Should USWNT's rain-soaked win vs. Canada have been played at all?

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SAN DIEGO -- Closer to water polo than a game of soccer, Wednesday's Concacaf W Gold Cup semifinal win for the United States women's national team over Canada played out as a bizarre rainy spectacle at Snapdragon Stadium.

With stormy weather impacting a waterlogged field, any and all tactics immediately became irrelevant as 15,245 fans watched both sides fail to do much with a ball that became stuck every few yards in a 2-2 stalemate that was decided in a shootout.

"It's obvious that the game was unplayable," Canada coach Bev Priestman said. "We put in a lot of work in a game plan and within Minute 1, it's thrown out the window."

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