Top-ranked U.S. women cruise to comfortable 3-0 win over Canada in soccer friendly

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 03, 2025 8:08 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Nine games into her tenure arsenic Canada coach, Casey Stoney got a world cheque Wednesday successful a 3-0 nonaccomplishment to a young U.S. side.

It did not marque for pleasant viewing.

The U.S. had 66 per cent possession, outshot Canada 22-7 (8-3 successful shots connected target) and had a 6-0 borderline successful corners. Canada led successful fouls, 13-5.

Sam Coffey and Claire Hutton scored first-half goals for the top-ranked U.S. successful the planetary affable astatine Audi Field

Yazmeen Ryan added an security extremity successful the 89th minute, beating Kailen Sheridan from the borderline of the punishment container with Canadian defenders backing away.

After going 6-1-1 nether Stoney, the Canadians were outclassed Wednesday.

"Everything's been excessively easy. I deliberation we've played opponents that person been acold lower-ranked. And we travel against the No. 1 successful the satellite and we fell short," said Stoney. "So yeah, I deliberation it's a world check. I deliberation it's a world cheque for everybody.

'It is 1 crippled but it's an accidental to reset. And we request to reset quickly. We request to get players into a carnal information to beryllium capable to execute astatine the highest level. And we decidedly weren't determination tonight."

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Stoney called her team's show "inexcusable" and said her players' fittingness wasn't bully enough.

"A deficiency of committedness and desire, which is not this team," she said. "Losing draws, losing 50-50s, not getting up to the ball, not pressing — it's not bully enough. I'm not going to fell distant from it."

Noting the evening's vigor — It was 29 C, feeling similar 32 C astatine kickoff — Stoney acknowledged the conditions were tough.

"It was warm, I get that. But it was the aforesaid for some teams. And they looked a hellhole of a batch sharper than we did," said a intelligibly unhappy Stoney, who volition person to hold until October for the adjacent planetary window.

It was a 5th consecutive shutout for the Americans, who had antecedently blanked Jamaica, China and Ireland (twice). The U.S. has outscored the absorption 25-5 successful 10 outings this year.

The triumph borderline could person been bigger Wednesday. The Americans moved the shot astir with easiness portion eighth-ranked Canada struggled to get its crippled going connected a lukewarm nighttime astatine Audi Field.

The Canadians, often a measurement slow, gave the shot distant successful the archetypal fractional and were caught abbreviated excessively galore times connected defence arsenic the U.S. attacked.

The Americans went up successful the 17th infinitesimal disconnected a escaped footwear by Rose Lavelle that Canada failed to clear. The shot fell to Coffey, whose debased changeable recovered the country with Sheridan rooted to the spot, for her 4th planetary extremity successful her 38th appearance.

Hutton made it 2-0 successful the 36th infinitesimal disconnected a Lavelle corner, rising unchallenged to caput the shot location past a diving Sheridan. It was a archetypal elder extremity for the 19-year-old Kansas City Current midfielder successful her sixth appearance.

Without a large tourney successful show this year, some coaches person been evaluating their roster depth. Stoney has utilized 35 players this year.

Stoney made 7 changes to the starting 11 that bushed No. 43 Costa Rica connected Friday successful Toronto, with lone Sheridan, fullback Ashley Lawrence and midfielders Jessie Fleming and Julia Grosso retaining their place.

Lawrence has conscionable switched clubs, leaving England's Chelsea for Lyon successful France.

The Canadian starting 11 went into the crippled with a combined 813 caps, compared to 427 for the U.S. Eight of the Canadian starters had 50-plus caps, compared to conscionable 3 for the U.S.

The American women were coming disconnected back-to-back 4-0 wins implicit No. 25 Ireland.

U.S. manager Emma Hayes made 10 changes to the squad that bushed Ireland Sunday, fundamentally reverting to the aforesaid starting lineup arsenic successful the archetypal Ireland lucifer past Thursday. Forward Lynn Biyendolo was the lone holdover.

Sunday's triumph implicit Ireland was the American women's 600th, coming successful the 40th twelvemonth of the women's program. Fifty-three of those wins had travel against Canada.

Canada went into Wednesday's contention with a 4-53-9 all-time grounds against the U.S. successful a rivalry that dates backmost to 1986 erstwhile the Canadian women's programme was established. The Canadians person not won connected American ungraded since Nov. 11, 2000.

In their astir caller meeting, past April astatine the SheBelieves Cup successful Columbus, Ohio, the 2 teams played to a 2-2 gully earlier the U.S. won a punishment shootout 5-4. The Americans besides won by punishment shootout successful the crippled earlier that, the CONCACAF W Gold Cup semifinal successful March 2024.

Canada's past triumph implicit the U.S. was a 1-0 determination successful the Tokyo Olympic semifinal successful August 2021. That was the Americans' archetypal nonaccomplishment to their bluish neighbours since March 2001, successful the radical signifier of the Algarve Cup.

The U.S. had 63 per cent possession successful the archetypal fractional and outshot Canada 8-5 (6-2 successful shots connected target).

Stoney sent connected Nichelle Prince, Shelina Zadorsky, Simi Awujo, Holly Ward, Marie Levasseur and Annabelle Chukwu from the seat successful the 2nd half.

Canada's erstwhile nonaccomplishment nether Stoney was a 1-0 setback April 8 astatine the hands of No. 32 Argentina successful Langford, B.C. — "a crippled we should ne'er lose," said Stoney.

Hayes is 21-2-2 arsenic U.S. manager since her debut successful June 2024, with 2-1 losses earlier this twelvemonth to No. 4 Brazil and No. 7 Japan.

Canada was missing the injured Kadeisha Buchanan, Sydney Collins, Cloe Lacasse, Jayde Riviere, Olivia Smith and Lysianne Proulx.