Japan has progressed to the Japan Advances to Quarter-Finals following Miyazawa’s victory.
Hinata Miyazawa scored her fifth goal of the occasion as Japan beat Norway 3-1 in a battle of former champions on Saturday to attain the quarter-finals of the Girls’ World Cup for the fourth time.
Japan has been on a mission to bury the memory of their disappointing exit on the last-16 stage in 2019 and so they’ll now switch on to play the winner of Sunday’s battle between holders America and Sweden.
Although they conceded their first goal of the occasion to Guro Reiten’s header, an private goal from Norway’s Ingrid Engen along with second-half strikes from Risa Shimizu and Miyazawa obtained them all through the highway in entrance of a crowd of 33,042.
Miyazawa’s 81st-minute goal moved her out of a tie with Germany captain Alexandra Popp as a result of the occasion’s important goalscorer along with matching Homare Sawa’s Japanese file for a World Cup set in 2011 when the Nadeshiko clinched the title.
