The Man City players progressing with their countries at Women's World Cup
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAll 14 Manchester City players are still in contention to win the World Cup with the group stage now in the book. There have been shocks aplenty in Australia and New Zealand but the Citizens crop have all safely navigated their way through to the knockout stages.
While Australia could have had a nervy final group game, they cruised to victory, as did England over China. We take a look at how the Man City stars got on with their native countries. Australia The co-hosts didn’t have it all their own way in Group B but a 4-0 victory over Olympic champions Canada saw them through to the last 16.
City’s centre back Alanna Kennedy has been a totemic presence and played every minute of the tournament so far. Mary Fowler scored her first World Cup goal against Canada having seen an earlier effort disallowed.
Australia meet Denmark on Tuesday with a place in the quarter-finals at stake. England Sarina Wiegman’s side are coming to the boil nicely as they aim to pair their European title with global glory.
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