Hello everyone, We hope everyone is staying safe during the quarantine. The US has been showing replays of old USWNT and USMNT games. This week the game shown, that we wrote about, was USWNT v Belgium.
Background knowledge: The USWNT was honoring the 20-year anniversary of the 1999 USWNT World Cup win! The 1999 Women's World Cup winners were there to be honored and watch the game. This game took place in Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, California. The players walked onto the field wearing a jersey with the last name of young players they've inspired, The USWNT line up was Alyssa Naeher, Tierna Davidson, Becky Sauerbrunn, Julie Ertz, Ali Krieger, Lindsey Horan, Christen Press, Crystal Dunn, Samantha Mewis, Mallory Pugh, and Carli Lloyd (their starting captain). Megan Rapinoe was not playing for precautionary reasons, and this was the first game Ali Kriger had started in two years.
1st Half
Belgium started with kickoff and it was on. Only a few seconds into the game Christen Press received the ball close to the Belgium box and crossed it into the box but no one was there to get it. Nine minutes later in the tenth minute, Carli Lloyd headed the ball towards the goal but it went wide. A few minutes later in the fourteenth minute Carli Lloyd received the ball in the box and headed it into the goal! The score was 1-0! A few minutes later in the eighteenth minute, Tierna Davidson crossed the ball into the box but the ball was taken by a Belgium player. A few seconds later in the nineteenth minute Crystal Dunn crossed the ball into the box where Carli Lloyd met the ball with her head and headed it into the lower right corner of the goal! The score was now 2-0! Then seven minutes later in the twenty-sixth minute, Lindsey Horan was lined up in the box when a corner kick was sent in. She jumped up, met it with her head, and put it in the back of the net! The score was now 3-0 and all of the goals were headers! A few minutes later in the thirtieth minute, Sam Mewis received the ball but shot it high. Three minutes later in the thirty-third minute, Christen Press served the ball into the box (off a free kick) and Samantha Mewis headed it into the back of the net! The score is 4-0! A few minutes later in the fortieth minute, Christen press received the ball. She curved the ball towards the goal but it went high. The final half time score ended up being 4-0.
2nd Half
Before kickoff, the US made three subs, #24 Ashlyn Harris came in goal for #1 Alyssa Naeher,#7 Abby Dahlkemper came in for #8 Julie Ertz, and #13 Alex Morgan came in for #19 Crystal Dunn. The US started with kickoff and the second half was underway. Twelve minutes later in the fifty-second minute, Carli Lloyd slotted the ball threw to Alex Morgan. Morgan put the ball in the roof of the net! The US was up 5-0! The US was playing a very high press. In the sixty-first minute, the US made 2 subs: #20 Allie Long came in for #9 Lindsey Horan and #26 Jessica McDonald came in for #22 Mallory Pugh. Later in the sixty-ninth minute, Christen Press got the ball inside the 6-yard box and took a touch but shot the ball wide. In the seventy-third minute, the US subbed #25 McCall Zerboni in for #3 Sam Mewis. Then in the eighty-sixth minute, from the left side of the field, Jessica McDonald got the ball after it was crossed to her. McDonald took a one time shot but the ball went over the net. With one minute extra time, Christen Press took the free-kick for the US. Press placed it right in the box for Jessica McDonald who heads it into the back of the net for the US. About ten seconds later the final whistle blew and the US had won the game 6-0!
Later that year the US would go on to win their fourth world cup!
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Smed, Jamie. Carli Lloyd. Flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/49182023@N05/
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