Papua New Guinea will continue to build on its defense in upcoming matches in the FIFA U20 Women's World Cup underway in Port Moresby.
PNG head coach Lisa Cole hopes that her side continues their defensive game to keep their opponents from scoring big margins.
Following the 9-0 loss against Brazil on Sunday night, Cole said they didn’t give Brazil goals, Brazil earned goals and that’s the most you can ask for a team.
“Our hope was always to keep the game as close as possible and we don’t want to give goals but make the teams earn goals.
“When we gave up those goals early then we shifted our game to keep the game contained as much as we possibly can in the second half.
“We played a very good team and they happen to be nine goals better than us however we were hoping we would have at least scored one goal,” she said.
Cole gave credit to players that stood out including goal keeper Lavinia Hola, Nicollete Ageva and Jacklyne Maiyosi.
“Hola was great and I thought she did a very good job stopping some of the goal attempts by the Brazilians.
“I thought Ageva was very good and defended and attacked well and smart.
“Maiyosi was an engine out there and she did a huge amount of work for us,” Cole explained.
She also gave credit to the backline that had some weak moments at times but got better as the time went on.