LYON: She was resolved to give the credit to different members of the team, Alex Morgan stepped up on the huge event with the triumphant goal against England to take the United States through to the final of another women's World Cup on Tuesday. 

The holders were without Megan Rapinoe for the semi-final in Lyon, the scorer of all her group's goals in the successes over Spain and France in the past two rounds passing up a great opportunity with hamstring damage. 

That implied Christen Press came in and properly scored the opener, and it implied Morgan wore the commander's armband on her 30th birthday celebration as she headed home Lindsey Horan's cross in the 31st moment for the choosing goal in a 2-1 triumph viewed by more than 53,000. 

It was Morgan's 6th goal of the World Cup, putting her level with Ellen White - who had prior scored England's equalizer - at the highest point of the scorers' graph. 

In any case, it was a truly necessary goal for the striker, who had not discovered the net since scoring five in the record-breaking 13-0 embarrassment of Thailand with which the USA opened their safeguard of the trophy. 

"I wouldn't say it was important but for me obviously it felt good to get on the scoresheet and to get the game-winning goal. We had the goals early and we had to hold on," said Morgan, who is back in Lyon having had a spell with Europe's leading club side in 2017.

Morgan celebrate her goal by emulating tasting some tea, which some observed as an endeavor at a breeze up towards the English. 

"'Pino' has so many celebrations and nobody asks her about them. I have only one and everyone wants to know," Morgan said, referring to her fellow co-captain Rapinoe.
  
"Obviously we have fun with celebrations and we had to keep it interesting."

'Saved our asses'

That goal was not its finish, in any case, as the USA were thankful to the VAR for forbidding another White goal halfway during that time half and to goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher for sparing Steph Houghton's 84th-minute punishment, granted after another VAR audit. 

"She saved our asses in that moment and we knew after that moment that the momentum was shifting and that we had to put in a huge amount of defensive work to close out the game," said Morgan of Naeher.

Press additionally earned commendation for having a "huge game", and Morgan would now be able to anticipate showing up in a third straight World Cup last. 

"Yeah, it's pretty incredible. Each tournament for me has given me something different and I've looked at it through a different lens," she said.

Morgan was 22 when she fell off the seat to score in the 2011 last against Japan in Frankfurt, which her group wound up losing on penalties. 

In 2015 she was in the beginning line-up for the 5-2 win upon the Japanese wherein captain Carli Lloyd netted a hat-trick.

"Obviously I have a greater role being a captain on this team and leading this team in a different way so for me it's just so great," she added.
"I just saw all my teammates being so emotional after the game. We have put so much into this journey together and now we have one more game to close it out."