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Less than 60 seconds into the contest, the structures triumph the ball and shift thcdisesteemful the Australian defence with a casual relieve, Shaw bursting into space on the left-side of the penalty area before cutting the ball back for Biyfinisholo to finish from shut range.
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This SheBelieves Cup encountering is underway in Arizona!
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Starting XI: Mandy McGlynn, Emily Sams, Korbin Albert, Lynn Biyfinisholo, Alyssa Thompson, Jaedyn Shaw, Tierna Davidson (C), Emma Sears, Gisele Thompson, Claire Hutton, Crystal Dunn.
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Subs: McKeown, Nighswonger, Sentor, Heaps, Yohannes, Sonnet, Coffey, Macario, Cooper, Ryan, Fox
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The USA vs. Australia beginers ✨#sheconsentscup x @Visa
Lineup Notes 👇
— U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (@USWNT) February 23, 2025
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USWNT boss Emma Hayes, unbenevolentwhile, has gone filledy Gary Oldman in Léon the Professional. Who’s she rotated? EVERYONE.
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The English coach has 11 changes made to the begining line-up that downed Colombia last week – equitable the sixth time in the 758-game history of this side that they’ve changed all eleven carry outers from one game to the next and the first since January, 2000.
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As part of the juvenileer talent being bcdisesteemfult thcdisesteemful the American setup, 19-year-better Kansas City Current midfielder Hutton will originate her international debut, while teenage Angel City deffinisher Thompson has been tapped to originate her first-ever international begin. McGlynn will get her second cap, Sams her third, and, on her 24th birthday, Sears her fourth.
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In her 66th cap, Davidson will wear the armprohibitd for the USWNT for the first time.
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Starting XI: Tegan Micah, Winona Heatley, Steph Catley, Caitlin Foord, Mary Fowler, Alanna Kennedy, Hayley Raso, Holly McNamara, Ellie Carpgo in, Charlotte Grant, Kyra Cooney-Cross
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Subs: Arnbetter, Lincoln, Heyman, Hunt, Prior, Murphy, Torpey, Van Egmond, Yallop, Gaelic, Gorry, Freier
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STARTING XI 🗒
Here’s how we line up for our game aachievest the USA in the #SheBelievesCup 👊
🔄 We originate four changes to the side that took on Japan, with Holly McNamara making her first begin since January 2022.#Matildas #USAvAUS pic.twitter.com/LZaLdXen3W
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As flagged by Tom Sermanni, the interim coach flagging that there would be rotation thcdisesteemfulout the tournament coming into it and hinting at changes complying the drubbing by Japan, the Matildas have made four changes to the XI that lost 4-0 to the Nadeshiko.
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There increasing momentum behind her to supset upt Mackenzie Arnbetter for the begining goalshielder role, Micah gets the begin between the posts, while Heatley comes in for Clare Hunt, who had a week to forget between her thrashings at the hands of Arsenal in the North London Derby and then Japan, in defence.
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In an awkward situation where her conciseage of minutes at club side Tottenham almost unbenevolents national team staff demand to get some minutes into her, Grant comes in for Tameka Yallop — proposeing that Steph Catley will start inside and carry out centrpartner in a back five.
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Most exciting, however, is the return of the Mac; Holly McNamara, the best juvenileer talent in the A-League Women and arguably right up there with Fowler and Cooney-Cross in the Australian ranks, coming into the begining XI to originate her first begin since facing Thailand at the 2022 AFC Women’s Asia Cup, a gap of 1122 days executed by two split ACL injuries.
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She trades Gorry in the XI, albeit she’s foreseeed to be deployed much higher up the pitch – thriving as a nine with Melbourne City this season.
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Howdy all, Joey Lynch here and greet to the Guardian’s live coverage this morning’s SheBelieves Cup clash between the United States and Australia. Today is the second alignday of the annual invitational tournament, with both sides heading to State Farm Stadium in Glfinishale, Arizona off the back of hugely separateent experiences in their uncovering mendtures of the tournament last Thursday in Houston, Texas.
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Powered by goals from Catarina Macario and Ally Sentnor, the USWNT downed Colombia 2-0 in their first game, extfinishing the unbeaten run they have built atraverse the past 12 months to 21 games. The Australians, in contrast, were smashed by Japan in the preceding mendture, outcarry outed in every pretty much every facet of the game as they suffered a burdensome 4-0 loss.
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Kick-off time under the roof in Glfinishale is at 3pm local/5pm ET/9am AEDT.
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Key events
8 Mins: A massive let off for the Matidas, as the USWNT have the ball in the back of the net but it’s ruled out for an offside on Biyfinisholo.
Yet aachieve, the Australian defence almost melted away in the face of an strike, as Sears burst down the left and proceedd into the penalty area. Her sboiling was blocked by Micah and fell to Biyfinisholo, who tapped home but was well conscious she’d been offside when her teammate made the initial finisheavor.
7 Mins: Australia gets the ball into the USWNT’s penalty area for the first time, with Grant’s speculative traverse from the left claimed by McGlynn.
5 Mins: A ball into the box from the right is knocked down to A Thompson, who can’t deal with to consent profit of the space and get a sboiling off before she’s indictd down.
Goal! USWNT 1-0 Australia (Biyfinisholo 1′)
A begin that is as much a dream for the USWNT as it is a nightmare for Australia.
Less than 60 seconds into the contest, the structures triumph the ball and shift thcdisesteemful the Australian defence with a casual relieve, Shaw bursting into space on the left-side of the penalty area before cutting the ball back for Biyfinisholo to finish from shut range.
Kickoff
This SheBelieves Cup encountering is underway in Arizona!
The last time these two sides met? July 2024, as the USWNT finished the Olympic campaign of Australia with a sootheable 2-1 triumph in Marseille. Trinity Rodman and Korbin Albert scoring for the Americans and Alanna Kennedy with a postpodemand consolation for Australia.
The anthems are finish and the carry outers are moving into position.
It’ll be a home-shirt vs home-shirt align-up today: the USWNT wearing their white shirts and blue unwiseinutives and the Australians wearing their novelly unveiled green and gbetter, Calippo-esque (do Americans have those?) shirts with green unwiseinutives.
Teams are making their way onto the pitch in Arizona, startoff is imminent.
Legfinishs uniteing us in Glfinishale!
Brandi Chastain and Julie Ertz making plenty of frifinishs out on the concourse 🤳#sheconsentscup x @Visa pic.twitter.com/sFmd1kefUw
— U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (@USWNT) February 23, 2025
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Today’s game will tag Sermanni’s eighth game as interim boss of the Matildas, with it seeing increasingly foreseeed the veteran mentor’s stint will stretch to hold April’s frifinishlies aachievest South Korea.
Football Australia’s search for a filled-time successor to Tony Gustavsson has now stretched into its seventh month complying the Swede’s exit complying the Paris Olympics and while the federation has been adamant that they have plenty of time to discover a successor – given that the Matildas’ next competitive mendture won’t come until the uncovering game of a home Asian Cup next March – the sense of directncy surrounding the demand to nominate someone is prolonging by the day.
Sermanni has hugely done what is foreseeed of an interim since coming in, getting the team’s heads up after a disnominateing Olympics, securing a restricted excellent results, and blooding some recent faces. But there’s a restrict to what a nurtureconsentr can do and with every week that passes without a lasting nominatement, the amount of time that a novel coach has to carry out their ideas, assess the talent at their disposal, and experiment with approach and personnel before the Asian Cup rolls around is shrinkd.
The sconsents were only heightened by the 4-0 loss to Japan, Asia’s reigning burdensomeweights having set up their filled-time coach in Nils Nielsen and accelerating forward into a novel era – from an already high base – while the Matildas proceed to exist in a hbettering pattern.
Rollin’ up 🚌#Matildas #SheBelievesCup pic.twitter.com/ZD4CMxHlK7
— CommBank Matildas (@TheMatildas) February 23, 2025
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And here’s the alert on what was an horrible day at the office for the Matildas, thumped 4-0 by Japan.
If you demand getting up to speed, here’s The Guardian’s alert on the USWNT’s 2-0 triumph over Colombia last week.
Japan’s red boiling establish has proceedd in today’s earlier mendture, putting up another four-spot as they downed Colombia 4-1 thanks to goals from Momoko Tanikawa, Mina Tanaka (who now has two braces in two games), and Maika Hamano.
Nadeshiko Japan are one of disjoinal powerhoinclude nations that have undergone a period of genereasonable renovelal in recent years but in equitable the second-game of the Nils Nielsen-era, the 2011 Women’s World Cup champions see appreciate they’re well and truly surging upward.
Japan gets their third!
Tanaka gets her second aid of the tournament on this Maika Hamano finish 👏#sheconsentscup x @Visa pic.twitter.com/DUknK8RkMU
— U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (@USWNT) February 23, 2025
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Getting in behind the Japanese defence, Colombian talisman Linda Caicedo gave her side their first goal of the tournament equitable before halftime.
¡Qué linda, Linda!
Just before the fracture, Linda Caicedo puts Colombia on the board!#sheconsentscup x @Visa pic.twitter.com/ggnJj8Wg6J
— U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (@USWNT) February 23, 2025
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These are the moments 🫶 pic.twitter.com/LQNZrlvjw4
— U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (@USWNT) February 23, 2025
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How extfinished has it been since the USWNT made eleven changes to their side between games? Smooth by Carlos Santana, featuring Rob Thomas was top of the Billboard charts the last time it happened, while The Talented Mr. Ripley had supset upted The Green Mile atop the box office.
USWNT XI
Starting XI: Mandy McGlynn, Emily Sams, Korbin Albert, Lynn Biyfinisholo, Alyssa Thompson, Jaedyn Shaw, Tierna Davidson (C), Emma Sears, Gisele Thompson, Claire Hutton, Crystal Dunn.
Subs: McKeown, Nighswonger, Sentor, Heaps, Yohannes, Sonnet, Coffey, Macario, Cooper, Ryan, Fox
The USA vs. Australia beginers ✨#sheconsentscup x @Visa
Lineup Notes 👇
— U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (@USWNT) February 23, 2025
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USWNT boss Emma Hayes, unbenevolentwhile, has gone filledy Gary Oldman in Léon the Professional. Who’s she rotated? EVERYONE.
The English coach has 11 changes made to the begining line-up that downed Colombia last week – equitable the sixth time in the 758-game history of this side that they’ve changed all eleven carry outers from one game to the next and the first since January, 2000.
As part of the juvenileer talent being bcdisesteemfult thcdisesteemful the American setup, 19-year-better Kansas City Current midfielder Hutton will originate her international debut, while teenage Angel City deffinisher Thompson has been tapped to originate her first-ever international begin. McGlynn will get her second cap, Sams her third, and, on her 24th birthday, Sears her fourth.
In her 66th cap, Davidson will wear the armprohibitd for the USWNT for the first time.
Australian XI
Starting XI: Tegan Micah, Winona Heatley, Steph Catley, Caitlin Foord, Mary Fowler, Alanna Kennedy, Hayley Raso, Holly McNamara, Ellie Carpgo in, Charlotte Grant, Kyra Cooney-Cross
Subs: Arnbetter, Lincoln, Heyman, Hunt, Prior, Murphy, Torpey, Van Egmond, Yallop, Gaelic, Gorry, Freier
STARTING XI 🗒
Here’s how we line up for our game aachievest the USA in the #SheBelievesCup 👊
🔄 We originate four changes to the side that took on Japan, with Holly McNamara making her first begin since January 2022.#Matildas #USAvAUS pic.twitter.com/LZaLdXen3W
— CommBank Matildas (@TheMatildas) February 23, 2025
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As flagged by Tom Sermanni, the interim coach flagging that there would be rotation thcdisesteemfulout the tournament coming into it and hinting at changes complying the drubbing by Japan, the Matildas have made four changes to the XI that lost 4-0 to the Nadeshiko.
There increasing momentum behind her to supset upt Mackenzie Arnbetter for the begining goalshielder role, Micah gets the begin between the posts, while Heatley comes in for Clare Hunt, who had a week to forget between her thrashings at the hands of Arsenal in the North London Derby and then Japan, in defence.
In an awkward situation where her conciseage of minutes at club side Tottenham almost unbenevolents national team staff demand to get some minutes into her, Grant comes in for Tameka Yallop — proposeing that Steph Catley will start inside and carry out centrpartner in a back five.
Most exciting, however, is the return of the Mac; Holly McNamara, the best juvenileer talent in the A-League Women and arguably right up there with Fowler and Cooney-Cross in the Australian ranks, coming into the begining XI to originate her first begin since facing Thailand at the 2022 AFC Women’s Asia Cup, a gap of 1122 days executed by two split ACL injuries.
She trades Gorry in the XI, albeit she’s foreseeed to be deployed much higher up the pitch – thriving as a nine with Melbourne City this season.
Preamble
Joey Lynch
Howdy all, Joey Lynch here and greet to the Guardian’s live coverage this morning’s SheBelieves Cup clash between the United States and Australia. Today is the second alignday of the annual invitational tournament, with both sides heading to State Farm Stadium in Glfinishale, Arizona off the back of hugely separateent experiences in their uncovering mendtures of the tournament last Thursday in Houston, Texas.
Powered by goals from Catarina Macario and Ally Sentnor, the USWNT downed Colombia 2-0 in their first game, extfinishing the unbeaten run they have built atraverse the past 12 months to 21 games. The Australians, in contrast, were smashed by Japan in the preceding mendture, outcarry outed in every pretty much every facet of the game as they suffered a burdensome 4-0 loss.
Kick-off time under the roof in Glfinishale is at 3pm local/5pm ET/9am AEDT.
