The U.S. women's national team didn't have the sharpest first match of 2020 Olympic qualifying, but it was at the very least a three-point start.
Christen Press's second-minute goal stood up for over an hour, until headers from Lynn Williams in the 67th minute, Lindsey Horan in the 73rd and Carli Lloyd in stoppage-time let the Americans pull away with a 4-0 win in Houston in Vlatko Andonovski's first competitive match as U.S. manager. The relatively modest scoreline keeps the U.S. in second place in its group after the first set of matches, with Costa Rica's 6-1 thrashing of Panama enough to lift the Costa Ricans into first on goal differential.