USA vs. Argentina: Starting XI and lineup notes

USWNT vs. Argentina presented by Jim Beam
Date: October 30, 2024
Venue: Lynn Family Stadium; Louisville, Ky.
Transmitted: TNT, truTV, Universo, Max, Peacock
Official kick-off time: 7:07 p.m. ET

Starting XI against Argentina: 21-Mandy Haught; 2-Ashley Sanchez, 4-Naomi Girma, 8-Hailie Mace, 10-Lindsey Horan, 15-Jaedyn Shaw, 16-Rose Lavelle (Capt.), 19-Hal Hershfelt, 22-Eva Gaetino, 25-Alyssa Malonson, 26 -Emma Sears

Available Subs: 1-Alyssa Naeher, 3-Korbin Albert, 5-Jenna Nighswonger, 6-Lynn Williams, 9-Mallory Swanson, 11-Sophia Smith, 12-Emily Sams, 14-Emily Sonnett, 17-Sam Coffey, 18-Casey Murphy, 20-Casey Krueger, 23-Emily Fox

Don't Dress: Olivia Moultrie, Yazmeen Ryan, Alyssa Thompson

GAME NOTES | FIVE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

• USWNT Starting XI Cap Numbers (including this game): Horan (159), Lavelle (108), Girma (42), Sanchez (28), Shaw (19), Mace (9), Hershfelt (2), Sears (2), Haught (1), Gaetino (1), Malonson (1)
• Today's lineup in Louisville features 10 changes from the starting lineup used Sunday afternoon in Nashville against Island, with forward Jaedyn Shaw the only player to make back-to-back starts.
• This starting lineup includes five players – Lindsey Horan, Rose Lavelle, Naomi Girma, Jaedyn Shaw and Hal Hershfelt – from the USA's gold medal team in France, although Shaw and Hershfelt did not play during the tournament.
• The starting lineup averages 33 appearances per player, with Horan and Lavelle the only starters with over 100 appearances. The other nine starters go into the game tonight with a total of 96 international matches.
• Three players in the starting lineup – Eva Gaetino, Mandy Haught and Alyssa Malonson – will make their international debuts. This is the first time in 23 years that three or more players will start in the same game in their USWNT debuts.
• In the USA, ten players have now played their first international match in 2024, the most in a calendar year since 2013, as Christen Press, Kristie Mewis, Julie Ertz, Crystal Dunn, Lindsey Horan, Ashlyn Harris, Morgan Brian, Erika Tymrak and Leigh Ann Robinson and Amber Brooks all made their debuts for the USWNT.
• Today's roster has an average age of 25.24, making it the USA's youngest starting lineup since April 12, 2022, when a lineup with an average age of 25.0 started against Uzbekistan.
• Rose Lavelle will captain the USWNT for the third time in her career and will be honored before the game for her 100th cap, which she earned on June 4, 2024 against Korea Republic in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lavelle, a native of nearby Cincinnati, Ohio, made her senior national team debut on March 4, 2017 against England in the SheBelieves Cup.
• Mandy Haught will be in goal for the USWNT in her first international appearance. Haught, who was called up to the USWNT senior team for the first time following an injury to Jane Campbell, is only the third goalkeeper to make her debut for the USWNT in the last five years and the first since Aubrey Kingsbury in April 2022 . Haught is the 27th goalkeeper in USWNT history to earn an international cap.
• Ashley Sanchez will make her 28th cap as she makes her first appearance for the USWNT in nearly a year, most recently for the USA on October 29, 2023, against Colombia in San Diego. This is Sanchez's 12th career start and first since July 9, 2023, when she started the USA's farewell match against Wales in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final.
• Naomi Girma will make her 40th career start and her 16th in 2024 as she earns her 42nd cap for the USWNT. Girma is fifth on the team with 1,367 total minutes played and has played full minutes in 14 of her 15 appearances this year.
• Hailie Mace will earn her ninth cap for the USWNT as she makes her third international career start and first in over two years. Mace's last start for the USWNT came against Spain on October 11, 2024, when she started and played 61 minutes in Pamplona. Her youngest Look for the USA came on November 13, 2022, when she came on as a substitute at the end of the USA's 2-1 win against Germany in Harrison, New Jersey
• Lindsey Horan will make her 19th start of 2024 as a team leader and will make her 159th cap for the USWNT. Horan leads the U.S. with 1,592 minutes played this year, ranks third on the team with five goals and is fourth with three assists. Horan scored the game-winning goal in Sunday's win over Iceland and scored a penalty in the U.S.'s victory over Argentina in the Concacaf W Gold Cup earlier this year.
• Jaedyn Shaw will make her second consecutive start and ninth of her career, earning her 19th cap for the USWNT. Shaw, who turns 20 in November, has scored six goals this year – tied for second on the team – and eight goals in her international career, placing her fifth all-time in USWNT history for goals by a teenager takes. Shaw's six goals so far in 2024 are tied with Cindy Parlow Cone (6 goals in 1997) for the fourth-most by any teenager in a calendar year for the USWNT and the most since Christie Welsh scored the record 11 goals for the USWNT in 2000 in his teens.
• After making her international debut on October 24 in Austin, she was a midfielder Hal Hershfelt will play her second international match and thus make the first start of her international career. Hershfelt, who was a substitute for the 2024 Olympics but was not named to the squad, came on as a substitute in the 72nd minute of the U.S. win over Iceland on October 24, becoming the 263rd player ever to play for the USWNT nominee, becoming the fifth player to debut under Hayes.
• Central defender Eva Gaetinowho received her first USWNT call-up in April for the SheBelieves Cup and her second for these October games, will start in her USWNT debut. The 21-year-old former Notre Dame star signed with Paris Saint-Germain earlier this year and scored her first professional goal on March 20, 2024, helping PSG beat Swedish club Hacken 2-1 in the first leg She reached the quarterfinals of the UEFA Women's Champions League and became the youngest American ever to score in the knockout round of the UEFA Women's Champions League.
• Alyssa Malonsonwho was called up to the senior national team for the first time this October camp, will start when she earns her first cap for the U.S. Women's National Team. Malonson, who played for the USA U15 in 2019 and 2022 and the USA U23 in 2022, is in her third NWSL season and is the first Bay FC player to earn a cap for the USWNT.
• After scoring a goal and an assist in her international debut in Nashville on Sunday, the Racing Louisville FC striker was there Emma Sears will make her first career start when she reaches her second cap. Sears' first international match was a memorable game. She assisted Lynn Williams in the equalizer in the 72nd minute and added a goal of her own in the 90+3 minute. In doing so, she became the fourth player in USWNT history to score and assist in her USWNT debut, the first since Christen Press in 2013.