…To Meet Winner of Spain vs Brazil on Wednesday at 2pm in the semifinal.
Italian U20 Girls Saturday at the Arena Sasnowiec in Poland outwitted better rated South Korean Girls 3-1 to March into their first ever semifinal.
Ghanaian babe in Italian shirt, Karen Appiah scored a brace to sink the Korean ship first in the 16th minute from Giada Pellegrino Cimo pass and the 2nd a header from Paola Fodder corner kick in the 48th minute.
Lee Haeun had initially got an equalizer in the 43rd minute through Han Minseo pass but the Italians blasted in the 3rd goal from a kick Cherubini Maya took afterJin Hyerin fouled which Paola Fadda converted into goal.
Former Defender of Peru women’s team now Ref, 33 year old Milagros Arruella was meticulous in the match highly dominated by the Italians who got 15-7 shots at goal, 9-2 on target, holding ball possessions of 58-42% and stringed 555-142 passes. The Italians dribbled straight into the box to make 11-2 shots from where 4-2 corner kicks were forced one ended in goal but the Italians were rough with 14-7 foul calls.
Italy in their 3rd appearances now were ousted at the group stages in 2004 and 2014 but South Korea that had gathered more experience from 7 appearances winning Bronze in 2010, making two quarterfinals in 2012 and 2014, round of 16 at the last tournament were sent out at the group stages in 2004, 2016 and 2022.
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South Korea will go into a serious retreat to face the winner of the star quarterfinals match between Brazil and Spain that will come up this evening at the same venue but that will be in the semifinal on Wednesday at 2pm.
Tomorrow Sunday at 2pm Nigeria’s Falconets faces Columbia at 2pm in a match already given to Nigeria by football pundits which has to be proved on the pitch and not the comfort of air conditioning rooms. At 5:30 pm defending champions North Korea will engage Canada in a peck and go game of the 4th quarterfinal.
Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line.
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