{"id":440295,"date":"2023-07-22T01:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440295"},"modified":"2023-07-22T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T10:38:12","slug":"us-kicks-off-their-womens-world-cup-with-an-easy-3-0-over-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/us-kicks-off-their-womens-world-cup-with-an-easy-3-0-over-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"US kick off their Women&#8217;s World Cup with an easy 3-0 over Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Smith scored a brace for the United States in the opening half and the two-time defending champions kicked off the Women\u2019s World Cup with a 3-0 victory over tournament first-timers Vietnam on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Horan added the third goal for the Americans, who have won four World Cups overall and are considered to be the favorite to win again this year.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam, on the other hand, were surprisingly resilient, keeping the game closer than expected as goalkeeper Tran Thi Kim Thanh even savedAlex Morgan\u2019s first-half penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Should the United States top the group, the team will head to Sydney for the round of 16.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ca_ZlS7A4Lg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Smith scored a brace for the United States in the opening half and the two-time defending champions kicked off the Women\u2019s World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":440300,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20334,18729],"news_category":[14236,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[20336,18730],"acf":{"announce":"the USWNT managed to get their first win of the tournament where they are seen as the main favorite ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440295"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440295"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}