The United States Women’s National Team took a 10-match winning streak into Seattle on Sunday night against Japan, returning to the city for the first time since 2017. The match kicked off at 10:00pm Eastern, 7:00pm Pacific.
The game mattered because the USWNT had not conceded a goal since October until its 2-1 win over Japan in the first of three matches over the weekend in San Jose, and Emma Hayes used the Seattle meeting to rotate the starting XI fully while she evaluated the player pool for this fall’s Women’s World Cup qualifying. The match was available on TNT and truTV in English, Universo in Spanish, and streaming on HBO Max in English, Peacock in Spanish and FuboTV with a free trial.
That made the Seattle trip more than another stop on a busy schedule. Hayes was not just trying to protect a streak; she was testing how far the roster could stretch against a Japan side that had already pushed the Americans once in the series. A long run without conceding had already ended, and the next layer was whether the rotation could hold up while the coach sorted out who fits when qualifying arrives this fall.
What happens next is simple enough to name and hard enough to solve: Hayes has to turn this look at the group into a qualifying roster that can keep winning when the margins get tighter.
