Saturday, August 6, 2016

Soccer: U.S. women march on with 1-0 defeat of France (Reuters)

2016 Rio Olympics - Soccer - Preliminary - Women's First Round - Group G USA v France - Mineirao - Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 06/08/2016. Carli Lloyd (USA) of U.S. celebrates. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

By Andrew Downie RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A goal from captain Carli Lloyd gave the U.S. women's soccer team a barely deserved 1-0 win over France on Saturday in a hard-fought match in Belo Horizonte. The U.S. captain was in the right place at the right time with 63 minutes gone to knock the ball into an empty net from two meters out after Tobin Heath's shot had come back off the post and left keeper Sarah Bouhaddi stranded. The win came against a French team that struggled to hit the target and failed to beat U.S. keeper Hope Solo in her 200th international match.


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