Image copyright AFP Image caption Japan's women's team had been defeated 5-2 in Sunday night's match 
 
 Victory for the US against Japan in the Women's World Cup final turned into a Twitter row on Monday after some fans began to relate the win to Japan's 1941 attack on the US Navy's Pearl Harbor base. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Vancouver Three locations USA has blown Japan away — Kevin Pierce (@Kpierceswag) July 6, 2015 
 
 "Pearl Harbor" was among the most popular trending topics in the U.S. following the game, ranking alongside the team names "#USAvJPN" and the U.S. goalkeeper "Hope Solo." "Pearl Harbor isn't funny. Hiroshima isn't funny. This isn't WW2 this is a women's soccer match in 2015 lol — Tay (@Tayty_Perry) July 5, 2015 
 
 Pro tip: that Pearl Harbor tweet you're typing up...don't send it, keep that to yourself, you heathen. This is for Pearl Harbor pic.twitter.com/jd3ptnxxWM — Yung C Boy (@JGenzy) July 5, 2015 
 
 Japan wishing they never bombed Pearl Harbor right about now... — Joe Head (@JoeHeadTV) July 5, 2015 
 
 That 4th one was for Pearl Harbor.
– Shortly after the USA's win over Japan in the Women's World Cup last night, Twitter fans exchanged jubilation and sportsmanship for something much darker: mentions of Pearl Harbor. Several soccer fans suggested the 5-2 victory was a form of payback for the 1941 attack during World War II, reports the BBC. "This is for Pearl Harbor," one less-than-subtle user tweeted along with a photo of Carli Lloyd's face on an atomic bomb. "They destroyed Pearl Harbor, we destroyed their dreams," tweeted another. Yet another wrote "USA has blown Japan away," while referencing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The New York Daily News reports 120,000 died instantly when two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945; while 2,403 died in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor tends to get mentioned about 500 times a day on Twitter, analytics website Topsy finds, per NBC News. That number jumped to 50,000 yesterday, but at least some users challenged the trend. "Pearl Harbor isn't funny. Hiroshima isn't funny. Nagasaki isn't funny. This isn't WW2 this is a women's soccer match in 2015," wrote a user.