AP photo Canada’s Vanessa Gilles, left, comforts United States’ Carli Lloyd after a women’s semifinal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday in Kashima, Japan.

KASHIMA, Japan (AP) — Jessie Fleming scored on a penalty kick in the 74th minute and Canada earned a 1-0 semifinal victory over the United States in the Olympic women’s soccer competition on Monday.

Canada goes on to face the winner of the late semifinal in Yokohama between Sweden and Australia. The gold medal match is set for Friday at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo.

It is the second straight Olympics that the United States has been knocked out of contention for the gold medal match.

The Americans were bounced from the 2016 Games by Sweden in the quarterfinals. The U.S. team goes on to play in the bronze medal match in Kashima on Thursday.

Canada had not won against the United States since 2001.

After a scoreless first half, Canada went up 1-0 in the 74th minute on Fleming’s penalty against backup U.S. goalkeeper Adrianna Franch.

Carli Lloyd hit the crossbar in the 86th minute that came close to trying it. After the match, Lloyd knelt on the turf with her head in her hands.

Starting goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher came down awkwardly trying to go up for the ball in front of her goal in the 20th minute.

Naeher was attended to by trainers for some five minutes while the backup Franch warmed up. While she tried to stay in the game, Naeher couldn’t continue and Franch was subbed into the game in the 30th minute.

Overall, the United States is 51-4-7 against Canada. The most recent meeting was a 1-0 U.S. victory at the SheBelieves Cup in February.

The United States already advanced further in Japan than in the Rio Games, when the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Sweden.

Coach Vlatko Andonovski has been creative with his lineups throughout the tournament. On Monday, Lynn Williams, originally an alternate, started her second straight game. Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe and Samantha Mewis were on the bench to start.

Rapinoe had the game-clinching penalty kick against the Netherlands. She came in early in the second half, along with Lloyd and Christen Press.

Lloyd fired off a shot in the 65th minute that forced Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe to leap to push it over the crossbar. A short time later, Labbe stopped Julie Ertz’s head off a corner from Rapinoe as the United States increased the pressure.

Fleming’s successful penalty chilled the Americans’ momentum.