Women’s World Cup, Philippines strike: narrow win over New Zealand…

In Wellington, in the first match of the second round of the competition, the hosts fell to the Asian team. Sarina Bolden’s goal decides midway through the first half. In the second half, the video assistant referee canceled the New Zealand draw.

At the Sky Stadium in Wellington, in front of 32,357 spectators, the Philippines edged out the New Zealanders and secured their first historic World Cup victory. In the first half, coach Jitka Klimková’s girls approach the game well, but aren’t sarcastic and serious around keeper McDaniel. Quite the opposite instead of the Asians taking the lead at the first opportunity with a header from close range from Bolden (24). then FilipinaHowever, on the wings of enthusiasm, they came close to doubling Guillou’s intrigues and the field split off, especially on the left outside, closing the lead after forty-five minutes from either side.

New Zealand held the ball in hand for much of the match and especially in the second half failing to equalize on two occasions with Jackie Hand. First, the post (63), then in the 68th minute, a disallowed goal. Wilkinson receives the ball and passes it to the middle of the area for Hand, who scores with a header. However, the VAR cleared Wilkinson’s offside goal early in the match.

With this result, the Philippines, after two matches, fell three points behind New Zealand in Group A, which also includes Switzerland and Norway.