AUCKLAND, New Zealand — You don’t just come down from the emotional high of winning a back-and-forth up-and-down penalty shootout — certainly not when you win the shootout by a mere millimeter. Sweden forward Lina Hurtig‘s game-deciding kick, which initially looked like it was saved, literally could not have been any closer — goal-line technology ruled it had crossed the line by the thinnest of possible margins.
“That night I couldn’t sleep very well,” Hurtig told ESPN recently. “There were a lot of emotions.”
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Fresh off a win over the United States after holding the No. 1-ranked Americans to a 0-0 draw during regulation and extra time, Sweden…
