Alex Morgan scored a pair of first-half targets and the U.S. girls’s nationwide crew defeated Haiti 3-0 on Monday evening within the opening match of the CONCACAF W Championship.
The event determines the area’s 4 direct berths within the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
Midge Purce additionally scored for america, which has received the previous two World Cups.
Morgan opened scoring for the U.S. within the sixteenth minute with a heel flick off a go from Mallory Pugh that received previous Haiti goalkeeper Lara Larco.
Morgan’s second aim got here on a header within the twenty third minute.
Haiti was awarded a penalty within the forty second however Roselord Borgella’s try hit the put up and caromed away. Borgella was handed a pink card within the forty fifth, however video assessment rescinded the decision and she or he was given a yellow.
The USA appeared to attain on an personal aim within the 78th, however Megan Rapinoe was dominated offside. Purce scored her fourth worldwide aim within the 84th.
U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski praised Morgan and stated he was happy with the outcome, though there’s issues to work on earlier than the Individuals face Jamaica on Thursday.
“On the opposite facet, we gave up quite a lot of alternatives, gave up a penalty kick. That’s one thing we’re going to must do higher and tie up a couple of issues for the subsequent sport,” Andonovski stated.
Eight groups are cut up into two teams for the W Championship. The highest two finishers in every group earn World Cup berths. The third place finishers in every group advance to a 10-team intercontinental playoff, to be held in New Zealand in February.
The winner of the W Championship additionally earns a spot within the 2024 Olympics.
Haiti has by no means certified for a World Cup or an Olympics. Along with america and Haiti, the group consists of Jamaica and Mexico.
Canada, Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad & Tobago are within the different group.
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