The U.S. Women's National Team's summer soccer is over. Who stood out? Who might have a little bit more work to do and why it's nice to see them winning games while also figuring out what the ends of the player pool look like for this team. This is this week's edition of The Late Sub. I am your host, Claire Watkins. It is Thursday, July 3rd. We just watched three wonderful games from

the U.S. Women's National Team, and we're going to dig into some of the performers. I think

will be getting additional looks, who impressed, who may be faded into the background, and why

there's a lot to like if you're a U.S. Women's National Team fan right now. Let's jump in.

So the U.S. women's national team finished their three-game friendly series last night,

three-game international window, nice long window before the big, big break until October.

And it went very well by all standards and estimations. I think we have to

call this one a success. Two four-nil wins over Ireland, kept off by a surprisingly dominant

performance against Canada. Three-nil. 11 goals scored, zero conceded, closing the camp out with,

you know, again, a domination of the regional rival have to feel very good about what we've seen from the us women's national team even as they

continue the sort of era of tinkering and experimentation and bringing players in who are a little bit

new to the environment feels very good that they're able to maintain that consistency while seeing a lot of new faces. So I'm not going to go into, you know, every line by line detail of all three of these games. I just want to break down the people who stood out to me, the goods, the bads, the in-between. There's not going to be too many bads because, like I said, this was an incredibly positive experience, I think, for everyone in this camp. But we are getting some final looks here before things get

serious in October. I think we saw Emma Hayes. We would always talk about the big decisions at the

end of this year after looking at a lot of different players. Feels like she maybe kind of punted that

to the fall by making that choice to leave the European

base players home during this camp, which is great. We saw a lot of these NWSL-based players

step up and really impress and look like they're ready to play their guts out for the crest,

and that's exactly what you want to see. But now we are in this space of she's going to watch these

players go back to their clubs, see how they're performing there. And then I do think big decision time in terms

of what the group is going to be, going into qualifying in 2026 is going to look like in

later in this fall in 2025. So let's talk about standouts. Let's talk about players that I think

have to be leaving this camp feeling very good.

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