Goals from Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd put the Olympic champions United States into the quarter-finals of the World Cup with a 2-0 win Monday over 10-woman Colombia.

The 28th-ranked South Americans were a player down for most of the second half after goalkeeper Catalina Perez was sent off for a diving tackle on US forward Morgan two minutes after the break.

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Abby Wambach stepped up to take the penalty but the superstar striker dramatically sent the ball left of goal, denying her a record-equalling 15th Women’s World Cup goal to match Brazil star Marta.

Forward Morgan finally broke through after 53 minutes, with Lloyd getting a second 13 minutes later from a penalty awarded after Megan Rapinoe was fouled inside the box by defender Angela Clavijo.

The USA, ranked second in the world and winners in 1991 and 1999, next meet China for a place in the semi-finals.

Perez had been replacing first choice goalkeeper Sandra Sepulveda, who could not play after drawing a second yellow card during Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to England.

Stefany Castano replaced Perez in goal with forward Ingrid Vidal coming off the pitch, but the Colombians could not reproduce the heroics that saw them shock third-ranked France 2-0 in their group match.

Elsewhere, second-half goals from Steph Houghton and Lucy Bronze booked England’s passage to the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup on Monday with a 2-1 win over Norway.

England had fallen behind to a 54th-minute goal for 1995 champions Norway off a Solveig Gulbrandsen header.

But seven minutes later, English captain Houghton equalised and Bronze scored the winner on 76 minutes at Ottawa’s Lansdowne Stadium.

Back after the break, Norway broke the deadlock with Gulbrandsen, at 34 years the most experienced member of the Norwegian team, heading in off a corner for a goal which was confirmed by goalline technology.

Houghton headed sixth-ranked England level again seven minutes later following a Fara Williams corner.

And Bronze added the second with 14 minutes to go following good work from Jill Scott and Jodie Taylor which allowed the defender to fire a powerful shot into the back of the net that goalkeeper Ingrid Hjelmseth got a hand upon but could not keep out.