{"id":83129,"date":"2019-06-27T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83129"},"modified":"2019-06-27T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:49:36","slug":"england-hammer-norway-to-reach-consecutive-womens-world-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83129","title":{"rendered":"England hammer Norway to reach consecutive Women&#8217;s World Cup semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lionesses got off to the perfect start when Jill Scott tapped home Lucy Bronze\u2019s cutback inside three minutes after a miss-kick from Ellen White, before a wonderful team move was finished off by White &#8211; taking her joint top of the World Cup goalscoring charts &#8211; five minutes before half time.<\/p>\n<p>Bronze then put the icing on the victory with a fabulous strike from a well-worked free-kick in the 57th minute, with Nikita Parris even having penalty saved well by Norway keeper Ingrid Hjelmseth after England captain Steph Houghton was pushed in the box late on.<\/p>\n<p>England will now face the winners of the match between France and USA in the last four and will fancy their chances after such an impressive showing in Le Havre.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament\u2019s fastest goal \u2013 timed at 126 seconds \u2013 put England on course for victory as veteran Scott finished after great work from Bronze to create the opening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asia.eurosport.com\/football\/women-s-world-cup\/2019\/women-s-world-cup-england-hammer-norway-to-reach-consecutive-world-cup-semi-finals_sto7345775\/story.shtml\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ENGLAND ARE BACK IN THE SEMIS! &#x1f981;&#x1f3f4;&#xe0067;&#xe0062;&#xe0065;&#xe006e;&#xe0067;&#xe007f;<\/p>\n<p>The Lionesses dominate Norway to make the final four for the second straight <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIFAWWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wcT1RnPsZT\">pic.twitter.com\/wcT1RnPsZT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOXSoccer\/status\/1144347719269355520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lionesses got off to the perfect start when Jill Scott tapped home Lucy Bronze\u2019s cutback inside three minutes after a miss-kick from Ellen White, before a wonderful team move was finished off by White &#8211; taking her joint top<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83129\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,468,456,128,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-france","category-norway","category-sports","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83131,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83129\/revisions\/83131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}