Match Report – United States Women 13 – 0 Thailand Women

Alex Morgan scored five goals as the United States opened their Women's World Cup campaign with a record 13-0 win over Thailand on Tuesday.

The 13-0 win is the biggest margin of victory in the history of the FIFA World Cup, both for men than for women.

Morgan opened the series of goals to the title favorites, who are looking for a fourth world crown with a header in the 12th minute and from that point on, the champions have not been stopped.

Eight minutes later, Rose Lavelle found the net with a left foot shot while midfielder Lindsey Horan gave them a 3-0 lead from the start of the interval.

Samantha Mewis opened the doors five minutes after the break, while the United States made life harder for Thais by regularly finding the bottom of the net.

A total of seven Americans scored during the match – Morgan (5), Lavelle (2), Mewis (2), Horan, Megan Rapinoe, Mallory Pugh and Carli Lloyd all found their way to the scoresheet. sow fear in all these teams in the hope of ending the reign of the United States as world champions.

"We really wanted to introduce ourselves and show what we were preparing and working and I think we did," Morgan said.

"Every goal counts in this tournament and so that's what we were working on in this game. We had a lot of attacks and I think we were really clinical in the number of attacks that we we had. "

Somewhere else, Sweden overcome difficult conditions to beat a stubborn Chile team 2-0 in their opening match of Group F in Rennes.

The players were removed from the field for 40 minutes in the middle of the second half, but the Olympic finalist finally managed to score seven minutes from the end, despite Kosovare Asllani's strike.

Madelen Janogy, substitute, then scored a nice individual shot – his second international goal – in the fifth minute of play to score the three points.

Champions of Europe the Netherlands started his campaign with a 1-0 win over New Zealand to the harbor.

Sarina Wiegma's players left late with Jill Roord, who joined Arsenal, the women's Super League champion, from Bayern Munich, scoring goals in the 92nd minute to seal a spectacular victory.

The Netherlands, who will face Cameroon in Group E on Saturday at the Stade du Hainaut in Valenciennes, are now unbeaten in five games in all competitions and have taken 400 minutes without scoring a goal.