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The US run to the 2024 FIFA U-20 Ladies’s World Cup title ended Wednesday evening 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 Ladies’s Youth Nationwide Group’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 extra 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 extra time, then gained 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.
The US defeated Mexico 3-2, routed Paraguay 7-0 with a hat trick from Princeton ahead Pierta Tordin, and topped Mexico 3-2 on their option to the quarterfinals. Tordin is main the U.S. with 4 objectives 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 document this season with eight skilled soccer gamers on the roster. All of them, led by Sentor, are of their rookie seasons with the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League. Different gamers embody 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.
