USA vs Colombia – Programming, programming and TV channels

USA vs Colombia – Programming, programming and TV channels

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Meeting: January 22, 2021
Local: Exploria Stadium; Orlando, Florida.
To transmit: ESPN2
Transmission time: 7 pm ET


Starting XI vs. Colombia: 24-Jane Campbell; 14-Emily Sonnett, 12-Tierna Davidson, 28-Alana Cook, 11-Ali Krieger; 8-Julie Ertz, 3-Samantha Mewis, 16-Rose Lavelle; 15-Megan Rapinoe (Capt.), 29-Catarina Macario, 6-Lynn Williams

Available subscribers: 9-Lindsey Horan, 10-Carli Lloyd, 18-Ashlyn Harris, 19-Crystal Dunn, 22-Kristie Mewis, 23-Margaret Purce, 27-Emily Fox

Do not wear: Aubrey Bledsoe, Abby Dahlkemper, Jaelin Howell, Alyssa Naeher, Kelley O’Hara, Mallory Pugh (inj.), Becky Sauerbrunn, Sophia Smith (inj.), Andi Sullivan (inj.)


Game notes

  • US WNT XI Cap starting numbers (including this correspondence): Megan Rapinoe (170), Ali Krieger (108), Julie Ertz (105), Samantha Mewis (70), Rose Lavelle (48), Emily Sonnett (48), Lynn Williams (31), Tierna Davidson (27), Jane Campbell (4), Alana Cook (2), Catarina Macario (2)

  • Friday’s starting lineup has seven changes compared to Monday’s match against Colombia: Campbell for Naeher on goal, a brand new bottom line with Sonnett, Cook, Davidson and Sonnett replacing Dunn, Sauerbrunn, Dahlkemper and O’Hara in the back, Lavelle for Horan in midfield and Macario for Lloyd at the top.

  • The average limits (including this match) for Friday’s XI match is 56, with as many players in the initial single-digit lineup (3 – Campbell, Cook, Davidson) as players over 100 games (3 – Rapinoe, Krieger, Ertz). The average of the maximum limits for match XI on Monday was 118 matches, with each player in the starting lineup having at least 30 matches and six players with more than 100 matches.

  • Goalkeeper Jane Campbell will make his second career start and his fourth participation in the USWNT. Campbell’s most recent action for the US was in the April 8, 2018 game against Mexico, during which she played 67 minutes, faced six shots and allowed two goals His first two matches came in 2017 as a substitute.

  • Ali Krieger is set to earn his 108º cap and will make his first appearance in the US since the final of the 2020 Women’s Olympic Qualifiers at Concacaf against Canada, where he started and played the full 90 minutes. Krieger – who runs the NWSL Orlando Pride – has played Colombia five times, including a 2-2 draw in the 2016 Olympic group stage.

  • Defender Alana Cook will be winning his second match and making his second career start. Cook made his USWNT debut in 2019 against Costa Rica, playing the full 90 minutes in Vlatko Andonovski’s second game. Cook and Margaret Purce, who also debuted in that match, were the first players to add Andonovski’s first caps.

  • Tierna Davidson is set to earn his 27º cap and will make his first USWNT game since March 11, 2020, when he started and played the first time in the US 3-1 over Japan during the 2020 SheBelieves Cup. This game marked Davidson’s only appearance in 2020 as was unavailable for selection for the Olympic qualifying tournament while recovering from an ankle injury.

  • Emily Sonnett will win 48º career limit tonight and make 27º early career. Sonnett reached the end in six of the nine U.S. games in 2020 – including games against Panama, Costa Rica, Canada and Spain – and had 18 minutes of action in Monday’s victory over Colombia.

  • Julie Ertz will make her 105º appearance for the USA. Ertz won 100º international on March 5 against England at the Exploria Stadium in the first match of the 2020 SheBelieves Cup and has 20 international goals, the 29º American woman to achieve that mark. She spent the full 90 minutes in her last seven appearances for the USWNT.

  • Elected Player of the Year 2020 in the USA, Samantha Mewis started running to open 2021, marking his first career hat-trick in the 4-0 victory over Colombia on 18 January. She scored the first three goals of the game for a real hat trick. Mewis will win 70º tonight and currently has 21 goals, making it the 30º USWNT player to reach the 20 goal mark on Monday night.

  • Rose Lavelle is set to win 48º cover and will make it 39º early career. Lavelle scored 13 goals in 47 games for the USWNT, the most recent coming from a brilliant goal in the first half of the U.S. 2-0 victory over the Netherlands on November 27, 2020.

  • Megan Rapinoe will win 170º cap and marked his return to the United States squad by watching the opening goal of Samantha Mewis on Monday night, which marked the 68º assistant to your international career. Rapinoe finished second in the team with 5 assists in 2020.

  • Catarina macario is set to make her first career start and second general appearance for the USWNT. Macario made his USWNT debut Monday night, replacing Megan Rapinoe at halftime.

  • Macario, Davidson and Cook – along with Andi Sullivan, who is unavailable tonight due to an injury – were all members of the Stanford team that won an NCAA championship in this field in 2017. Sullivan scored and Macario scored two assists in 3 -2 of Cardinal beat Pac-12 rival UCLA.

  • Lynn Williams win 31st cap tonight and will make his third consecutive match. Including tonight’s match, Williams will have participated in 12 of the last 13 games for the USWNT and led the US team in assists in 2020 with six on goal and three goals.

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