Philippine ladies’s soccer workforce within the Asian Video games. –PWNT/PFF
Sara Eggesvik scored two targets within the second half because the Philippines defeated Myanmar, 3-0, on Thursday to safe a spot within the quarterfinals of the Hangzhou Asian Video games ladies’s soccer competitions at Wenzhou Sports activities Heart Stadium.
Eggesvik pulled off the brace in between the hour mark because the Filipinas dislodged fellow Fifa Girls’s World Cup debutant Vietnam to safe one of many three finest second placers on the conclusion of the group stage.
Vietnam misplaced 7-0 to Japan in Group C hours earlier than the match, leaving coach Mark Torcaso’s squad needing any type of victory towards Myanmar to increase its maiden marketing campaign within the continental meet.
The workforce that helped knockout Vietnam would be the identical opponent the Filipinas will face for Saturday’s quarterfinal, nonetheless on the Wenzhou pitch.
Japan received all three video games in Group D regardless of having a lineup utterly completely different from the one which made the final eight of the Girls’s World Cup final month.
It was additionally a vengeful outcome for the Filipinas after dropping 1-0 to Myanmar within the opener of their Cambodia Southeast Asian Video games stint final Might, the outcome ultimately taking part in a task of their failure to get out of the group stage.
Sarina Bolden prolonged her maintain because the nation’s all-time high ladies’s goalscorer when she struck a penalty within the nineteenth minute to place the Filipinas forward.
The referee signaled for the spot after Bolden obtained fouled by a Burmese defender contained in the field, organising her twenty fifth worldwide aim and third in her Asiad account.
Eggesvik doubled the lead within the sixtieth, this time reversing roles with Bolden, who headed Jessika Cowart’s lengthy free kick into the midfielder for a right-footed volley into the again of the online.
Nevertheless it took only a minute earlier than Eggesvik added one other aim, sliding a low shot off Meryll Serrano’s go for the workforce’s third aim.
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