England women v Norway women

[zeetha]

Good goals from England, especially the screamer from Bronze to put us into the lead. Maybe the poor first half was to conserve energy for when the Norwegians tired...

Roll on Canada in the Quarterfinals! Not looking forward to the 12.30am kickoff though...

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Assert your authority ..dont be a mouse

is that the sound a mice makes

You don't know my wife

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

WERE LOOSE then

Very admirable that you let the good lady wife watch BB whilst you give up the footie.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Very admirable that you let the good lady wife watch BB whilst you give up the footie.

I do this for the three months of NO FOOTBALL so Wrong Direction & I can get thrown out for the third time this coming season

 

[LamieRobertson]

is that the sound a mice makes

You don't know my wife

Shouldn't u be tucking her in...its late

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Next match against the hosts will surely be the biggest crowd an England ladies team has played in front of in the modern era...

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Shouldn't u be tucking her in...its late

She is waiting for you after I described your BEDDING technique

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Shouldn't u be tucking her in...its late

Note to self. Get eyes tested soon. Had to read this post twice.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Next match against the hosts will surely be the biggest crowd an England ladies team has played in front of in the modern era...

No it won't. The capacity of the stadium in Vancouver is 54,320. More people saw them play Germany at Wembley.

 

[Simster]

No it won't. The capacity of the stadium in Vancouver is 54,320. More people saw them play Germany at Wembley.

It will, however, probably be the biggest crowd to watch ANY Canadian national team in ANY sport. If it can trump the 53,885 who turned up to watch them beat Switzerland.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Good goals from England, especially the screamer from Bronze to put us into the lead. Maybe the poor first half was to conserve energy for when the Norwegians tired...

Roll on Canada in the Quarterfinals! Not looking forward to the 12.30am kickoff though...

Screamer? Keeper should have stopped it.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Screamer? Keeper should have stopped it.

Very harsh, on the keeper, that.

It was very well hit, and she wouldn't have seen it until it came round the other England player and her marker. Would have needed to be a decent save.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Very harsh, on the keeper, that.

It was very well hit, and she wouldn't have seen it until it came round the other England player and her marker. Would have needed to be a decent save.

Maybe, I just think she got a decent hand on it...

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Maybe, I just think she got a decent hand on it...

Ha. Such is the CURSED life of a goalkeeper.

If she'd dived just for the cameras and got nowhere near it, it would have simply gone down as unsaveable / a great strike.
Because she was good enough to get fingers to it, she 'should have saved it'!

 

[glasfryn]

good game, best so far, our girls have some backbone and can play a bit
Lucy Bronze best player tonight and a great goal to boot

 

[Gazwag]

Ha. Such is the CURSED life of a goalkeeper.

If she'd dived just for the cameras and got nowhere near it, it would have simply gone down as unsaveable / a great strike.
Because she was good enough to get fingers to it, she 'should have saved it'!

You should know by now, on here EVERY goal is a goalkeeper error

 

[Simster]

I thought we were completely outplayed in the first half, so I went to bed expecting an attritional 1-0 defeat where we'd concede and not look remotely like equalising.

I was pleasantly surprised to wake up to find that sort of performance had happened. Anyone staying up for the quarter final?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I thought we were completely outplayed in the first half, so I went to bed expecting an attritional 1-0 defeat where we'd concede and not look remotely like equalising.

I was pleasantly surprised to wake up to find that sort of performance had happened. Anyone staying up for the quarter final?

I went to bed at 1-1. At 1-0 there looked no chance England would score. Then from the point we did (from a corner) we looked the better team. I was delighted to see we'd won, and a bit annoyed that it turned out they'd banged in a worldy about THREE minutes after I'd turned it off

 

[Hamilton]

I watched the last 55 minutes. Thoroughly enjoyable.

We were playing far too deep at the end of the first half, and if we'd carried on playing like that then there was only one result.

The addition of Jill Scott (tall player on the right hand side) seemed to be that tactical change worked. It gave us a bit more width and pace. That and the fact that Sampson must have just told them to attack more and get into them.

Norway were very good at closing us down in the first half (from what I saw) and in the second, we just reversed that.

I think we'd have won regardless of the belter. The girls just played out the remainder of the second half calmly, running down the clock and ignoring the jeers in the closing minutes.

 

[Badger]

I thought we were completely outplayed in the first half, so I went to bed expecting an attritional 1-0 defeat where we'd concede and not look remotely like equalising.

I was pleasantly surprised to wake up to find that sort of performance had happened. Anyone staying up for the quarter final?

Exactly the same here, I went to bed at half time. I even did a quick check of the score before I finally went to sleep and it was 1-0 Norway, so I assumed that was that.