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Japan Thursday, 2. July 2015
00:00 Clock 		England
2:1
goals
1 : 0 Aya Miyama 33. / penalty  (Saori Ariyoshi)
1 : 1 Fara Williams 40. / penalty  (Steph Houghton)
2 : 1 Laura Bassett 90. / own goal

18 Ayumi Kaihori
3 Azusa Iwashimizu
4 Saki Kumagai
5 Aya Sameshima
19 Saori Ariyoshi
6 Mizuho Sakaguchi
8 Aya Miyama
9 Nahomi Kawasumi
13 Rumi Utsugi
11 Shinobu Ohno 70'
17 Yūki Nagasato yellow 90'
Substitutes
16 Mana Iwabuchi 70'
1 Miho Fukumoto
21 Erina Yamane
2 Yukari Kinga
12 Megumi Kamionobe
20 Yuri Kawamura
23 Kana Kitahara
7 Kozue Andō
10 Homare Sawa
14 Asuna Tanaka
22 Asano Nagasato
15 Yuika Sugasawa
1 Karen Bardsley
3 Claire Rafferty yellow 31'
5 Steph Houghton
6 Laura Bassett
12 Lucy Bronze 75'
4 Fara Williams 86'
8 Jill Scott
11 Jade Moore
16 Katie Chapman
18 Toni Duggan
19 Jodie Taylor 60'
Substitutes
2 Alex Scott 75'
10 Karen Carney 86'
23 Ellen White 60'
13 Siobhan Chamberlain
21 Carly Telford
14 Alex Greenwood
15 Casey Stoney
7 Jordan Nobbs
17 Jo Potter
9 Eniola Aluko
20 Lianne Sanderson
22 Fran Kirby

Manager: Norio Sasaki

Manager: Mark Sampson


Commonwealth Stadium (Edmonton, AB / Canada)
31.467
Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)
Sarah Walker (New Zealand)
Allyson Flynn (Australia)

Reports

Japan coach Norio Sasaki admitted his side struggled to control England before a dramatic own-goal sealed a 2-1 win at the Women's World Cup and set up a title rematch with the United States....
England's dream run to their first semi-finals at the Women's World Cup came to a heartbreaking conclusion on Wednesday, losing 2-1 to Japan following a dramatic 92nd-minute Laura Bassett own-goal....
Japan coach Norio Sasaki admitted his side struggled to control England before a dramatic own-goal sealed a 2-1 win at the Women's World Cup and set up a title rematch with the United States....
Japanese fans celebrated reaching the Women's World Cup final Thursday but some shed tears of sympathy over the stoppage-time own goal which earned them a 2-1 win over England....
Holders Japan swiped a dramatic 2-1 victory over England thanks to an injury-time own-goal by defender Laura Bassett on Wednesday, setting up a Women's World Cup final rematch against the United States....
Britain's Prince William surprised the England women's football team ahead of their World Cup semi-final against Japan in Canada later Wednesday with a phone call to the squad wishing them good luck for the match....
Norio Sasaki's son-in-law might be English but the Japan coach warned that he would not be swayed by family ties as the champions' try to return to the Women's World Cup final....