Lindsey Horan has told ESPN the United States were not out for revenge when they beat Canada in the CONCACAF W Championship final but said they were desperate for victory against their longstanding rivals.
The USWNT lifted the W Championship trophy with a 1-0 win against Canada in July, a year after they were beaten by the eventual gold medalists in the Tokyo Olympics semifinals. The U.S. went on to win bronze after losing to Canada.
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But Lyon midfielder Horan denied the idea the Olympics played on the U.S. team’s minds when they faced Canada at the Estadio BBVA in Guadalupe, Mexico.
“You can ask any of us or any of the Canada players, that’s always going to be a rival game and it’s always going to be a huge game and you want to beat them as bad as you possibly can,” Horan said in an interview with ESPN’s Futbol Americas.
“But again I think for us it was just like we want to play the way that we want to play… and actually go out with a bang and especially with that long trip as well.
“I don’t think we were thinking as much about the Olympics but moreso just we always want to beat Canada and we always want to win.
“Not much so like revenge, it was moreso we just want to win — we want to win every single game we play, every single tournament we play in and that was the most important for us but playing the way that we wanted to as well.”
