The Liverpool defender Meikayla Moore had a day to forget while representing New Zealand in the SheBelieves Cup on Sunday, scoring a hat-trick of own-goals in just 35 minutes before being substituted by her manager.

Facing off against the USWNT in Los Angeles, Moore scored her first for the wrong team in just the fifth minute when she prodded US forward Sophia Smith's cross into her own net with her right foot as she attempted to block the ball.

Only a minute later she did the same again, this time heading home right back Sofia Huerta's cross in somewhat comical fashion. The ball ricocheted off the side of Moore's face into the net as she sprinted back to try and cover the goal.

In the 35th minute, she scored past her own team for the third time, this time with her left foot as she attempted to block a cross from USWNT forward Margaret Purce.

25-year-old Moore, who has nearly 50 caps for the Football Ferns, was substituted just four minutes later.

Moore's exit did little to stop the US' dominance however, with second-half goals from Ashley Hatch and Mallory Pugh sealing an emphatic 5-0 win for the world champion.


"Each player who has played and it doesn't matter what level, has great games and tough games, and Mouse [Moore's nickname] had a tough day at the office," New Zealand's manager Jitka Klimkova said after the match, per Australian outlet Wide World of Sports.

"Obviously she's sad and disappointed, but she has us. We know who she is, we know what a great player she is, and we are going to support her as much as possible and we will be behind her."

Moore joined FA Women's Championship team Liverpool in 2020 having previously spent the entirety of her domestic career in Germany playing for FC Koln and Duisburg.

The victory for the US means it has now not been defeated on home soil for 64 matches, while the team has also not conceded a goal while playing at home in just under two years.

The SheBelieves Cup, a four-team international tournament designed to inspire and empower women and girls in sport, concludes on Wednesday in Frisco, Texas, when New Zealand play the Czech Republic and the US play Iceland.

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The future is female.

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that person should be banned from playing football for the rest of her natural life!

Lol, not just a hattrick, a first half hattrick

She should change her position to striker since she is that good at scoring, else let her retire straight from football.