World Cup Gallery: USA 5-2 Japan (Final)

The United States win the World Cup 5-2 against Japan at BC Place, Carli Lloyd scoring a hat-trick inside sixteen minutes with Lauren Holiday and Tobin Heath also on target, Yuki Ogimi replying and Julie Johnston turning into her own net. Jill Ellis says that after fifteen minutes she had to pinch herself to make sure she was not dreaming, and that these players were born for big moments, getting better as the pressure grows because that is how they are engineered. Lloyd, describing the third goal from the halfway line, says she has dreamed of scoring a shot like that and that very rarely do you just wind up and hit it. Norio Sasaki concedes the Americans were simply too strong. Readers voted Lucy Bronze player of the tournament.