{"id":110802,"date":"2023-07-31T15:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/?p=110802"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:28:43","slug":"super-falcons-potential-opponents-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/super-falcons-potential-opponents-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Who can Super Falcons play in Women&#8217;s World Cup Round of 16?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/super-falcons-vs-ireland-prediction-womens-world-cup\/\">Super Falcons<\/a> of Nigeria played Ireland's women's team in their last Group B match of the 2023 FIFA Women's World.<\/p>\n<p>The game with Ireland took place at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia at 11:00 am Nigeria time on Monday, 31 July.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Falcons only needed a draw to scale through to the next round, and they got what they wanted, playing out a goalless draw with Ireland to make the Round of 16<\/p>\n<p>Australia finished first on six points after recording a comprehensive 4-0 win over Canada to reach the next round. They will next play Group D runners-up.<\/p>\n<p>With Nigeria ending the group in second place on five points after a favourable result against Ireland, let's look at their possible opponents in the next round.<\/p>\n<h2>Super Falcons' Round of 16 opponent<\/h2>\n<h3>Super Falcons came second in Group B<\/h3>\n<p>The Super Falcons will meet Group D winners (likely England) courtesy of their second-place finish in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>However, we'd like to point out that England are yet to play their last game in Group D. Currently, England women's team top Group D with six points.<\/p>\n<p>England next play China on Tuesday in a match the Chinese will be desperate for all three points in order to qualify, while a draw will confirm the Lionesses as group winners.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, if China fail to pick up a win against England, and Denmark beat Haiti, the Danes will finish as runners-up in Group D, and will play the World Cup host, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Falcons will start the knockout rounds on 7, August 2023, as they look forward to making remarkable progress in this year's tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Falcons of Nigeria played Ireland&#8217;s women&#8217;s team in their last Group B match of the 2023 FIFA Women&#8217;s World. The game with Ireland took place at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia at 11:00 am Nigeria time on Monday, 31 July. The Super Falcons only needed a draw to scale through to the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":110803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no"},"categories":[33143,1],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Barend Prins","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111035,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110802\/revisions\/111035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110802"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=110802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}