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It was the only strike Randy Waldrum’s team managed during the group phase, where they lost 1-0 to Brazil and Spain in their first two matches before capitulating 3-1 to Japan.

Other salient parts of the statistics released by FIFA on Friday following the conclusion of the group phase on Thursday are as follows:.

-The evergreen Marta became only the second Brazilian to rack up 200 appearances for the Seleção in their 2-1 defeat to Japan. Unfortunately for her, she was sent off in her 201st match against Spain.

Alexia Putellas plundered the latest goal in Women’s Olympic Football Tournament group-stage history, with her stunner against Brazil coming in the 17th minute of stoppage time to seal a 2-0 win. She broke the record of Canada’s Vanessa Gilles from just three days earlier, when she struck a dramatic winner over France in the 12th additional minute.

Marie-Antoinette Katoto netted five of France’s six goals in the first round to top the scoring charts, accounting for 83.3 percent of her nation’s strikes. She joins Sun Wen of Sydney 2000 and Barbra Banda of Tokyo 2020 in scoring 80 percent or more of her team’s goals; of those to net, three or more have netted at this stage of a tournament.

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