What if this is what the United States women’s national team looks like under new coach Emma Hayes?

They’ve been together less than two months, and they produced the most impressive major tournament victory – 4-1 over Germany, No. 4 in the FIFA world rankings to the Americans’ No. 5 – since the back-to-back triumphs over France and England at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

And it’s about as decisive a victory as they’ve produced in the modern era.

All that talk about the rest of the world catching up to the U.S.? There’s never really been a great gap, it’s just that more nations are in the hunt now. One of them…