{"id":416391,"date":"2023-02-20T02:47:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T07:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=416391"},"modified":"2023-02-20T02:48:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T07:48:50","slug":"canada-women-bounce-back-with-2-0-win-over-brazil","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-women-bounce-back-with-2-0-win-over-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada women bounce back with 2-0 win over Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champions Canada proved her right with a 2-0 win over No. 9-ranked Brazil at the women&#8217;s SheBelieves Cup at Geodis Park in Nashville.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ht\" dir=\"ltr\">Dominant W \ud83c\udf41<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CANWNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CANWNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SheBelievesCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SheBelievesCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VhbbGIXWqD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VhbbGIXWqD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadaSoccerEN\/status\/1627480632044531712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really proud of the group, for what they&#8217;ve come through, to bounce back,&#8221; \u00a0Canada coach Bev Priestman said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We said today we had to climb, we had to keep moving forward. And we did that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To keep a clean sheet against a hard team to beat, two set-play goals, some young faces on the pitch that I thought did outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So overall, I&#8217;m really pleased. And it&#8217;s nice to see the group smile. A win helps. And we keep moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Centre back Vanessa Gilles put Canada ahead in the 31st minute with a powerful header off a Jessie Fleming corner. It was Gilles&#8217;s third goal in 24 appearances for Canada, who were beaten 2-0 by the United States earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Evelyne Viens doubled the Canadian lead in the 71st after Brazil failed to clear a Fleming free kick.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan made two key saves in the final stages to keep the lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kailen Sheridan puts in the Gatorade Performance of the Match! \ud83c\udf41<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CANWNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CANWNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SheBelievesCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SheBelievesCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vXslE1Qm9B\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vXslE1Qm9B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadaSoccerEN\/status\/1627483172635025414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The four-team tournament wraps up Wednesday in Frisco, Texas, where Canada &#8211; second in the standings above Brazil on goal difference, face No. 11 Japan and the U.S. meets Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champions Canada proved her right with a 2-0 win over No. 9-ranked Brazil at the women&#8217;s SheBelieves Cup at Geodis Park in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":416392,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Centre back Vanessa Gilles and substitute Evelyne Viens scored for the Canadians","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416391"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=416391"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=416391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}