The two finalists in the 2019 Women’s World Cup Final will meet in the quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics, while the women’s national teams of the United States and the Netherlands will meet in Yokohama on Friday.
The United States won the last World Cup at the expense of Orange, and Megan Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle scored within eight minutes as part of the 2-0 win in Lyon that secured the United States their fourth title. The two met again in November 2020, with the United States winning by the same score by scoring goals for LaVille and Christy Moyes.
The United States struggled by their own standards in this competition, despite failing to top their group for the first time since the first women’s soccer Olympics in 1996. Meanwhile, the Netherlands scored a group record with 21 goals, including the eighth in the Olympic record. By Vivian Medema, to go through the opening stage.
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To stand in line:
USWNT XI: number. O’Hara, Dalkemper; Sauerbrunn, Dunn; Ertz, Horan, Moise; Williams, Lloyd, Heath.
Holland Eleventh: van Veenendaal Jansen, Nuen, van der Gragget, Willems; Gronin, van de Donk, Rord; Martins, Van de Sanden, Medima.
The United States comes on the heels of a negative tie with Australia, and this approach has drawn some criticism. The US was a team that prided itself on being both an aggressor and an enforcer at the same time, but it took the form of a more passive defensive side, a team that looked content with a draw and second in the group. True, the win would not have led to a different fate after Sweden moved up the rankings in the group stage, including a 3-0 win over the United States, but Vlatko Andonovsky’s team is starting to change the story now that the knockout stage is here. .
She was in the quarter-finals when the United States lost to Sweden on penalties in Brazil five years ago, the first time the team had failed to reach the gold-medal match. It takes a victory against one of the most dangerous teams still on the field to ensure that fate does not repeat itself this time.
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