91Èȱ¬

Summary

  • Bassett own goal as tries to clear cross

  • Defender distraught after full-time whistle

  • Rafferty & Duggan struck Japan crossbar

  • Japan will face USA in final, Monday 00:00 BST

Live Reporting

Tom Rostance

  1. Japan 1-0 England

    England work it well down the left and tee up Claire Rafferty takes a strike from 25 yards, it's on her wrong foot though and she swings it well over the top. England win a corner though, they're well in this...

  2. Japan 1-0 England

  3. Japan 1-0 England

    Lucy Bronze wins a throw-in high up the pitch and Japan don't look comfortable with set-pieces. Toni Duggan almost gets a shot off but she is well closed down. England look a threat.

  4. Japan 1-0 England

    Sue Smith
    Former England forward

    Aya Miyami is a quality player, she was so long waiting to take the penalty and I thought this is Karen Bardsley’s but she sent her the wrong way - that’s confidence for you.

  5. Japan 1-0 England

  6. Japan 1-0 England

    Rachel Brown-Finnis
    Former England goalkeeper

    That is hugely disappointing for England. There had not been much between the two teams but England need to quickly respond.

  7. Japan 1-0 England

    Soft. that's what that penalty decision was. England don't need to panic, there's all sorts of time left.

  8. Japan 1-0 England

    Sue Smith
    Former England forward

    Aya Miyama celebratesGetty Images

    It’s a good run from Saori Ariyoshi and she gets the wrong side of Claire Rafferty, she does have two arms on her back, and when you do that the referee is going to give a penalty isn’t she?

  9. goal

    GOAL

    Japan 1-0 England - Aya Miyami (Pen)

    Aya Miyama takes a penaltyGetty Images

    Japan captain Aya Miyami takes an age, a stuttering run-up, but she eventually steps up and steers into the bottom corner. England with it all to do now, Japan don't concede many.

  10. Japan 0-0 England

    Rachel Brown-Finnis
    Former England goalkeeper

    It starts outside the box. With her momentum she will fall into the box. It was untidy from Claire Rafferty.

  11. PENALTY to JAPAN

    Claire Rafferty commits a foulGetty Images

    Claire Rafferty gets the wrong side and puts an arm on the back of Saori Ariyoshi - that's a penalty...

  12. Japan 0-0 England

    England are nearly as big as lies you've told your parents. That is legacy.

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    Japan 0-0 England

  14. 'England are thinking about their passing'

    Japan 0-0 England

    Rachel Brown-Finnis
    Former England goalkeeper

    The difference between England's performance today and in other games is that the long balls forward are not just aimless, they are thinking about the pass and trying to keep possession.

  15. Japan 0-0 England

    Well played Toni Duggan. She collects a throw on the left, turns inside and wriggles past two defenders to get a cross in but it's well cut out by goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori.

    Jill Scott then crosses for Duggan but Dugs leans back and fires her volley well over. Difficult take, she was 15 yards out and the ball was coming from a height, it needed a Mark Hughes style scissor kick. That was more Merv Hughes.

  16. Japan 0-0 England

    Nothing wrong with the ball over the top, if it works. Japan have clearly got the edge on keeping possession but England loo to have the physical edge. Jill Scott holds off two defenders easily down the right to illustrate my point. 

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    Japan 0-0 England

     England ladies are a ball over the top team nothing else going for us it's not pretty, but whatever it takes to win.

     Wow... Japan are so fast on the counter.

    Watching the game live on my Emirates flight thanks to onboard wifi, worrying thing is that the plane is headed for Tokyo.

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  18. Japan 0-0 England

    Sue Smith
    Former England forward

    It was just a snap-shot and Toni Duggan has the ability to do that and we have seen it in the Women’s Super League.

  19. Japan 0-0 England

    Mark Sampson applaudsGetty Images

    Mark Sampson applauding energetically as Japan goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori lumps the ball out of play following a spell of pressing form his players. The pattern of game is set now, England will be without the ball for long periods.

    Alistair Magowan, 91Èȱ¬ Sport at Commonwealth Stadium

  20. Japan 0-0 England

    England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley always gives you a chance, and she misjudges a long ball forward and is relieved to see the ball bounce over her and over the vacant goal too. She was rescued by an offside flag but that was not very convincing...

    Fans still arriving at the ground as Toni Duggan swivels to strike over the bar from a tight angle. Not afraid to have a dig, is Dugs.