It's too bad Little plays for Scotland. I really enjoyed watching her play for Great Britain in the Olympics and wish we could see her play more often.
First mistake by Sauerbrunn results in the Scotland goal. I was about to comment on how she hadn't turned the ball over all day. Granted, that was a poor clearance. But I do appreciate how she keeps possession of the ball normally, compared to Beuhler's hoofing it upfield.
54' 3-1 #10 Beattie crosses under duress from 14m box left to 6-top center. Sauerbrunn(?) swings waist-high roundhouse, volley-hooks ball clear -- but lays down a bunt into a huge void at 15m center. #8 Kim Little runs on first from above box top, blasts a riser through traffic into the upper right 90. Welp -- wide-open shot, either it'll hit something in the way or not. 55' 3-1 USA subs in (3 of 6) #12 Lauren Cheney for #20 Abby Wambach.
How does one report that without laughing? That's NHL bad. Bill Belichick and the Shanahans are going to try that.
Oh crud. I have feed problems and missed Boxxy's goal. Also, which defender passed the ball to Little? I could not tell. And shouldn't have Barnhart had that ball?
58' 3-1 Scotland test O'Hara down box right, cross to 9m right post. Rampone lunge-heads clear, her follow-through pancakes #?, no call. 59' 3-1 USA chip over midfield and hit Leroux(?) streaking down box left. Just before endline, she crosses into traffic, USA 1-v-1 manage to backheel it to Press at 14m 6-left. Press scrambles like a QB out of the pocket, goes centerward to box top center, shoots hard slightly left of center, Faye nearly wrong-footed but palms it down. Cheney hops into a 1-v-3, but never has angle to shoot, and Faye smothers it.
Was that Press that disrupted that near-goal for the US? Couldn't tell, but 2 US players run into each other in the box after a nice setup by Leroux.
60' 3-1 Scotland outraces O'Hara or Sauerbrunn through box top mid-right, to 14m still with a 1-step lead, but shoot wide left. 63' 3-1 Leroux surges down through 6-top left, defender does well to occlude her shot. She lays off square to 6m center -- Lloyd comes back for it just at the worst-possible time, collides with Press charging unmarked down the pipe. Not even a shot, ball bounces backward.
Yeah, one of them was facing away from the goal, the other was in position for a pretty easy finish. Still not sure which was which from this web stream.