The match between Canada vs Ireland waa very interesting and Canada really needed a win to maintain the first position of their table in Group B, though Ireland were leading with a goal but the Canada women who where so ambitious for a goal equalised due to an own goal from the Ireland defence making the first half of the game to end with a 1 - 1 draw, the presence of the Canadian attacker Christine Sinclair was felt in the team when she got in, because was very good with the goal holding and created some good chances that would had led to goal, it was a wonderful performance from the Canadian women they played fantastically and pressed more which made them had another brilliant goal from Leon at the 53rd minute of the match which later ended 2 - 1 in full time.
Another player that had a wonderful performance was the Arsenal women's player and Irish captain Katie McCabe, she opened the goal scoring with a stunning goal at the fourth minute of the game, scoring directly from the corner, and also had a brilliant game though they lost making them to sit at the bottom of the table. The super falcons of Nigeria would be having a match against Australia tomorrow and only time would tell if Australian would come top on the table or lose to the super falcons.
Yes an interesting game it was, Canada were rattled in the first half, Ireland played aggressively
and didnt give Canada time on the ball. The Irish goal by McCabe was very spectacular - corner
kick curling into the net off the back post. I'm sure a lot of bookmakers were just a little fearful
at that point that Ireland just might have been able to win...but if course it was a long way to
try and hold that lead.
The OG just before half time was kind of against the play of the first half where Canada were
not effective in their attack play and I think Ireland had slightly more possession.
Second half was very much different, 3 changes at half time for canada changed the
dynamics of the team and they were way more effective attacking, that coupled with
Ireland not being able to hold possession was only going to result in one outcome.
Canada were definitely worth their favourite status in the end.
