Nice (AFP)

Sweden finished third in the World Cup for the third time (after 1991 and 2011) after defeating England (2-1) on Saturday in Nice in the "small final".

Kosovare Asllani (11) and Sofia Jakobsson (22) have benefited from the largesse of the English defense.

The team of Phil Neville reduced the score by Fran Kirby (31), but England, third in 2015, finished fourth, like the boys last summer in Russia.

Brilliant throughout the tournament, Lucy Bronze will not have the bronze and Ellen White may miss the Golden Shoe. England missed their last mission, scoring a seventh goal for their striker, top scorer in the tournament tied with American Alex Morgan (6 goals), who can overtake Sunday in the grand final against the Netherlands .

Ellen White ran a lot after that goal. On her first opportunity, an offside was reported, and anyway Nathalie Bjorn had saved the ball on his line (27).

- Ellen White believed it -

She was able to equalize two minutes after the scoring and hold her 7th goal of the competition, but the video revealed that she had helped her hand to control the ball and dominate Sembrant (33).

Then White saw Hedvig Lindhal stopping with his foot his best chance (45 + 6).

In the second half, she had no more ammunition. But it is especially behind that England has sinned.

By dint of playing with fire, his defense ended up burning. Alex Greenwood cleared in the axis, yet proscribed gesture, directly on Kosovare Asllani who deceived Carly Telford flush with his post.

Then the English rearguard let Sofia Jakobsson in his back, for a shot on the post (16).

The next time, the Montpellier played the passivity of Lucy Bronze to score a curling shot to Thierry Henry (22).

Led by two goals, the English finally came out of their torpor, shaken by the beautiful goal of their N.10, Fran Kirby, who cleared Linda Sembrant with a hook to score low (31).

The second period was animated at its very end, with a goal ball on both sides.

Bronze believed tear off the equalizer, but Fischer saved the ball of a head on his line (90), then Nathalie Bjorn stumbled on Carly Telford after a solitary raid (90 + 1)!

Sweden have retained their bronze medal, but England, already in the final square in 2015 and Euro-2017, has made an appointment for the Euro-2021 ... it organizes.

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