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Olympics: Penn State’s Alyssa Naeher leaves semifinal vs Canada with injury

Former Penn State goalie Alyssa Naeher left the USWNT’s semifinal matchup vs Canada in the Olympic semifinals with an apparent injury

The United States women’s soccer team took on Canada in an Olympic semifinal in the early Monday morning hours on the east coast, and former Nittany Lion and US goalie Alyssa Naeher was unable to get out of the first half due to an apparent leg injury.

Around the 19-minute mark of the first half of a scoreless tie, Naeher collided with a Canadian player while going to grab the ball off a scoring opportunity. Naeher’s injury paused the action for roughly five minutes before she decided to give it a shot to continue playing on.

However, after staying in goal for about five minutes, Naehler signaled to the United States bench to say she will not be able to continue playing in net.

Adrianna French came off the bench to replace one of Penn State’s finest in net for the Americans.

Naeher played a pivotal role in the United States women advancing to the semifinal by coming up huge in goal against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal round of the Olympic tournament in Tokyo.

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Olympics: Penn State’s Alyssa Naeher comes up huge in US women’s soccer win over Netherlands

The USWNT had some heroics from Penn State’s own Alyssa Naeher to advance to the Olympic semifinals.

It is always an honor to represent your country on the biggest stage like the World Cup or Olympics. Penn State would be on the big stage in the medal round of women’s Soccer at the Olympics.

The US Women’s National Team took on the Netherlands in the quarterfinals of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. This game was a rematch of the 2019 World Cup Final, which the USA won.

Alyssa Naeher, who played at Penn State, got the start in goal and Naeher would make some big saves in this game.

Like this penalty kick stop in the second half with the game tied 2-2 and 10 minutes remaining in regulation time…

Penalty kicks were needed to determine a winner, and once again Naeher was up to the challenge.

With Naeher getting the job done in the goal, it was the team’s leader, Megan Rapinoe, who sent the US women into the semifinals of the Olympic tournament.