Three keys for USWNT’s first 2023 Ladies’s World Cup match towards Vietnam

Three keys for a U.S. victory over Vietnam within the Ladies’s World Cup match on Friday evening in New Zealand:

Who begins up entrance?

Trinity Rodman stood out within the lead-up to the event, scoring a pair of targets in a pleasant towards Wales earlier than the workforce left for the South Pacific.

However with Alex Morgan nailed on up entrance, it’s not clear if there can be a spot for Rodman in a beginning 11 that figures to incorporate Lynn Williams and Sophia Smith up entrance.

How a lot will we see Lavelle, Rapinoe and Ertz?

Rose Lavelle (knee), Julie Ertz (being pregnant) and Megan Rapinoe (calf) are all nonetheless within the means of constructing their health again up after lacking time.

At 38, Rapinoe’s function at this World Cup figures to be coming off the bench and being a frontrunner within the dressing room, however Lavelle and Ertz can be key items within the latter levels of the competitors.

Will they play towards Vietnam, and in that case, how will they give the impression of being?

Can the debutants deal with the second?

Clearly all 14 newcomers received’t get in towards Vietnam.

However the likes of ahead Sophia Smith, defender Naomi Girma and midfielder Savannah DeMelo are amongst those that may have a job to play, each on this match and going ahead.