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Japan Enter Second Successive World Cup Final with Laura Basset’s Gift of an Own Goal - Kridangan Sports
England’s World Cup dream lay shattered in one of the cruelest ways. With 30 seconds left and the match poised at 1-1, Japan's Nahomi Kawusumi unleashed an excellent curling ball for some of her colleagues to tap it into the goal but in trying to clear that cross, England’s Laura Basset sliced it into her own goal. With the final whistle being blown soon after, it was all over for England. Until then, Mark Sampson’s Lionesses had conducted themselves excellently and their defense was particularly solid. Japan looked technically accomplished but their penetrating forward line was th