US Vs France
The women world cup is getting hotter are teams progress toward the finals of the tournament with weaker teams have gone home to make all European quarter final with American representative the only country to fly the flag of other continents when they much anticipated and historic match comes on Friday at 3:00 p.m. E.T against the French team.
The US Women National Teams ‘’UWNT’’ as they are fondly hailed by their fans had to overcome a physical and emerging European women powerhouse Spain in a hard fought 2-1 win which saw captain Megan Rapinoe scored from the penalty spot on two occasions. The US team will now square it up with France that saw off South American power house Brazil in a game that ended in the same score line as the US Vs Spain match. That mean the two tournament favourites are meeting to decide who pave way for whom in Parc des Princes; the venue of the France opening game.
US Tournament Form
To get to this stage off the competition, the US team concord their group to emerge with maximum points with their 13-0 white washing of their Thailand folks on June 11 and then went on beat Chile 3-0 on June 16 which they concluded on June 20 in their 2-0 win over Sweden. That means the SWNT didn’t concede any goal in the group stage while netting a whopping 18 goals to make it 6 goals per game on the average. The only goal conceded so far was in their last match against Spain. Some of the US women players have once in a time plied their trade in France like the likes of Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and Morgan Bran for Olympique Lyon while Lindesey Horan and Tobin Health in Paris Saint Germaine.
France Tournament Form
The French side began their group stage campaign in group A when they netted 4-0 against Korean side, went on to defeat Norway by 2-1 margin and then finished off with a hard fought 1-0 defeat on the Nigeria ladies scoring 7 goals in total and conceding once. The French women really hard a hard time as their waited till the extra time to score in a 2-1 victory to bypass Brazil in the round of 16.
Conclusion
Both teams had met earlier this year in Stade Oceane in Le Havre where the French side ran away with a 3-1 victory in their first game of the year. The US teams is the only host nation in 1999 and 2003 that have progressed pass the quarter finals stage since the Women’s World Cup and as well remains unbeaten in last 14 games of the previous Women’s World Cup matches with 13 wins and 3 draws. Nine of last matches were won in a row. France has lost only games since 2017 against England on two occasions and two against Germany in intentional friendly.
Prediction
The US team has netted 20 goals in 4 matches conceding one while France score 9 goals and conceded 2. Even though the French side is better off with a good defensive line up but the US ladies has a very strong forward that will taste that defensiveness line.
Over 2.5 goals
Both teams to score
US win or draw
US to progress
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