Ummm... gender equality? !!!!!

[peter92305]

Last nights match between the Euros champions against the champions of South America was a thoroughly entertaining game to watch. The English ladies dominated the first half and lead 1-0 at halftime. Brazil regrouped in the 2nd half and exposed weaknesses in the Lionesses defence although many last ditch tackles and good goal keeping kept them at bay until the 93rd minute when Brazil equalised.

There was no extra time played and the match went straight to penalties which saw the Lionesses win.
The ladies World Cup ( to be played in Australia and New Zealand ) starts in July and the English Lionesses are aware that they must tighten up their defences if they hope to win the tournament. England are in group D along with Haiti, Denmark and China and our first game is against Haiti on July 22nd. USA are favourites to win the Cup and we are 2nd favourites. The Lionesses have now gone 30 games unbeaten since Sarina Wiegman became manager.

[peter92305]

So far,~~so good for the Lionesses. Thought they were fortunate to come away with 6 points after the first 2 matches.
They were not especially impressive in either of them. They were, however, invincible against China crushing them out of sight.
I bet the people of Taiwan were as ecstatic as the English supporters.

Don't know much about Nigeria, We play them on Monday in the last 16 round. We have seen some great African players in the English mens leagues over the years and the Nigerian ladies are apparently previous African Nations winners so we mustn't be complacent.
Let's hope that the shackles will come off now that we are in the knockout stages. I remain more confident about the lionesses prospects of World Cup victory than I was the mens' chances in Dubai last World Cup. I wish the matches weren't on in the mornings, however, which is why i've not been following them more closely!

SWEET CAROLINE,---- BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!