Dogged Jamaica maintain France to 0-0 end in World Cup opener

A dogged efficiency by Jamaica noticed them maintain group favourite France to a 0-0 consequence of their opening recreation of the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup contained in the Sydney Soccer Stadium in Sydney, Australia on Sunday.

Following a string of below-par performances from a variety of the extra elite groups, France, crushed quarter-finalists at their very own World Cup 4 years in the past, and the quantity five-ranked group on the planet, have been odds on to get a consequence towards the quantity Forty third-ranked Jamaicans.

Nevertheless, the Europeans have been made to work very arduous for each blade of grass within the Group F encounter. They went closest to opening the rating late within the second half when attacker Kadidiatou Diani crashed a header off the cross-bar and the correct upright.

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Jamaica, via captain Khadija Shaw, pressured goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin right into a diving save following a rasping free-kick.

Shaw was later proven a second yellow card by referee Maria Belen Carvajal and can now be suspended for Jamaica’s second recreation towards Panama in Perth on July 29.