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For 106 minutes, the United States and Japan slogged through their 2024 Olympic women's soccer quarterfinal to the point of occasional jeers from the crowd due to the slow, passive nature of the game. To call it a chess match would be generous; tactical wit was offset by technical lapses that prevented a breakthrough.
Then came the inevitable: Trinity Rodman.
Rodman collected a long diagonal ball -- a tactic the USWNT largely avoided prior to that -- from Crystal Dunn, then cut inside of Japan defender Hikaru Kitagawa and smashed a left-footed shot into the far upper corner to clinch a 1-0 victory.