Carli Lloyd Puts United States Women Up 1-0 Against France With Second Half Goal

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Carli Lloyd is absolutely on fire. In the United States women’s soccer team’s 2016 Olympics opener against New Zealand earlier in the week, the team captain put her squad on the board first. On Saturday she did it again.

In the midst of a plodding, uninspiring performance by the U.S. women against a tough France team, Lloyd finally broke through, finding the back of the net in the 63rd minute.

Here’s another angle:

Tobin Heath deserves a ton of credit for the goal, as her run in the box and initial shot off the post set everything up. But Lloyd just has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. She also tends incite fans into awesome celebrations:

The goal was the 90th of Lloyd’s international career.