With a spot in the semifinal round booked, the U.S. Women’s National Team
enters its Group A finale against Trinidad & Tobago (Oct. 10 at 7:30
p.m. ET on FS1 & UDN) needing a win or a tie to finish atop the group
at the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship.
Panama and Mexico both have three points, but Panama holds a slight edge in
goal difference meaning a win or a tie for Panama will send the Central
Americans to the semifinals while Mexico needs to win. Mexico vs. Panama
will be the first game of the day on Oct. 10 (5 p.m. ET; FS2).
The USA is coming off back-to-back victories, against Mexico (6-0) that
featured goals from Alex Morgan (2), Megan Rapinoe (2), Julie Ertz and
Tobin Heath, and against Panama (5-0) that featured goals from Carli Lloyd
(3), Christen Press and Samantha Mewis.
WCQ GROUP A STANDINGS
|
TEAM
|
GP
|
W
|
L
|
D
|
GF
|
GA
|
GD
|
PTS
|
|
USA
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
11
|
0
|
+11
|
6
|
|
Panama
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
5
|
-2
|
3
|
|
Mexico
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
4
|
7
|
-3
|
3
|
|
Trinidad & Tobago
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
1
|
7
|
-6
|
0
|
The USA and seven other countries are participating in the 2018 Concacaf
Women’s Championship with three direct berths available to France. FOX
Sports, the home of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, is showing the 2018
Concacaf Women's Championship across the FOX Sports family of networks. For
viewers on the go, matches can be streamed live via FOXSports.com and the
FOX Sports app. FOX Sports will open the authentication level on the FOX
Sports App to FS1 authentication, meaning you don’t need to have FS2 on
your cable or satellite TV service to watch the USA matches.
The U.S. team holds a 13-0-2 record in 2018 and has not lost since the 2017
Tournament of Nations. It has gone 20-0-3 over the past 15 months and has
averaged almost three goals per game, outscoring its opponents 76-17 over
those 23 matches while scoring in all 23 games. Since the 2017 SheBelieves
Cup, the USA has failed to score in a game just once (against Australia in
the 1-0 loss in 2017 Tournament of Nations). That’s a 28-game span.
The WNT’s 2018 has so far featured wins over Denmark, Germany, England,
Mexico (thrice), China PR (twice), Japan, Brazil, Chile (twice) and Panama,
along with ties vs. France and Australia.
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U.S. Women’s National Team WCQ Roster By Position (Caps/Goals)
GOALKEEPERS (2):
18- Ashlyn Harris
(Orlando Pride; 18/0), 1-
Alyssa Naeher
(Chicago Red Stars; 34/0)
DEFENDERS (7):
7-
Abby Dahlkemper
(NC Courage; 25/0), 19-
Crystal Dunn
(NC Courage; 70/23), 20- Hailie Mace
(UCLA; 3/0), 5- Kelly O’Hara
(Utah Royals FC; 109/2), 4-
Becky Sauerbrunn
(Utah Royals FC; 144/0), 14- Casey Short
(Chicago Red Stars; 26/0), 2-
Emily Sonnett
(Portland Thorns FC; 23/0)
MIDFIELDERS (5):
6- Morgan Brian
(Chicago Red Stars; 80/6), 8- Julie Ertz
(Chicago Red Stars; 68/17); 9-
Lindsey Horan
(Portland Thorns FC; 58/6), 16- Rose Lavelle
(Washington Spirit; 15/3), 3-
Samantha Mewis
(NC Courage; 39/8)
FORWARDS (6):
17-Tobin Heath
(Portland Thorns; 139/22), 10-
Carli Lloyd
(Sky Blue FC; 261/105), 13-
Alex Morgan
(Orlando Pride; 148/92), 12-
Christen Press
(Utah Royals FC; 105/46), 11- Mallory Pugh
(Washington Spirit; 39/12), 15-
Megan Rapinoe
(Seattle Reign FC; 141/40)
STORYLINES
USA vs. Trinidad & Tobago:
The U.S. WNT has played 10 matches in its history vs. Trinidad & Tobago
with six of them in CONCACAF qualifying events. The series dates all the
way back to 1991 when the USA and T&T met in qualifying for the 1991
Women’s World Cup in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The teams met in World Cup
qualifying in 1991, 1994, 2002 and 2014. The USA is 10-0-0 all-time vs.
T&T, but the Soca Princesses played its best game against the USA in
qualifying for the 2015 Women’s World Cup, holding the USA to a 1-0 win on
a goal from Abby Wambach. The most recent meeting came in qualifying for
the 2016 Olympics, a 5-0 U.S. victory in Houston that featured three goals
from Alex Morgan and single scores from Tobin Heath and Carli Lloyd.
Mallory Pugh, Lindsey Horan and Morgan Brian (2) had assists in that match.
100 Goals Watch:
After adding two more goals against Mexico on Oct. 4 – the third time this
year she has scored a brace vs. Mexico – Alex Morgan now has 92 goals and
at age 29 sits in sole possession of seventh place on the USA’s all-time
goal scoring list. She has scored 19 goals over her last 21 WNT matches
through the end of 2017 and deep into 2018. With her hat trick against
Japan on July 26, the fourth of her career, Morgan is now fourth all-time
in multi-goal games (24) behind Abby Wambach (45), Mia Hamm (38) and
Michelle Akers (26). She has 20 career two-goal games.
Carli Lloyd Keeps Adding Her Name to the Record Books:
On Oct. 7 vs. Panama, Lloyd scored her eighth career hat trick and upped
her career total to 105 goals. She is now two goals away from tying
Michelle Akers for fourth all-time in the U.S. goals list. With her hat
trick, Lloyd tied Mia Hamm for most three-goals games all-time in U.S. WNT
history. Hamm also scored two four-goal games in her career. Lloyd is tied
with Kristine Lilly and Cindy Parlow for fifth-all time in multi-goal games
with 17. Against Panama, Lloyd (36 years, 83 days) became the oldest player
to score a hat trick for the U.S. WNT. She broke Wambach’s record of 34
years, 186 days. Since turning 30, she has scored 69 goals in 126 games in
six years. The 126 games after the age of 30 rank her fourth all-time in
U.S. history in that category and is four caps away from tying Shannon Boxx
in third place. Christie Rampone is far and away the leader with 175.
Tickets to France 2019 on the Line:
The 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship will qualify three teams to the 2019
FIFA Women’s World Cup in France and a fourth into a two-game playoff with
Argentina, the third-place team from South America. The USA is playing all
its group matches at the 10,000-seat Sahlen’s Stadium at WakeMed Soccer
Park in Cary, N.C. After round-robin play, the top two finishers from Group
A, as well as the top two from Group B which will be playing its group
games in Edinburg, Texas, will move on to the all-important semifinals in
Frisco, Texas. The winners of the semifinals qualify for France, along with
the winner of the Third-Place Match. The loser of the Third-Place Match
heads into the two-game playoff.
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Qualifiers:
The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup will be held from June 7-July 7 in nine
cities in France. So far, 15 countries have qualified with teams from
Concacaf, Africa and Oceania still to be determined. The Final Draw for the
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup will be conducted in Paris on December 8. This
will be the second World Cup with 24 nations, up from 16 that were in
Germany in 2011. The qualified nations so far are: host, France; England,
Germany, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Spain and Sweden from UEFA. Brazil and
Chile from South America, and Australia, China PR, Japan, Korea Republic
and Thailand from the AFC.
Concacaf Women’s World Cup Qualifying History:
The USA is 29-1-0 all-time in CONCACAF Women’s World Cup qualifying,
including 15-0-0 at home. This will be the seventh Concacaf Cup qualifying
tournament that USA has contested. The U.S. women have won five of six of
those tournaments, finishing first in the qualifying competitions for the
1991, 1995, 2003, 2007 and 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cups. The USA finished
third in the qualifying tournament for the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup and
had to go through a two-game playoff against Italy to qualify for Germany
2011. The USA played Canada in the championship game of each of the first
four tournaments in which both participated (the USA did not have to
qualify as host in 1999). The USA has scored 169 goals in WWC qualifying
(an average of 5.6 per game) while allowing five, and has played nine
different countries in World Cup qualifying with Mexico being the most
common opponent with seven games between the teams.
Qualifying Goal Scorers:
Eight players on this U.S. roster have scored in Women’s World Cup
qualifying: Carli Lloyd (10), Megan Rapinoe (5), Alex Morgan (4), Tobin
Heath (3), Christen Press (3), Julie Ertz (1), Samantha Mewis (1) and
Morgan Brian (1). Lloyd has now tied Carin Gabarra in fourth place on the
all-time goal list in World Cup qualifying. She sits two goals behind
third-place Mia Hamm (12).
Caps in Cary: The U.S. WNT has played nine matches at Salhen’s Stadium at WakeMed
Soccer Park, home to the 2018 NWSL Champion North Carolina Courage. The USA
has won all nine games in Cary and allowed just three goals over those
games, two in a dramatic 3-2 win vs. Australia in 2008 that was played in
the pouring rain and featured a last gasp game-winner from Carli Lloyd.
