In the game billed as “The Rematch,” American star Alex Morgan played the role of villain once again.
Morgan scored twice to lift world No. 1-ranked United States to a 3-0 victory over Canada’s women’s soccer team Sunday. It was the first meeting between the North American rivals since Canada’s heartbreaking 4-3 loss to the U.S. in the Olympic semifinals, and the Canadians’ first game back home since they won bronze in London.
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Sydney Leroux, a Canadian-born striker who plays for the U.S., drew boos from the crowd when she kissed the badge on her jersey after scoring the Americans’ third goal.
Morgan, whose goal in the 123rd minute in that memorable Olympic semi sealed the U.S. victory, scored her first Sunday in the 70th when she cut inside defender Emily Zurrer, firing from the top left corner of the 18-yard box and slotting it past Canadian ‘keeper Erin McLeod into the right corner of the net.
Morgan’s second goal came two minutes later from the identical spot.
Leroux scored seconds before the final minute when she ran in on a breakaway, placing the ball past McLeod.
The so-called friendly was anything but for the two teams, who had battled goal-for-goal in last summer’s Olympic match that will go down as one of the most memorable games in Canadian soccer history — women or men.
Canada’s captain Christine Sinclair recorded a hat trick in that match that turned on a controversial free kick. Referee Christina Pedersen awarded the kick to the Americans in front of Canada’s net, claiming McLeod took longer than the allowable six seconds to put the ball back into play.
Sunday, BMO Field’s 22,453 fans — a record for a soccer game at BMO Field — loudly counted off the seconds each time American ‘keeper Nicole Barnhart took a goal kick.
Those were arguably the most entertaining moments of a sloppy affair that saw the Americans dominate possession in the first half, keeping Sinclair under wraps. She finally got free for a decent shot on net in the 48th minute, but fired it over the net.
Morgan had a clear path to the net several minutes later, but 17-year-old rookie defender Kadeisha Buchanan — the only starter for No. 7 Canada on Sunday who wasn’t on the London Olympic team — was quick enough to get in Morgan’s way.
Buchanan cleared a ball off the goal-line a minute later.
Canada’s best scoring chance came in the 90th minute when national team newcomer Tiffany Cameron had an open shot from just outside the six-yard box that she fired wide right of the net.
Canada would go on to beat France for the bronze in London, capturing the country’s first Olympic medal in a traditional team sport since 1936.
Sunday’s game featured 15 of the 22 starters from that nailbiting Olympic semifinal.
But the rematch, the Canadian players had been saying all week, was as much about thanking their fans for the outpouring of support as it was about getting a result against their southern foe.
BMO Field was a sea of red and white for the game that sold out in less than two hours. Young girls dressed in soccer jerseys, and tiny Canadian flags tucked into their hairbands, dotted the crowd. It appeared there wasn’t a person in the south grandstand that wasn’t waving a Canadian flag.
Despite last summer’s result, the Canadians knew they were in tough against an American team that has now won 36 straight games. The Canadian women have an all-time record of three wins, five draws and now 45 losses in 53 international matches against the might Americans, and have never won at home, tying them once and losing six times in seven home matches dating back to 1990.
Canada last beat the U.S. at the 2001 Algarve Cup, a 3-0 victory.