Opinion, match Norwegian Women vs Philippines Women: Dreams come true

The Philippine women are only considered as the paving team of Group A of the 2023 Women's World Cup when the team of Southeast Asia and just attended the biggest tournament on the planet for the first time. However, after 2 matches played, the Philippines made the opponent look at them with completely different eyes.

In the opening match, the Philippines Women also lost only 0-1 to the strongest team in the Swiss Women's group. A few days later, the girls of coach Stajčić created a shock when they defeated the New Zealand Women's home team with a score of 1-0. Thus, the Philippines Women has gone down in history as the first Southeast Asian team to win the Women's World Cup finals.

Not stopping, the above victory has opened the door to continue to the knockout round. Accordingly, the Philippines Women are only behind the second-placed New Zealand Women's team by goal difference and if they have a point against Norway Women in the final match of Group A, they can absolutely win tickets to the next round. This is a possible scenario when Norwegian Women is an unstable team when they won exactly 1 time in the last 7 matches.

- Norwegian Women: Mikalsen; Bjelde, Mjelde, Harviken, Hansen; Maanum, Risa, Reiten; Eikeland, Roman Haug, Haavi.

- Filipino women: Davies-McDaniel; Long, Cowart, Beard; Barker, Quezada, Sawicki, Eggesvik, Dador Harrison; Bolden, Guillou.