{"id":504415,"date":"2026-03-05T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504415\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:02:08","slug":"usa-1-0-canada-mar-4-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504415\/","title":{"rendered":"USA 1-0 Canada (Mar 4, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ally Sentnor<\/a> scored in the 55th minute as the United States<\/a> beat Canada<\/a> 1-0 on Wednesday in the SheBelieves Cup<\/a> tournament.<\/p>\n

Sentnor scored her seventh international goal off a corner from Rose Lavelle<\/a>, gathering the ball from a bounce before punching it past two defenders and Canada goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was the United States’ seventh straight shutout. The team hasn’t allowed a goal since a 3-1 win over Portugal<\/a> last October.<\/p>\n

The United States sat atop the SheBelieves table with two wins, ahead of Canada and Colombia<\/a>, who have one each. The Colombians defeated Argentina<\/a> 1-0 in the earlier match Wednesday at ScottsMiracle-Gro Stadium.<\/p>\n

The United States is 55-4-9 against Canada since their first meeting in 1986. The U.S. won the last meeting 3-0 in July of 2025.<\/p>\n

The Canadians’ last win in the series came at the Tokyo Olympics. Jessie Fleming<\/a> converted a penalty in a 1-0 semifinal victory as Canada went on to win the gold medal.<\/p>\n

\"USWNTUSWNT players celebrate after scoring a goal against Canada in the SheBelieves Cup.<\/p>\n

U.S. coach Emma Hayes included Trinity Rodman<\/a> in the starting lineup despite Rodman taking a hit in the back late in Sunday’s 2-0 SheBelieves victory over Argentina in Nashville. Rodman struggled with a nagging back injury last year.<\/p>\n

Canada, which defeated Colombia 4-1 in the tournament opener, was without Fleming because of an illness.<\/p>\n

The game was scoreless after the first half despite the United States dominating possession by nearly 70%.<\/p>\n

Sentnor, who plays professionally for the Kansas City Current<\/a>, broke the stalemate with her third goal of the year. The 22-year-old was named U.S. Soccer’s young player of the year in 2024.<\/p>\n

Colombia will play the United States on Saturday in the tournament finale in Harrison, New Jersey. Canada plays Argentina in the early game.<\/p>\n

It is the 11th annual SheBelieves Cup hosted by the United States. Canada was making its fourth appearance in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ally Sentnor scored in the 55th minute as the United States beat Canada 1-0 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-504415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}