The USA Women are on course for claiming their third World Cup Title after beating France 3-1 in today's 2011 Women's World Cup Semi-Finals in Germany.

Japan will be the opposition in the Final after they beat Sweden by the same score-line in the later game.

What can I say about this match that hasn't already been said? Japan defeats the home team, and forces all of us to throw away the basic structure of our narratives about this world cup, in which everyone was supposed to be fighting for the chance to lose to Germany.
Japan played a perfect defensive game.

Saturday WWC on ESPN: England – France at noon and Germany – Japan at 2:45pm. Copa America on Univision: Brazil – Paraguay at 2:30pm. TeleFutura has Venezuela – Ecuador at 5:30pm. MLS on Galavision: Kansas City – Chivas USA at 7:30pm. On Fox Soccer: LA – Chicago at 7:30pm. All Times Eastern Sunday WWC on ESPN: Sweden – Australia at 7am and USA – Brazil at 11:30am.

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The World Cup 2011 for women moves into the knock-out stage while the Copa America in Argentina is also up and running. On the second of our summer predictions Damon and Damian try to predict the scores of games involving Brazil, England, France, Japan, Germany, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay.