Women's World Cup: Watch Carli Lloyd give the USWNT a 2-0 lead on Japan in 5 minutes

Carli Lloyd celebrates after the game-winning penalty vs. Germany

This is the very definition of a dream start.


First Carli Lloyd put the USWNT up 1-0 on Japan two-and-a-half minutes into the Women's World Cup final:



180 seconds later, she made it 2-0:

And eight minutes after that, it was Lauren Holiday's turn to pour it on, volleying home goal No. 3 as Japan's defense absolutely fell apart in Vancouver:


July 5, 2015

Then Lloyd topped it all by chipping the Japanese goalkeeper from the midfield stripe in the 16th minute:

Japan got a goal back in the 28th minute, and then a second on the other side of halftime, but Tobin Heath then restored the 3-goal US lead off a set piece. That would be it for the scoring, as the USWNT won the game 5-2, claiming their first World Cup title since 1999.