For Pete's Sake

Here are the highlights from United States’ 2-1 win over Spain at Women’s World Cup

Mondays aren’t supposed to be this stressful, right?

But for two hours, fans of the U.S. women’s national team nervously watched as the Americans played a tough game against Spain in a round of 16 contest at the World Cup in France.

Fortunately for the United States, Megan Rapinoe converted a pair of penalty kicks, the latter on a call that some fans felt shouldn’t have been called.

You can decide for yourself if that was a good call and watch the highlights as the U.S. team advanced to play France in the quarterfinals.

Fox Soccer shared these highlights from Monday’s game:

This story was originally published June 24, 2019 at 1:53 PM.

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