England vs Colombia – Women’s World Cup: Live score and updates as the Lionesses look to reach their third semi-final in a row

Follow Mail Sport’s live blog as England and Colombia go head-to-head in the Women’s World Cup quarter-final.

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Linda Caicedo’s twinkle toes have already sent Germany packing and the breakout star of the Women’s World Cup now has England in her sights.

The Colombian sensation, just 18, has dazzled audiences worldwide during the tournament – but she has already overcome so much merely to make it onto the football field.

Three years ago, Caicedo was battling ovarian cancer amid the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic and her prospects of even playing the game again, let alone gracing a World Cup, were uncertain.

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This should catch the attention of England fans because the winners will be waiting the Lionesses in the next round if they manage to beat Colombia today.

Similarly, Colombia manager Nelson Abadía has made just one change to the team that earned a hard-fought victory over Jamaica in the round of 16 with Manuela Vanegas coming into the fray.

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England have arrived in Sydney and are preparing to come out for their pre-match warm-ups with kick-off just under an hour away.

Sarina Wiegman has named her side to start against Colombia and makes just one change from the team that beat Nigeria on penalties with Ella Toone replacing the suspended Lauren James.

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There have been many adjustments to an English working life for Sarina Wiegman, not least the encounters with cows, when she jogs in the country lanes around St George’s Park. ‘They run away when I come by,’ she told a Dutch writer before this World Cup. ‘Dutch cows would stay put,’

Managing this national team has been unlike anything she has known. She was astonished last summer to find a brief national obsession with the £67 Marks & Spencer suits she was wearing.

‘But the focus on the cheap biros from Bruna, the Dutch booksellers and stationers, she used to make notes on the touchline in the tournament was something else. ‘All the attention for my four-colour pen!’ she told Patrick van Ijzendoorn of De Volkskrant. ‘I am not going to stand on the sidelines with a gold pen, am I?’

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What will be written in the next chapter of the Anglo-Colombian footballing story, no one can say for sure.

England’s Lionesses take on Colombia in a World Cup quarter-final this morning in the latest instalment between the two countries.

So complicated, controversial and frankly cuckoo has the history been between these two nations, anything could happen when Sarina Wiegman’s team line up against Colombia in Sydney.

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Good morning and welcome to England’s Women’s World Cup quarter-final clash against Colombia. We’ll be bringing you all the pre-match build-up and minute-by-minute updates of this mouth-watering clash.

Kick-off in Sydney is at 11.30 UK time.

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