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14th Jul 2015

US Women’s World Cup hero Carli Lloyd pinpoint penalty drops James Corden into dunk tank (Video)

Ben Kenyon

If you’re hovering precariously over an icy cold dunk tank, the last person you want taking a pop at you is Carli Lloyd.

As the captain of the World Cup-winning US Women’s football team, she’s a bloody good shot.

If you need proof, here’s the screamer she scored in the final against Japan (she bagged a hat-trick in the game).

Lloyd was on James Corden’s Late Late Show alongside actor Chris Tucker and actress Judy Greer, and the aim of the game was to dunk the host in a large tank of water by pinning a target with a ‘soccer ball’.

The other two couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat, but once Lloyd got her eye in, there was only one place Corden was going…