It will be another few days, at least, before we have any real sense of what this team might do in this tournament.
An on-form Smith looks like no one else, evasive on the field as a flying ace. The 22-year-old was the MVP of the National Women’s Soccer League in 2022 and is the league’s leading scorer this season, with 10 goals and five assists in just over 1,000 total minutes so far. To say Smith beats her defenders seems wrong; “beats” implies that there was a somewhat-even contest that she came out on top of.
. Smith having a good tournament is the easiest route available to the U.S. for World Cup success this year.This game was unlikely to tell us anything positive about the USWNT, even before Vietnam attempted to turn it into a wrestling match and to make the U.S. look like Shaquille O’Neal in a three-point shooting contest. Still, the U.S. cleared the bar in front of it. Olympic high-jumpers trip over the curb sometimes, but that’s not what happened here.
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