EDMONTON, Alberta — It started as an entrancing match of the foundation against the guerilla, a transformative pull of war in ladies' soccer, with the United States attempting to keep up its hold as a customary force and Colombia attempting to leap forward to another period of equality.
Furthermore, for a half on Monday, yearning Colombia held the Americans scoreless in their round-of-16 amusement at the Women's World Cup with a dauntless youthful goalkeeper named Catalina Perez, a redshirt sophomore at the University of Miami who is however 20.
At that point carelessness and inability bested affirmation for Perez, who was given a red card in the 47th moment for clearing out the legs of Alex Morgan at the edge of the punishment zone.
Playing a lady down, Colombia got to be helpless, and the United States won, 2-0, preceding a meager group declared at 19,412 with objectives by Morgan and Carli Lloyd and, all the more dependably, with a safeguard that has not let the ball into the net for 333 minutes.
Morgan seems resuscitated after an extensive nonattendance due to a bone wound in her cleared out knee. Over all, however, the American assault stays unpredictable and unconvincing. Abby Wambach missed an extra shot on Monday, and triumph accompanied a tremendous potential expense to the midfield.
The starters Megan Rapinoe, a winger and the Americans' most inventive player, and Lauren Holiday, a holding midfielder, both drew their second yellow cards of the competition Monday, bringing about programmed one-amusement suspensions. Morgan Brian and Christen Press will be their probable substitutions against China, which will likewise have had two additional days of rest.
"We're simply going to need to continue pushing ahead," Lloyd said. "They will certainly be missed, yet doubtlessly we've got a profound squad."
With Brazil wiped out, Colombia was the last group from South America staying in this World Cup. Monday's match was connecting with on various levels, not the slightest of which was social.
The Americans are the recipients of four many years of Title IX, a government law precluding segregation in view of sexual orientation that has broadly expanded ladies' chances to play sports. Colombia's players, by difference, experienced childhood in a Latin American culture in which ladies were viewed as unfeminine just for kicking a soccer ball.
"Folks, men, not needing you to play — 'this isn't a lady's diversion; you're masculine,' " Perez said before the match. "Be that as it may, I feel like we're opening another way for all of soccer to develop in Colomb
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