CONCACAF W Championship: USA vs Jamaica

CONCACAF W Championship – Group A: USA vs Jamaica

Date: 7 July 2022
place: Estadio BBVA; Monterrey, Mexico
Broadcasting: Paramount+, Fix
broadcast time: 7 PM ET / 6 PM ET
Official start time: 7 PM ET / 6 PM ET

Starting with the eleventh against Jamaica: 1- Alyssa Naher. 2-Ashley Sanchez, 3-Alana Cook, 7-Ashley Hatch, 8-Sofia Huerta, 9-Mallory Poe, 10-Lindsey Horan (Captain), 11-Sofia Smith, 12-Naomi Germa, 16-Rose LaVille, 19- Emily Fox

Subs available: 4-Becky Sauerbrunn, 5-Kelly O’Hara, 6-Trinity Rodman, 13-Alex Morgan, 14-Emily Sonnett, 17-Andy Sullivan, 18-Casey Murphy, 20-Taylor Cornick, 21-Aubrey Kingsbury, 22- Kristi Moyes, 23 Midge Pierce

Not available: Megan Rapinoe

game notes | Five things to know – Jamaica

• USWNT Starting Maximum Numbers XI (including this match): Horan (113), Naher (82), Pugh (76), Laville (75), Smith (18), Fox (16), Huerta (16) Cook (12), Hatch (11), Sanchez (11) Girma ( 3)

• Today’s starting lineup includes five different XI players who took part in the opening match of the US Concacaf W Championship against Haiti; Naher to Murphy in goal, Jerma and Huerta to O’Hara and Sauerbrunn in defence, Sanchez to Sullivan in midfield, and Hatch to Morgan in attack.

• This 11th average age is 26.1 years, making it the youngest USA starting lineup in a World Cup or Olympic qualifier since the 2016 Olympic qualifiers, when the average starting lineup age was 25.6 years against Puerto Rico on February 15, 2016.

• The starting lineup averages 38 caps per player with only one player – Horan – with over 100 caps. Three other players – Naher, Bou and Laville – have more than 70 caps while the remaining seven players have played in their ninth start under 20 caps.

• Three kick-starters from tonight’s XI saw action in USA’s last game against Jamaica during the 2021 Summer Series. Lindsey Horan and Rose Lavelle kicked off the June 13 game in Houston, with Lavelle assisting Carli Lloyd just 23 seconds into the game and Horan converted with a kick. Penalty in the seventh minute to double the American supremacy. Sophia Smith also saw action in her last match with Reggae Girlz, coming on as a second-half substitute.

• Midfielder Lindsey Horan USA will lead for the first time ever in a CONCACAF qualifier, reaching 113^{The tenth} International appearance. Horan, who led the USA in scoring with six goals in the 2020 CONCACAF Qualifiers, scored eight goals and eight assists in 15 career matches in CONCACAF qualifying matches.

• Alyssa Naher You’ll make it 10^{The tenth} She started her career in the USA in a World Cup or Olympic qualification match where she earned 82^{second abbreviation} Max in general. Naher has kept clean sheets in each of her previous nine playoff games and ranks third in USWNT history with 47 career closings.

• Having made her qualifying debut in the July 4th win over Haiti, Ashley Sanchez She will start her fifth career as she gains 11 years^{The tenth} Generally cover with USWNT. Sanchez will appear for the ninth time this year for the USA and will now appear in every USA game since the November 2021 friendlies in Australia.

• Alana Cook You will start it for the second time in the tournament where you win 12^{The tenth} Maximum functionality in general. Cook leads USA in total minutes played in 2022 with 594 minutes and will now start each of their last 10 USA games.

• straight ahead Ashley Hatch She will make her qualifying debut at the age of 11^{The tenth} The general international appearance of the USA. Hatch, who started the USWNT’s June 25 game against Columbia in Colorado and saw playing as a second-half substitute in the June 28 game in Sandy, Utah, has four goals and one assist in 10 career games.

• Sofia Huerta You will earn it 16^{The tenth} Cover as she makes her seventh career debut for the USWNT. Huerta, She played for Mexico at the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup and made five appearances for Mexico’s senior team, including a match against the USA, before making a one-off move to the USA. Her first USWNT cover came in September 2017.

• After he scored an assist in Alex Morgan’s opening goal against Haiti, Mallory Bog She will make her second consecutive start for the 2022 Concacaf W Championship as she will have 76^{The tenth} The cap is generally for the USA. Pugh leads USA with six assists in 2022 – their most in any calendar year with USWNT since 2016 (7 assists) – and is also associated with leading the team in scoring with five goals in the year.

• Sophia Smith She’ll start for the second time in a row at USWNT because she’s gaining 18^{The tenth} hat. This would be the start of the eighth year for Smith, who tied with Cook and Fox for the most USWNT players in 2022.

• Smith, who is the USA’s top scorer with five goals this year, hails from Colorado and played her club football for Real Colorado, where she was coached by current Jamaican coach Lorne Donaldson. Pugh, another Colorado native, was coached by Donaldson in youth soccer.

• twenty two years Naomi Germa She will make her playoff debut as she makes her third USWNT career international appearance. 1 pick in the 2022 NWSL College Draft, Girma made her USWNT debut less than three months ago, starting and playing the full 90 minutes on April 12 against Uzbekistan. She earned her second international game on June 28, and scored another 90 minutes in the United States’ 2–0 victory over Colombia in Sandy, Utah.

• Rose Lavell You’ll make it six posts in six matches where you win 75^{The tenth} Her career limit is in today’s match against Jamaica, three years after the day she scored the winning goal in the 2019 World Cup Final against Holland. Laville is fifty^{The tenth} A player in USA history who has reached 75 caps and directly participated in seven goals in the last five matches for USA, scoring two goals and five assists during that period.

• Two days after celebrating its twenty-fourth birthday^{The tenth} birthday, Emily Fox She will start for the second time in a row in the Concacaf W Championship. This will be 16^{The tenth} Professional international debut for Fox, who will now have played in 12 of his 13 games for USA since the 2021 FIFA window, making it 11 games during that time. No other player has appeared in more matches for the USA over the past 10 months.

• Twenty-two players are available for the USA for this match against Jamaica as forward Megan Rapinoe is in Washington DC, where she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier today from President Biden. She will be back in Mexico and ready for the USA game on July 11th against Mexico.