Katrina Guillou got here near delivering the Philippine ladies’s nationwide soccer group’s first aim on the 2023 FIFA World Cup.
But her shot close to the penalty field on the fifteenth minute mark was known as offside and the Filipinas finally fell to Switzerland, 2-0, to kick off their marketing campaign.
While the US-born Filipina ahead would have wished to convey dwelling the victory for the Philippines, particularly with the entire nation throwing its assist to them, there are some positives she might take away from the sport.
“Yeah, I think we started off pretty strong, we made things pretty difficult for them, we were popping into spaces and covering a lot of the gaps. But unfortunately, we weren’t able to get goals,” Guillou mentioned within the post-game interview.
“But for a first World Cup and debut game, there’s a lot of things we can take into our next game.”
Moving ahead, although, Guillou expects for them to proceed to enhance with two extra preliminary video games in opposition to host New Zealand and Norway on July 25 and July 30 remaining.
“Definitely, we’re looking to get on to the scoreboard this time. We definitely had some good moments.”
Guillou additionally took the time to point out love and appreciation to all of the followers again dwelling and people who flew to New Zealand to look at their video games reside.
“Just wanna say thank you for all the support they’ve been giving us. We really appreciate it. It felt like there’s a 13th man on the field and that really inspired us. it really was able to keep us going.”
—Bea Micaller/JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
