FIFA Women's World Cup 2023: Portugal v USA highlights brought to you by Optus Sport on August 1, 2023 at Eden Park, Auckland.
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00:00 Here's Fox and that's played cleverly in behind and this could be dangerous.
00:04 Lynn Williams square and wide of the post from Alex Morgan.
00:07 Well like you were saying, Rose LaValle, this USA team are a different outlet when she starts.
00:12 She's so creative but look at this, a simple ball down the line for Lynn Williams, gets her head up.
00:17 And it is Rose LaValle who delivers and it's flicked on at the knee,
00:21 opposed dangerously by Williams, collected by Ines Pereira.
00:25 She's got something to prove, hasn't she, Lynn Williams?
00:30 You know, the first game that she started.
00:31 Girmes forward ball for the United States.
00:37 Here's Horan, she's onside here, Sophia Smith.
00:39 Lynn Williams is in the middle, Sophia Smith, curling ball, is heading in that direction.
00:47 Good save.
00:48 Really good ball into Lynn Williams.
00:53 Excellent header as well.
00:54 Well saved.
00:56 There's only one thing on Sophia Smith's mind, wasn't it?
01:00 Crystal Dunn with the throw in.
01:02 Morgan.
01:06 Don't think she's kept that in play.
01:08 It's stabbed goalwards and then put over the top of the crossbar.
01:12 Now...
01:13 Did Alex Morgan keep that ball in play?
01:18 So close, so tight, wasn't it?
01:23 The first time probably that she's got in behind around the defenders.
01:28 So tight to call, but all credit to the Portugal defence and Pereira.
01:34 Kika Nasri, that's a good hit.
01:36 This 20-year-old really is some prospect.
01:40 She's finding some great space, isn't she?
01:42 That's the left-back, Crystal Dunn, coming infield because no one's closing her down.
01:46 And Alissa Neher in goal had every right to make sure that that was going over.
01:50 Norton's ball is picked off by Lindsay Horan.
01:57 Smith to her left.
01:58 Morgan, here's the chance.
02:01 Morgan, tight angle.
02:02 And stopped on the line.
02:06 Diana Gomes in the right place.
02:10 Really sloppy by Portugal, wasn't it?
02:12 Giving it away centrally to Horan, who loves to run.
02:15 It's a ball into the box, which is flicked up and over the top of the crossbar.
02:22 Off the head of Alex Morgan.
02:25 It's always hard when the set-piece taker curls it in like that to get some purchase on it.
02:29 We're an hour in, goalless, and scooped in, and the header is wide.
02:37 From Williams, who again is the player on the end of the chance.
02:42 She's the one the opportunities have mostly fallen to.
02:45 Especially in the air.
02:47 Quality of pass that Megan Rapinoe does give you.
02:54 Well, the flick on is dangerous, and they might be in.
02:57 This is the chance. It's off the post.
02:59 Eneka Petr hits the post for Portugal.
03:03 And if that had gone in, the United States were heading out of the World Cup.
03:08 Out of the World Cup!