Women’s football at the 2020 Olympics has already reached the knockout stages after the group game concluded with match day three on Tuesday.
All eight remaining teams participated in the competition with real medal jumps and no one has disappointed so far, with the group game not throwing up anything unexpected during the surprise qualifiers for the knockout rounds.
USA fought unexpectedly in the group stage / Brad Smith / ISI Photos / Getty Images
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UK and Canada took the automatic knockout places from group E, with Netherlands and Brazil automatically qualifies from Group F and Sweden and USA comes from group G.
There were two more quarter-final spots as the top two third-placed teams, that was Australia and hosts Japanese. Zambia were the third placed side to miss, while Chile, China and New Zealand were knocked out by finishing bottom in their respective groups.
The Netherlands scored 21 goals in three group games / Francois Nel / Getty Images
UK vs Australia
Sweden vs Japan
Netherlands vs USA
Canada vs Brazil
All four quarter-final bands will be played on Friday, July 30.
The race of promises to be that between the Netherlands and the United States. The Dutch scored a ridiculous number of goals in the group stage – 21 in three games – and the Americans have struggled with their own usual standards and expectations before the tournament.
Canada won bronze in both 2012 and 2016 / Atsushi Tomura / Getty Images
Great Britain / Australia vs Sweden / Japan
Netherlands / USA vs Canada / Brazil
Each semi-final is played on Monday, August 2, where the two winning sides compete for the gold medal match at Japan National Stadium on Friday, August 6. The two losing semifinalists will fight for the bronze 24 hours earlier on Thursday 5 August.
It is likely that the Netherlands could eliminate a clearly vulnerable and subordinate US team in the quarterfinals and deny the Americans a medal for the other consecutive games.
The Dutch would also like to beat either Canada or Brazil in the semis.
On the other side of the bar, Sweden looks like a likely challenger to continue after such an impressive group game and it is becoming increasingly difficult to see anyone beat them to gold.
Great Britain could make the semi-final and maybe land a bronze medal.
Gold: Sweden
Silver: Netherlands
Bronze: UK
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