Lindsey Horan header snags USA draw
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Don’t make Lindsey Horan mad.
The U.S. captain scored on a thunderous header after a collision with Lyon teammate Danielle van de Donk on Thursday, salvaging a 1-1 draw with the Netherlands and holding the U.S. women’s national team’s hopes of successful Group E alive.
The two-time defending champs can declare the highest spot – and a street to the ultimate that probably wouldn’t embrace England, Germany or France – by beating Portugal and sustaining their plus-2 purpose differential towards the Netherlands.
The Individuals appeared deflated after giving up a purpose within the seventeenth minute, the primary time because the 2011 quarterfinals they’ve trailed in a World Cup recreation. They appeared disorganized and tentative, exhibiting not one of the cohesion they needed to begin the sport.
However a tough sort out by van de Donk early within the second half modified all the things.
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Horan crumbled to the sphere and was down for a number of minutes. She was clearly angry when she lastly acquired up. She had phrases together with her Lyon teammate, and the 2 had been pushing and shoving within the field after the USWNT was awarded a nook kick. Even the referee’s try and get the 2 to make good didn’t calm Horan, who was nonetheless muttering when Rose Lavelle lined up within the nook.
Horan acquired the final phrase.
— Nancy Armour, USA TODAY Sports activities columnist
When does the USWNT play subsequent?
The USWNT concludes group play subsequent week vs. Portugal. The sport will kickoff Tuesday at 3 a.m. ET within the U.S., which is 7 p.m. in Auckland, New Zealand. Bookmark our World Cup schedule hub so that you don’t miss a recreation.
United States vs. Portugal
Even after getting only one level for a tie towards Netherlands, the USWNT has an edge to win Group E because of goal differential. The U.S. received its opener towards Vietnam 3-0, whereas the Dutch solely beat Portugal 1-0.
Meaning Netherlands can solely win the group by beating Vietnam in its subsequent match and scoring three extra targets than the USWNT scores towards Portugal.
There might be no letting off the gasoline for the Individuals.
USWNT vs. Netherlands highlights: Alex Morgan virtually scores game-winner
The targets had been few and much between. The Dutch scored early and the Individuals evened the sport within the 62nd minute. It appeared, briefly, like Alex Morgan scored a game-winner for the U.S., however the purpose was referred to as again for offside.
(Nonetheless confused about what offside is? Let us explain.)
Can Lindsey Horan’s grit rub off on USWNT?
Possibly the U.S. girls ought to attempt to make Lindsey Horan mad earlier than each recreation. That combat from Horan, and the resilience the younger Individuals needed to present, might find yourself being a constructive for the defending champions. A probably defining second, too.
“I don’t suppose you ever need to get me mad, as a result of I don’t react in a great way. Often I simply go and I need one thing extra. I need to do extra for my staff and win these video games,” Horan said. “We’re going to see an increasing number of of this within the World Cup,” she added. “It’s nice for us to have this within the group stage, to really feel that type of strain and really feel such an ideal opponent. So now we transfer ahead. We discovered just a few classes from this recreation and now we concentrate on Portugal.”
The USWNT goes to get pushed within the knockout rounds and goes to have to reply, and that isn’t one thing that may be taught in a video session or replicated in apply. It’s one thing that needs to be skilled, so this recreation towards the Netherlands was really type of good for the Individuals.
The following problem is for the USWNT to show this kind of grit from the opening whistle. And never want Horan to get in a cage match to spark it.
Why did Daniëlle van de Donk put on a swim cap at finish of USA-Netherlands recreation?
Netherlands participant Daniëlle van de Donk went viral late within the 1-1 tie after a collision with USWNT midfielder Rose Lavelle left van de Donk with a gash on the aspect of her head.
When the lower couldn’t cease bleeding, van de Donk reached for an attention-grabbing bandage: a swim camp. Movies and pictures of her within the cap shortly circulated the web and social media, leaving many to marvel what the heck was occurring.
“It simply opened up and it is bleeding an excessive amount of so I could not proceed the sport with out it,” van de Donk stated afterward.
“Plus,” she added with fun, “it’s trendy.”
Who was the USA vs. Netherlands referee?
Yoshimi Yamashita, a Japan official, was the referee in the course of the USWNT’s 1-1 draw vs. Netherlands.
That is Yamashita’s second World Cup in as a few years — final summer time, she was certainly one of six feminine referees to work the lads’s World Cup in Qatar. The 37-year-old additionally often officiates video games in Japan’s J League, the nation’s high males’s league. In fact, she’s additionally one of many girls’s video games high officers. (That is her second girls’s World Cup.)
Within the U.S. vs. Netherlands’s recreation, Yamashita needed to break up a heated argument and shoving match between U.S. midfielder Lindsey Horan and Netherlands’ midfielder Daniëlle van de Donk, after a tough sort out from van de Donk despatched Horan to the bottom in ache. Yamashita referred to as the Lyon teammates collectively earlier than she allowed the USWNT to take a nook kick.
“(Horan) came to visit, we simply had a bit of discuss,” van de Donk stated. “The referee got here in between us. It wasn’t very obligatory. We simply performed soccer once more after that.”
Horan had the final phrase, scoring on a header on the nook to tie the sport.
But when anybody is considering of placing Yamashita up for the Nobel Peace Prize, do not count on Horan to write down the nomination.
“I do not know what (Yamashita) stated,” the USWNT captain informed reporters, rolling her eyes. “It was too lengthy.”
2023 World Cup: USWNT stats
Lindsey Horan has arguably been essentially the most dependable participant for the USWNT by two World Cup video games, scoring a purpose towards each Vietnam and Netherlands. Sophia Smith has tallied two goals additionally, although each of hers got here towards Vietnam within the Individuals’ first win of group play.
Moreover, by two video games Smith has notched one help, as have Alex Morgan and tremendous sub Rose Lavelle.
Towards Netherlands, the Dutch completed with simply three photographs on purpose, which galvanized USWNT coach Vlatko Andonovski.
“That’s a very good protection,” Andonovski stated. “Anybody that may maintain the Netherlands on three photographs for 90 minutes is fairly good.”
USWNT ties Netherlands 1-1 on header from Lindsey Horan
A header from Lindsey Horan within the 62nd minute gave the UWSNT a purpose it desperately wanted, tying Netherlands 1-1.
Horan had taken a tough foul from Danielle Van de Donk, and was nonetheless complaining to the referee about it when Rose Lavalle lined as much as take a nook kick. Horan tracked it the entire manner and outmuscled a number of Dutch defenders earlier than burying it with a thunderous header.
The Individuals had a number of different possibilities during the last half-hour, together with a purpose by Alex Morgan that was waved off for being offside. There was additionally a screamer by Trinity Rodman that went simply large and a shot by Sophia Smith that was cleared off the road.
Rose Lavelle subs in for USWNT, will get yellow card
Rose Lavelle, the 28-year-old midfielder who had a spectacular 2019 World Cup and scored the successful purpose within the USWNT’s 2-0 win over Netherlands within the remaining, began the second half rather than Savannah DeMelo. The Individuals path 1-0 within the second recreation of group play.
Lavelle, who additionally got here in as a sub vs. Vietnam, has been sidelined the final couple months with a knee damage. The Individuals are hoping that like 2019, she supplies a spark on the sphere.
Minutes into the second half, Lavelle was issued a yellow card for a tough sort out on a Dutch participant.
What occurs if US loses to Netherlands, are they out of World Cup?
No must panic simply but. The US-Netherlands recreation is simply the second of group play for the Individuals. They’ve acquired Portugal subsequent week. The highest two groups from every group will advance to the knockout spherical — however the second place spot from Group E is a a lot more durable path to the World Cup remaining.
If Netherlands hangs on for a win tonight vs. the USWNT, that makes the sport towards Portugal a should win.
USWNT trailing Netherlands 1-0 at halftime
The USWNT could not equal Netherlands within the first half of play, trailing 1-0 as groups went to the locker room. The Individuals look all out of types, and the stats aren’t encouraging: The U.S. possessed the ball simply 33% of the time, in comparison with 52% for the Dutch.
The Individuals have simply two photographs on purpose, whereas Netherlands is 1-for-1 in that class.
Anticipate to see a number of U.S. subs within the second half.
Prompt evaluation from Wellington: USWNT loses composure after early rating
The USWNT was taking part in in addition to it has in a very long time early within the recreation. It was discovering areas, connecting passes and probing the Dutch protection, and it was working, with a few possibilities. However the Individuals appeared to utterly lose their composure after the Netherlands’ purpose. They appeared tentative and disorganized, they usually had been out of sync once they did have possibilities.
That stated, Sophia Smith was very energetic within the closing minutes of the half. The Dutch had been manhandling her, but when she will be able to shake them within the second half, a purpose will come.
— Nancy Armour, USA TODAY Sports activities columnist
Carli Lloyd questions USWNT’s ‘coronary heart’ vs. Netherlands
Carli Lloyd did not hold back on the team she as soon as performed for. Nor did she neglect from the place she got here from.
“I will convey my Jersey bluntness,” Lloyd said on the FOX halftime set in Sydney, Australia on the 2023 World Cup.
Analyzing the U.S. girls’s nationwide staff’s first-half efficiency towards the Netherlands, which left the Individuals in a 1-0 deficit, Lloyd did that after which some: “They give the impression of being flat,” said Lloyd, a member of the final two World Cup successful groups. “I am questioning their coronary heart.” — Chris Bumbaca
Jill Roord purpose offers Netherlands early 1-0 lead on USWNT
The Netherlands took a 1-0 lead on the USWNT within the seventeenth minute after a complete lot of miscues by the Individuals. A tough shot from Jill Roord discovered the nook of the online, simply previous Alyssa Naeher’s arms. It was the Netherlands’ first shot of the day.
The USWNT trails in a Girls’s World Cup match for the primary time because the July 10, 2011 Quarterfinal match vs Brazil, in keeping with ESPN.
What time is it in New Zealand?
Wellington, the place the USWNT is taking up the Netherlands, is 16 hours forward of the East Coast of the USA.
World Cup standings
It may be onerous to maintain up with 2023 World Cup outcomes given the time distinction from the U.S., to not point out the completely different time zones throughout Australia and New Zealand. However we have you lined, and you’ll check the standings right here.
USWNT beginning lineup at this time
We have got the beginning lineup for the USWNT’s second group recreation of the 2023 World Cup, vs. the Netherlands, and it is the identical as the opposite evening vs. Vietnam.
Here is the complete lineup:
Goalkeeper: Alyssa Naeher
Defenders: Crystal Dunn, Naomi Girma, Julie Ertz, Emily Fox
Midfielders: Lindsey Horan, Andi Sullivan, Savannah DeMelo
Forwards: Sophia Smith, Alex Morgan, Trinity Rodman
USWNT recreation tonight
America play their second Group stage recreation Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET. They face Netherlands.
USA vs. Netherlands predictions
Nancy Armour, columnist: It will likely be one other tight and bodily recreation, as they all the time are when the USWNT and the Netherlands play. However the USWNT tends to reply when folks declare they’ve misplaced their edge on the remainder of the world, and I count on no completely different on this recreation. USWNT 3-0.
Lindsay Schnell, reporter: It’s time for Alex Morgan to hitch the scoring get together, and you’ll count on the veteran ahead to do exactly that. This recreation might be a mixture of previous and new, with each Morgan and Sophia Smith scoring — and I feel each will come on assists from Trinity Rodman. USWNT 2-1.
Is Alex Morgan taking part in tonight?
Sure, the ahead is within the USWNT’s beginning lineup, and searching so as to add to her 121-goal complete. Morgan missed a penalty kick within the Individuals’ opener vs. Vietnam, however she’s not burdened about it.
USWNT fits
The Individuals wore their customized menswear-inspired “enterprise” fits once more for Sport 2, arriving in fashion to Wellington Regional Stadium.
Girls’s World Cup winners
The 2023 World Cup marks simply the ninth time the occasion has taken place. (The lads’s World Cup, in the meantime, has been played since 1930.) The U.S. is in search of to turn out to be the primary staff, males’s or girls’s, to win three consecutive titles. Germany, which received in 2003 and 2007, had a chance to do that in 2011 but couldn’t pull it off. The U.S. has received extra girls’s World Cup titles than every other nation. Right here’s a listing of each girls’s World Cup winner.
- 1991: United States
- 1995: Norway
- 1999: United States
- 2003: Germany
- 2007: Germany
- 2011: Japan
- 2015: United States
- 2019: United States
USWNT missed alternatives vs. Vietnam: Why you shouldn’t be involved
When Sophia Smith has two targets and an help in her first World Cup recreation, Lindsey Horan has a spotlight reel’s value of sick passes, and a roster filled with newcomers get a much-needed dose of confidence, it’s onerous to query the end result.
And but, that is the USA girls’s nationwide staff. Depart targets out on the sphere, because the USWNT did a number of occasions over of their 3-0 win towards Vietnam on Saturday (Friday evening within the U.S.), and those watching are going to be picky.
The nice factor is, the USWNT isn’t satisfied, both.
Netherlands beginning lineup vs. USWNT
The Netherlands will be without two key pieces vs. the USWNT: Forwards Lineth Beerensteyn (ankle) and Vivianne Miedema (ACL) each began for the Dutch within the 2019 World Cup remaining, which the U.S. received 2-0. Many are wanting on the 2023 assembly tonight as a rematch of types.
Beerensteyn was injured within the Netherlands’ opening recreation vs. Portugal, a 1-0 win for the Dutch. Miedema, 26, is without doubt one of the greatest gamers on the planet. She tore her ACL in December.
USWNT jerseys and merch
Searching for official the World Cup kits worn by Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe and others? We’d suggest visiting the official U.S. soccer online merch store. Our favourite merchandise is unquestionably the player bag clip — acquire all of them and be the envy of all your mates.
USA vs. Netherlands dwell stream, the best way to watch
All 2023 World Cup matches, together with USWNT video games, will be broadcast within the U.S. by Fox, on each its most important channel and FS1. It’s additionally obtainable to stream on FoxSports.com and the Fox Sports activities app. Spanish-language protection might be on Telemundo.
How previous is Sophia Smith?
The USWNT forward, who scored twice in her World Cup debut, is 22 years previous and turns 23 on Aug. 10.
USA girls World Cup schedule
The Individuals are scheduled to play two extra group video games on the next days and occasions:
USWNT watch events close to me
Searching for a watch get together for the U.S. girls’s nationwide staff recreation towards the Netherlands? U.S. Soccer created a handy dandy map that permits you to discover one close to wherever you’re situated. Check it out.
What number of World Cups has Alex Morgan performed in?
4. Alex Morgan has been a staple of the USWNT since her debut on a snowy day in 2010.
She scored her first purpose that fall and since then, she’s scored 121 occasions for the Stars and Stripes and received back-to-back World Cups. The Southern California native was named a captain for this year’s tournament the place the staff will try and make historical past with their third straight title. — Victoria Hernandez
How Alex Morgan grew from USWNT rising star to highly effective advocate and disruptor
Most of America is aware of Alex Morgan because the USWNT’s energetic main purpose scorer, No. 5 on the all-time listing. Or as certainly one of its most marketable stars: Enticing and wholesome-looking, interesting to each soccer diehards and those that don’t know the very first thing concerning the sport.
However Morgan can be a disruptor. Keenly conscious of the benefits her stardom has afforded her, she actively makes use of them to advocate for others.
“She deserves a ton extra credit score than she will get on this regard,” stated Becca Roux, govt director of the USWNT Gamers Affiliation. “Lots of people discuss,” Roux added. “She does numerous work that individuals by no means see.”
Read Nancy Armour’s full feature here.
How Naomi Girma, Sophia Smith maintain pal, late Stanford teammate Katie Meyer in hearts
Katie Meyer’s parents joke that their daughter would have taken a airplane, a ferry, even “a skilled dolphin” to be within the stands at this World Cup, cheering on the Stanford teammates who had been so shut they had been extra like sisters than buddies.
Gina and Steve Meyer are sure their daughter continues to be using with the U.S. girls, because of Sophia Smith, Naomi Girma and different gamers utilizing the most important second of their careers to ensure Katie isn’t forgotten and nobody else has to really feel the same loss.
“It’s so heartwarming. And heartbreaking,” Gina Meyer told USA TODAY Sports activities. “We’re simply so happy with them. They didn’t need to do something however to recollect their pal, however they actually need to discuss this topic, which is often brushed beneath the rug.
“It’s such an exquisite factor that this complete staff jumped on board and stated, ‘We need to be part of this.'”
Read Nancy Armour’s full feature here.
USWNT: Why the Individuals embrace the strain of this World Cup
It does not matter whether or not the U.S. girls are in sweats, coaching gear or these sharp-looking Nike x Martine Rose suits they’re rocking at this World Cup.
They all the time put on a goal on their backs. They’re effectively conscious of this. And they embrace it.
“This isn’t staff that does any form of resting on its laurels,” Megan Rapinoe said final month. “That is what has been the gas for this staff all the time: To try to be the perfect. To attempt to win each single recreation, whether or not it’s in apply or really on the sphere.
“For us, it’s nearly persevering with to place our greatest foot ahead and persevering with to attempt to be dominant and be one of the best staff on the planet.”
Read Nancy Armour’s full column here.
Wellington climate forecast: Windy
USA TODAY Sports activities columnist Nancy Armour is on the bottom in Wellington, New Zealand and experiences that it’s very, very windy on the stadium. The temperature may learn low 50s, nevertheless it feels just like the 40s. (Keep in mind, it’s winter in New Zealand.) On a constructive word, there’s additionally sunshine within the forecast, which has not been the case at many different World Cup video games which were performed in Wellington the previous few days. Fairly just a few of these have been performed within the pouring rain.
Youngest participant on USWNT
Ahead Alyssa Thompson is eighteen years previous. She turns 19 on Nov. 7.
USWNT World Cup roster
The 2023 World Cup roster is certainly one of, if not the, most diverse in U.S. girls’s soccer historical past. This yr marks a passing of the torch, as a brand new era of soccer expertise makes its World Cup debut and tries to proceed the Individuals’ win streak. Of the 23-player roster, 14 might be taking part in in their first World Cup. You’ll be able to study extra about each player from the U.S., in addition to among the standout worldwide stars.
- Goalkeepers: Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Purple Stars); Casey Murphy (North Carolina Braveness); Aubrey Kingsbury (Washington Spirit).
- Defenders: Alana Cook dinner (OL Reign); Crystal Dunn (Portland Thorns); Emily Fox (North Carolina Braveness); Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave); Sofia Huerta (OL Reign); Kelley O’Hara (NJ/NY Gotham); Emily Sonnett (OL Reign).
- Midfielders: Savannah DeMelo (Racing Louisville); Julie Ertz (Angel Metropolis); Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyon); Rose Lavelle (OL Reign); Kristie Mewis (NJ/NY Gotham); Ashley Sanchez (Washington Spirit); Andi Sullivan (Washington Spirit).
- Forwards: Alex Morgan (San Diego Wave); Megan Rapinoe (OL Reign); Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit); Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns); Alyssa Thompson (Angel Metropolis); Lynn Williams (NJ/NY Gotham).
USWNT World Cup wins
The USWNT has received 4 World Cups general and are going for his or her third straight and fifth general.
World Cup bracket
Here’s how the 2023 World Cup bracket is set up.
What number of teams are within the Girls’s World Cup?
There are eight teams, 4 groups per group, with the highest two seeds from every group advancing to the knockout spherical. The teams are as follows:
- Group A: New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Switzerland
- Group B: Australia, Canada, Nigeria, Rep. of Eire
- Group C: Costa Rica, Japan, Spain, Zambia
- Group D: China, Denmark, England, Haiti
- Group E: Netherlands, Portugal, United States, Vietnam
- Group F: Brazil, France, Jamaica, Panama
- Group G: Argentina, Italy, South Africa, Sweden
- Group H: Colombia, Germany, Morocco, South Korea
The place is the 2023 World Cup being performed?
For the primary time in girls’s World Cup historical past, the match might be hosted by two nations, Australia and New Zealand. (The 2022 males’s World Cup was hosted by Japan and South Korea and in 2026, it will be hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada.)
Many individuals affiliate Australia and New Zealand with browsing, sandy seashores and beautiful swimming spots, all occurring in sunny climate. But it surely’s winter within the southern hemisphere, which suggests temperatures will be anything but scorching.