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The boys’s and girls’s soccer tournaments got here to an in depth with Canada (ladies) and Brazil (males) incomes gold medals. It was Brazil’s second straight gold on the boys’s aspect, whereas for Canada’s ladies’s program it was the first-ever gold and first main event victory.
Within the ladies’s event, Canada shocked Sweden in a penalty-kick shootout to win the gold medal, whereas the USA completed robust and claimed the bronze towards Australia in a wild 4-3 recreation.
The boys’s gold-medal match was near needing a penalty-kick shootout, however Brazil scored a winner deep into additional time to beat Spain 2-1. Mexico dealt with host Japan, 3-1 to say the bronze.
Males’s Olympic Soccer Event
Malcom scored the extra-time game-winner on a counterattack as Brazil beat Spain for the gold. It was the Brazilians who opened the scoring simply earlier than halftime via Matheus Cunha, however a incredible second-half strike from Spain’s Mikel Oyarzabal tied the rating and the sport went to additional time.
Mexico performed a sensational match towards Japan to say bronze and achieve revenge for a 2-1 loss to Japan within the group stage.
MORE: Males’s prime scorers | Group standings
Friday, August 6 (Bronze)
| Match | |
| Mexico 3, Japan 1 | Highlights |
Saturday, August 7 (Gold / Silver)
| Match | |
| Brazil 2, Spain 1 (a.e.t.) | Highlights |
Ladies’s Olympic Soccer Event
After knocking off pre-tournament favorites USA within the semis, No. 8-ranked Canada completed the job and took house the gold medal towards favourite and No. 5-ranked Sweden in a penalty-kick shootout after a 1-1 draw. It was the primary gold medal for Canada and its first title in any main ladies’s soccer event. It was silver as soon as once more for Sweden, which completed as runner-up to Germany in 2016.
The USA received its first ladies’s soccer bronze medal by beating Australia 4-3 behind two targets every from Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd, who could have performed the ultimate Olympic match of their profession.
MORE: Ladies’s soccer schedule | Closing standings
Thursday, Aug. 5 (Bronze)
| Match | |
| USA 4, Australia 3 | Highlights |
Friday, Aug. 6 (Gold / Silver)
| Match | |
| Canada 1, Sweden 1 (3-2 on PKs) | Highlights |
How one can watch Olympic soccer in USA & Canada
- TV channels (USA): NBCSN, USA Community, Olympic Channel
- Spanish-language TV (USA): Telemundo, Universo
- Streams (USA): fuboTV, NBCOlympics.com, NBC Sports activities app, Telemundo Deportes app, TelemundoDeportes.com
- TV channels (Canada): CBC, TSN, Sportsnet
- Spanish-language TV (Canada): Telelatino (TLN)
- Streams (Canada): CBC Gem, CBC.ca, CBC Olympics app
USA: TV protection of choose matches from each the boys’s and girls’s soccer tournaments was carried by 5 channels from the NBC household of networks, in English and Spanish. Each soccer match from each occasions was streamed on NBCOlympics.com (English), TelemundoDeportes.com (Spanish), the NBC Sports activities app and Telemundo Deportes app with consumer authentication (verification of cable/satellite tv for pc subscription).
The NBC and Telemundo households of TV networks had been additionally accessible on fuboTV (free 7-day trial) : NBC, NBCSN, USA Community, CNBC, Olympic Channel, Golf Channel, Telemundo and Universo.
Canada: Protection of the Olympics in Canada was provided by CBC and its companions TSN and Sportsnet by way of a mess of platforms. Olympic occasions had been streamed totally free by way of the CBC Gem streaming service, CBC’s devoted Tokyo 2020 web site , and the CBC Olympics app. Particularly for soccer, Telelatino (TLN) carried males’s and girls’s soccer protection and every day recaps.
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