Welcome to the weekend! There’s extra Olympic soccer coming your manner this weekend, beginning with the U.S. males towards Morocco in Paris on Friday earlier than the USWNT observe their compatriots at Parc des Princes on Saturday towards Japan. Jonathan Johnson right here — the hunt for gold medals in France doesn’t cease and neither will we, so let’s get to it.

📺 Footy repair

All instances U.S./Jap

Friday, August 2
🥇 Olympics: USMNT vs. Morocco, 9 a.m. ➡️ Peacock Premium/USA Community/Telemundo
🥇 Olympics: Japan vs. Spain, 11 a.m. ➡️ Peacock Premium/Universo
🥇 Olympics: Egypt vs. Paraguay, 1 p.m. ➡️ Peacock Premium/Telemundo
🥇 Olympics: France vs. Argentina, 3 p.m. ➡️ Peacock Premium/Universo

Saturday, August 3
🤝 Pleasant: Newcastle United vs. Yokohama F. Marinos, 6 a.m. ➡️ CBS Sports activities Golazo Community
🥇 Olympics: USWNT vs. Japan, 9 a.m. ➡️ Peacock Premium/USA Community
🥇 Olympics: Spain WNT vs. Colombia WNT, 11 a.m. ➡️ Peacock Premium
🥇 Olympics: Canada WNT vs. Germany WNT, 1 p.m. ➡️ Peacock Premium
🥇 Olympics: France WNT vs. Brazil WNT, 3 p.m. ➡️ Peacock Premium

Sunday, August 4
🇺🇸 Leagues Cup: Atlanta United vs. Santos Laguna, 4 p.m. ➡️ MLS Season Move

⚽ The Ahead Line

🇺🇸 USWNT and Japan reunited in Paris

The US girls’s nationwide staff and Japan will cross paths as soon as once more within the girls’s Olympic soccer quarterfinals in Paris on Saturday. The matchup is a brand new instalment in what has been one of many richer rivalry narratives for the Stars and Stripes through the years at worldwide degree. Between 2011 and 2015, these two performed three main finals throughout Ladies’s World Cups but additionally the 2012 Olympics, with the U.S. successful two of these three. Each nations have remained near the summit of the ladies’s sport since then regardless of some leaner instances on either side. Pardeep Cattry appeared again at a number of the transformative video games on this rivalry — particularly the latest matchup which got here again in 2015.

• Cattry on USWNT’s 5-2 win on the 2015 Ladies’s World Cup: “The USWNT’s 16-year wait to elevate their third Ladies’s World Cup title lastly resulted in Vancouver in 2015 and in memorable vogue. The U.S. have been up 4-0 by the 16 minute because of Carli Lloyd’s remarkably quick hattrick, coupled with Lauren Vacation’s 14th-minute strike. Lloyd, who received the golden ball at that 12 months’s event, famously chipped goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori from the midway line to finish the hattrick. Japan tried to claw their manner again into the sport with Nagasato’s aim within the twenty seventh minute and Julie Ertz’s personal aim within the 52nd minute, however Tobin Heath’s 54th-minute effort put the sport out of attain. The USWNT have been celebrated again house with a ticker-tape parade in New York days later, the gamers’ recognition hovering in an vital second for the rise of girls’s sports activities within the nation.”

Nonetheless, issues are totally different on either side now coming into this one and the USWNT are rebuilding underneath Emma Hayes whereas Japan loved a good run on the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup in Australia. The Individuals are arguably favorites to advance given their present tempo being set in France as one in every of solely two groups with a 100% successful document on the Paris Video games. What higher time, then, to play within the French capital for the primary time these video games? Sandra Herrera checked out how each groups are shaping up when it comes to their gold medal prospects this summer time.

Herrera on USWNT: “The Stars and Stripes have answered loads of questions and silenced doubters with their dominant group stage run. Three group sport wins underneath new head coach Emma Hayes and he or she has the staff enjoying with confidence. The assault is essentially the most deadly it has been since earlier than the 2023 World Cup, however now the strain shall be cranked increased, with knockouts their very own kind of beast and the place something can occur.”

Herrera on Japan: “This system has rebuilt itself over the past cycle and had a decent run in the course of the 2023 World Cup. They have simply the correct mix of steadiness on their roster with youth and prime gamers who’re technical on the ball and medical in transition. They appear to be getting stronger because the event goes on with six totally different aim scorers in the course of the group stage, and that is a troublesome staff to cease in the course of the knockouts.”

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🇺🇸 USMNT getting ready to historical past

There’s twin Olympic soccer pleasure this weekend with each the USMNT and the USWNT in motion with the lads’s sport arising first on the Friday. Each encounters shall be in Paris with the U.S. taking up Morocco after which Japan within the girls’s. Ought to Marko Mitrovic’s males advance previous Morocco at Parc des Princes, then a semifinal brings a potential medal tantalizingly shut for the Stars and Stripes. That is already historic sufficient provided that the final time the USMNT got here this far at an Olympics was in 2000 and it’s truly solely the second time for the reason that 1960 version that the U.S. have even made it previous the group stage. 

The Atlas Lions will really feel assured provided that Soufiane Rahimi is on a robust run of kind with 4 objectives from three outings to this point for a median of 1.3 objectives per 90 minutes at these Video games. The Moroccans did endure defeat to eradicated Ukraine so the Individuals shall be buoyed by that however protection arguably stays the USA’s weak point with Rahimi the main Olympic scorer coming in to this encounter. There is no such thing as a such factor as a simple draw, although, and the path to the ultimate may additionally function a robust Japan or Spain facet within the potential semifinals subsequent Monday in Marseille. Chuck Sales space additionally shone a lightweight on one in every of Morocco’s different key males who shall be a well-recognized face to some given his ties to the U.S.

• Sales space on Amir Richardson: “PSG celebrity Achraf Hakimi could be the man everyone seems to be watching on the wing and for purpose after contributing 4 objectives and 5 assists in league play final season, however there’s one other acquainted face in Morocco’s midfield who has been key of their performances. Amir Richardson, son of basketball participant Michael Ray Richardson, was born in France however can also be eligible to signify america or Morocco. After a while with the France U-23 and a robust season with Le Havre, Richardson declared for Morocco. Already incomes three caps within the senior staff, he’s now protecting play ticking over as Morocco seeks an Olympic medal.”

USMNT’s semifinal and ultimate route

All instances U.S./Jap

Monday, Aug. 5

• USA/Morocco vs. Japan/Spain, 12 p.m. (Marseille)

Friday, Aug. 9

• USMNT/Morocco/Japan/Spain vs. France/Argentina/Egypt/Paraguay, 12 p.m. (Paris)

🔗  High Tales

🇨🇦 Canada’s Paris Olympics spygate newest: Explosive Bev Priestman electronic mail claims ‘all high groups do it’ whereas FIFA’s disciplinary committee revealed head coach Priestman’s emails claimed the lads’s staff additionally spied.

🔜 Christen Press damage return: USWNT’s World Cup-winning veteran is ready to return for Angel Metropolis after a two-year restoration interval after an ACL damage sustained in 2022.

🔴 New-look Liverpool underneath Arne Slot: The Dutch tactician’s elegant type brings pleasure, however is it sustainable in Premier League after a promising preseason?

😩 Neymar shares ACL restoration heartache: The Brazilian celebrity has admitted that “there are days that I need to quit” as the 32-year-old continues to get well from his newest damage which has stored him out since 2023.

💰 The Again Line

💵 Greatest wager

• Olympics: USWNT vs. Japan, Saturday, 9 a.m. ET
  💰 THE PICK: USWNT win and each groups to attain (+210) — The USWNT have rapidly turned doubters into believers with this convincing Olympic run to this point and now they should observe up their three group stage wins underneath Emma Hayes with one other assured show and consequence to match. Up high, issues look higher than they’ve accomplished in a protracted whereas however there may even be better expectation given how shut the U.S. is attending to medal territory. The Japanese have been rebuilding and loved run on the 2023 World Cup however this might be difficult regardless of them build up a little bit of momentum. An American win with each facet scoring sounds about proper.

📺 What’s on CBS Sports activities Golazo Community

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⚽ Name it What You Need (Monday night time): A weekly podcast the place Jimmy Conrad, Charlie Davies and co. cowl all issues USMNT and the state of the attractive sport in america. You can even catch the present streaming reside on YouTube each Monday at 11 a.m. ET.

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