Thank you for joining me. It’s Italy’s night and it’s a historic one with the team through to their first women’s major semi-final since 1997. Cristina Girelli is the heroine for her side with two excellent goals and she will hope her form continues when they play either Sweden or England. That quarter-final will take place tomorrow and you can join us for all of that action. For now catch up with the thrilling last eight match from tonight below.
Adam has emailed and said:
Your question about the state of the Norwegian team is the same as mine. I feel like Norway are falling victim to what seems to be the classic football thing of trying to shoehorn their biggest named players into the team at all costs for fear of the fallout if they lose. Surely the Norwegian players know how talented they are and how well they “should” be doing, and I wonder what the Norwegian media and fans have made of this. If the players have awareness of any criticism I suspect that would weigh heavily on top of them falling short of their own standards too. But what a match, and I thoroughly agree with Charles Antaki -- the more entertaining team has gone through!
Ah so are you saying they should bench some of their stars? I think an error was made tonight of playing them out of position. Guro Reiten needs to be higher up the pitch, she is lethal in front of goal for Chelsea and it seems like a missed opportunity to have her at the back.
