The US Women's National team is cruising through the She Believes Cup.

And we've got a lot of really good and perhaps a couple more nuanced things to look at for that team as they continue to progress down the road to World Cup qualifying in November.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to this week's edition of the late sub.

I am your host, Claire Watkins.

It is Thursday, March 5th.

And we're going to be talking all U.S.

Women's National Team, two games into their She Believes Cup campaign.

They look good, a lot of good things to chat about.

Let's just go ahead and dive right in.

So we are two games in to the She Believes Cup, and it is going very well for the U.S.

The team is alone atop the leaderboard with two very professional, tidy wins.

First one two nil over Argentina, and then a one nil win over Canada.

Kind of what we expected.

Emma Hayes spoke extensively before this tournament began that this week is a simulation run,

especially of like a tournament group stage, kind of the idea of what World Cup qualifying

group stage would look like or even a World Cup group stage would look like.

And we've definitely seen that play out in terms of the level of rotation.

It does seem like kind of tipping the scales.

They're doing kind of a B, A, B.

This is rudimentary.

But they were definitely tipping the scales in terms of the strength of the starting

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