Macario, Lavelle score 2 each and US downs Uzbekistan 9-0

CHESTER, Penn. (AP) — Rose Lavelle and Catarina Macario every scored a pair of first-half targets, and the U.S. girls’s nationwide group beat Uzbekistan 9-0 on Tuesday to increase the group’s unbeaten streak to 67 video games on American soil.

Trinity Rodman, who got here in as a second-half substitute, scored her first worldwide aim for the USA. The 2021 U.S. Soccer Younger Participant of the Yr is the daughter of former NBA participant Dennis Rodman.

Mallory Pugh, Midge Purce and Ashley Sanchez additionally scored for the USA, which opened the sport with its youngest beginning lineup — averaging 24.98 years — since 2007.

The U.S. group additionally defeated Uzbekistan 9-1 in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday within the first sport of the two-game sequence. Sophia Smith had a hat trick within the victory.

The Individuals have only one extra worldwide window, in June, to organize for CONCACAF World Cup qualifying in July.

“I believe we’re going to face groups that sit in a low block in qualifiers, so I do assume this can be a good take a look at for that,” Lavelle stated.

An personal aim simply 25 seconds into the sport gave the USA the early lead at Subaru Park, house of Main League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union.

Macario, who performs professionally for Lyon, scored within the twelfth minute and in first-half stoppage time. Lavelle’s targets got here within the twenty fifth and twenty seventh minutes.

Pugh scored within the 14th for her fifth worldwide aim, serving to the U.S. to a 6-0 lead on the break.

Rodman’s aim within the 71st got here in her third look for the USA. Simply 21, Rodman performs professionally for the Washington Spirit of the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League.

Puce and Sanchez added late targets.

“I believe the extra time we get, the extra enjoyable it’s going to be and the extra we’re going to have the ability to join,” Lavelle stated. “I believe there’s so many various those who we are able to go to, to step up in a giant second.”

Aubrey Kingsbury made her debut for the nationwide group in aim. At 30, she’s the oldest participant in group historical past to earn her first cap.

Naomi Girma, the No. 1 decide within the 2022 NWSL draft by the San Diego Wave, additionally made her debut for the USA. The typical caps among the many beginning lineup was 21, and it was the primary time since 2013 that the group didn’t begin a participant with 100 or extra caps.

The U.S. group was initially scheduled to play a group from Asia for the worldwide break however that group needed to pull out. Coronavirus and European World Cup qualifying made discovering a brand new opponent troublesome.

Two veterans, Becky Sauerbrunn and Megan Rapinoe, have been left off the roster for the 2 video games in opposition to Uzbekistan due to harm. Julie Ertz lately introduced that she was anticipating her first youngster, and Crystal Dunn can be pregnant.

Different veterans who weren’t with the group included Alex Morgan, Tobin Heath and Christen Press as coach Vlatko Andonovski continued to emphasise younger gamers in preparation for CONCACAF qualifying this July in Monterrey, Mexico.

The Ladies’s World Cup is ready for subsequent yr in Australia and New Zealand.

The U.S. group’s unbeaten streak on American soil contains 60 wins and 7 attracts.

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