Alex Morgan has scored twice in the United States’ first two group games at the Concacaf W Gold Cup after nearly a yearlong drought, and, sure, the opposition hasn’t been, let’s say, to the standard. That’s what you get in these kinds of events. It is, as they say, what it is. All of that’s immaterial.

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