Trinity Rodman scored in further time as Emma Hayes’ United States beat Japan within the girls’s soccer quarter-finals at Paris 2024.
After a goalless 90 minutes in a recreation missing high quality at Parc des Princes, Rodman struck a chic curling effort into the top-left nook simply earlier than half-time of additional time.
The USA final gained Olympic gold at London 2012 and are bidding for a fifth Olympic title underneath new supervisor Hayes, who’s teaching the crew at her first main event since being appointed in Might.
They may face Canada or Germany within the semi-finals on Tuesday.
The USA have lengthy been a dominant drive in worldwide girls’s soccer however have dropped off in recent times, struggling their worst efficiency at a Girls’s World Cup in 2023 as they had been knocked out by Sweden within the final 16.
Former Chelsea boss Hayes steered the Blues to 13 main trophies in her 11 years in cost earlier than arriving within the USA, confronted with the problem of turning these fortunes round.
Hayes lower a pissed off determine on the touchline at instances on Saturday, standing together with her palms on her hips or arms folded, throwing her head again at every disappointing missed likelihood by her aspect.
Possibilities had been few and much between however Sophia Smith twice went shut whereas Mallory Swanson couldn’t get her rising shot to dip under the bar, earlier than Rodman’s late aim sparked jubilation from Hayes and a crowd full of USA followers.
