Team USA Qualifies for World Cup. Coach still not impressed.

By Czeska Dumali, writing from Ottawa

“It was crap” was how US coach Pia Sundhage described the match against Italy this weekend. Although happy to have qualified for Germany, the coach was describing more of the poor performance in the first 20 minutes in Toyota Park.

The scoreline of 1-0 was the same as the first leg of the World Cup playoff series between the US and Italy. Lone goals scored in each leg by Alex Morgan and Amy Rodriguez was enough to get them through. However both teams missed a series of chances that could have gone either way.

(Source: matchcentre)