{"id":454301,"date":"2023-08-10T13:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454301"},"modified":"2023-08-10T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:02:40","slug":"lauren-james-could-play-at-womens-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lauren-james-could-play-at-womens-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren James could play at Women&#8217;s World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English forward Lauren James has been given a 2-match ban for stomping on Nigeria&#8217;s Michelle Alozie.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lauren James has received a two-match ban after her straight red card vs. Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll only be available again if England reach the World Cup final <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bu4nT3mo5X\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bu4nT3mo5X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1689626992717582336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lauren (21) received a direct red card in their 1\/8 final matchup, as England later triumphed after a shootout and advanced to the \u00bc finals.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2-match ban, the English striker, who has been a star at the 2023 Women&#8217;s World Cup so far with 3 goals and 3 assists, will be able to appear in the final if her country advances to it without her.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren\u2019s teammate on the national team, Beth England, shared that they won\u2019t the spotlight around James to be a distraction during the tournament&#8217;s final stages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that this is a very difficult position to be in,\u201d Beth claimed. \u201cBut whether they announced the suspension within 24 hours or not, it won\u2019t affect us. We\u2019re not defined by 1 player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s next opponent is Colombia on Saturday in a matchup from the \u00bc finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English forward Lauren James has been given a 2-match ban for stomping on Nigeria&#8217;s Michelle Alozie. Lauren James has received a two-match ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":454302,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,18729],"news_category":[14235,14236],"gn_keywords":[18341,20876,18730],"acf":{"announce":"She received a 2-game ban from FIFA.","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\/454301"}],"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=454301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454301"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454301"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}