At the Women’s Futsal World Cup, one penalty kick has been whistled in each game so far.
Georgia Stanway (left) fans her penalty goal against Haiti. PDO
The Women’s World Cup tournament has met all the game-like expectations.
Champion favorites USA and Spain took clear victories in their respective matches, and on Saturday also reigning European champion England is on its way to three points.
It leads Haiti 1-0 after the opening period Georgio Stanway finishing with a penalty kick at less than half an hour.
Stanway had to try twice because the Haitian keeper made the first effort Kerly Theus made a great save. However, Théus had a fair guess, so the chief judge Emikar Calderas ordered the ranker to be renewed.
At this point, no one should be surprised that the opening hit came out of nowhere. The special statistical feature of the World Cup is that, so far, a penalty kick has been whistled in all eight matches.
New Zealand in the opening match Ria Percival drew a comma to the upper log, but a couple of hours later the Australian captain Steph Catley finished the winning goal in the Ireland net from the spot.
On Friday Ramona Bachman (Switzerland, managed to score), Christine Sinclair (Canada, the tougher was repelled) and Jenni Hermoso (Spain, the kicker was blocked) got to try their luck from 11 meters.
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Lina Lehtovaara judged the match between Nigeria and Canada. PDO
Finnish judge Lina Lehtovaara is involved in this statistical freakout because he was the one who whistled Canada’s worst player after a VAR review.
Red card
On Saturday, the statistics continued when the USA Alex Morgan failed his comma against Vietnam. Group C’s Zambia-Japan match was about to end with a 4-0 victory for the Asians, until the Swedish referee Tess Olofsson scored first by the Zambian goalkeeper Catherine Musonda out and ordered the ball to the point.
The game clock was already full at that point, but according to the rules of futs, there is always extra time for the kicker, the head coach of Zambia sent Bruce Mwape the second hammer Eunice Sakala to his own national team debut.
The 21-year-old Nkwazi Queens player got a real baptism of fire in international football. His first touch on the ball was a spot-kick, but Olofsson ruled the move to be replayed due to too early a move.
Riko Ueki The 5–0 penalty goal was scored as 90+11.
The streak was completed in Brisbane when Haitin Batcheba Louis fell into the familiar save jump from the volleyball and fingered the ball in his own penalty area.
Stanway took England’s half-time lead. It was the eighth penalty kick in the eighth match of the World Cup tournament.