US soccer legend Carli Lloyd scored 5 goals to kick off her national team farewell tour with a bang

• Carli Lloyd is making her final games with the US Women's National Team count.
• The US soccer legend scored five goals against Paraguay Thursday night in Cleveland.
• With her offensive explosion, Lloyd moved up to third on the team's all-time scoring list.

Even in the final games of her illustrious international soccer career, US Women's National Team icon Carli Lloyd is making her mark by doing what she does best: scoring goals.

The 39-year-old prolific striker scored five goals in the stars and stripes' Thursday-night matchup against Paraguay, becoming just the ninth player in USWNT history to rack up five goals in a single contest. The offensive outburst moved Lloyd past USWNT legend Kristine Lilly to land at third on the team's all-time scoring list.

With just a few games remaining in her USWNT career, Lloyd sits behind only Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach with 133 international goals in her career.

Lloyd needed less than three minutes to kick off scoring for the USWNT. Teammate Mallory Pugh lofted a corner kick to the top of the six-yard box, and Lloyd rose up above two Paraguayan defenders to head the ball past the goalkeeper and into the back of the net.

Two minutes later, Lloyd struck again. Defender Crystal Dunn drove up the flank and delivered a cross through the 18-yard box to lead a sprinting Rose Lavelle, but a Paraguayan defender stepped up for the tackle. As the pair tumbled to the ground, the ball dribbled out in front of the goal. Lloyd used her left foot to bury it and tie Lilly with 130 career goals.

In the 34th minute, Lloyd broke the draw. Midfielder Andi Sullivan delivered an arcing cross just a few yards out from the net, where Lloyd was well-positioned to manuever around a defender and tap the ball in on one touch for goal No. 131.

She scored in similar fashion from almost the exact same spot on the field four minutes after that, one-touching a cross from Lynn Williams past the keeper to give the US a 6-0 lead. And in the 61st minute, Lloyd scored a header off of a Catarina Macario corner kick to give herself a full hand's worth of goals on the night.

Take a look at all five:

The USWNT's 9-0 showing in Cleveland marked the team's first game since a disappointing Olympic campaign saw the reigning World Cup champions take bronze in Tokyo. And while three other players found the back of the net in the lopsided affair, Lloyd stole the show Thursday in one of the final performances of her esteemed international career.

In August, the 17-year national team star announced that she planned to retire following a slate of four games this fall. She'll play in three more contests - Tuesday's rematch against Paraguay in Cincinnati as well as a pair of friendlies against South Korea in late October.