Women s Football A look at Friday s quarter-finals at the Women s World Cup morningstaronline.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from morningstaronline.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The first two quarterfinals matchups from the 2023 Women s World Cup get underway with a pair of intriguing games from New Zealand. In Wellington, it s an all-Europe affair as Spain takes on the Netherlands and, in Auckland, 2011 champions Japan meet a Sweden team coming off of the elimination of the defending champion United States.
Japan has hardly been tested in this Women’s World Cup and rolled with a perfect 4-0 record into the quarterfinals. A win over Sweden at this stage would show the Nadeshiko are very much a true contender. But Friday’s opening day of the quarterfinals also gives Netherlands an opportunity to take control of a wide-open World Cup. The Dutch were runners-up to the United States four years ago, and the Americans beat them in the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Olympics. The U.S. is already out of contention and so Netherlands has a major obstacle out of its way. First up comes a match against Spain, which has never before advanced into the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
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