Who is going to score for the United States versus Canada?
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The question above carries a different tone than it is recent years, when Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd, and any number of USA stars were often competing to see not just who would score in a given game, but who would score the most.
Not so much in Tokyo, where the United States women's national team has been shutout twice and scored six of its eight goals in one game.
Now for the Americans thinking optimistically, the United States women have lost just once in 27 matches under Vlatko Andonovski, winning 23 times.
For those in any other camp, the team that came to Tokyo on a 44-match unbeaten run spanning two coaches, has won exactly one match over 90 or 120 minutes to start life in Tokyo.
Team icon Rapinoe has been shockingly unproductive aside from the brilliant penalty that ended the quarterfinal win over the Netherlands. Lloyd was very good against New Zealand and Morgan also scored in that match, but the team leader for goals in Tokyo is a tie between Lynn Williams and "own goal."
Back on the optimism train, fans could not that the three stars above feel due to deliver the goals against a Canada team that's managed just seven wins and three draws versus the U.S. in 61 matches all-time.
That said, one of those wins came in the knockout rounds of the 2012 Olympics and saw the U.S. get a call so beneficial that Canada and world all-time leading international scorer Christine Sinclair will still be carrying an grudge. This should be a beauty.
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