No player had scored in 6 straight Women's World Cup games — until CarliLloyd 😍 FIFAWWC
her on-point effectiveness as a veteran on the US Women's National Soccer Team. With her two goals in the US's second game of the group stage, she became the only player to score in six consecutive Women's World Cup matches. And it was against a Chilean goalie, Christiane Endler, who's considered one of the best in the world, holding a surging US team to three goals thanks to several spectacular saves.
The record-breaking goal came just 10 minutes in, when Lloyd smacked a shot from the top of the box that streaked past Endler for the first score of the day. A line-drive header by , off a corner kick by World Cup rookie Tierna Davidson, made it it 2-0 in the 25th minute. Then Lloyd scored, a bouncing header that put her one goal shy of a hat trick and settled the US into a three-goal lead at halftime. The score would hold for the rest of the game, though Lloyd missed another opportunity when she went wide on a penalty shot late in the second half.
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