The women's football events at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 entered the knockout stage after exciting, thrilling and upset competitions. The teams participating in the Olympics for the first time also performed well, while many women footballers performed brilliantly and their performance was exemplary.
Women's soccer world champions the United States lost their first match to Sweden, but the American team advanced to the next round. The four quarterfinals of the women's football event will be played on July 30 in four different cities.
The 12 countries participating in the women's football event were divided into 3 groups. The top two teams from each group qualified for the quarterfinals, while the top three teams from each group also made it to the knockout stages.
From Group E, the United Kingdom, Canada, from Group F, the Netherlands, Brazil, from Group G, Olympic runners-up Sweden and the United States advanced to the next round, while the third-placed hosts, Japan and Australia, also advanced to the quarterfinals. Arrived
The German women's team that won a gold medal in the women's event at the Rio Olympics failed to qualify for the Tokyo Games, while the women's teams from four other countries participating in the 2016 Olympic Games, France, Colombia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, are also in the Tokyo Olympics.
Are not. This time, the women's football teams of host Japan, Britain, Chile, Zambia and the Netherlands made it to the Tokyo Olympics.
In the women's football quarter-finals, Britain will face Australia in Kashima on August 30, while Sweden will face host Japan in Saitama. In Yokohama, the Netherlands will play the United States, while in Refo, Brazil will face Canada.
The semi-finals will be played on August 2 in Yokohama and Kashima. The losing teams in the semi-finals will compete for the bronze medal on August 5 in Kashima. The women's football final for the gold medal will be played on August 6 in Tokyo.
The British women's team, which qualified for the football event for the second time in Olympic history, got off to a good start by beating Chile 2-0 in their first match in Group E. In the next match, the British footballers defeated the host Japan 1-0 while the last match of England was tied 1-1 with Canada. The match between Japan and Canada was also drawn by one goal but Canada managed to beat Chile 2-1.
Japan beat Chile 1-0. In this group, the United Kingdom came first and Canada came second. Japan finished third with four points, while Chile did not score. Chile qualified for the Olympics for the first time in women's football.
The Brazilian team in Group F has the honor of qualifying for all the events of the Olympic women's football, but the team has not yet won a gold medal.
The Brazilian team was runners-up twice and fourth three times and lost once in the quarter-finals. Brazilian women's footballers lost 2-1 to Canada in a bronze medal match at the Rio Olympics on home soil.
The Brazilian team is being called a hot favorite. The Brazilian team started the Olympics with a 5-0 victory over China, in which the fifth Olympic star footballer Marta scored two goals.
The Dutch team, which qualified for the Olympics for the first time, performed brilliantly, beating Zambia, a country participating in Olympic football for the first time, by a huge margin of 10-3.
There were two hat tricks in this match. All three goals for Zambia were scored by their star forward Barbara Banda, while Dutch player Medima scored four goals, including a hat trick. Martinez scored twice and Van der Sanden, Roard, Bernstein and Pablova scored once each. The match between China and Zambia ended in a draw with four goals scored by Wang Shuang of China while Barbara Banda of Zambia scored her second hat trick with three goals. Zambia's fourth goal was scored by Raquel Konda Nanji.
The Dutch footballers also scored goals in the match against China and won the match by a margin of 8-2, which included two doubles by Bernstein, Medima and Martinez. The Zambian team performed brilliantly against Brazil, which led to a 1-0 victory for the Brazilian team of talented footballers. The only goal for Brazil was scored by Andresa in the 19th minute of the game. In this group, the Netherlands came first and Brazil came second.
In Group G, the Rio Olympics runners-up and the world number 5 Swedish team defeated the women's football world champion USA 3-0. The American women's soccer team dominates the World Cup and the Olympics, and the defeat at the hands of Sweden was a major upset for the United States.
The U.S. women's soccer team is currently the world number one, having won the World Cup four times and the Olympic gold medal four times, and a silver medal at the Olympics once, while the U.S.
team finished fifth at the Rio Olympics, its first in Olympic history. The lowest performance was. In the quarter finals of the Rio Olympics, Sweden defeated the United States 4-3 on penalty kicks.
With this failure at the hands of Sweden, the unbeaten run of the American women's soccer team in 44 matches was also broken. The United States was last defeated by France in 2019, while the American team was defeated in the Olympic preliminary round by 20 years
It was the first defeat since 08 when the Norwegian women's team won the preliminary round against the United States at the Beijing Olympics.
In Group G, Australia defeated New Zealand 2-1 while in the next match, Australia lost 4-2 to Sweden. In the next round match after losing to Sweden, the American team performed exceptionally well against New Zealand and won by a margin of 6-1, which included two goals scored by the New Zealand footballers. In the last group match, Sweden easily defeated New Zealand 2-0 and secured the top position in the group while the match between USA and Australia remained goalless. Both had four points, but the American team finished second on the basis of better goal average.
In the first round of the women's event, 75 goals have been scored in 18 matches. Dutch star forward Vivian Medima is the top scorer with 8 goals while Zambia's Barbara Banda is second with six goals. Banda has two hat tricks. China's Wang Shuang and the Netherlands' Martinez have scored four goals each, while Brazilian forward Marta, Australia's Samantha Kerr, Australia's Stena Blake Stenius, Britain's Ellen Tony White and Dutch Bernstein have scored three goals each.
Vivian Medima, a 25-year-old striker from the Netherlands, set a new Olympic record by scoring eight goals at the Tokyo Olympics. Earlier, Canadian footballer Christine Sinclair set a record by scoring six goals in the 2012 London Olympics. Vivian Medima has a great ability to score goals and she also has the honor of scoring the most international goals for the Netherlands in both men's and women's. Zambia's 21-year-old Barbara Banda has become the first footballer to score two hat-tricks at the Olympics and a football tournament.
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