US males finish 24-year wait to advance to the quarterfinals of the Olympics soccer match

SAINT-ETIENNE, France — Kevin Paredes scored two targets as america superior to the quarterfinals of the Olympic males’s soccer match for the primary time since Sydney 2000 by beating Guinea 3-0 on Tuesday.

Victory in Saint-Etienne ended a 24-year watch for the U.S. to achieve the knockout section and it’ll play Morocco within the quarterfinals in Paris on Friday.

First-half targets from Djordje Mihailovic and Paredes put the Individuals on the right track for the following spherical. Paredes sealed the win along with his second after the break.

The U.S. superior in second place behind Group A winner France, which beat New Zealand 3-0.

France performs Argentina within the quarterfinals in a repeat of the World Cup ultimate in 2022. The sport is in Bordeaux on Friday.

France stays undefeated

France remained undefeated on the Olympics with a 3-0 victory over New Zealand in Marseille, to advance atop its group

France captain Jean-Philippe Mateta got here down the left aspect and clipped the ball into the far nook within the nineteenth minute. He celebrated by high-fiving Rayan Cherki and the French followers within the crowd.

France made it 2-0 on Need Doue’s aim within the 71st minute. Arnaud Kalimuendo added a 3rd some three minutes later.

Goalkeeper Obed Nkambadio made a leaping save in stoppage time to protect the clear sheet.

New Zealand was eradicated with the loss. The OlyWhites, as they’re identified, had superior to the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Video games however fell to Japan on penalties.

France gained its lone Olympic gold medal in 1984.

Argentina advances

Thiago Almada scored a superb solo in Argentina’s 2-0 win over Ukraine.

Almada’s strike — two minutes into the second half in Lyon — set Argentina on the right track for the knockout section with back-to-back wins following its shock opening defeat to Morocco. Claudio Echeverri sealed the win within the 91st minute.

However it was Almada’s aim that lit up the match. Accumulating the ball simply previous the midway line, he charged upfield earlier than curling a shot previous Ukraine goalkeeper Kiril Fesiun from round 25 yards.

Echeverri pounced to transform on the rebound to make it 2-0 after Fesiun had made a late save.

Morocco superior as Group B winner after beating Iraq 3-0 in Good.

Morocco and Argentina had been stage on factors and had an identical aim distinction and targets scored. It meant Morocco took first place by advantage of its 2-1 win over Argentina initially of the match, which included a delay of round two hours after Moroccan followers rushed the sphere.

Morocco raced to a 3-0 lead earlier than halftime towards Iraq.

Amir Richardson opened the scoring within the nineteenth and Soufiane Rahimi scored his fourth aim of the Video games within the twenty eighth

Abde Ezzalzouli made it 3-0 within the thirty sixth.

Egypt stuns Spain

Ibrahim Adel scored a pair of targets and Egypt superior to the boys’s soccer quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics atop its group by beating Spain 2-1 on Tuesday.

Spain had already reached the knockout spherical and was vying for a first-place end in Group C however was as a substitute leapfrogged by decided Egypt in Bordeaux.

Within the different match of the group, the Dominican Republic performed to a 1-1 tie with Uzbekistan, which had already been eradicated. The attract Paris was not sufficient to get the Dominican Republic into the following spherical.

The quarterfinal matchups gained’t be decided till Wednesday’s video games are full. The highest two groups in every of the 4 teams advance.

Adel’s first aim got here off a cross from Zizo late within the first half. His second got here within the 62nd minute, when he labored round Spanish goalkeeper Alejandro Iturbe, who had come ahead to cease him.

Samu Omorodion scored for Spain within the ultimate moments of regulation however the comeback fell brief.

Within the group’s different match, Rafael Nunez transformed on a penalty early within the second half to place the Dominican Republic in entrance, however Alisher Odilov tied it within the 58th.

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AP Sports activities author Anne M. Peterson in Marseille contributed to this report.

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James Robson is at https://twitter.com/jamesalanrobson

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