America’ run to the 2024 FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup title ended Wednesday night time within the semifinals with a 1-0 loss to Korea DPR. Nonetheless, the People will face the Netherlands within the third-place match at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 21 at Estadio El Campín in Bogotá, Colombia, for a bronze medal. Korea will face Japan within the championship.
This was the U.S. U-20 Girls’s Youth Nationwide Crew’s first semifinal look since 2016, when the squad additionally misplaced to Korea DPR. It was the seventh U.S. journey to the semifinals. This time round, North Korea has been dominant, outsourcing opponents 24-4 in six matches.
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The U.S. reached the semifinal after two dramatic additional time victories together with a penalty kick shootout within the knockout stage. Trailing 2-0 in opposition to Germany within the quarterfinals, the USWYNT scored twice in stoppage time to pressure additional time, then received 3-1 in PKs. Jordynn Dudley scored within the 98th and captain Ally Sentnor discovered the again of the web a minute later. She, Riley Jackson and Leah Klenke transformed penalty kicks whereas goalkeeper Teagan Wy secured the victory by blocking Germany’s fourth try.
America defeated Spain 1-0, topped Morroco 2-0, routed Paraguay 7-0 with a hat trick from Princeton ahead Pierta Tordin, and bested Mexico 3-2 on their option to the quarterfinals. Tordin is main the U.S. with 4 targets and Sentnor has three.
This would be the fourth look within the third-place match for the U.S., which has one bronze medal from 2004.
The USWYNT set a report this season with eight skilled soccer gamers on the roster. All of them, led by Sentor, are of their rookie seasons with the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League. Different gamers embrace Kansas Metropolis’s Claire Hutton, Angel Metropolis’s Gisele Thompson and Savy King, Orlando’s Ally Lemos, North Carolina’s Riley Jackson and Seattle’s Emeri Adames and Jordan Bugg.
