The US girls’s nationwide soccer crew entered the Tokyo Olympics driving a outstanding 44-match successful streak.
That run got here to a screeching halt Wednesday in opposition to a crew the USWNT has struggled with up to now.
The 2-time defending FIFA Girls’s World Cup winners had been blanked 3-0 by Sweden in each crew’s first contest of the 2020 Video games. Stina Blackstenius scored the Swedes’ first two objectives within the twenty fifth and 54th minute, whereas Lina Hurtig discovered the again of the online within the 72nd minute.
As some may keep in mind, it was Sweden that crushed the People’ gold medal desires in 2016 when it edged out Alex Morgan and Co. in penalty kicks in Brazil. Sweden went on to assert the silver medal in these Video games.
Thankfully for the USWNT, Wednesday’s loss got here in group play and never within the knockout stage. Their subsequent Group G match can be Saturday in opposition to New Zealand, adopted by a Tuesday tilt in opposition to Australia.
