Sophia Smith scored in extra time and Alyssa Naeher delivered a clean sheet during the U.S. women's soccer team's Olympic semifinal win over Germany.
In the past eight weeks Emma Hayes has managed to do what the last two coaches of the women’s national soccer team couldn’t do in the past eight years, which is get the U.S. to the gold-medal match in the Olympic Games. The Americans accomplished that Tuesday, advancing to the final of the Paris Games with a 1-0 extra-time win over Germany before a sparse crowd at Stade de Lyon, where the U.S. won its last World Cup in 2019.
But it wasn’t easy against a German team missing captain Alexandra Popp to illness and veteran forward Lea Schuller, its leading scorer in the France, with an inflamed tendon in her left knee. Despite that, the 2016 Olympic champions, ranked fourth in the world by FIFA, a spot ahead of the U.S., kept the Americans off the board for 95 minutes with Berger making seven saves. a; The U.S.
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