The USA started the defence of the Women’s World Cup. They have been assigned to Group E and should easily defeat Vietnam in their opening match on July 22. Following this game they face harder matches against the Netherlands and Portugal. The United States would improve their record to five victories if they were to win the Women’s World Cup for the third time in a row. Vietnam are playing in their very first Women’s World Cup finals and what an immersion of fie looks for them.
USWNT is one of the best in World Cup history and won the largest number of matches then again Vietnam’s emerging team and this edition is their obligation for the FIFA World Cup.
USWNT will make an honest effort to take this game in support of themselves and do all that to ensure they take this match and on another hand, Vietnam will give their very best to get by in this competition.
USA are the reigning champions having won the past two competitions in 2019 and 2015. They are ranked first in the FIFA Women’s Ranking and are one of the top picks to win this competition. Their main goal is to compete at the top of the table in Group E.
Simultaneously, Vietnam are in one of the most troublesome groups as they are clubbed against Portugal and the Netherlands. They had a disastrous form during their friendly games against different top European teams earlier this month. Most recently, Spain crushed Vietnam by scoring nine goals in a friendly game. This outcome will probably influence the team’s mindset in front of their first game in Group E against the USA.
Women’s World Cup debutants Vietnam could never have picked a harder first game regardless of whether they’d attempted; an overwhelming challenge looks for them at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday as Group E gets everything rolling.
The USWNT headed into the competition as overpowering top choices and the defending champions after lifting the trophy four years ago and in 2015. Those triumphs added to a surprising run that has seen them win every one of their past 12 Women’s World Cup games, a competition record, gathering a goal difference of +32 over those fixtures.
A major part of that immense goal difference was the 13-0 win over Thailand in their opening game four years ago. The USA are unbeaten in their past 22 matches against teams from the AFC region, winning 16 of them and averaging 3.6 goals per game. They’ve likewise never lost a Women’s World Cup game to an Asian country in 15 meetings.
While Vietnam are ranked higher than nine different teams at the competition, it would surely be momentous assuming they pulled off an agitated.
Thailand were one of the teams Vietnam beat while winning the playoff competition that got their qualification for the World Cup. As they competed in the knockout stages for the first time, they qualified for the playoffs by reaching the quarterfinals of the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup.
However, this is a completely different argument, and the USWNT are among the most battle-tough teams at this level. That incorporates Megan Rapinoe, who’s been engaged with 15 goals across his 17 matches at the Women’s World Cup and is set to retire this year having proactively gotten herself a legacy as one of the greats of the game.
But it all starts here, and she’ll be eager to win another medal in Australia and New Zealand.
For the United States, they entered the World Cup as the favorites, sitting as the top-ranked team in the world. They have won their last 10 fixtures, including friendlies, qualifying, and the SheBelieves Cups. They had a difficult situation back in October of 2022. The USA lost three straight friendlies for the first time since the mid-1990s however has bounced back pleasantly.
They have never finished worse than third in World Cup play, except for three times since 2007. They have also won three games and finished as runners-up once. The last time they didn’t dominate a match at the World Cup was in 2015 when they had a 0-0 draw in the group stage with Sweden. The last time they lost it was in 2011 in the finals through penalty kicks. Additionally, in that same year, the USA suffered their final regulation defeat at the World Cup, falling 2-1 to Sweden in the group stage.
The reigning back-to-back world champions start up at Eden Park as firm top choices to defend their title and who can contend with that, while considering their strength-in-depth across the pitch and the plenty of value within their squad, covering all departments, yet show up at the competition having lost various players through injury.
Captain Becky Sauerbrunn has failed to recuperate from a foot issue to make the squad, while the experienced Christen Press, Sam Mewis, and Catarina Macario all pass up a major opportunity through knee injuries, as does Mallory Swanson, whose goals will be a major miss.
Vietnam enters the World Cup positioned 32nd in the world. They have never played here before, making this match their first at the Women’s World Cup. Vietnam’s participation in these competitions may be challenging. Their group not only highlighted the reigning champs in the USA but also the 2019 runner-up in the Netherlands. Portugal, the other team in the group, is making its World Cup debut and is currently ranked 21st in the world. Vietnam comes into their match losing their last three friendlies, all to the top contest. In those games, they gave up 13 goals while scoring just one.
What a game for Vietnam to make their Women’s World Cup debut in, positively an intense test time against the holders, yet the four-time South East Asian Games winners will not be overawed with no strain on their shoulders as everybody anticipates a complete triumph for the USWNT.
A lot of accentuation will most likely be put on their backline here, however, the speed of Tuyet Dung and Thanh Nha on the counter-assault gives them something to work with on the counterattack.
It’s important to note that this will be the first time either team faces off against the other. Over the most recent couple of years, it has been seen that Vietnam have played well against teams from the AFC Confederation. They are the champions of Southeast Asian Games Women 2023 kept down in May. In any case, they have attempted to perform against European and North American teams.
These two sides have never confronted one another – that doesn’t simply mean at the Women’s World Cup, we’re talking in any competitive game.
As already mentioned, the USA gloat an impressive record against Asian nations, however, the only one they have looked at in the past year was Japan, taking a slender 1-0 triumph from their experience in February.
Vietnam’s pre-tournament preparations included confronting one more of the World Cup favourites, Euro 2022 runners-up Germany, emerging from that with a decent 2-1 loss. Be that as it may, from that point forward, they’ve lost 2-0 to World Cup co-hosts New Zealand and been thrashed 9-0 by Spain.
Vietnam’s pre-tournament preparations included facing another of the World Cup favourites, Euro 2022 runners-up Germany, coming out of that with a respectable 2-1 defeat. But since then, they’ve lost 2-0 to World Cup co-hosts New Zealand and been thrashed 9-0 by Spain.
Date: Friday, July 21
Kickoff: 9 p.m. EDT / 2 a.m. BST (Saturday) / 1 p.m. NZT (Saturday)
The match will happen at Eden Park in Auckland.
United States: FuboTV, FOX, Peacock (Spanish), Telemundo (Spanish)
UK: n/a
Canada: TSN, RDS (French)
Vietnam: Vietnam National Assembly Television
United States will be glad to have been managed on paper, a genuinely clear beginning to their most recent Women’s World Cup as they will grasp the competition in front of stiffer difficulties down the line. This will demonstrate an extraordinary opportunity for growth for Vietnam and ought to place them in an advantageous position to push ahead into their excess two group stage fixtures. But ultimately, it’s difficult to see them keeping away from a heavy defeat in this one and the smart play is to back a United States triumph by no less than three clear goals.
Vietnam’s defence disintegrated against Spain last time. They yielded nine goals and we can anticipate that the reigning champs should score four goals in their first game. You back the following, as the first tip is that USA will dominate this match by 4-0 – the odd for this tip will be estimated at 9.50 odd.
Moving on, our second prediction for this match is that there will be fewer than 5.5 goals scored; the odds for this prediction are 2.75. Vietnam’s recent friendly match against Spain resulted in nine goals, which is the primary reason for this tip. The competition’s defending champions will likely score four goals against them.
As anticipated, the Opta supercomputer sees this as being somewhat uneven. You’re not prone to see a prediction more vigorously leaning toward one team than this at the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
As indicated by the model, the USA have an 86.7% likelihood of winning this game; Vietnam’s chance of triumph is simply 4.5%.
That implies the supercomputer thinks Vietnam have a 13.3% probability of getting essentially a point, and they’d most likely take those odds given the more extensive context of this game.
Something besides an agreeable USA triumph would represent something of a shock. Before this one, people might even be tempted to look up record wins at the Women’s World Cup.
As noted, on the off chance that the USA lost it would be the surprise of the century. In any case, taking them at – 20000 is something almost nobody will do. It would take a $200 bet to simply win one dollar. The odds in this USA-Vietname match don’t support making that play. The pick for the USA-Vietnam game might boil down to a parlay. Taking the USA to win, with an over 4.5 and a no wagered in the two teams to score gets the odds to – 190.
Changing that out to an over 5.5 makes it – 118. With this being the opening game of the World Cup, taking over 6.5 might be dangerous. To save some energy, they could play possession games easily. The US squad might attempt to early end this one. The Over for the first half of 2.5 could likewise be a play at – 148. The prediction for this USA-Vietnam challenge is a 6-0 win for the USA.
Alana Cook, Alex Morgan, Alyssa Thompson, Alyssa Naeher, Andi Sullivan, Ashley Aubrey Kingsbury, Casey Murphy, Crystal Dunn, Emily Fox, Emily Sonnett, Naomi Girma, Kelley O’Hara, Lynn Williams, Julie Ertz, Lindsey Horan, Sanchez, Savannah DeMelo, Sophia Smith, Sofia Huerta, Megan Rapinoe, Rose Lavelle, Trinity Rodman, Kristie Mewis
Chương Thị Kiều, Đào Thị Kiều Oanh, Dương Thị Vân, Huỳnh Như, Lê Thị Diễm My, Lương Thị Thu Thương, Trần Thị Thu, Hoàng Thị Loan, Trần Thị Thúy Nga, Nguyễn Thị Thanh Nhã, Nguyễn Thị Bích Thùy, Nguyễn Thị Thúy Hằng, Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Dung, Trần Thị Thùy Trang, Trần Thị Hải Linh, Thái Thị Thảo, Phạm Hải Yến, Trần Thị Kim Thanh, Trần Thị Thu Thảo, Vũ Thị Hoa, Khổng Thị Hằng, Ngân Thị Vạn Sự, Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Anh
PREDICTED XI (4-3-3): Naeher; Cook, Dunn, Fox, Girma; Horan, Sanchez, Sullivan; Morgan, Rodman. Smith
UNAVAILABLE: Macario (Injured), Mewis (Injured), Press (Injured), Sauerbrunn (Injured), Swanson (Injured)
QUESTIONABLE: –
PREDICTED XI (5-4-1): Kim Tran; Diem Le, Luong, Thu Tran, T. Tran, Hoang; Doung, Dung, Nguyen, Nha; Nhu
UNAVAILABLE: –
QUESTIONABLE: –
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