Canada upsets U.S. with 1-0 win in women’s soccer

KASHIMA, Japan — Jessie Fleming scored connected a punishment footwear successful the 74th infinitesimal and Canada earned a 1-0 semifinal triumph implicit the United States successful the Olympic women’s shot contention connected Monday.

Canada goes connected to look the victor of the precocious semifinal successful Yokohama betwixt Sweden and Australia. The golden medal lucifer is acceptable for Friday astatine the Olympic Stadium successful Tokyo.

It is the 2nd consecutive Olympics that the United States has been knocked retired of contention for the golden medal match.

The Americans were bounced from the 2016 Games by Sweden successful the quarterfinals. The U.S. squad goes connected to play successful the bronze medal lucifer successful Kashima connected Thursday.

Canada had not won against the United States since 2001.

The Americans, who were vying for their 5th golden medal, had earned a spot successful the semifinals connected a 4-2 punishment shootout aft a 2-2 gully with the Netherlands connected Friday.

But the U.S. had an uncharacteristically uneven tournament, starting with a 3-0 nonaccomplishment to Sweden that snapped a 44-game unbeaten streak, and a scoreless gully with Australia successful the radical stage.

After a scoreless archetypal half, Canada went up 1-0 successful the 74th infinitesimal connected Fleming’s punishment against backup U.S. goalkeeper Adrianna Franch.

Carli Lloyd deed the crossbar successful the 86th infinitesimal that came adjacent to trying it. After the match, Lloyd knelt connected the turf with her caput successful her hands.

Starting goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher came down awkwardly trying to spell up for the shot successful beforehand of her extremity successful the 20th minute.

Naeher was attended to by trainers for immoderate 5 minutes portion the backup Franch warmed up. While she tried to enactment successful the game, Naeher couldn’t proceed and Franch was subbed into the crippled successful the 30th minute.

Naeher was cardinal to the triumph implicit the Dutch successful the quarterfinals, with a punishment prevention during regularisation and 2 much successful the deciding shootout.

Overall, the United States is 51-4-7 against Canada. The astir caller gathering was a 1-0 U.S. triumph astatine the SheBelieves Cup successful February.

The erstwhile Olympic gathering was backmost successful 2012, 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 regularisation — touching disconnected a series that resulted successful the tying goal.

Canada precocious 4-3 connected a punishment shootout aft a scoreless gully with Brazil successful this tournament. The Canadians person won the bronze medal successful the past 2 Olympics.

The United States already precocious further successful Japan than successful the Rio Games, erstwhile the squad was eliminated successful the quarterfinals by Sweden.

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

Rapinoe had the game-clinching punishment footwear against the Netherlands. She came successful aboriginal successful the 2nd half, on with Lloyd and Christen Press.

Lloyd 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 caput disconnected a country from Rapinoe arsenic the United States accrued the pressure.

Fleming’s palmy punishment chilled the Americans’ momentum.

Canada started Sinclair, the all-time starring planetary extremity scorer among men oregon women with 187 goals.

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