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ASN: U.S. Girls Change the Topic, Dominate Colombia

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ASN: U.S. Girls Change the Topic, Dominate Colombia
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Arrests? Poorly thought of Twitter “jokes”? Not Wednesday evening. As an alternative, the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce performed an incredible sport of soccer, crushing Colombia and giving the federation a jolt of optimistic PR.

BY

John D. Halloran

Posted
April 06, 2016
10:40 PM

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The Individuals began quick with 4 first-half targets and located three extra within the second stanza. Crystal Dunn, Allie Lengthy (2), Mallory Pugh, Carli Lloyd, Tobin Heath, and Christen Press tallied for the U.S. Listed here are three ideas on the sport.

LONG MAKES MOST OF SURPRISE START

When U.S. Soccer introduced the roster for these two matches in opposition to Colombia, various followers raised their eyebrows on the inclusion of Allie Lengthy.

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Whereas Lengthy had earned a handful of appearances for the U.S. prior to now, she final performed for the Yanks in 2014 and, when Ellis did start experimenting with new personnel after the 2015 World Cup, she didn’t embrace Lengthy.

Regardless of that—and regardless of being six months faraway from her final aggressive NWSL match—Lengthy made essentially the most of her alternative. (An harm to Morgan Brian little doubt helped Lengthy discover her method into the beginning lineup.) 

Ellis deployed Lengthy because the lone holding midfielder in a newfangled 4-1-2-3, and the Portland Thorns product maintained glorious positioning within the first half. Sitting in entrance of the U.S. middle backs, Lengthy repeatedly pressured the Colombians once they did acquire possession, stifling their assaults earlier than they actually acquired began.

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On the offensive facet, Lengthy jumpstarted the U.S. assault with incisive ahead passes, picked up two targets of her personal, and allowed Lloyd and Lindsey Horan to play larger up the sector. All in all, Lengthy’s efficiency gained’t harm her possibilities of sneaking into Ellis’ Olympic plans. 

AN AESETHIC WIN

All through a lot of 2014 and 2015, the U.S. girls gained video games however lacked the aptitude one would possibly usually anticipate from a No. 1-ranked workforce. Nonetheless, in 2016, the workforce has continued the spectacular play that began late within the knockout rounds throughout final summer season’s World Cup. On Wednesday, that development continued with the workforce placing collectively crisp passing combos completed with excellent attacking play within the ultimate third.

Whereas the U.S. scored a variety of spectacular targets, the play of the evening got here from Tobin Heath, who beat 4 Colombian gamers on the dribble in simply the fifth minute of play.



The play didn’t lead to a aim as Dunn fired the ensuing shot proper on the keeper, however the skillful play stood in stark distinction to the staid—and infrequently bungling—fashion the U.S. males’s groups have displayed in recent times.

LOOKING AHEAD

No workforce has ever gained a World Cup and Olympic gold in back-to-back years, however coming off three wins within the SheBelieves Cup in opposition to England, France, and Germany final month, the U.S. seems to be the odds-on favourite to take action.



Wednesday’s skillful exhibition was one other indication of simply how relaxed the U.S. girls are proper now. Ellis’ 4-1-2-3 appeared to open up the American assault much more than the 4-2-3-1 that the workforce modified to throughout final summer season’s World Cup and gamers like Heath and Dunn appear hungrier than ever.



Add into that blend 17-year-old Mallory Pugh—who has now began six of the workforce’s final seven video games and picked up a aim and an help on Wednesday—and the U.S. seems primed to take residence the final word prize this summer season in Rio.

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