USA Women vs Germany Women

  

United States keeper Hope Solo thinks Germany could be tired in Tuesday night's Women's World Cup semi-final after needing penalties to beat France.

Germany, the world's top team, needed a late equaliser to force extra-time on Friday night - and now face the second-ranked US for a place in the final against England or Japan in Vancouver.

"They're going to either hit us with a wake-up call that they needed or they're going to be tired," Solo said.

"We're peaking at the right time."

America and Germany are the most successful teams in Women's World Cup history, with two tournament wins each.

Only four countries have ever won the World Cup. The Americans lifted two of the first three tournaments, but have not been world champions since 1999.

Germany have won two of the last three, although Japan are the current champions, after beating the US on penalties in Germany four years ago.

While the Germans were struggling past France, the world's third-ranked team, in the last eight, America beat China 1-0 to continue their record of reaching the semi-finals at all seven World Cups.

Solo continued: "Germany is a great team. They're tactically great. They're organised but we're right where we need to be and hopefully we're going to beat Germany and head into the final."

Germany defender Annike Krahn knows their opponents will have most of the support across the border in Montreal.

"The crowd will definitely be against us and cheer on USA loudly," she said. "But that motivates us even more.

"The American playing style is completely different to that of the French. We all know that we have to be present from the first minute.

"With USA, a strong opponent awaits us. We've had some really tough games already - it also showed us that we can compete against strong sides. It's definitely a positive thing."

United States forward Amy Rodriguez said: "We absolutely love the support we're getting from back home, especially the fans that come out to our games. It's so cool to be hearing the USA chants so we hope it can continue and we hope we can give them more to cheer about."

Match stats

• These sides have met in three previous Women's World Cup contests. Each time, the victor went on to lift the trophy (USA in 1991 and 1999, Germany in 2003).
• The meetings between the sides in 1991 and 2003 were also semi-final matches.
• Overall, these sides have met in 30 internationals, the USA winning 19 of those to Germany's four.
• The USA have won three of their six Women's World Cup semi-finals. Meanwhile, Germany have won three of their four, keeping a clean sheet in each victory.
• Five of the USA's seven goals in this year's tournament have come in the second half of games.
• Germany's Celia Sasic has six goals already in this tournament. No player has scored more than seven in a single tournament since the USA's Michelle Akers (10 in 1991).
• There has been one hat-trick scored in the semi-finals in WWC history - the USA's Carin Jennings against Germany in 1991.
• Germany are the highest scorers in this year's competition (20) while no team has conceded fewer goals than the USA (1).
• Anja Mittag has created 17 goal-scoring opportunities at this World Cup, at least six more than any other German player.
• Carli Lloyd has been involved in four of the USA's seven goals at this tournament (2 goals, 2 assists).

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The winner of the match USA vs Germany live will move into theFIFA Women’s World Cup Final on Sunday afternoon formVancouver. They will face the winner of tomorrow’s semi-final between Japan and England.

Finally, who will start next to Alex Morgan up front? Will Abby Wambach make her return to the starting eleven or will the speed ofAmy Rodriguez tilt the edge to her favor? What about Sydney Leroux? Only Jill Ellis knows for sure.

The next big question is who to play opposite Megan Rapinoe on the right side? So far, Christen Press, Morgan Brian, and Tobin Heath have all gotten the call but the right answer could be someone completely different, Kelley O’Hara. O’Hara played great soccer on both sides of the ball against China PR on Friday. This could be a big tell to the defensive mindset of Jill Ellis going into the match as well. Will the United States try to employ the press they used to much success last week?

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It is going to put a ton of pressure on Becky Sauerbrunn and Julie Johnston to be able to account for not only Celia Sasic at forward but also Anja Mittag at the withdrawn forward position. Whoever is set to stay back between Holiday and Lloyd will need to know whereMittag is at all times when the ball is in the American third.

The return of Holiday means that the United States will have no natural defensive midfielder in the center of the park provided thatLloyd retains her starting spot. It will be interesting to see who get the freedom to push forward and who is forced to stay defensive.

One of the other things that was very noticeable was the communication and chemistry between Brian and Lloyd. They both play their club soccer with the Houston Dash of the National Women’s Soccer League.

Tactically speaking for this USA women vs Germany women live, the addition of Morgan Brian to central midfield role allowed Carli Lloyd the freedom to play in a more attacking role. That was a decision that payed dividends as Lloyd tallied the lone goal in the 51st minute on what was her 200th cap with the United States Women’s National Team.

Lauren Holiday and Megan Rapinoe are both back after serving a one-match suspension due to yellow card accumulation. They are both concrete members of your starting lineup but the team looked the best that it has throughout the entire tournament against China PR with the additions of Morgan Brian and Kelley O’Hara to the starting lineup.

The United States comes into tonight’s match with many lineup questions. This time it does not involve who to fill in place of the suspended players, but it has to do with what will Jill Ellis do with all of her pieces?

Our match tonight is the 30th meeting all-time between the two nations. The United States holds a huge advantage with 18 wins, four losses, and seven draws against the current #1 ranked team in the world.

USA vs Germany live also met in the quarterfinals of the 1999 World Cup in Landover, Maryland with the Americans earning a 3-2 victory en route to the World Cup Title.

12 years ago in Portland, Oregon, Germany returned the favor with a 3-0 beating of the United States en route to their first FIFA Women’s World Cup Title.

Tonight is the third match-up between USA women vs Germany women at this stage in the tournament. 24 years ago in Guangzhou, China, it was the United States who earned a 5-2 victory en route to their first FIFA Women’s World Cup

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The match USA vs Germany live would go to penalties whereGermany would make all five before Nadine Angerer’s save on the fifth French shot put the Germans into the semi-finals.

France had the best chance to win in the extra period in the 117th minute as Gaetane Thiney found herself wide open at the backpost.Jessica Houara put a perfect ball onto the foot of Thiney who just pushed her shot wide of an open net.

France took the lead in the quarterfinal pairing as well from Louisa Necib in the 64th minute. Germany pushed and pushed in the final twenty minutes; they were rewarded with a penalty kick in the 84th minute that Celia Sasic did not miss. The match would go into extra time.

It was a very tense affair at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal last Friday afternoon. Germany came into the match as the hottest team in the tournament having scored at least four goals in all but one of their matches. They were unbeaten since a 4-2 loss to Sweden in theAlgarve Cup back in March and they lost to France 2-0 in a friendly back in October 2014. France jumped out to an early two goal lead in that match before hanging on for the win.

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Germany should be counting their lucky stars that they are even at this point in the tournament after their quarterfinal match.

Granted 15 of the goals scored by Germany were in the first three matches of the tournament including 10 against the Ivory Coast and four against Thailand. They were able to get four past a toughSweden team in the Round of 16 before their epic quarterfinal match with France.

This is also the matchup of the best offensive team in the tournament (Germany, 20 goals in five matches) against the best defensive team in the tournament (United States, 1 goal allowed in five matches). The unstoppable force against the immovable object.

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Our matchup pits the top two nations in the World, Germany comes in with the #1 ranking and the United States comes in with the #2 ranking. These are also the most successful nations in Women’s Football with both nations holding two Women’s World Cuptitles.

Good evening and welcome to USA vs Germany live VAVEL USA’s coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. We have reached the final four of the competition with three familiar faces and one surprise nation. Two of the familiar faces link up tonight from theOlympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec as the United States of America takes on Germany. My name is Matthew Evans and I will be your host for tonight’s action.