The United States battled to defeat England and will play a new world final

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With an exhausting exercise of survival before the Lionesses of England, the women's soccer team of the United States deserved the pass to the final of the World Cup in France, which this Sunday will measure in Lyon either with the Dutch squad or with the one of Sweden.
It was not easy for him to win the opportunity to compete for his fourth crown. The margin was narrow in the score (2-1) and also in the grass, where the last champion was victorious thanks to the goals of Christen Press and Alex Morgan and the penalty stopped by Alyssa Naeher in the minute 84.

Beyond the final agony, the match was undoubtedly the most enjoyable of the tournament for the fans, for the pace imposed from the start and the approach of the two technicians.

They imagined both an equal stake, for the intended end of July 7, and this led to decisions that involved some risk. Phil Neville started Fran Kirby, Karen Bardsley and Toni Duggan; Jill Ellis, the most iconic footballer of the tournament, Megan Rapinoe.

Very soon, however, saw the US coach validated his bet. A lateral center of Kelley O'Hara, habitual resource in the square that in France defends the title that four years ago delivered Canada, looked for the head of Christen Press.

Although her status as a sprinter largely explains her ownership in the first semifinal, the Utah Royals attacker also displayed her air power for the United States to be ahead in the 10th minute (1-0).

That script was the most recurrent, perhaps also the expected, since in all the matches played in this World Cup the United States team was ahead by the quarter hour. In Lyon they sought to execute that income Rose Lavelle, in an exquisite action; and an omnipresent Alex Morgan. It was Christen Press that punished Carly Telford, who by surprise exercised '1' on the English side, recovered the rotation in the goal.

The Lionesses did not accuse that blow and replied almost immediately. Ellen White was able to draw a mask with her fingers for the sixth time in the contest. This is its characteristic celebration.

At 1-1 they followed the doubts in one and in another area. It was tested by the United States, the tender Rose Lavelle, extremely fine in the driving and in the shot while the physicist held her; but his compatriot Becky Sauerbrunn was also about to get an own goal. They only found some comfort in the success of Alex Morgan. On the day of his thirtieth birthday, he gave his family a partial victory. After the break suffered greatly, because the Lionesses did not give up the feat.

The VAR took the second goal from Ellen White, but could also give them the tie and is that, at the suggestion of the Spanish Carlos del Cerro Grande, responsible for the video-arbitration system on Tuesday, the Brazilian collegiate Edina Alves Batista charged as a penalty from Becky Sauerbrunn to Ellen White.

It was the 84th minute. Alyssa Naeher then emerged as a heroine by holding Steph Houghton's shot in her arms. Confirmed, well, the survival of the US team to this demanding test. Of his fourth title, after those achieved in 1991, 1999 and 2015, he is separated one more triumph. Against the Netherlands or against Sweden.