2023 Women’s World Cup Draw: U.S. Will Face Netherlands, Vietnam and a Question Mark
2023 Women’s World Cup Draw: U.S. Will Face Netherlands, Vietnam and a Question Mark
The draw for the 2023 Women’s World Cup was made the morning of Jan. 13 at a ceremony in London. Here’s how the draw works. In the world of soccer, this is what a draw looks like:
The U.S. will play an elimination playoff against the Netherlands.
That’s it.
How does this match-up work? The U.S. will have to beat the Netherlands either 3-0 or 3-1 to win.
The Netherlands, ranked No. 1 in the world, are coming from Group C. They finished ninth in the world last year.
The Netherlands are a big favorite. They will be a better team than the U.S. in the World Cup. So, you’ll see this in the World Cup and in the U.S. Open Cup but you won’t see this in the league schedule or the Open Cup. This is not the standard format.
The Netherlands were eliminated in the semifinals of the 2018 World Cup, where they were defeated 1-0 by Australia. They didn’t have a good game.
Then they were eliminated by the USWNT in the 2nd round of the same tournament, 3-2 in extra time.
So, the USWNT, ranked No. 11 in the world, will be coming from Group D, which is the final group. It’s the “what-if” group in the World Cup.
The U.S. team, ranked No. 9 in the world, will be coming from the “win what’s on the line” group. They will have one shot at making the final four.
The draw for the 2023 World Cup was made the morning of Jan. 13 at a ceremony in London. Here’s how the draw works. In the world of soccer, this is what a draw looks like:
This is how the U.S. will face the Netherlands in an elimination playoff.
That’s it.
How does this match-up work? The U.S. will have to beat the Netherlands either
