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The Lionesses\u2019 ace player Alex Greenwood has major fan support, including from her long-term partner who happens to be an ex-Premier League player too.<\/p>\n
Alex has been one of the champion players of the Women\u2019s World Cup, earning her 80th cap in the 2-1 quarter-final win over Colombia.<\/p>\n
Follow\u00a0Metro.co.uk\u2019s live blog for scores and latest updates on the Lionesses game today<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old defender\u00a0is at the top of her game for this competition, making more successful passes than any player in the tournament so far.<\/p>\n As the Lionesses take on hosts Australia, we\u2019re sure partner Jack O\u2019Connell will be cheering on from the stands as he has done for the past few weeks.<\/p>\n Jack, 29, is a former Sheffield United centre-back and has been with Alex since they were in sixth form together. <\/p>\n The athletic couple grew up together in Merseyside and met at their sixth-form college Savio Salesian in Bootle.<\/p>\n They keep things fairly low-key, posting the occasional snap on Instagram amid all their footballing wins, although Jack has now retired due to injury.<\/p>\n Jack was benched for nearly two years at Sheffield United due to two major surgeries after a knee and announced in July that he was retiring.<\/p>\n Alex however shows no signs of stopping with the Lionesses storming into the spotlight with their Euros victory and now World Cup success.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m obsessed with football,\u2019 said the Manchester City player to The Guardian last year.<\/p>\n \u2018Often, at home, all Jack and I talk about is football, we watch it and analyse it all the time. People ask what I do to get away from the game but I don\u2019t want to escape it.\u2019<\/p>\n Fans certainly don\u2019t want the Lioness escaping the game as the team pushes through at the Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n Loved-up Jack told Sky Sports: \u2018[I\u2019m] really proud of her. I\u2019ve been there from the very start. I used to go and watch Alex when she was 16. It\u2019s unbelievable how far it\u2019s grown now.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m her biggest critic as well. The standard that she sets herself, she has more to come. <\/p>\n \u2018I get goosebumps when I think about it but I think she\u2019s one of the best centre-halves in the world and she still has gears to go through.\u2019<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/metro-parent\/img\/fallback.png\")
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