The US womens team have had it far too easy for too long. None of the footballing powerhouses took women's football seriously (dwarted by the mens game) which has allowed the US to dominate.
Over the last 5 years England is the one major nation that is beginning to treat it seriously (women's premier league starting, tv coverage, use of better facilities, coaching etc). They won the Euros last year so they've already come on in no time. Plus they now showcase the most gifted female footballer I've ever seen in Lauren James (seen plenty of the best female footballers before but they were just decent at the basics, wheras James looks a natural with exquisite ball control and an ability to get out if tight spaces).
From a sporting class POV it is pleasing to see the US go out (even better in heartbreaking fashion) as they are an arrogant, classless bunch. Recall Alex Morgan do some tea drinking gimmick (apparently in reference to the Boston tea party when the tea was dumped into the harbour) after scoring against England in the last world cup. Stay classy. Regards dumping things into water...during the Black Lives Matter protests the English dumped a statue of slave trader Edward Colson into the Bristol harbour.... meanwhile the across the Atlantic, a nation founded by a group of white slaveowning elites (george washington, owner of 600 slaves who during the revolutionary war demanded the British return the 18 slaves who fled his plantation inorder to gain their freedom from his chains, jefferson, owner of 600 slaves, fathering the child of one of his slaves, and pioneer of scientic racism), they, in sharp contrast, are busy polishing their statues.
One nation dumps a statue of a slaveowner, the other polishes theirs.