USWNT vs Colombia Starting XI and Lineup Notes

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

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USWNT vs Colombia – Concacaf W Gold Cup 2024 – Quarterfinals
Date: March 3, 2024
Venue: BMO Stadium; Los Angeles, California.
Transmitted: Paramount+, ESPN Deportes, ESPN+
Official kick-off time: 8:15 p.m. ET / 5:15 p.m. PT

Starting XI against Colombia: 1-Alyssa Naher; 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

Available 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 YOU SHOULD KNOW

  • USWNT Starting XI Cap Numbers (including this game): Morgan (219), Horan (142), Naeher (100), Davidson (53), Fox (43), Rodman (32), Girma (28), Coffey (11), Shaw (8), Nighswonger (5), Albert (5)
  • The starting lineup for the quarterfinal match against Colombia features six different players from the starting lineup for the group stage final against Mexico, with Naeher, Fox, Coffey, Horan and Rodman being the five remaining players.
  • The starting XI against Colombia has an average age of 25.9 years and has 58 caps per player.
  • Eight players from this starting eleven played during the October friendlies against Colombia, including goalscorers Horan and Shaw. Davidson – who missed the October games due to injury – and Nighswonger and Albert – who have yet to make their debut for the USA – are the only players who did not play in these two games.
  • Lindsey Horan is making her third consecutive appearance in the 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup and captaining the USA for the 21st time in her career. Horan, who will be earning her 142nd cap, scored a brilliant volley in the U.S.'s win over Colombia on Oct. 29 and also scored against Colombia in January 2021.
  • Alyssa Naher will earn her 100th cap for the USWNT, joining Hope Solo and Briana Scurry as the only goalkeepers in USWNT history to reach the 100 cap milestone. This makes the USA the first country in history to have three female goalkeepers with more than 100 caps. Naeher will become the 42nd player ever in USWNT history to reach the 100 caps mark and the first to do so since Horan reached the century mark at the postponed 2021 Olympics.
  • A two-time FIFA Women's World Champion, Naeher debuted for the USWNT in December 2014 and emerged as a consistent starter after the 2016 Olympics. Naher is and has been the goaltender with the third-most appearances, wins (80) and shutouts (60) in U.S. history for some time.
  • Defense attorney and Huntington Beach native Jenna Nighswonger will make her second W Gold Cup start and third of her career as she secures her fifth cap for the USWNT. Nighswonger started and scored in the USA's opening game of the Gold Cup against the Dominican Republic. In the February 23 win over Argentina, he came on as a substitute and scored the penalty that led to the USA's fourth and final goal.
  • Reigning U.S. Soccer Player of the Year Naomi Girma starts for the second time – and for the second time overall – in the Concacaf W Gold Cup 2024 and thus reaches her 28th international match. Girma started in the USA's shutout win over Argentina on February 23 and started both games against Colombia in the October 2023 friendlies.
  • Alex Morgan She is making her second start and fourth time overall in the Concacaf W Gold Cup, earning her 219th cap for the USWNT. Morgan recorded an assist against Colombia at the 2012 Olympics and scored the winning goal in the round of 16 of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. In total, Morgan has scored 16 goals in 27 appearances for the United States in knockout round matches of competitive tournaments, tying him with Carli Lloyd for the second-most goals in USWNT history, behind Abby Wambach's 19 such goals.
  • Nineteen years old Jaedyn Shaw will be making her second Concacaf W Gold Cup start and third of her young career, as well as earning her eighth international cap. Shaw made her international debut on October 26, 2023 against Colombia and scored her first international goal three days later in the United States' win over Colombia on October 29 in San Diego.
  • Shaw has scored a goal in each of her last two starts for the USWNT – the Dec. 5, 2023, win over China VR in Frisco, Texas, and the Feb. 23 Gold Cup game against Argentina, in which she scored a brace. Shaw joins Michelle Akers, Shannon Boxx, Danielle Fotopoulos, Ashley Hatch, Christen Press and Christie Welsh as just the seventh player to score in each of her first two starts for the USWNT.
  • Tierna Davidson will make her 53rd international appearance as she makes her second start in 2024. Davidson did it in the USA's February 23 win over Argentina and previously made an appearance against Colombia, starting and playing the full 90 minutes on January 22, 2021 win. This is only the fourth time that Davidson and her Former college teammate Girma will start together as a center back pairing for the USA.
  • Twenty year old midfielder Korbin Albert will make her third career start – and third of this W Gold Cup – as she earns her fifth cap for the USWNT. Albert was the only player to start each of the USA's first two games in the tournament. He came on as a second-half substitute against Mexico and was one of nine players to appear in all three group games.
  • Sam Coffey will make her second consecutive start and third place in the W Gold Cup as she earns her 11th cap. Coffey will now have appeared in each of the last seven games for the USWNT, a streak that began with a victory over Colombia on October 29, 2023 in San Diego.
  • Trinity Rodman will make her third consecutive W Gold Cup appearance, earning her 32nd career cap. Rodman leads the United States in total minutes played in this Concacaf W Gold Cup (205) and will make his 22nd consecutive appearance for the USWNT, a streak that began in the opening game of 2023. It is the most consecutive appearances by a USWNT player since Carli Lloyd made 22 consecutive appearances, ending her international career in 2021.
  • Emily Fox earns her 43rd cap as she makes her second consecutive start and fourth overall appearance for the USWNT in the Concacaf W Gold Cup. Ranked second on the team in total playing time in 2023, Fox played every minute of the two October games against Colombia, scoring an assist on Lindsey Horan's goal on October 29.