In advance of this summer’s CONCACAF W Championship, the United States Women’s National Team headed to the comfortable confines of Dick’s Sporting Goods Park for the first of two friendlies against Colombia. Vlatko Andonovski’s noticeably inexperienced side emerged victorious in Commerce City, Colorado, reeling off a 3-0 victory against the visiting Las Cafeteras (The Coffee Growers). Though initially stymied, the American attacking group kept chipping away until finally overwhelming the opponent.
The USWNT started the match in a 4-3-3 formation. Casey Murphy earned the start at goalkeeper, her “third appearance of the year” and fifth overall cap, perhaps indicating a gradual change in the winds at the position.