Match report

World Cup Gallery: England 2-1 Colombia

She Kicks, issue 29, August 2015 p.24

England beat Colombia 2-1 to reach the knockout stage, Karen Carney scoring on 15 minutes and Fara Williams converting a penalty on 38 before Lady Andrade replied in stoppage time. Mark Sampson says the team have shown themselves versatile, applying various systems and giving squad members playing time, and calls this the sharpest Karen Carney the world has seen in a long time, a wizard who sees and delivers things nobody else can imagine. Steph Houghton agrees the players are being trusted with different formations depending on the opposition. Karen Bardsley, responding to criticism after the previous two games, says she takes it with a grain of salt and that a pro-Colombian crowd inside the Olympic Stadium fired England up. Readers voted Carney player of the match.

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