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The Melbourne City striker helped the co-host nation take the lead after returning from the locker room on Thursday in the opener between New Zealand and Norway.
We were expecting Norwegian Ada Hegerberg, but it was New Zealand player Hannah Wilkinson who scored the first goal of this World Cup on Thursday, July 20, in the opening match for Group A between New Zealand and Norway. After a lackluster first half, the striker opened the scoring by taking over, alone from six yards, a swift cross from Jacqui Hand in the 49th minute.
Something to wake up Eden Park in Auckland, whose team has never won a World Cup match in five appearances so far. In this pool which also includes Switzerland and the PhilippinesNorwayI left with the favorite label. With this inaugural achievement, Hannah Wilkinson succeeds the French Eugénie Le Sommer, first scorer of the last World Cup against South Korea.