Canada upsets U.S. in women’s soccer, denies Americans shot at gold

KASHIMA, Japan — Carli Lloyd, clutch successful truthful galore captious moments for the U.S. women’s shot team, failed to link against Canada connected Monday nighttime and the Americans won’t play for a 5th Olympic golden medal.

Lloyd’s look successful the 86th infinitesimal with the United States trailing by a extremity deed the crossbar arsenic Canada won 1-0 and dropped the Americans into the bronze medal match. It is the 2nd consecutive Olympics that the U.S. failed to scope the golden medal game.

The Americans were bounced from the 2016 Rio Games by Sweden successful the quarterfinals.

As Canada celebrated wildly astatine Ibaraki Kashima Stadium, Lloyd knelt to the turf with her caput successful her hands.

“That wasn’t bully enough,” said Lloyd, the oldest subordinate connected the U.S. squad astatine 39 and playing successful what was apt her past large tourney with the nationalist team.

The U.S. mislaid starting goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher erstwhile she came down awkwardly aft going up for the shot astir the 20th minute. Trainers attended to her for immoderate 5 minutes arsenic backup Adrianna Franch warmed up connected the sideline.

Naeher tried to enactment successful the game, but was replaced by Franch successful the 30th minute.

Canada pounced successful the 74th infinitesimal connected Jessie Fleming’s punishment kick, which gave Canada its archetypal triumph against the United States since 2001.

Fleming booted her PK past a diving Franch and took disconnected toward the sideline, sliding connected her knees earlier teammates swarmed astir her.

The U.S. volition play for the bronze connected Thursday successful Kashima against Australia.

Canada volition play for the golden Friday astatine Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium against Sweden, which downed the Australians 1-0 successful Yokohama.

Canada features Quinn, a midfielder who volition go the archetypal openly transgender jock to triumph an Olympic medal.

Quinn won bronze successful 2016 earlier coming retired arsenic transgender.

It is the 2nd consecutive Olympics that the Americans, the two-time defending World Cup champions, volition not play for the golden medal. The squad was uncharacteristically uneven successful Japan, starting with a 3-0 nonaccomplishment to Sweden that snapped a 44-game unbeaten streak.

The Americans bounced backmost to bushed New Zealand but past came a scoreless gully with Australia successful the radical stage. A 4-2 punishment shootout against the Netherlands connected Friday precocious the U.S. to the semifinals.

The nonaccomplishment of goalkeeper Naeher intelligibly wounded the U.S. She was cardinal to the triumph implicit the Dutch successful the quarterfinals, with a punishment prevention during regularisation and 2 much successful the deciding shootout. After the semifinal loss, she was connected crutches.

The erstwhile clip the U.S. played neighbour Canada successful the Olympics was 2012 successful a arguable semifinal lucifer that went to overtime. Canadian prima Christine Sinclair scored 3 goals, but the United States won it 4-3 connected Alex Morgan’s header successful the 123rd minute.

The contention stemmed from questionable calls, including a uncommon six-second usurpation against Canadian goalkeeper Erin McLeod precocious successful regulation. That touched disconnected the series that resulted successful the tying goal.

“For those of america that were portion of the 2012 team, it’s bully to get a small revenge successful an Olympic semifinal,” Sinclair said.

After her celebrating teammates had started to permission the field, Sinclair laid down connected the tract successful relief.

“I was conscionable sitting determination reasoning however arrogant I americium of this team,” she said. “It’s a precise unsocial group. It’s a peculiar radical and I’m truthful arrogant to beryllium a portion of it.”

The Canadians person won the bronze medal successful the past 2 Olympics.

“I deliberation this is my archetypal nonaccomplishment ever to Canada,” Megan Rapinoe said. “It sucks not to beryllium capable to vie for a golden medal, which is what we wanted. Not a large performance, either. That’s the astir frustrating thing.”

U.S. manager Vlatko Andonovski has been originative with his lineups passim the tournament. On Monday, Lynn Williams, primitively an alternate, started her 2nd consecutive game. Lloyd, Rapinoe and Samantha Mewis were connected the seat to start.

Lloyd really had 2 attempts against Canada. She fired disconnected a changeable successful the 65th infinitesimal that forced Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe to leap to propulsion it implicit the crossbar. A abbreviated clip later, Labbe stopped Julie Ertz’s header disconnected a country from Rapinoe arsenic the United States accrued the pressure.

“Definitely had a spot of a momentum displacement determination successful the 2nd half, and came connected strong,” Labbe said. “I deliberation for america it was astir staying choky defensively and that’s thing we’ve done each tournament.”

Fridolina Rolfo scored successful the 46th infinitesimal for Sweden successful its triumph implicit Australia. The Swedes besides went to the last successful the 2016 Olympics, but fell to Germany and took location the silver.

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