Chile v Sweden: Women's World Cup 2019 – Live! | Soccer

The story of the half is the Chilean goalkeeper Christiane Endler, who lived in fashion.

45 min +3: Fifth corner of the half for Sweden. He goes in the middle of the 6-yard box, and one way or another, Endler's fist sends the ball clear.

45 min +2: There is your long range shot! A lob sends Lindahl to fight, but it's too high.

45 min: Swedish corner kick at the first post. Of life. The shot hits the Chilean defender. The tracking shot goes to the heavens. Women in yellow are frustrated.

44 min: CHANCE! Asllani puts a cross right where Blackstenius wants to go. She gets there but her head falls under the balloon, which physics will tell us, it is not dangerous. If it had risen a few inches higher, it would have been a severe test for Endler.

E-mail from Rob Edwards: "I have been disappointed so far that I have not seen too much long-term effort to test the goalkeepers. Feeling like this could be a good approach for some of the less fanciful teams struggling to move play like Chile. "

And it was said that Swedish goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl had surpassed her record. No conversation on Endler, of course.

41 min: Chilean shooting! A quick sequence ends with an optimistic shot that whistles away from the post. But they smile.

40 min: Sweden could possibly show a little more patience. They catch the ball again in the right flank, but the ball ends with a harmless shot.

38 min: A Swedish free kick provides a coaching effort to get everyone moving. The ball, however, does not connect to any of them, so it's a bit of a waste of energy.

37 min: A Chilean counter sees an attempt to throw a ball over the defense to catch an attacking striker at the right time, but the goal is clear.

In the other direction, Blackstenius is at the center of a magnificent low-center. But Endler arrives and gives Blackstenius no firing angle, and the bullet passes by.

35 min: Another backup for Endler, this one rather the routine. There is not much contact on the head from eight meters, and Endler simply grabs him on the rebound.

Chile pulls the ball on the right side but conspires to put it out of play under moderate pressure. This augurs badly for any attack going the other way.

33 min: Another Chilean defender on the ground, Guerrero this time. Players take advantage of the stop to get water. Alas, I do not have time to loot the fridge. Need to wash this cake.

31 min: And another rescue of Endler, a head in a dangerous zone but pierced directly in the stomach of the Chilean goalkeeper.

29 min: ESPN tells us that Sweden beat Chile between 74% and 26%, but Chile has the only shot on goal. Not sure of that. Endler had to take the ball twice just in front of the starting line and each time the ball was deliberately sent in that direction. It seems like a shot on goal.

And she is once again in action, looking for a deep bullet.

27 min: Repetition from the goal side shows that the shot was made a foot or two off the line before Endler managed to get up and get his hands on it.

Chile regain possession of the ball in the offensive third, but it's brief.

25 min: Third corner for Sweden and we have again a convention at the first post.

AND IT'S CLOSE! No idea of ​​the player on which the ball stung, but Endler, as a good hockey goalkeeper, manages to spot the ball in time and mark it.

23 min: Now Sweden is preparing its own box out of necessity as the Chilean frontline presses and completes some passes.

In the middle of the half, Sweden certainly has a superior appearance in Chile, but it has not yet taken control of the situation. The best way to do this would be to score, and they do not get close to it. Just two half chances.

18 min: So we spend 10v10 for a short time, and the little extra space gives Sweden a chance to put a tempting ball in the penalty box.

16 min: Another high shot! This time it's Hedvig Lindahl who needs to focus on going back.

Two players broke down after a difficult collision. One is Asllani, which would be a huge loss. The other is Sáez. They are holding their heads. It's time to check a little.

15 minutes: The set pieces can change a game, but the free kick Chile has on the right flank hits a group of Swedish defenders.

13 min: Another long pass until Magdalena Eriksson decides she has enough and hits a ball from the left for 25 meters. It's really difficult for Endler, who has to come back to his line to catch the top shot.

11 min: Another little Chilean possession on the left flank, this time with Rosario Balmaceda. Nothing threatening at the moment, though.

8 min: Chili counter! Francisca Lara eliminates a defender on the left flank.

7 min: Chile briefly had seven players within six meters of the bottom line. This is the old "chicken or egg" argument: do they deliberately hide it or are they simply unable to get the ball?

It is now a corner in which about 80 players are crammed into the box of 6 meters by the next pole.

5 min: Javiera Toro is rather sorry after having accidentally hit Asllani on the calf. A foul gives Endler an opportunity to clear the lines, but Sweden easily gets it back.

3 min: First shot of the game. A curling center in Sofia Jakobsson is a few meters away. She had a defender nearby and could not shoot cleanly. Sweden wins a corner, which is quickly squandered.

2 min: Sweden played a few passes relatively easily, with a brief interruption in which Chile managed to throw the ball forward.

JR in Illinois: "Hey Beau, it looks like Chile may have an advantage in having a nutrition student on the team because I guess I'm going to win the World Cup, just like Ryan Giggs said in About the Premier League: "It's a war of nutrition". In addition, you can not let us hang. You must now tell us what you eat for lunch.

Some BelVita cookies. Then a diet soda. And because we just celebrated my mother-in-law's birthday, cake. I have lost more than 30 pounds in the last 15 months, so I try to find them.

On the part of a correspondent who played a little high-level football …

We will see! She could be busy today. But so far, it is surely Sydney Schneider (Jamaica) of UNC Wilmington, is not it?

According to the emails, a word from Abhijato Sensarma: "Even though it is known deep in his heart that Sweden should prevail today, a Chilean victory will produce a wave of shock and will make this tournament much more interesting! "

Maybe, but hopefully not all of us in the United States and Sweden have six points each when they meet for first place in the group? The winner would probably face … France. OK, maybe first place is not so desirable.

Please share your thoughts by email or Twitter. Just do not call. I get so many automated calls, especially in the lead up to local elections, that I usually send everything to voicemail.

Random fact: The Instagram account of Chilean striker Rosario Balcameda says she's a "nutrition student."

Please, do not tell him what I eat for lunch.

The pre-game commentary of Fox Sports can be summarized as follows …

Sweden can not score.

Chile can not defend itself.

It is thus the classic pairing "resistance force against a moving object".

Sweden: Intro and programming

Forget the bunker-and-counter of the 2016 Olympic quarterfinals. Sweden can choose teams apart. The Guardian profile tells us that coach Peter Gerhardsson, who replaced American coach Pia Sundhage, played the ball from the back in a dynamic 4-2-3-1 formation.

The star is the veteran Caroline Seger, who played a few years in professional women's football before the closing of the American league and who went through the sumptuous team in Lyon. Kosovare Asllani is a powerful striker who also played a bit in WPS. Nilla Fischer, a long-time player in the German Wolfsburg, provides defensive stability.

The three players are in the Guardian's top 100 worldwide, as are Bayern Munich striker Fridolina Rolfö and young Montpellier striker Stina Blackstenius.

The entries are:

GK: Lindahl
D (r-1): Glas, Fischer, Sembrant, Eriksson
M: Rubensson, Asllani, Seger (captain)
F: Jakobsson, Blackstenius, Rolfö

Chile: introduction and alignment

The South American finalists have a defense and a goalkeeper who will make things difficult. Christiane Endler, who played college football in South Florida, started in goals for Paris St. Germain in the quarterfinals of the Champions League and was named one of the Guardian's 100 best players for leading the Chile at the Copa America Femenina.

Two defenders (Rocio Soto, Su Helen Galaz) play in Spain with Zaragoza; two others (Camila Sáez, Carla Guerrero) play with Rayo Vallecano.

The midfielder and the front line also have some players in the Spanish league. The most famous player of American fans would be Yanara Aedo, formerly of the Washington Spirit. (She also scored the winning goal when the Spirit Reserves won the 2015 W-League Championship – no, not the Australian W-League.)

The entries are:

GK: Endler
D (r-1): Galaz, Guerrero, Sáez, Toro
M: Araya, Aedo, Lara
F: Zamora, Urrutia, Balmaceda

It is therefore six players based in Spain in the defense and the midfield. The attackers are all based in South America.

I took part in a recent refereeing mission in which Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" was thrown in my car. I'm not the type to judge. In addition, when you are a referee, you say that haters will hate, hate, hate, hate, hate is rather indicated.

Good day or evening to all.

Let's see the obvious: the main interest of this game, from the American point of view, is that these teams are the next two opponents in the group game. But it is also a classic confrontation between a perennial competitor and a team that has never been on such a scene before.

Sweden has never won the grand prize at the World Cup nor at the Olympics, but the team has been boring since the beginning of the international game in the 1990s. We also hate to keep bad memories for American fans , but the Swedes eliminated the United States from the 2016 Olympics.

Chile never qualified for anything. The most surprising statistic of the Guardian's profile: 727 players registered in the country are adult players. That's all. But they have made good progress over the past decade, with almost a dozen players in European clubs, most of whom are back-row players.

Beau will be here soon. In the meantime, here are our guides for today's protagonists: