Goal almost every four minutes, final score 20: 0. No, this is not the result of some football “rainforest” or youth competition, but the European part of the qualification to advance to the Women’s World Cup. However, even the English women, who had so humiliated poor Latvian rivals, were not happy about it either.
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“Such results are not good,” even the winners’ coach Sarina Wiegman lamented. “I know that both FIFA and UEFA are aware of this, and that is also good. Because matches with a score of 20: 0 will not help anyone to improve,” the 22-year-old Reuters quoted the Netherlands as saying.
Lauren Hemp scored four goals, three of her teammates scored a hat-trick, including Alessia Russo, who came to the lawn after an hour of play and fit all three of her goals within eleven minutes.
“Of course you want to play even matches and not matches like this one,” said Wiegman, whose team set a record for the European qualifiers on Tuesday in Doncaster.
“We want all the national teams to be at a good level and not far from that in some countries. But we still have to work on the growth of women’s football,” said the two-time winner of the FIFA poll for the best coach.
England is 100 percent after six rounds in qualifying group D with a score of 53: 0.
On the same day, the Irish also won 11-0 in qualifying over the rivals from Georgia, the Spaniards defeated Scotland 8-0 and the Swiss scored just one goal less to the Lithuanians even on their lawn.
The Czechs did not play on Tuesday, their match in Opava was postponed due to several positive tests for coronavirus in the Belarusian team. The match will take place next year during one of the national team dates. The Czech football players are still third in group C.
The teams from the first place will advance directly to the championship, the teams on the second places will have a draw.
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