.Sam Borden, ESPN Senior WriterAug 3, 2024, 01:48 PM ETCloseSam Borden is a senior author for ESPN.com.PARIS-- Trio Rodman does not don't forget much regarding her astonishing extra-time strike that sent the USA females's national staff in to the Olympic semifinals on Saturday.In honest truth, Rodman confessed thereafter, the whole sequence from when she obtained Crystal Dunn's pass is actually a blur.Editor's Picks1 Connected" I kind of blacked out," Rodman pointed out after the USWNT's 1-0 triumph over Asia. "The final thing I don't forget is Crystal playing it and after that I resembled: 'Ahhh!'" That is actually the most ideal minute of my profession," she added. "I couldn't have actually asked for everything a lot better." While Rodman may not possess a solid moment of what she did, her target will certainly be an emphasize that estimates to stay. After taking the round down on the best flank, she oozed inside and blasted a try that tore in to the higher section of the far post as the Parc des Princes erupted." Obviously Triad is actually going to carry out that," Mallory Swanson, that partners with Rodman and also Sophia Johnson on the front line for the U.S, pointed out of the second. "I think sometimes in activities similar to this, it merely takes a little of miracle, a little of specific radiance. And also's what Trinity performed." Trio Rodman racked up the USA's winning goal along with a delicious left-footed strike. Daniela Porcelli/ISI Photos/Getty ImagesIt was actually Rodman's third goal of the competition-- tied with Swanson for the majority of among the Americans-- and also at 22, she ended up being the youngest American to rack up in an Olympic knockout complement in 20 years.Several of her colleagues referred to exactly how they often see Rodman pull off extraordinary tries in training, however acknowledged that to do it on this type of stage was actually a different kind of accomplishment." It's outrageous," Korbin Albert pointed out." It was impressive," Smith conceded. "I simply keep in mind sensation thus eased when it went in." Supervisor Emma Hayes fasted to explain that Rodman's contributions to the crew on Sunday progressed past that people shot. Known as a sound two-way gamer, Rodman put in a tough performance on each points of the industry, tracking back commonly to help when Asia counterattacked." Our experts need to be actually speaking more about what she performs off the round," Hayes claimed, as well as while that may be a practical argument, it was additionally one that possessed little chance of success given Rodman's other exploits on Saturday.Her sparkle was specifically what the USA needed to have after spending the majority of the match making an effort to appear the stout low block that the Americans expected from Asia." I honestly think that was the only way that our experts were actually heading to find an objective in that video game," Rodman stated. "Certainly our experts had actually made an effort all game long to get in the joints and get in between 'em and also it wasn't functioning." Not all soccer is pretty football," she proceeded. "However I believe our team type of understood that it was mosting likely to boil down to something fantastic like that. If it came from me or even any person else on the field, we knew that it wasn't going to be tiki-taka in the box. It was one moment that we needed to profit from and that's what took place.".