Extra Time with GirlsontheBall
Sep 18, 2026 · 27 min · 8 segments
Join Sophie and Rachel as they discuss England's defeat in the round of 16 at the hands of Nigeria. The Super Falcons arrived with their shooting boots on fire and put three passed the Young…
Well, you're going to have to give our listeners and our viewers a bit of a rundown of the game.
It didn't start well and then it didn't get much better for England.
They definitely weren't at the races and I definitely, Nigeria were confident coming into this one.
Understandably, you score 10 goals in a game, you're going to be confident in front of goal and they were good.
Their press was good.
They put England under pressure and they scored some good goals.
England even got a penalty that they didn't convert successfully.
Super safe.
Kind of the story of England's game, I think.
And I think maybe the group stage deceived...
I don't know what the phrase is.
Was deceptive?
Was deceptive, yes.
Or
it didn't kind of...
Yeah, yeah.
They had lost to Spain, which everyone does, drawn with China, and then put 10 past New Caledonia.
And so it was kind of... not really knowing what kind of Nigeria was going to turn up.
But I think they executed their game plan really, really well.
And they had the players to do it.
I think that first, you know, the first goal came within seven, eight minutes.
And it came from an error.
It was a pass out that got cut out.
Well, you're going to have to give our listeners and our viewers a bit of a rundown of the game.
It didn't start well and then it didn't get much better for England.
They definitely weren't at the races and I definitely, Nigeria were confident coming into this one.
Understandably, you score 10 goals in a game, you're going to be confident in front of goal and they were good.
Their press was good.
They put England under pressure and they scored some good goals.
England even got a penalty that they didn't convert successfully.
Super safe.
Kind of the story of England's game, I think.
And I think maybe the group stage deceived...
I don't know what the phrase is.
Was deceptive?
Was deceptive, yes.
Or
it didn't kind of...
Yeah, yeah.
They had lost to Spain, which everyone does, drawn with China, and then put 10 past New Caledonia.
And so it was kind of... not really knowing what kind of Nigeria was going to turn up.
But I think they executed their game plan really, really well.
And they had the players to do it.
I think that first, you know, the first goal came within seven, eight minutes.
And it came from an error.
It was a pass out that got cut out.
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