Women's World Cup 2023 - Quarterfinal Network Visualisations

I start with an admission: of the predictions I made in my last post except for the USA vs Sweden match, where the diagram disagreed with footballing knowledge, the diagram was wrong. 

But I'm still going to carry on making the network diagrams because I enjoy it and because they look pretty. 

The community views look particularly pretty this time, but let's start with the usual network diagrams that look at the links between teams.   

The club team closest to the centre is Manchester United, while France and England are the national teams closest to the centre. 

Denmark and Norway being eliminated has broken up the Nordic+Australia pack at the bottom. There's now a cluster of 5 teams (Netherlands, France, England, Sweden and Australia) with Spain and Colombia sticking up and Japan sticking out at the bottom. 

The club teams with the most representatives are Manchester City (with 12 players representing them), then Real Madrid and Barcelona (with 11) and Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain (with 9). 

As I mentioned, the community views are very pretty.  

There are 8 teams left, who are now each their own community. 

For the quarterfinals, the diagram's predictions are as follows: 

Spain vs Netherland - Knowledge and diagram says "ooooooh" because that should be a good match. 

Japan vs Sweden - Diagram says Sweden, knowledge says Japan, Japan's players tending not to play overseas, is a thing, and that will affect the diagram. 

Australia vs France - Diagram says France, Knowledge says France are mis-firing but have depths of talent and are mercurial France! vs home town Australia so, who knows. 

England vs Colombia - Diagram and knowledge say England, although they've been making tough work of it so far.