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World Cup Semis Japan v. England 7 PM on Fox
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 5:17 pm
by asu66
England falls 2-1 on 90th minute "own goal"
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:41 am
by asu66
Sad day in the UK and for Brits everywhere! This is every soccer team's worst nightmare. A split-second wrong move; the bounce of the ball; in the last 40 seconds of a 90 minute war. All is lost!
http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2015/7/1 ... up-results
Oh. My. God. Someone go give Laura Bassett a hug. Someone go give her infinity hugs.
England outplayed Japan for most of their women's World Cup semifinal, and had a half-dozen chances to put the game away in the second half. They looked to be headed to extra time until this happened. In the 90th minute, Bassett poked the ball off the underside of her own crossbar, it bounced into her own goal, and the goal-line decision system told the referee it was in. It gave Japan the 2-1 win.
This is an all-time awful gut-punch loss. England were so close to getting to their first ever World Cup final, and then they went out like this.