USA Women’s National Team vs. South Korea – Presented by Allstate
date: June 4, 2024
venue: Allianz Field, St. Paul, Minnesota
broadcast: TNT, truTV, Universo, Max, Peacock
Official kick-off time: 7:07 PM CST/8:07 PM EST
Starting line-up for the match against South Korea: 1-Casey Murphy, 2-Sam Staab, 3-Jenna Neiswonger, 5-Corbin Albert, 8-Jaidyn Shaw, 10-Lindsey Horan (Captain), 13-Alex Morgan, 14-Emily Sonnett, 16-Rose Lavelle, 19-Crystal Dunn, 20-Casey Kruger
Available subs: 4-Naomi Girma, 6-Lily Johannes, 7-Katarina Macario, 9-Mallory Swanson, 11-Sophia Smith, 12-Tierna Davidson, 15-Hal Hirschfeld, 17-Sam Coffey, 18-Aubrey Kingsbury, 21-Jane Campbell, 22-Trinity Rodman, 23-Emily Fox
GAME NOTES | 5 THINGS TO KNOW
- USWNT Starting XI Caps (including this match): Morgan (224), Horan (148), Dunn (147), Lovell (100), Sonnett (91), Kruger (49), Murphy (19), Shaw (14), Albert (11), Nyswonger (9), Staab (2).
- Nine players from the Denver starting eleven were selected for Tuesday’s game against South Korea, with only two players, Jenna Nyswonger and Lindsey Horan, starting both games.
- Tonight’s lineup has an average age of 28 years and 73 caps per player.
- Midfielder Rose Label Returning to the starting lineup, Lavelle earned her historic 100th cap with the U.S. Women’s National Team, becoming the 43rd player in team history to reach the milestone. The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion made her debut with the U.S. Women’s National Team in March 2017 and had a breakout performance at the 2019 World Cup. After recording an assist off the bench in Saturday’s win in Denver, she now has 24 goals and 24 assists in her international career, and is on track to become the 19th player in U.S. Women’s National Team history with 25 or more goals and 25 or more assists.
- Lindsey Horan Horan will earn her 148th cap with the U.S. Women’s National Team in 2024, making her team-high ninth start. Horan has played a U.S.-leading 723 minutes this year and has been involved in seven goals in her last 11 games, scoring six goals and adding one assist during that time.
- Casey Murphy Murphy will start as the U.S. Women’s National Team goalkeeper, marking her second start for the U.S. Women’s National Team in 2024 and her second appearance overall, and her 19th international appearance. Murphy started and recorded a clean sheet in the U.S.’ 4-0 win over Argentina in the second match of the group stage at the CONCACAF World Gold Cup, and has also recorded a clean sheet in each of her past seven appearances for the U.S. Women’s National Team since the start of 2023. Her 14 career clean sheets are sixth-most in U.S. Women’s National Team history.
- Three days after earning her first cap for the U.S. women’s national team, Sam Staab Staab will make her first start in an international match. She played the final 30 minutes of the win over South Korea on June 1, becoming the 259th player to earn a cap for the U.S. Women’s National Team and the first to make her debut under new head coach Emma Hayes. This is the 27-year-old Staab’s first senior national team call-up.
- Jenna Nyswonger Nyswonger will earn her ninth cap with the U.S. Women’s National Team, starting for the second consecutive match and her sixth in 2024. Nyswonger played the full 90 minutes for the fifth time in her international career and helped the U.S. Women’s National Team keep a clean sheet in the U.S. victory at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on June 1.
- Corbin Albert Albert earned her 11th cap and sixth start for the U.S. Women’s National Team since the CONCACAF World Cup final against Brazil on March 10. Albert is one of six players to have appeared in every game for the U.S. Women’s National Team so far in 2024, having started five of the U.S.’ six matches in the Gold Cup.
- She was the top scorer for the U.S. Women’s National Team this year with five goals. Jaedyn Shaw Shaw is looking to earn her 14th cap in her seventh career start. The 19-year-old Shaw made history as the first player in U.S. Women’s National Team history to score in her first five starts. In her sixth start, against Canada in the SheBelieves Cup final, she was scoreless but recorded her first career assist on Sophia Smith’s first goal of the afternoon. In six career starts, Shaw has been directly involved in seven goals (six goals, one assist), compared to just one goal in seven appearances off the bench.
- Alex Morgan This will be Morgan’s seventh start of 2024 and her 224th international appearance for the U.S. Women’s National Team. She started both games for the U.S. at the 2024 SheBelieves Cup and started all three first-round matches at the CONCACAF World Cup Gold Cup, as well as the second group stage match against Argentina. Morgan has two goals and three assists in six appearances against South Korea, most recently recording a goal and an assist in the U.S.’ win on Oct. 26, 2021, in St. Paul.
- Emily Sonnett Sonnett will be making her third start of 2024 and her 91st international appearance for the U.S. Women’s National Team. Sonnett has appeared in seven of the U.S.’ nine matches so far this year, starting in midfield against the Dominican Republic and in the SheBelieves Cup final against Canada. Sonnett started in the U.S. Women’s National Team’s most recent match in Minnesota, playing 90 minutes and recording an assist in the U.S.’ win over South Korea on Oct. 26, 2021.
- This was her first start in the forward line for the U.S. Women’s National Team since July 30, 2017. Crystal Dunn Dunn will earn her 147th cap in her fifth start of 2024. Dunn has 24 career goals for the U.S. Women’s National Team and played in the forward line for the final 30 minutes of Saturday’s game against South Korea in Colorado, marking her first time playing as a forward for the U.S. Women’s National Team since January 2021.
- Casey Kruger Kruger will earn her second start and seventh appearance for the U.S. Women’s National Team in 2024, earning her 48th cap. Kruger started in the U.S.’ 4-0 win over Argentina in the 2024 CONCACAF World Cup Gold Cup and assisted Alex Morgan on a goal in the 19th minute. It was Kruger’s fifth career assist and her first since giving birth to her son, Caleb, in July 2022. A member of the 2021 Olympic team, Kruger will soon earn her seventh cap in 2024, which would be her most caps in a single year for the U.S. Women’s National Team since 2018 (eight caps).
