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Current World Ranking: 9<\/a>\u00a0(72.05 points)2025-08-22 \u2013 England 69, USA 7 (Sunderland)
2025-08-01 \u2013 Canada 42, USA 10 (Ottawa)
2025-07-20 \u2013 USA 31, Fiji 24 (Washington DC)
2025-05-24 \u2013 New Zealand 79, USA 14 (Auckland)
2025-05-17 \u2013 Australia 27, USA 19 (Canberra)<\/p>\n
4 6 9 11 14 2 3 \u201cThe players have been dialed in since we started our preparation this week as we know we are in knockouts. The pressure we face this week is a privilege and we are fortunate to know that we hold our destiny in our own hands this week.\u00a0 We reviewed the English game in detail and identified the positives that we want to replicate and the areas that we felt we fell short of our own standards and let England put us under pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOverall we were pleased with our performance against Samoa last week but in the context of our campaign, we know the match coming up is a big one for us. The USA will be physical and we\u2019ll need to match that. We have been happy with how we\u2019ve trained this week and we are excited for the challenge on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n Recent matches between the two have been competitive and this should be no exception. Sione Fukofuka has notably left Alev Kelter out of his Eagles backline, but has added speed out wide. Freda Tafuna brings power to the back row in the absence of Georgie-Perris Redding, but their opponents feature dynamic ball carriers in Piper Duck and rising star Caitlyn Halse. On form the edge goes to the Wallaroos. Australia are slight favorites at York.<\/p>\n Replacements: 16 Paige Stathopoulos, 17 Alivia Leatherman, 18 Charli Jacoby, 19 Rachel Ehrecke, 20 Tahlia Brody, 21 Olivia Ortiz, 22 Gabby Cantorna, 23 Sariah Ibarra<\/p>\n Replacements: 16 Katalina Amosa, 17 Lydia Kavoa, 18 Eva Karpani, 19 Annabelle Codey, 20 Ashley Marsters, 21 Layne Morgan, 22 Trilleen Pomare, 23 Tia Hinds<\/p>\n Date: Saturday, August 30 Referee: Sara Cox (England) HEAD-TO-HEAD (9): ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/logo-australia-women-thumbnail-2022.png\"){kind=logo}
Current World Ranking: 7<\/a> (76.31 points)
2025-08-23 \u2013 Australia 73, Samoa 0 (Manchester)
2025-08-01 \u2013 Australia 36, Wales 5 (Sydney)
2025-07-26 \u2013 Australia 12, Wales 21 (Brisbane)
2025-07-12 \u2013 New Zealand 37, Australia 12 (Wellington)
2025-05-23 \u2013 Australia 7, Canada 45 (Brisbane)<\/p>\n
\nIN
\nOUT<\/p>\n
\nHallie Taufo\u2019ou
\nTahlia Brody<\/p>\n
\nFreda Tafuna
\nGeorgie Perris-Reading<\/p>\n
\nCassidy Bargell
\nOlivia Ortiz<\/p>\n
\nErica Coulibaly
\nBulou Mataitoga<\/p>\n
\nCheta Emba
\nAlev Kelter<\/p>\n
\nIN
\nOUT<\/p>\n
\nTania Naden
\nKatalina Amosa<\/p>\n
\nBridie O\u2019Gorman
\nEva Karpani<\/p>\n Sione Fukofuka<\/a> (Head Coach)<\/p>\n Jo Yapp <\/a>(Head Coach)<\/p>\n
USA
1 Hope Rogers, 2 Kathryn Treder, 3 Keia Mae Sagapolu, 4 Hallie Taufo\u2019ou, 5 Erica Jarrell-Searcy, 6 Freda Tafuna, 7 Kate Zackary (capt.), 8 Rachel Johnson, 9 Cassidy Bargell, 10 McKenzie Hawkins, 11 Erica Coulibaly, 12 Emily Henrich, 13 Ilona Maher, 14 Cheta Emba, 15 Lotte Sharp<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA
1 Faliki Pohiva, 2 Tania Naden, 3 Bridie O\u2019Gorman, 4 Kaitlan Leaney (co-capt.), 5 Michaela Leonard, 6 Piper Duck, 7 Emily Chancellor (co-capt.), 8 Tabua Tuinakauvadra, 9 Samantha Wood, 10 Faitala Moleka, 11 Desiree Miller, 12 Cecilia Smith, 13 Georghina Friedrichs, 14 Maya Stewart, 15 Caitlyn Halse<\/p>\n
Venue: York Community Stadium, Huntington
Kickoff: 19:30 local (11:30 Pacific, 14:30 Eastern)
Weather Forecast: cloudy with showers, 64\u00b0F (18\u00b0C), wind S 16-24mph (26-39km\/h)
Broadcasts: Paramount+<\/a> (USA), TSN 5<\/a>\u00a0(Canada), RugbyPass TV<\/a><\/p>\n
Assistants: Precious Pazani (Zimbabwe) & Maria Heitor (Portugal)
TMO: Andrew McMenemy (Scotland)<\/p>\n USA 6, Australia 3
2025-05-17 \u2013 Australia 27, USA 19 (Canberra)
2024-05-17 \u2013 Australia 25, USA 32 (Melbourne)
2023-07-08 \u2013 USA 17, Australia 58 (Ottawa)
2022-06-12 \u2013 Australia 14, USA 16 (Auckland)
2014-08-13 \u2013 USA 23, Australia 20 (Marcoussis)
2006-09-12 \u2013 USA 29, Australia 12 (St. Albert)
2006-09-08 \u2013 USA 10, Australia 6 (Edmonton)
2002-05-21 \u2013 USA 5, Australia 17 (Barcelona)
1997-08-02 \u2013 Australia 24, USA 28 (Brisbane)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spot in the World Cup Quarter Finals is on the line on Saturday when the USA squares…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-105800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}