The USWNT will not go away Japan empty-handed.
Group USA beat Australia 4-3 on Thursday within the bronze medal sport of the ladies’s soccer event on the Tokyo Olympics. Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd every scored two objectives to assist the USWNT finish their run within the competitors on a excessive word. Sam Kerr, Caitlin Foord and Emily Gielnik netted for an Australia crew, which was searching for its first Olympic medal in ladies’s soccer.
Rapinoe scored her first purpose of the sport within the eighth minute immediately off a nook kick.
After Kerr tied the sport within the seventeenth minute, Rapinoe struck dwelling a volley within the twenty first to place Group USA forward as soon as once more.
Lloyd elevated Group USA’s result in 3-1 with a purpose simply earlier than halftime. She scored once more within the 51st minute, giving the USWNT a 4-1 benefit and setting a U.S. report together with her tenth profession Olympic purpose.
Foord’s and Gielnik scored within the 51st and ninetieth minutes, respectively, however the USWNT held on for the win.
Afterward, Lloyd and USWNT captain Becky Sauerbrunn hailed the group’s decided response to their semifinal loss to Canada.
“That was the U.S. mentality,” Llyod mentioned, per The Related Press. ” … I am extraordinarily happy with the way in which we persevered, they means we turned issues round. We’re going dwelling with a medal, and there is not any better feeling than that.”
“It’s totally satisfying,” Sauerbrunn mentioned, per The AP. “I feel all of us realized we did not play the very best this complete event,” U.S. captain Becky Sauerbrunn mentioned. “… To point out the USA mentality and the resiliency, to place the efficiency in that we wished to be taking part in the whole time, and to lastly discover it in a sport like that — very satisfying.”
Though the USWNT did not accomplish the unprecedented feat of following its 2019 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup triumph with an Olympic gold medal, it nonetheless has one thing tangible to point out for its marketing campaign in Tokyo.
