AFP, Los Angeles :
Rose Lavelle and Alex Morgan scored goals as the United States sealed victory in the CONCACAF Women’s Championship with a 2-0 defeat of Canada in the final on Wednesday.
Lavelle swept in a long range effort after two minutes before Morgan pounced in the 89th minute as the world champions completed a dominant campaign at Frisco’s Toyota Stadium.
The eight-team tournament doubled as a qualifier for next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup and the USA had already assured their qualification after a 6-0 thrashing of Jamaica in the semi-finals on Sunday.
Against Canada, the US women were made to work harder but once again showed their ruthless streak to finish the tournament with five wins out of five, having scored 26 goals and conceding none.
Morgan’s seventh goal of the tournament took her international tally to 97 goals from 151 appearances, leaving her on track to become the seventh US player to score 100 international goals or more.
Wednesday’s win stretched the USA’s unbeaten streak to 26 games. Their last defeat came against Australia in a friendly in July 2017.
With the USA and Canada having booked their places in France next year with wins in the semi-finals, Jamaica were the other team to seal their ticket after defeating Panama in the third place play-off.
The Jamaicans prevailed 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out after the match finished deadlocked at 2-2 after extra time.
Panama will now face a playoff against the third placed team from South American qualifying for a place in the finals.
