the Goal was the 29-year-old stjärnanfallarens 100:e in landslagströjan and she became the USA’s seventh football player on the women’s side to reach the milestone.
– go up on the three-digit is a accomplishment I do not take lightly, ” says Alex Morgan to ESPN.
Morgan’s historic goal was also beautiful, then she sprinted past an australian defender with the ball under full control, folded inward in the plan and placed where the ball with the right foot in the 14th minute. Home crowd cheered and Morgan shaped a heart with his hands.
after half an hour and even took a 2-1 lead in the beginning of the second half. But the reigning world champion U.S. put three goals on a button, a quarter, turned the match again, and won by 5-3 after a final injury time goal by 20-year-old tvåmålsskytten Mallory Pugh.
in just over two months starts the world CUP in France, where the united states plays in the same group as Sweden, Chile and Thailand.
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