What do you call a soccer team that wins three games out of three by a total score of 16-0?

When it is the United States women’s soccer team in Olympic qualifying, you could almost call it an underachiever.

A potent American team led by the stars of last year’s World Cup, including Alex Morgan, Hope Solo and Carli Lloyd, opened with a 5-0 win over Costa Rica in Frisco, Tex., last week. But there were nervous moments in Game 2 on Saturday against an extremely defensive Mexico until Lloyd scored on a rebound of a missed penalty kick in the 80th minute for a 1-0 victory.

“Today’s game was interesting,” Solo said at the time. “And that’s what qualifying games should be.”

The Americans’ third game, however, was not interesting, especially for Solo, the goalkeeper. The United States trounced Puerto Rico, 10-0, on Monday, outshooting it, 35-2, by Concacaf’s measure. (And both of Puerto Rico’s shots were off target.) Crystal Dunn, 23, who did not make the World Cup team, scored five times for the Americans.

Nobody expected anything different from this qualifying tournament. In 2012, the results were even more lopsided, with the United States winning its group games by scores of 14-0, 13-0 and 4-0. In the Americans’ two preliminary games in 2008, the total scoring was 9-1.