CONCACAF Championship W – Final: USA vs Canada
Date: July 18, 2022 Place: BBVA Stadium; Monterrey, Mexico Transmission: Paramount +, ViX Broadcast time: 21:00 ET / 20:00 CTOOfficial start time: 22:00 ET / 21:00 CT
XI starter against Canada: 1-Alyssa Naeher; 3-Alana Cook, 4-Becky Sauerbrunn (cap.), 8-Sofia Huerta, 9-Mallory Pugh, 10-Lindsey Horan, 11-Sophia Smith, 13-Alex Morgan, 16-Rose Lavelle, 17-Andi Sullivan, 19 years -Emily Fox
Substitutes available: 2-Ashley Sanchez, 5-Kelley O’Hara, 6-Trinity Rodman, 12-Naomi Girma, 14-Emily Sonnett, 15-Megan Rapinoe, 18-Casey Murphy, 20-Taylor Kornieck, 21-Aubrey Kingsbury, 22-Kristie Mewis, 23-Midge Purce, 24-Sam Coffey
GAME NOTES FIVE THINGS TO KNOW – CANADA
- USWNT starting eleven cap numbers (including this match): Sauerbrunn (207), Morgan (196), Horan (116), Naeher (83), Lavelle (78), Pugh (78), Sullivan ( 32), Smith (21), Huerta (19), Fox (17), Cook (13)
- The starting eleven to face Canada, which is the fifth single starting lineup used by the U.S. in this CONCACAF W Championship, features two different players from the lineup that started the semifinal against Costa Rica; Naeher for Murphy on goal and Fox for Sonnett on defense.
- Tonight’s starting lineup includes just five players who were starters against Canada in the Olympic semifinals, which was the most recent match between the teams: Naeher, Sauerbrunn, Horan, Lavelle and Morgan.
- Horan and Smith will have started all U.S. matches in the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship, both making their fifth consecutive outing.
- This initial formation has an average of 28 years and 77 games per player, with three players – Sauerbrunn, Morgan and Horan – with more than 100 games and three – Huerta, Fox and Cook – with less than 20 games.
- Becky Sauerbrunn will be the U.S. captain for the 36th time in the overall, but first in a final as she makes her 207th international appearance with the U.S. Sauerbrunn now breaks the tie with Tiffeny Milbrett to occupy the only position of ninth on the US all-time trophy list, the most trophies of any player in USWNT history who has played almost exclusively as a defender.
- Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher will make her second outing in the W CONCACAF Championship as she reaches her 83rd race. Naeher, who threw the goal blank against Jamaica in the second game of the U.S. group stage on July 7, has 48 whites in his career, ranking third in USWNT history. Two of Naeher’s 48 career goals have come against Canada. Naeher, who had an outstanding tournament in Tokyo, started the Olympic semifinals against Canada, but was forced to leave in the 30th minute and the score tied 0-0 with a knee injury that would leave her out during the match. rest of the year.
- Alana Cook will make her fourth appearance at the CONCACAF W Championship as she achieves her 14th race for the USWNT. Cook, who plays his first competitive tournament with the USWNT, leads the U.S. in total minutes played this year with 746 minutes of action. This will be Cook’s 12th outing in the last 14 U.S. games, a period dating back to the November 2021 games in Australia.
- Sofia Huerta will make her second consecutive start and third in the general of the CONCACAF W Championship, as she reaches number 19 with the USA. Huerta, who will now have seen the field in the five matches of the W CONCACAF Championship, has made two assists in 2022 and has also helped create two own goals. Seven of Huerta’s nine career starts will now come from his return to the national team in November 2021.
- Forward Mallory Pugh will make her fourth start at the CONCACAF W Championship as she achieves her 78th race lead. Pugh leads the U.S. with seven assists in 2022, two of which have come to this tournament, and scored his 24th international goal in the July 14 victory over Costa Rica. This will be the second time Pugh has started a final for the United States and the first since the 2016 Olympic qualifiers, when he started the U.S. 2-0 victory over Canada in the championship game.
- Lindsey Horan will start her fifth consecutive match at the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship as she makes her 116th international appearance. Horan, who led the U.S. in scoring six goals in the 2020 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament, has eight goals and eight assists in 18 appearances in his career in CONCACAF qualifying matches and has two goals and two assists in seven career appearances against Canada.
- Sophia Smith will win her 21st edition when she reaches the 11th start of 2022 as the team leader and the fifth consecutive start of the tournament. Smith, who plays his first competitive tournament with the USWNT, leads the USWNT in scoring with seven goals a year and scored a double in the first eight minutes of the 5-0 U.S. victory over Jamaica on July 7th.
- After scoring a double in the opening U.S. match against Haiti, Alex Morgan will make his fourth outing of the tournament as he reaches his 196th edition and overtakes Shannon Boxx to take 13th place on the all-time list of the USA. The double against Haiti marked the 29th game of Morgan’s career, the third best in U.S. history. He has now scored 21 goals in 23 qualifying appearances of his career for the USWNT, the third-highest number in U.S. history.
- Midfielder Rose Lavelle will make her fourth outing and her fifth overall appearance this tournament as she gets her 78th game with the US. Lavelle scored the third U.S. goal in the 5-0 win over Jamaica on July 7 for his third goal of the year and counted his sixth assist in 2022 in the U.S. victory on July 14 over Costa Rica. Lavelle, who has scored two goals in four career games against Canada, has played directly in nine goals in the last eight U.S. games, scoring three goals and scoring six assists.
- Andi Sullivan will reach his 32nd edition of his career when he makes his fourth outing to the CONCACAF W Championship, which will be his first outing and his first appearance for the USWNT in a final. Sullivan is third in the USWNT overall this year in total minutes played with 658 and will make his tenth start in 2022.
- Defender Emily Fox returns to the U.S. starting lineup after missing the last two games while on COVID protocols. Fox started U.S. games against Haiti and Jamaica and is on the verge of reaching number 17 in his career. He will now have appeared in 13 of the 16 matches in the United States since the October 2021 FIFA window and will make his 12th outing during that period.