Women's World Cup 2019 Thread

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup

No one watching?

 

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1-0 china will regret missing those first-half chances

 

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Austraila 1-2 Italy was a close match

 

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Sweden should win this match imo

edit: match to restart at 19:12

 

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I was intending to watch the USA-Thailand game but it's not showing anywhere on TV here, so I'm watching Germany crucify Estonia in the qualifiers instead, and -as much as I'd like support women's football - it's just in a completely different league of skill. Which, I guess, is a vicious circle for women's football. It doesn't get the respect because the standard isn't the money isn't there which makes it hard to raise standards... etc.

Mind you, the lack of play acting is nice.

you can watch it here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/47180347

 

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11

what's the mercy rule?

 

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Austraila 2-2 brazil

game on

 

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Gotta say, I'm thoroughly enjoying the competition (nice to see players trying to win the ball rather than the foul). loads of games being shown on the TV over here.
Is there much being shown in the UK? This thread seems a little quiet or is there not that much interest?

probably the latter of the two, though having the matches on red button or bbc four over bbc 1 or 2 doesn't help

 

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this match is so close looks like it's going beyond 90 minutes

 

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was a good team goal that

 

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2-2 ???

Maybe not

 

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how come Englands women finishing top 4 means team GB women qualify for the Olympics but the men did the same thing and they don't?

 

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The BBC said they qualified because they were in the top 3, but as you say, they were 4th, so I don't understand it either.

Edit: found out it's because they're a top 3 European team.

that makes more sense