USWNT vs. Colombia: Starting XI & Lineup Notes | 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup

USWNT vs. Colombia – 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup – Quarterfinal
Date: March 3, 2024
Venue: BMO Stadium; Los Angeles, Calif.   
Broadcast: Paramount+, ESPN Deportes, ESPN+
Official Kickoff Time: 8:15 p.m. ET / 5:15 p.m. PT

Beginning XI vs. Colombia: 1-Alyssa Naeher; 3-Jenna Nighswonger, 4-Naomi Girma, 7-Alex Morgan, 8-Jaedyn Shaw, 10-Lindsey Horan (Capt.), 12-Tierna Davidson, 15-Korbin Albert, 17-Sam Coffey, 22-Trinity Rodman, 23-Emily Fox

Out there Subs: 2-Abby Dahlkemper, 5-Becky Sauerbrunn, 6-Lynn Williams, 9-Midge Purce, 11-Sophia Smith, 13-Olivia Moultrie, 14-Emily Sonnett, 16-Rose Lavelle, 18-Casey Murphy, 19-Crystal Dunn, 20-Casey Krueger, 21-Jane Campbell

GAME NOTES | FIVE THINGS TO KNOW                

• USWNT Beginning XI Cap Numbers (Together with this match): Morgan (219), Horan (142), Naeher (100), Davidson (53), Fox (43), Rodman (32), Girma (28), Coffey (11), Shaw (8), Nighswonger (5), Albert (5)
• The beginning lineup to face Colombia within the quarterfinal options six totally different gamers from the beginning lineup for the group stage finale in opposition to Mexico with Naeher, Fox, Coffey, Horan and Rodman the 5 gamers remaining within the XI.
• The Beginning XI to face Colombia averages 25.9 years of age and 58 caps per participant.
• Eight gamers on this beginning lineup performed in opposition to Colombia through the October friendlies, together with aim scorers Horan and Shaw. Davidson – who missed the October matches attributable to harm – and Nighswonger and Albert – who had but to debut for the USA – are the one gamers that didn’t function in these two video games.
• Lindsey Horan makes her third consecutive begin of the 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup as she captains the U.S. for the 21^st time in her profession. Horan, who will earn her 142^nd cap, scored an excellent volley within the USA’s Oct. 29 win over Colombia and in addition scored in opposition to Colombia in January 2021.
• Alyssa Naeher will earn her 100^th cap for the USWNT, becoming a member of Hope Solo and Briana Scurry as the one goalkeepers in USWNT historical past to succeed in the 100-cap milestone, making the U.S. first nation in historical past to have three feminine goalkeepers with 100+ caps. Naeher will develop into the 42^nd participant all-time in USWNT historical past to succeed in the 100-cap milestone and the primary to take action since Horan hit the century mark through the delayed 2021 Olympics.
• A two-time FIFA Girls’s World Cup champion, Naeher debuted for the USWNT in December of 2014 and have become a constant starter following the 2016 Olympics. Naeher is, and has been for some time, the goalkeeper with the third-most caps, wins (80) and shutouts (60) in U.S. historical past.
• Defender and Huntington Seashore native Jenna Nighswonger will make her second begin of the W Gold Cup and the third of her profession as she earns her fifth cap for the USWNT. Nighswonger began and scored within the USA’s opening match of the Gold Cup in opposition to the Dominican Republic and got here on in its place within the Feb. 23 win over Argentina, incomes the penalty kick that led to the USA’s fourth and remaining aim.
• Reigning U.S. Soccer Feminine Participant of the 12 months Naomi Girma makes her second begin – and second look total – of the 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup as she earns her 28^th cap. Girma went the gap within the USA’s Feb. 23 shutout victory over Argentina and began each matches in opposition to Colombia through the October 2023 friendlies.
• Alex Morgan makes her second begin and fourth look total of the Concacaf W Gold Cup as she earns her 219^th cap for the USWNT. Morgan tallied an help in opposition to Colombia through the 2012 Olympics and scored the game-winning aim within the Spherical of 16 assembly between the groups on the 2015 FIFA Girls’s World Cup. General, Morgan has 16 targets in 27 profession appearances for the U.S. in knockout spherical matches of aggressive tournaments, tied with Carli Lloyd for the second-most in USWNT historical past behind Abby Wambach’s 19 such targets.
• Nineteen-year-old Jaedyn Shaw will make her second begin of the Concacaf W Gold Cup and the third of her younger profession as she earns her eighth cap. Shaw made her worldwide debut on Oct. 26, 2023, in opposition to Colombia and scored her first worldwide aim three days later within the USA’s Oct. 29 win over Colombia in San Diego.
• Shaw has scored in every of her earlier two begins for the USWNT – the Dec. 5, 2023 win over China PR in Frisco, Texas and the Feb. 23 Gold Cup match in opposition to Argentina, through which she netted a brace. Shaw is simply the seventh participant to attain in every of her first two begins for the USWNT, becoming a member of Michelle Akers, Shannon Boxx, Danielle Fotopoulos, Ashley Hatch, Christen Press and Christie Welsh.
• Tierna Davidson will earn her 53^rd cap as she makes her second begin and second look of 2024. Davidson went the gap within the USA’s Feb. 23 win over Argentina and has one earlier look in opposition to Colombia, beginning and enjoying the total 90 minutes within the Jan. 22, 2021 victory. This shall be simply the fourth time Davidson and her former collegiate teammate Girma will begin collectively as the middle again pairing for the USA.
• Twenty-year-old midfielder Korbin Albert will make her third profession begin – and third of this W Gold Cup – as she earns her fifth cap for the USWNT. The one participant to begin every of the USA’s first two matches this event, Albert got here on as a second-half substitute in opposition to Mexico and was considered one of 9 gamers to seem in all three group stage matches.
• Sam Coffey will make her second consecutive begin and third of the W Gold Cup as she earns her 11^th cap. Coffey can have now appeared in every of the final seven matches for the USWNT, a streak that started with the October 29, 2023, win over Colombia in San Diego.
• Trinity Rodman will make her third consecutive begin on the W Gold Cup as she earns her 32^nd profession cap. Rodman leads the U.S. in whole minutes performed at this Concacaf W Gold Cup (205) and shall be making her 22^nd consecutive look for the USWNT, a streak that began within the opening match of 2023. It’s essentially the most consecutive appearances by any USWNT participant since Carli Lloyd appeared in 22 consecutive video games to shut out her worldwide profession in 2021.
• Emily Fox earns her 43^rd cap as she makes her second consecutive begin and fourth look total for the USWNT on the Concacaf W Gold Cup. Fox completed second on the group in whole minutes performed in 2023 and performed each minute of the 2 October matches in opposition to Colombia, tallying an help on Lindsey Horan’s aim on Oct. 29.