{"id":600765,"date":"2025-11-29T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600765\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:38:12","slug":"u-s-womens-national-team-scores-shutout-win-over-italy-in-first-of-two-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600765\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Women\u2019s national team scores shutout win over Italy in first of two friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Women\u2019s National Team (<strong>USWNT<\/strong>) earned their third straight victory in an international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/football\/\" 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Women\u2019s national team scores shutout win over Italy in first of two friendlies&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-football\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-female\\&quot;,\\&quot;apple-news-all\\&quot;,\\&quot;north-america-editorial\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-us\\&quot;,\\&quot;naomi-girma\\&quot;,\\&quot;catarina-macario\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;U.S. Women\u2019s national team scores shutout win over Italy in first of two friendlies&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;u-s-women-s-national-team-scores-shutout-win-over-italy-in-first-of-two-friendlies&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-football&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;FBL&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">football<\/a> friendly on Friday (28 November), besting Italy 3-0 in Orlando, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The five-time Olympic champions looked confident and composed as they took to the pitch against Italy for the first time since 2010, attempting to build on wins over Portugal and New Zealand in late October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivia Multrie<\/strong> set the tone for a one-sided contest early on, converting a perfectly timed cross from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/rose-lavelle\" 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lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Italy did come close to levelling the score when <strong>Chiara Beccari<\/strong> went one-on-one with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/naomi-girma\" 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Women\u2019s national team scores shutout win over Italy in first of two friendlies&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-football\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-female\\&quot;,\\&quot;apple-news-all\\&quot;,\\&quot;north-america-editorial\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-us\\&quot;,\\&quot;naomi-girma\\&quot;,\\&quot;catarina-macario\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;U.S. Women\u2019s national team scores shutout win over Italy in first of two friendlies&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;u-s-women-s-national-team-scores-shutout-win-over-italy-in-first-of-two-friendlies&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-football&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;FBL&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naomi Girma<\/a>, but a turn of speed from the defensive star foiled the Italian forward\u2019s attempt on goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/catarina-macario\" 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Women\u2019s national team scores shutout win over Italy in first of two friendlies&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-football\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-female\\&quot;,\\&quot;apple-news-all\\&quot;,\\&quot;north-america-editorial\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-us\\&quot;,\\&quot;naomi-girma\\&quot;,\\&quot;catarina-macario\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;U.S. Women\u2019s national team scores shutout win over Italy in first of two friendlies&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;u-s-women-s-national-team-scores-shutout-win-over-italy-in-first-of-two-friendlies&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-football&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;FBL&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catarina Macario<\/a> further solidified her side\u2019s lead in the second half, when she converted on a cross from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/samantha-coffey\" 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It wasn&#8217;t long before she was celebrating with her teammates again, as she fired a shot from distance into the goal at the 76th minute.<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0U.S. continued to control possession, Italy found themselves outplayed and outclassed. By the time the final whistle blew, there was little fight left in the European side.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both sides will have a few days to recover and\u00a0strategise, before gearing up for the second match of their double-header on Monday (1 December).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States Women\u2019s National Team (USWNT) earned their third straight victory in an international football friendly on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-600765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115631613708211602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}