United States Women’s National Team vs. Germany – Paris 2024 Olympics – Group B
date: July 28, 2024
venue: Stade de Marseille. Marseille, France
broadcast: USA Network, Telemundo, Peacock
Official kick-off time: 9pm local time / 3pm eastern time
Starting line-up for Germany: 1-Alyssa Naher, 2-Emily Fox, 4-Naomi Girma, 5-Trinity Rodman, 7-Crystal Dunn, 9-Mallory Swanson, 10-Lindsey Horan (Captain), 11-Sophia Smith, 12-Tienna Davidson, 16-Rose Lavelle, 17-Sam Coffey
Available subs: 3-Corbin Albert, 6-Casey Kruger, 8-Lynn Williams, 13-Jenna Neiswonger, 14-Emily Sonnett, 18-Casey Murphy, 20-Cloix Bethune
GAME NOTES | 5 THINGS TO KNOW
- USWNT Starting XI Caps (including this match): Horan (152), Dunn (151), Naher (108), Lovell (103), Swanson (96), Davidson (62), Fox (53), Smith (52), Rodman (42), Girma (36), Coffey (21).
- The starting line-up for the match against Germany will be the same 11 that played in the opening Olympic match against Zambia.
- Lindsey Horan Horan will captain the U.S. for the 30th time of her career and earn her 152nd cap. Horan has played a U.S. national team-leading 1,002 minutes this year and will be in the starting lineup for a team-high 13th time in 2024. With her two assists against Zambia, Horan became just the fifth player in U.S. Women’s National Team history to record multiple assists in an Olympic game, and she has three assists in each of her previous two Olympic appearances dating back to the bronze medal game in Tokyo.
- Alyssa Naher This will be Naeher’s 11th start of 2024 and her 108th international appearance. Naeher has kept a clean sheet in each of her previous three matches for the U.S. Women’s National Team at a World Cup or Olympic Games dating back to the third group stage match of the 2023 Women’s World Cup, and has nine shutouts in 17 total games at world championships.
- Though he did not play in that match, Naeher, who played two seasons with Turbine Potsdam in Germany, is the only current player to have been in the squad that played in the 2015 World Cup semi-final against Germany, which was the last time the two teams met in a World Cup or Olympic Games.
- Emily Fox Fox will make her 11th start of the season and earn her 53rd cap with the U.S. women’s national team in 2024. Fox was one of seven players to make her Olympic debut against Zambia and has been a mainstay of the U.S. defensive line, ranking second on the team in playing time since the end of the Tokyo Olympics behind Horan.
- Naomi Girma Girma will be looking to earn her 36th cap in 2024, making her 10th appearance and 10th start. Dating back to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Girma is the only field player to have played the full time in the U.S. Women’s National Team’s last five matches at a World Cup or Olympic Games. She has also played the full 27 of the U.S. Women’s National Team’s 35 career matches.
- After scoring the opening goal for the U.S. Women’s National Team at the 2024 Olympics, Trinity Rodman This marks her fourth consecutive start and 32nd consecutive appearance for the U.S. Women’s National Team. Rodman becomes just the seventh player in U.S. Women’s National Team history to score in an Olympic debut and the first since Alex Morgan in 2012. The 22-year-old Rodman is the youngest player to score for the U.S. Women’s National Team in a world championship since 21-year-old Mallory Swanson scored in the U.S.’s opening win against Thailand at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
- Crystal Dunn Dunn will earn her 151st cap and have started 17 consecutive games in a World Cup or Olympic match for the U.S. Women’s National Team, beginning in the third group stage match against Sweden at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Dunn’s streak of 17 consecutive starts in world championship matches is the longest streak by a U.S. Women’s National Team field player since Christy Pierce, who started 27 consecutive games from the 2004 Olympic quarterfinals through the 2012 gold medal match.
- Mallory SwansonSwanson, who enters the second match of the Olympics tied with France’s Marie-Antoinette Katoto for the tournament’s top scorer ranking, will be playing in her 96th international match and fourth Olympic Games overall. Her two goals in 70 seconds were the fastest two goals ever scored by a U.S. women’s national team player at a world championship and the fastest time between goals in the history of women’s Olympic soccer.
- Swanson has been involved in six goals (four goals, two assists) in seven games for the U.S. Women’s National Team since returning from injury, and her 36 goals in international matches are tied with Tobin Heath for 16th in U.S. Women’s National Team history.
- Sophia SmithSmith, who scored the tying goal in the most recent match against Germany on Nov. 13, 2022, will be in her 52nd international appearance and sixth consecutive start for the U.S. Women’s National Team at a World Cup and Olympic Games. Smith assisted on Swanson’s second goal Thursday against Zambia, marking her fourth goal contribution (two goals, two assists) in five career world championship games. Smith leads the U.S. with eight total goal involvements (five goals, three assists) in 2024.
- Tierna Davidson It will be his 11th appearance and 11th start of 2024 and his 62nd cap. The youngest member of the 2019 World Cup winning team and the youngest member of the 18-man U.S. squad for Tokyo 2020, Davidson has played all but 30 minutes in 10 matches for the U.S. so far this year. Davidson trained with VfL Wolfsburg in Germany in early 2023 to regain his fitness and health after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in March 2022.
- He is the fourth most experienced athlete on this Olympic team. Rose Label This will be Lavelle’s 103rd international appearance and eighth Olympic Games overall. He played in all six games for the USA at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, scoring his first Olympic goal in the group stage match against New Zealand.
- She is one of five players to have appeared in every game for the U.S. women’s national team so far this year. Sam Coffey She will make her 12th start of 2024 and earn her 21st cap. The only member of that starting lineup to play in the Olympics without world championship experience, Coffey is third on the team in total minutes played this year (933), triple the amount of minutes she played in her first two years with the U.S. Women’s National Team combined (301 in 2022-23).
- Forward Jaidyn Shaw (leg injury) remains unavailable for selection and will again be replaced by alternate Cloix Bethune in the match-day squad.
