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The United States women’s national team will square off against Sweden on Sunday in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The knockout stage begins with the Round of 16 where the two teams are long-time rivals and will meet for the seventh time in a World Cup tournament. Despite the lengthy history between them, this is the first meeting in the knockout rounds.
It’s been a disappointing tournament so far for the USWNT, how exit Group G in second place after winning only one of three matches and drawing the other two. Things started out promising with a 3-0 win over Vietnam before somebody took away the team’s scoring boots. A 1-1 draw against the Netherlands required a second-half comeback, with Lindsey Horan scoring the equalizer., and most surprisingly a 0-0 draw against Portugal left the U.S. behind the Netherlands in the group.
The result means that the USWNT has a much harder round of 16 match than they might have expected. Still, they head into this game as favorites, and, alongside England, remain one of the two teams bookmakers have as the favorites to win the tournament. But their path is much harder than it could have been. Even if they do manage to get by Sweden, a difficult task, especially when you consider that this the side that beat them at the Olympics, Japan, perhaps the World Cup’s biggest surprise, await them in the quarterfinals.
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