A critical point for the women’s game
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Sawyer is joined by Molly Hudson and Tottenham goalkeeper Chloe Morgan as the 2019 Women’s World Cup prepares for its final weekend.
The dream may be over for England after semi-final elimination by the USA but as the panel discuss, we enter a crucial period for women’s football in this country. Will attendances rise? Will clubs outside the WSL feel the benefits? Can women’s football capitalise on the success of the Lionesses? And will Phil Neville stick around long enough to see it?
It is the Netherlands who will face the Americans in their first ever World Cup final on Saturday. Can the Dutch deny the USA their 4th title and shock the world?
Plus Alex Morgan’s tea celebration – do we just need to calm down? Possibly with a cuppa?
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| 1:06.6 | For the second successive summer it would appear football is not coming home. |
| 1:11.1 | But we were agonizingly close. England narrowly beaten by the USA |
| 1:15.2 | in the semi-final on Tuesday in Leon. The holders will now face the Netherlands in Sunday's |
| 1:20.1 | final. Plenty then to ponder for Phil Neville and for fans of the |
| 1:24.3 | women's game and here to ponder it with us in the studio the top and |
| 1:27.3 | goalkeeper Chloe Morgan and down the line from France the Times women's |
| 1:31.0 | football reporter Molly Hudson. |
| 1:33.0 | Later on, we'll be looking ahead to the final itself |
| 1:35.6 | and whether the Dutch can halt America's dominance. |
| 1:38.8 | But we start with the Lionesses who fall at the semi-final stage |
| 1:42.2 | for the third major tournament in a row. |
| 1:44.5 | A two-one defeat against America in a match that included an England equalizer disallowed |
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