The Football Ferns’ modest form leading into the FIFA Women’s World Cup hasn’t deterred a leading global sports data analyst company from predicting they will make the knockout stage.<\/p>\n
Gracenote has released its predictions ahead of the global tournament, to be played in New Zealand and Australia, with the Football Ferns,\u00a0who will play their first match against Norway in Auckland on Thursday night,\u00a0<\/a>tipped to be among the 16 teams who qualify for the playoffs.<\/p>\n Although the Football Ferns record leading into the World Cup isn’t flash, their 2-0 win over Vietnam in Napier on July 10 was just their fourth win in 24 games under coach\u00a0<\/a>Jitka Klimkov\u00e1,<\/a>\u00a0Gracenote has crunched the numbers and declared they have a 60% chance of making the cut.<\/p>\n The Football Ferns, who have never won a game in a World Cup tournament, are tipped to be the 15th team to progress through to the the knock-out stage, with Denmark to fill the 16th and final spot.<\/p>\n France are predicted to have the best chance of charging into the post-section stage. They have been listed at the top of the rankings on 96%, followed by Brazil, Sweden, Spain and Germany on 95%.<\/p>\n Defending champions USA have given a 92% chance of advancing.<\/p>\n SOURCE STFF NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Football Ferns’ modest form leading into the FIFA Women’s World Cup hasn’t deterred a leading global sports data analyst company from predicting they will make the knockout stage. Gracenote has released its predictions ahead of the global tournament, to be played in New Zealand and Australia, with the Football Ferns,\u00a0who will play their first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6510,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions\/6510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}