Concacaf W Championship: USA vs. Canada

Accessible Substitutes: 2-Ashley Sanchez, 5-Kelley O’Hara, 6-Trinity Rodman, 12-Naomi Girma, 14-Emily Sonnett, 15-Megan Rapinoe, 18-Casey Murphy, 20-Taylor Kornieck, 21-Aubrey Kingsbury, 22-Kristie Mewis, 23-Midge Purce, 24-Sam Coffey

GAME NOTES | FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW – CANADA

• USWNT beginning XI numbers (together with this match): Sauerbrunn (207), Morgan (196), Horan (116), Naeher (83), Lavelle (78), Pugh (78), Sullivan (32), Smith (21), Huerta (19), Fox (17), cook dinner (13)

• The beginning XI to tackle Canada, which is the fifth distinctive beginning lineup utilized by the US at this Concacaf W Championship, options two totally different gamers from the lineup that began the semifinal towards Costa Rica; Naeher for Murphy in objective and Fox for Sonnett on protection.
• Tonight’s beginning lineup consists of simply 5 gamers who began towards Canada within the Olympic semifinal, which was the latest assembly between the groups: Naeher, Sauerbrunn, Horan, Lavelle and Morgan.

• Horan and Smith will now have began all video games for the US on the 2022 Concacaf W Championship, each making their fifth consecutive begins.
• This beginning lineup averages 28 years of age and 77 video games per participant, with three gamers, Sauerbrunn, Morgan and Horan, having greater than 100 video games and three, Huerta, Fox and Prepare dinner, having fewer than 20 video games.

• becky sauerbrunn would be the US captain for the 36^the time generally, however the first in a last, since he makes his 207^the worldwide look for the US Sauerbrunn now breaks a tie with Tiffeny Milbrett to take sole possession of ninth place on the US all-time record, the The vast majority of video games by any participant in USWNT historical past have been performed virtually completely as protection.

• Goalie alyssa naeher will make his second Concacaf W Championship begin by incomes his 83^dr profession high Naeher, who threw a clear sheet towards Jamaica within the US’s second group stage match on July 7, has 48 profession shutouts, which ranks third in USWNT historical past. Two of Naeher’s 48 profession clear sheets have come towards Canada. Naeher, who had an impressive match in Tokyo, began within the Olympic semi-final towards Canada however was pressured to go away within the 30^the minute and the rating tied 0-0 with a knee damage that will sideline her for the remainder of the yr.

• alana cook dinner will make his fourth Concacaf W Championship begin by incomes his 14^the profession cap for the USWNT. Prepare dinner, who’s taking part in his first aggressive match with the USWNT, leads the US in whole minutes performed this yr with 746 minutes of motion. This will probably be Prepare dinner’s 12^the begin within the USA’s final 14 video games, a stretch courting again to the November 2021 video games in Australia.

• Sofia Huerta will make his second consecutive begin and third total of the Concacaf W Championship by incomes his 19^the caps with the US Huerta, who will now have seen the sphere in all 5 video games on the Concacaf W Championship, has two assists in 2022 and has additionally helped create two personal targets. Seven of Huerta’s 9 profession begins could have come since his return to the nationwide crew image in November 2021.

• Ahead Mallory Pugh will make his fourth Concacaf W Championship begin by incomes his 78^the career-high Pugh leads the US with seven assists in 2022, two of which have come at this match, and scored all 24^the Worldwide objective within the July 14 victory over Costa Rica. This would be the second time Pugh has began a last for the USA and the primary for the reason that 2016 Olympic qualification when he began the USA’s 2-0 win over Canada within the championship match.

• Lindsey Horan will begin his fifth consecutive recreation on the 2022 Concacaf W Championship and can make his 116^the worldwide look. Horan, who led the US in scoring with six targets on the 2020 Concacaf Olympic Qualifying Match, has eight targets and eight assists in 18 Concacaf Qualifying appearances and has two targets and two assists in seven Concacaf Qualifying appearances. his profession towards Canada.

• sofia smith will win 21^St. cap whereas making his crew chief 11^the begin of 2022 and fifth consecutive begin of the match. Smith, who’s taking part in his first aggressive match with the USWNT, leads the USWNT in scoring with seven targets on the yr and hit a brace within the first eight minutes of the US’s 5-0 victory over Jamaica on July 7. of July.

• After scoring a brace in the USA’ opening recreation towards Haiti, Alex Morgan will make his fourth begin of the match as he wins his 196^the cap and overtakes Shannon Boxx to take sole possession of 13^the on the USA’s all-time caps record. Double towards Haiti marked Morgan’s life twenty ninth profession multi-goal recreation, third-most in US historical past. He has now scored 21 targets in 23 profession qualifying appearances for the USWNT, third-most in US historical past.

• midfield participant Rose Lavalle will make his fourth begin and fifth look total on this match as he earns his 78^the cap for USA Lavelle scored the third objective for the US in a 5-0 win over Jamaica on July 7, his third objective of the yr and he scored his sixth help of 2022 within the USA’s July 14 victory over Costa Rica. Lavelle, who has two targets in his 4 profession appearances towards Canada, has been straight concerned in 9 targets within the US’s final eight video games, scoring three targets and including six assists.

• andy sullivan will win it 32^{North Dakota} profession excessive by making his fourth begin on the Concacaf W Championship, which will probably be his first begin and his first look for the USWNT in a last. Sullivan ranks third total within the USWNT this yr in whole minutes performed with 658 and can make his tenth^the starting of 2022.

• Advocate emily fox he returns to the USA beginning lineup after lacking the final two video games whereas on COVID protocols. Fox began the US video games towards Haiti and Jamaica and is poised to win her 17^the profession cap He’ll now have appeared in 13 of the 16 US video games for the reason that October 2021 FIFA Window and will probably be making his 12^the begin throughout that point.