FIFA Women’s World Cup, Group H: Germany’s Popp looks for WWC 2023 glory, Team previews, analysis

Germany and South Korea might be tipped to take the one-two place on this group, whereas Colombia and Morocco have particular person stars who may create a ripple or two.

Incidentally, the group contains of 4 runner-ups of their respective confederation competitions from final 12 months.

Here is a preview of the 4 groups from Group H within the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023:

Colombia

This would be the South American nation’s first World Cup look since 2015.

Colombia has one of the vital proficient younger forwards within the recreation in Linda Caicedo. Caicedo, 18, was the top-scorer within the U-17 World Cup in India, throughout Colombia’s loss within the ultimate, has been fast-tracked to the senior staff. She additionally earned a switch to Real Madrid firstly of the 12 months.

The trio of Caicedo, Mayra Ramirez and Manuela Vanegas had scoring contributions within the Copa America and might be trying to replicate that contact Down Under.

Ramirez, who performs for Levante, has a complete of 25 purpose contributions (14 objectives, 11 assists) this season.

Germany

Germany will need to put behind its disappointment of the Euro ultimate from final summer time and obtain glory on the world stage. It’s been 15 years since Germany received the World Cup and it hasn’t made the ultimate within the final three editions.

Voss-Tecklenburg’s group possesses the right combination of youth and expertise sprinkled with world-class high quality to go all the way in which. However, within the lead-up to the World Cup, Germany was surprised by Zambia, the lowest-ranked staff within the World Cup in a pleasant final week.

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Striker Alexandra Popp, who missed the Euro ultimate, might be essential to Germany’s probabilities. She was the top-scorer within the ladies’s Bundesliga and has the knack of ending probabilities and scoring out of nothing.

Bayern Munich’s Lea Schuller was proper behind her within the scoring chart with 14 objectives within the Bundesliga. Midfielder Jule Brand, 20, is one other star ready to make a mark on the World Cup.

South Korea

South Korea surprised the Asian Cup event favorite Australia within the quarterfinals final 12 months and misplaced the ultimate in dramatic circumstances when it blew a 2-0 result in lose 3-2 within the ultimate minute.

Quite a bit will relaxation on the boots of diminutive artistic midfielder Ji So-Yun. Ji, 32, can affect play together with her set-piece capability and her creativity together with her line-breaking passes from deep. The former Chelsea participant additionally has a knack for scoring from distance.

Ji may even want the assist from midfielders Cho So-hyun and Lee Geum-min to step up.

Morocco

Morocco got here narrowly near profitable its first AFCON title however couldn’t maintain on to its 1-0 lead within the ultimate. With star Tottenham Hotspur ahead Rosella Ayane in its ranks, the African nation will dare to dream and hope to trip on the momentum from the boys’s staff’s displaying in Qatar late final 12 months.

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Whatever the consequence, this might be an enormous second for girls’s soccer within the nation in what might be its first-ever World Cup look.

In the build-up, Morocco held Italy and Switzerland to goalless attracts however fell to a 1-0 defeat to Jamaica.