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Roundup: U.S. beat Colombia 2-0 in style, England stun Norway

Xinhua, June 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

The United States missed a penalty kick, but still saw off Colombia 2-0 to advance into the quarter-finals of the 2015 Canada Women's World Cup on Monday, while England stunned Norway with a 2-1 comeback win in another match of the Round of 16.

Colombia surprised everybody with a brilliant first-half performance to play out a quite balanced 45-minute match, when the U.S. found no clear chance to score.

The turnaround came right after the break when Alex Morgan cut in with a through ball to face goalkeeper Catalina Perez, who brought down her outside the penalty area. Perez received a red card but Abby Wambach shot wide on her penalty kick in the 46th minute.

But the Americans did not wait long as Morgan shot pass substitute goalkeeper Stefany Castano in a close range after 53 minutes. They were awarded another spot kick as Megan Rapinoe was brought down in the penalty area and Carli Lloyd calmly converted it this time in the 66th minute.

Rapinoe and Lauren Holiday will miss the quarter-final match against China for two yellows cards on aggregate.

The underdogs England also produce an upset after Lucy Bronze scored one of the best goals in the tournament.

After a modest first half, Norway took the lead from Solveig Gulbrandsen, who headed in a corner nine minutes after the break.

Nobody expected England level just seven minutes later as Steph Houghton got connection on a corner with her head in a fight with two defenders to give England a 1-1 tie.

It was Bronze who scored the winner with a powerful strike outside of the penalty area, and goalkeeper Ingrid Hjelmseth only had time to palm the ball into the roof of the net.

England set up a meeting with the hosts Canada in the last eight round. Endi