{"id":454096,"date":"2023-08-07T07:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454096"},"modified":"2023-08-07T07:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:07:03","slug":"england-defeat-nigeria-after-a-shootout-at-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/england-defeat-nigeria-after-a-shootout-at-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"England defeat Nigeria after a shootout at Women&#8217;s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England eliminated Nigeria from the 2023 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup in a matchup from the 1\/8 finals today, with Chloe Kelly netting the winning penalty after the two national teams failed to score during the regular 90 minutes and the two extra 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ENGLAND BEAT NIGERIA ON PENALTIES.<\/p>\n<p>THEY\u2019RE HEADING TO THE QUARTERFINALS \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1PRXtekWok\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1PRXtekWok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1688495714077118464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Beth England, Rachel Daly, and Alex Greenwood also scored successfully for the European champs, who were left with 10 players on the pitch in regulation time.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren James \u2013 the top scorer with 3 goals in the group stage &#8211; received a red card near the end of the regulation time in the 87<sup>th<\/sup> minute after an awful stamp on the back of Michelle Alonzi after both players went down in a tangled heap.<\/p>\n<p>England will play against Jamaica or Colombia in the \u00bc finals of the World Cup in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chloe Kelly, England&#8217;s big game player:<\/p>\n<p>\u26bd Winner in European Championship final<br \/>\n\u26bd Winning penalty in Finalissima<br \/>\n\u26bd Winning penalty against Nigeria in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWWC<\/a> last 16<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ENG<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENGNGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ENGNGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XgsKqvWDNA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XgsKqvWDNA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/1688506040306880512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 7, 2023<\/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>England eliminated Nigeria from the 2023 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup in a matchup from the 1\/8 finals today, with Chloe Kelly netting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":454097,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,20813,18729],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18341,20814,18730],"acf":{"announce":"The Lioness advanced to the \u00bc finals.","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\/454096"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454096"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454096"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}