France beat Belgium 2-1 to reach the quarter-finals of the Women’s European Football Championship. In Group D, France are on top with 6 points with 2 wins. France defeated Italy 5-1 in their first match. Kadidiatou Diani scored in the sixth minute to give France the lead. Then Janice Cayman scored in the 36th minute to level Belgium 1-1. Five minutes later, in the 41st minute, Greige Bok Baithy brought the ball into the goal post to give France a 2–1 lead. After this, the goal could not be scored by both the teams. The Belgian team made several attempts to score, but could not penetrate the French defense line. On 18 July, the final match of the group will be France team Iceland and Belgium team Italy.
Belgium had to play with 10 players
Amber Tisiak got a red card in the 89th minute of the match. After this, the Belgian team had to play with only 10 players at the last minute.
Valentina equalized Italy in the 62nd minute
At the same time, in another match of Group D, Iceland’s team restricted Italy to a 1-1 draw. In the third minute of the match, Carolina Lea scored a goal to give Iceland the lead. Italy’s team was trailing 0-1 at half time. After this Valentina Bergamaschi converted a pass from Barbara Bonancia in the 62nd minute to avert Italy’s defeat. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.
Broken record of attendance of fans, 2,48,075 people have watched 16 matches so far
Record fans are reaching this time in the Women’s European Championship. 248075 people have watched 16 matches so far. 8173 people were present in the match between France and Belgium. There are 15 matches left in the tournament. Earlier in 2017, 240055 fans had reached the match stadium and watched the match. The Netherlands became the champions in 2017. This time only group stage matches are going on, in which the old record has been broken. There have been 16 matches so far. On an average, 15505 people are reaching to watch every match. The opening match between England and Austria was watched by 68871 fans.
The record for the most number of fans in a match was previously held in the 2013 final between Germany and Norway in Sweden. This match was watched by 41301 people. Germany won the final match.
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France beat Belgium 2-1 to reach the quarter-finals of the Women’s European Football Championship. In Group D, France are on top with 6 points with 2 wins. France defeated Italy 5-1 in their first match.
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