August 6, 2023August 7, 2023 by Willem

Sunday/ Sweden, by a hair 🙈

A goal is scored in soccer when the ball completely passes over the goal line, between the goalposts, and beneath the crossbar at either end of the soccer field. It first appeared that US goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher had successfully stopped Lina Hurtig’s penalty kick, but a video review revealed that the ball had crossed the line, by a hair.
Of course: one could argue that it should not have come to a penalty shootout in the first place— that the US team should have bested Sweden by at least one goal in regular time, or in extra time.
[Images from Fox Soccer @FOXSoccer on X]

Sweden won the penalty shootout, 5-4, to eliminate the United States from FIFA’s 2023 Women’s World Cup.

The American team was billed by some as the favorite to win yet again, after winning two consecutive champion-ships, in 2015 and 2019.

Fridolina Rolfo scoring Sweden’s first goal of the shootout, past the outstretched arms of U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher on Sunday.
[Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images]

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