With teenager Jaedyn Shaw and Alex Morgan, who is not a teenager, combining for three first-half goals, the U.S. women’s national team routed Argentina 4-0 in group play of the CONCACAF W Gold Cup on Friday, running its unbeaten streak to 21 games.
Unbeaten in regulation time, that is.
The qualifier is important because four of those games ended in ties, including a scoreless draw with Sweden in the round of 16 at last summer’s World Cup. Sweden ended up advancing on penalty kicks, sending the U.S. home short of the semifinals for the first time in tournament history.