Sophia Smith scores opening goal for US women’s national team vs. Vietnam

The U.S. women’s national team is on the board.

Despite dominating possession early in the match, Team USA struggled to get opportunities on goal, until Sophia Smith scored the women’s national team’s first goal of the 2023 World Cup.

Here’s the video of the goal.

According to DraftKings Sportsbook, Sophia Smith was +105 as an anytime goalscorer. She was +250 as the first goalscorer in this match and is on track to potentially add more goals to her name. Here’s a look at Smith’s odds to score 2+ goals, 3+ goals, and be the last scorer of the match.

The Americans entered this opening World Cup match as heavy favorites, priced at -20000 on the moneyline. The spread was considered close to even at -5.5 (USWNT -155, Vietnam +110), which tells you how lopsided the oddsmakers expected this contest to be. With goal differential being a tiebreaker in the group stage, it’s possible USA leaves nothing to chance and really does a number on Vietnam.