{"id":455544,"date":"2023-08-19T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455544"},"modified":"2023-08-19T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T11:20:19","slug":"sweden-beat-australia-to-win-world-cup-bronze-medal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sweden-beat-australia-to-win-world-cup-bronze-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden beat Australia to win World Cup bronze medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden is for the 4<sup>th<\/sup> time bronze medalist at the Women&#8217;s World Cup after defeating co-hosts Australia 2-0 in the match for the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place at Lang Park in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd49 Goals from Fridolina Rolfo &amp; Kosovare Asllani secure the bronze medal for Sweden at the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWWC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Co-hosts Australia finish fourth, their best finish at a Women&#8217;s World Cup.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SWE<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AUS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T3XJ8WK8wI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/T3XJ8WK8wI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/1692839268199039395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish national team \u2013 ranked 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in the world, received a penalty in the 28<sup>th<\/sup> minute after VAR showed Australia&#8217;s Clare Hunt clipped Stina Blackstenius&#8217; heels. Fridolina Rolf\u00f6 converted the penalty to give the lead in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half.<\/p>\n<p>The Swede&#8217;s captain Kosovare Asllani double the result in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half after a great shot from the edge of the penalty area after a fantastic counterattack.<\/p>\n<p>Both nations began with the same starting 11 that played in the \u00bd finals, where Australia were defeated 3-1 by England and Sweden were beaten 2-1 by Spain.<\/p>\n<p>England will face Spain tomorrow in the match for the gold at the FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sweden have now finished third place at the Women&#8217;s World Cup more times than any other nation in the tournament&#8217;s history (4), their fifth top-three finish overall:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd49 1991<br \/>\n\ud83e\udd48 2003<br \/>\n\ud83e\udd49 2011<br \/>\n\ud83e\udd49 2019<br \/>\n\ud83e\udd49 2023<\/p>\n<p>Only the USA have finished in the top three more often. \ud83e\udee1<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Ckxl6HNEM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0Ckxl6HNEM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1692839787680383045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 19, 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>Sweden is for the 4th time bronze medalist at the Women&#8217;s World Cup after defeating co-hosts Australia 2-0 in the match for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":455545,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16939,18241,18729],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18748,19552,18730],"acf":{"announce":"Sweden triumphed with the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup bronze medal.","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\/455544"}],"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=455544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455544"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455544"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}