Brazil Women eliminate Olympic hosts France | OneFootball

Gabi Portilho of Brazil celebrates after scoring against France. (Richard Callis/SPP)

Brazil beat France 1-0 in the Olympic Quarter-Finals, Germany and Spain went through on penalties and USA edged Japan after extra-time.

Gabi Portilho made the breakthrough on 82 minutes for Brazil from Adriana’s through ball. The post denied her a second but after almost 20 minutes of stoppage-time, Brazil were into the last four. France had missed an early penalty won when Tarciane brought down Delphine Cascarino, Sakina Karchaoui’s spot-kick saved by Lorena.

Jennifer Hermoso (10 Spain) celebrates after her teammates scores right before full-time. (Ane Frosaker / SPP)

Spain clawed back a two-goal deficit to eventually knockout Colombia in a shoot-out. Goals by Mayra Ramirez and Leicy Santos had the South Americans in dreamland but that advantage would be wiped out in the latter stages. Salma Paralluelo assisted in both replies, as Jenni Hermoso pulled one back in the 79th minute and Irene Paredes dramatically levelled in added time. No further goals followed in extra time but a decisive penalty was converted by Aitana Bonmati.

Elisa Senss #14 and Kathrin Hendrich #3 of Germany celebrate victory. (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

A goalless 120+ minutes took Germany and Canada to penalties, in which keeper Ann-Katrin Berger gave the Germans an unassailable 4-2 lead. Berger had saved spot-kicks by Ashley Lawrence and Adriana Leon. Germany’s Sydney Lohmann had almost won in in the extra half-hour but saw her header come back off the crossbar.

Trinity Rodman of United States scores against Japan. (Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images)

A goal in added time of the first-half of extra-time saw USA defeat Japan. Trinity Rodman broke the deadlock, after which both Riko Ueki and Remina Chiba went close to taking the tie to penalties.

Semi-finals – Tuesday 6 August

USA v Germany (5pm, BST) Brazil v Spain (8pm, BST)

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