USWNT vs. Germany – Paris 2024 Olympic Games – Group B
Date: July 28, 2024
Place: Marseille Stadium; Marseille, France
Broadcast: USA Network, Telemundo, Peacock
Official kick-off time: 9:00 p.m. local time / 3:00 p.m. Eastern time
Starting XI against Germany: 1-Alyssa Naeher; 2-Emily Fox, 4-Naomi Girma, 5-Trinity Rodman, 7-Crystal Dunn, 9-Mallory Swanson, 10-Lindsey Horan (captain), 11-Sophia Smith, 12-Tierna Davidson, 16-Rose Lavelle, 17- Sam Coffey
Available subtitles: 3-Korbin Albert, 6-Casey Krueger, 8-Lynn Williams, 13-Jenna Nighswonger, 14-Emily Sonnett, 18-Casey Murphy, 20-Bethune Cross
GAME NOTES | FIVE THINGS TO KNOW
- USWNT Starting XI Cap Numbers (including this match): Horan (152), Dunn (151), Naeher (108), Lavelle (103), Swanson (96), Davidson (62), Fox (53), Smith (52), Rodman (42), Girma (36), Coffey (21)
- The starting line-up to face Germany is identical to the one that opened the Olympics against Zambia.
- Lindsey Horan Horan will celebrate her 152nd cap by captaining the United States for the 30th time in her career. Horan leads the United States with 1,002 minutes played this year and will make her 13th start in 2024, the most on the team. With her two assists against Zambia, Horan became the fifth player in USWNT history to record multiple assists in an Olympic match and now has three assists in her last two Olympic appearances dating back to the bronze medal match in Tokyo.
- Alyssa Naeher Naeher will make her 108th international appearance while making her 11th start of 2024. Naeher has kept a clean sheet in each of her last three outings for the USWNT at the World Cup and Olympics, dating back to the third group stage match of the 2023 Women’s World Cup, and has nine shutouts in 17 total games at the world championships.
- Although she did not play in that game, Naeher, who spent two seasons playing in Germany for Turbine Potsdam, is the only player on the current squad to have been on the roster for the 2015 World Cup semifinal against Germany, which marked the last meeting between the two teams at a World Cup or Olympics.
- Emily Fox Fox will make her 11th start in 2024, marking her 53rd cap with the USWNT. Fox was one of seven players to make her Olympic debut against Zambia and has been a mainstay of the U.S. backline, ranking second on the team in total minutes played after the Tokyo Olympics, behind Horan.
- Naomi Girma is on pace to earn her 36th cap as she makes her 10th appearance – and 10th start – in 2024. Since the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Girma has now played every minute of the USWNT’s last five matches at the World Cup and Olympics – the only outfield player to do so – and has gone the distance in 27 of her 35 career matches for the USWNT.
- After scoring the USWNT’s first goal of the 2024 Olympics, Trinity Rodman Rodman will make her fourth consecutive start and 32nd consecutive appearance overall for the USWNT. Rodman became the seventh player in USWNT history to score in her Olympic debut and the first to do so since Alex Morgan in 2012. The 22-year-old also became the youngest player to score for the USWNT at a world championship since Mallory Swanson, 21, scored against Thailand in the United States’ inaugural victory at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
- Crystal Dunn Dunn will celebrate her 151st cap by making her 17th consecutive start for the USWNT in a World Cup or Olympic match, a streak that began with the United States’ third group stage match against Sweden at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Dunn’s streak of 17 consecutive starts in world championship events is the longest of any USWNT player since Christie Pearce made 27 consecutive starts stretching from the 2004 Olympic quarterfinal to the 2012 gold medal match.
- Mallory Swansonwho enters the second Olympic day tied for the tournament’s leading scorer with France’s Marie-Antoinette Katoto, will be making her 96th international appearance and fourth career start at the Olympics. Swanson’s two goals in 70 seconds were the fastest two goals ever scored by a USWNT player at a world championship and the fastest between goals in the history of the women’s Olympic football tournament.
- Swanson now has six goals (4 goals, 2 assists) in seven games for the USWNT since returning from injury and her 36 international goals are tied with Tobin Heath for 16th all-time in USWNT history.
- Sophie Smithwho scored the equalizer in the United States’ last match against Germany on Nov. 13, 2022, will make her 52nd international appearance and sixth consecutive start for the USWNT at a World Cup or Olympics. Smith assisted Swanson on her second goal of the game Thursday against Zambia, which marked her fourth goal contribution in five career games at world championship events (2 goals, 2 assists). Smith leads the United States with eight total goal contributions (5 goals, 3 assists) in 2024.
- Davidson Offers Davidson will celebrate her 62nd cap by making her 11th appearance – and 11th start – in 2024. Davidson, who was the youngest member of the 2019 world champions and the youngest member of the United States’ 18-man squad for Tokyo 2020, has played just 30 minutes in each of her 10 appearances for the United States so far this year. Davidson spent time training in Germany with VfL Wolfsburg in early 2023 as she worked her way back to fitness and form after tearing her ACL in March 2022.
- The fourth most experienced player on this Olympic team, Rose Lavelle Lavelle will be making his 103rd international appearance, his eighth all-time Olympic appearance. Lavelle appeared in all six of the United States’ matches at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and scored his first Olympic goal in the United States’ group stage win over New Zealand.
- One of five players to have played in every USWNT match so far this year, Sam Coffey Coffey will celebrate her 21st cap as she makes her 12th start in 2024. The only player on this starting lineup to have competed in the Olympics without any prior world championship experience, Coffey is third on the team in total minutes played this year (933 minutes), triple her minutes total from her first two years with the USWNT combined (301 minutes from 2022-23).
- Forward Jaedyn Shaw (leg injury) remains unavailable for selection and is once again replaced in the matchday squad by substitute Croix Bethune.