Miyazawa strikes once more as Japan beat Norway

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Hinata Miyazawa scored her fifth objective of the event as Japan beat Norway 3-1 in a conflict of former champions on Saturday to achieve the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup for the fourth time.

Japan have been on a mission to bury the reminiscence of their disappointing exit on the last-16 stage in 2019 and they’re going to now transfer on to play the winner of Sunday’s conflict between holders the United States and Sweden.

Although they conceded their first objective of the event to Guro Reiten’s header, an personal objective from Norway’s Ingrid Engen in addition to second-half strikes from Risa Shimizu and Miyazawa obtained them throughout the road in entrance of a crowd of 33,042.

Miyazawa’s 81st-minute objective moved her out of a tie with Germany captain Alexandra Popp because the event’s main goalscorer in addition to matching Homare Sawa’s Japanese document for a World Cup set in 2011 when the Nadeshiko clinched the title.