USA vs. Argentina: Starting XI & Lineup Notes

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

Starting XI vs. 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

Not dressing: Olivia Moultrie, Yazmeen Ryan, Alyssa Thompson

GAME NOTES | FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

• USWNT Starting XI Cap Numbers (Including this match): Horan (159), Lavelle (108), Girma (42), Sanchez (28), Shaw (19), Mace (9), Hershfelt (2), Sears (2), Haught (1), Gaetino (1), Malonson (1)
• Tonight’s lineup in Louisville features 10 changes from the starting XI used Sunday afternoon in Nashville against Iceland, with forward Jaedyn Shaw the only player making back-to-back starts.
• This starting lineup features five players – Lindsey Horan, Rose Lavelle, Naomi Girma, Jaedyn Shaw and Hal Hershfelt - from the USA’s run to gold in France, though Shaw and Hershfelt did not see action during the tournament.
• The starting lineup averages 33 caps per player with Horan and Lavelle the only starters with over 100 caps. The other nine starters enter tonight’s match with a combined 96 international appearances.
• Three players in the starting lineup – Eva Gaetino, Mandy Haught and Alyssa Malonson – will be making their international debuts, marking the first time in 23 years that three or more players have started in their USWNT debut in the same game.
• The U.S. has now had 10 players earn their first caps in 2024, the most in a calendar year since 2013 when Christen Press, Kristie Mewis, Julie Ertz, Crystal Dunn, Lindsey Horan, Ashlyn Harris, Morgan Brian, Erika Tymrak, Leigh Ann Robinson and Amber Brooks all debuted for the USWNT.
• Today’s roster averages 25.24 years of age, making it the youngest starting XI for the U.S. since of April 12, 2022, when a lineup averaging 25.0 years of age started against Uzbekistan.
• Rose Lavelle will captain the USWNT for the third time in her career and will be honored pre-match for her 100th cap, which she earned on June 4, 2024, against Korea Republic in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lavelle, who hails from nearby Cincinnati, Ohio, made her senior national team debut on March 4, 2017 against England at the SheBelieves Cup.
• Mandy Haught will start in goal as she makes her first international appearance for the USWNT. Haught, who joined the USWNT in Nashville for her first senior national team call-up after an injury to Jane Campbell, is just the third goalkeeper to debut for the USWNT in the last five years and the first since Aubrey Kingsbury in April of 2022. Haught is the 27th goalkeeper to earn a cap in USWNT history.
• Ashley Sanchez will earn her 28th cap as she makes her first appearance for the USWNT in nearly a year, last appearing for the U.S. on Oct. 29, 2023, against Colombia in San Diego. This will be Sanchez’s 12th career start and first since July 9, 2023, when she started the USA’s Send-Off Match against Wales in the final match before the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
• Naomi Girma will make her 40th career start and her 16th of 2024 as she earns her 42nd cap for the USWNT. Girma is fifth on the team in total minutes played this year with a career-high 1,367 minutes of action 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 the third start of her international career and her first in over two years. Mace’s most recent start for the USWNT came on Oct. 11, 2024, against Spain, when she started and played 61 minutes in Pamplona. Her most recent appearance for the U.S. came on Nov. 13, 2022, when she came on at the end of the USA’s 2-1 win over Germany in Harrison, N.J.
• Lindsey Horan will make her team-leading 19th start of 2024 as she earns her 159th cap for the USWNT. Horan leads the U.S. in total minutes played this year with 1,592 minutes of action and ranks third on the team in scoring with five goals and is tied for fourth with three assists. Horan scored the game-winning goal in Sunday’s victory over Iceland and converted a penalty kick earlier this year in the USA’s win over Argentina at the Concacaf W Gold Cup.
• Jaedyn Shaw will make her second consecutive start and the ninth of her career as she earns her 19th cap for the USWNT. Shaw, who will celebrate her 20th birthday in November, has six goals this year – tied for second on the team – and eight goals in her international career, which ranks fifth all-time in USWNT history for goals by a teenager. Shaw’s six goals so far in 2024 are tied with Cindy Parlow Cone (6 goals in 1997) for fourth-most by any teenager in a calendar year for the USWNT and the most since Christie Welsh scored a record 11 goals for the USWNT in 2000 while still in her teens.
• After making her international debut on Oct. 24 in Austin, midfielder Hal Hershfelt will earn her second cap as she makes the first start of her international career. Hershfelt, who was an alternate for the 2024 Olympics but did not make a game roster, came on in the 72nd minute of the USA’s Oct. 24 win over Iceland to become the 263rd player all-time to be capped by the USWNT and the fifth player to debut under Hayes.
• Center back Eva Gaetino, who earned first USWNT call-up in April for the SheBelieves Cup and her second for these October matches, will start in her USWNT debut. The 21-year-old former Notre Dame standout signed with Paris Saint-Germain at the start of this year and scored her first professional goal on March 20, 2024, helping PSG defeat Swedish club Hacken, 2-1, in the first leg of the UEFA Women’s Champions League quarterfinal series and became the youngest American ever to score in the knockout stages of the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
• Alyssa Malonson, who earned her first senior team call-up for this October Camp, will start as she earns her first cap for the U.S. Women’s National Team. Malonson, who played with the USA at the Under-15 level and with the U.S. U-23s in 2019 and 2022, is in her third NWSL season and becomes the first Bay FC player to earn a cap for the USWNT.
• After scoring and tallying an assist in her international debut on Sunday in Nashville, Racing Louisville FC forward Emma Sears will make her first career start as she earns her second cap. Sears’ first cap was a match to remember, assisting Lynn Williams’ equalizer in the 72nd minute and adding a goal of her own in the 90+3rd, becoming the fourth player in USWNT history to score and have an assist in her USWNT debut and the first to do so since Christen Press in 2013.