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Lavelle, 24, left the semifinal game against
England on Tuesday in the 65th minute with hamstring discomfort.
"I'm good," Lavelle told reporters. "It's something I'm always
paranoid about, but I'll be fine."
Lavelle suffered a hamstring injury in mid-2017 that she
described as three muscle tears. She had some setbacks in her
recovery and missed nearly a year of action, and given her
history, she said she was trying to take precautions on Tuesday.
"I just didn't want to be a liability on the field because I do
know that with muscles, anything can happen," Lavelle said. "It
was a little bit more precautionary."
Forward Megan Rapinoe, who missed the semifinal against England
with a strained hamstring sustained in the quarterfinal game
against France, previously said she would play on Sunday.
The U.S. squad will have had four days of rest, one more than
the Netherlands.
Their star midfielder, Lieke Martens, injured her toe against
Japan in the Round of 16 when a teammate stepped on her foot.
She played in the following two games but did not return after
halftime in the side's semifinal game against Sweden on
Wednesday.
Martens, 26, said she hopes to play on Sunday.
"Of course. As a player you always want to play in one of the
biggest games of your career and this is one of the biggest
ones," she said about the final.
"I am hopefully going to play. I am going to do the recovery and
I really believe in the medical staff and that something can
happen, so let's see every single day, how it goes," she said.
--Field Level Media
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