Phew!
WWC23 | England v Spain - Spain win the World Cup - and Rubiales gets sacked
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BAM!!!
Lauren James, your teammates bailed you out of jail. You pay for dinner.
Lauren James, your teammates bailed you out of jail. You pay for dinner.
England win. But they need to up their game if they are to win the tournament.
Kelly and Daly with monster pens, proper whacked it.
That's a relief. Overall, very poor England performance and they'll have to play much, much better in the next round. Got away with this one.
Zelem was subbed on in the last minute and she didn’t even take a penalty??
England can’t play like that again.
Well England now have a good chance in the quarter finals, they will hopefully have learned a lot from that game.
Great pen that to win it
Lucky Lucky England.
It's coming home
Absolutely love those pens from Daly and Kelly. Especially the second, absolute piledriver!
England didn't need to take all 5 of their pens.
Some incredible penalties from England. Like legit wow 
Out of jail there, but some serious damage done as Lauren James she won't play again in this tournament.
They should still let them take a pen. Would be the decent thing to do.
It won't forgive against Colombia nor Jamaica.
You have to ride your luck in these games and a lot WC games arent great spectacles either going through is the most important thing and theyve done that now and they are in with a great chance.
Yes. They did. They missed the first one and won 4-2. Nigeria didn't take their last one because it didn't matter.
Kelly’s was the 5th for England
We did. Stanway missed, then England, Daly, Greenwood and Kelly scored. I assume Zelem would have taken the 6th if it went that far.
That was very lucky by England, a very poor performance but decent pens (after the 1st one). Really need to get it together for the next round now though.
They did.
As bad as some of the penalties were, we also saw some absolute belters.
The winning pen was unstoppable, male or female I don't think any keeper saves that.
The winning pen was unstoppable, male or female I don't think any keeper saves that.
Possibly the worst quality pen shootout I’ve ever witnessed
Don’t think anything can be worse than Utd v Sunderland in the league cup. That was atrocious.
There were a couple of belters tooPossibly the worst quality pen shootout I’ve ever witnessed
The worry for England is they've struggled to create many times before an during this tournament and only James introduction did we see the team spark into life. She couldn't get into the game today and we saw England fall back to where they were. We have some good players in Russo and Daly but it's just not clicking well. Spain Japan are looking really good.
Never in doubt. What a disgusting performance
They are beautiful to watch but if it turns out to be a Jaap Stamesque howler you will hear it forever.
Was signed,
Jaap Stam.
Gutted for Nigeria to be honest. Buzzing for us but Nigeria more than deserves to go through. No idea what James was thinking. Crazy thing to do. Have to fix up for next round and we’re out.
I hope in the next round the manager shakes it up abit. That was nowhere near good enough
Yeah, even more than the players, Wiegman needs to learn some lessons from today.
Dunno why she was so reluctant to use her bench, when she has so much quality there. The win at the Euros was largely built on her strategic use of substitutes.
Possibly the worst quality pen shootout I’ve ever witnessed
Nah there were at least 2 England ones which were top quality.
As others have said the League Cup semi vs Sunderland is the worst I can remember.
Maybe next game she’ll play a totally different side.
Have to agree. That was just abysmal. We sunk to new depths as a species, that day.
England have a legit penalty overturned and had more shots on target, and more possession than Nigeria despite playing 36 minutes with 10 players... and Nigeria are unlucky not to go through?
I thought it was a pretty even game that could have gone either way myself. Nigeria are a good side but England got through on being more experienced in big games.
I thought it was a pretty even game that could have gone either way myself. Nigeria are a good side but England got through on being more experienced in big games.
What a drama! Daughter glued to the telly, missus up in full emotional array about a football game - that’s a first! First time everybody in the house is fully focused on a game of football.
Hard luck for Nigeria, you could tell emotions were running high for a few of them on the penalties. They deserved the win based on 120 mins of football for me. But happy for England. Impressive penalties for them, and well defended 10 vs 11.
Hard luck for Nigeria, you could tell emotions were running high for a few of them on the penalties. They deserved the win based on 120 mins of football for me. But happy for England. Impressive penalties for them, and well defended 10 vs 11.