following minutes, Norway scored another goal to seal the score in the 90+5 minute. In the end, Norway won 6-0 against the Philippines.

Hosts New Zealand were eliminated after losing on goal difference to Norway.

In the match at the same time, Switzerland and New Zealand drew 0-0. With these two results, Switzerland won the top spot in Group A with 5 points, Norway and New Zealand both had 4 points but the representative from Europe had a better goal difference to win second place in the group.

Thus, Switzerland and Norway are the two teams that have qualified for the round of 16 of Group A. In the final match today, the German team will face Colombia at 4:30 p.m.

Quoc An - Photo: Reuters

Source: https://nld.com.vn/the-thao/world-cup-nu-2023-philippines-khong-lam-nen-ky-tich-new-zealand-dung-buoc-tiec-nuoi-2023073016162277.htm