[1/5]Football Soccer – FIFA Ladies’s International Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023 – Crew D – China v England – Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia – August 1, 2023 England’s Chloe Kelly celebrates scoring their 5th purpose with Lauren James REUTERS/Hannah Mckay
August 1 – Lauren James scored two targets and assisted on 3 others to steer England into the Spherical of 16 of the FIFA Ladies’s International Cup with a 6-1 shellacking of China on Tuesday in Adelaide, Australia.
China’s Shuang Wang scored the one purpose in defeat. China didn’t advance from the crowd level for the primary time in a Ladies’s International Cup.
With England (3-0-0, 9 issues) coping with an harm to midfielder Keira Walsh (knee), the 21-year-old James has emerged because the country’s emerging big name. A video evaluation prior to halftime took away a purpose or James would’ve bagged a hat trick in opposition to China (1-2-0, 3 issues).
The Lionesses received 3 instantly to win Crew D forward of Denmark, which will even advance.
England were given 3 targets all over team level fits from James and subsequent performs Nigeria on Monday in Brisbane.
Alessia Russo scored within the fourth minute and James assisted once more on the second one purpose of the fit — punched in through Lauren Hemp — prior to she scored the primary of her pair of targets from the field within the forty first minute. Chloe Kelly and Rachel Daly additionally netted targets for England, which matched its widest margin of victory in a Ladies’s International Cup sport.
Denmark 2, Haiti 0
For the primary time since 1995, Denmark complicated from the crowd level of the Ladies’s International Cup with a 2-0 win over Haiti (0-3-0, 0 issues) in Perth, Australia.
Denmark (2-1-0, six issues) scored on two of its six photographs on purpose with rankings from Pernille More difficult and Sanne Troelsgaard. More difficult scored on a penalty after Dayana Pierre-Louis was once referred to as for a handball. Troelsgaard scored in stoppage time to seal the Danes’ spot within the knockout spherical.
Co-host Australia awaits Denmark, which completed 2nd in Crew D to England, in a Monday fit.
Netherlands 7, Vietnam 0
5 first-half targets allowed the Netherlands (2-0-1, seven issues) to cruise previous Vietnam at Dunedin, New Zealand, and wrap up the highest spot in Crew E. Esmee Brugts and Jill Roord scored two times apiece within the blowout.
Lieke Martens opened the scoring within the 8th minute, and Katja Snoeijs doubled the lead 3 mins later. Objectives from Brugts (18th minute) and Roord (twenty third) put the result all however out of achieve, and Danielle van de Donk added a 5th within the forty fifth minute.
In the second one 1/2, Brugts (57th) and Roord (83rd) rounded out the scoring.
Vietnam concluded its first Ladies’s International Cup look with losses in all 3 of its video games.
–Box Degree Media
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