On the evening of August 3 and early morning of August 4 (Vietnam time), the Olympic women's soccer quarterfinals took place with 4 very dramatic matches with 3 matches having to go to extra time, including 1 match that had to be a penalty shootout. The other match had an extra time longer than an extra period...
The Canadian women's team is the defending champion. They created something unbelievable in the group stage when they became the first team in history to have 6 points deducted (for spying on opponents with drones). In the end, I still got a ticket to continue.
They were also fined $226,000, coach Bev Priestman and two members of the coaching staff had to return home and were banned from participating in football for 1 year.
However, the fairy tale on the journey to defend the throne ended when meeting the German women's team.
During 120 minutes, Canada launched 23 shots (Germany only had 7 shots despite having more possession of the ball), but no goals were scored.
On the penalty shootout, goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger - 33 years old, became the hero of the German women's team with 2 saves and then made the decisive shot herself to help the home team win 4-2, winning tickets to the semi-finals. conclude.
Germany's opponent is the US women's team , the team needed extra time to overcome the Japanese women's team. The American representative dominated the ball control but only had 3 more shots than the opponent (December 15).
The common point is no goals in 90 minutes. It wasn't until the 2nd minute of extra time that Trinity Rodman scored the only goal, sending the US women's team to the semi-finals against the German women's team.
The US women's team continues to aim for its fifth Olympic gold medal and the first since defeating Japan in the London 2012 final.
That silver medal is the only achievement of Japanese women's football at the Olympics.
Contrary to those tight developments, Spain and Colombia had 4 goals, evenly divided between the 2 teams. Colombia led 2-0 after 52 minutes, but after a series of adjustments, the Spanish women's team had 2 goals to equalize, of which the second goal was scored in the 7th minute of injury time of the second half.
Two more extra periods without a goal, the two teams had to go to penalties and here, world champion Spain won 4-2 and entered the semi-finals.
Jenni Hermoso and her teammates will meet another team from South America, Brazil. The Brazilian women's team beat host France 1-0 in a dramatic match.
The French women's team missed the opportunity to advance with a missed penalty kick in the 16th minute, conceded a goal in the 82nd minute and the referee added nearly 20 minutes of extra time but still could not find an equalizer.
Thus, the semi-finals are a reunion of teams that met in the group stage - Spain beat Brazil 1-0 in Group C, the US beat Germany 4-1 in Group B.
2024 Olympic women's soccer semi-final schedule
23:00 August 6: US - Germany
02:00 August 7: Brazil - Germany
