Each the USA and Australia head into tonight’s World Cup conflict realizing a win would safe their qualification from Group D.
The US will probably be backed by a boisterous house crowd in Seattle as they give the impression of being to construct on their vastly spectacular 4-1 defeat of Paraguay on matchday one.
They’re prone to discover the going harder in opposition to a Socceroos facet that had been shocking 2-0 winners over Turkey.
The place to observe USA v Australia: TV channel, dwell on-line streams
Kick-off on Friday is at 20:00 BST (15:00 ET / 12:00 PT). Within the UK, dwell protection is on BBC One.
Streaming on an enormous vary of gadgets is obtainable via the BBC iPlayer app and BBC Sport web site.
World Cup 2026: USA v Australia stats
- That is the primary World Cup assembly between the groups, who’ve shared 4 friendlies
- The USA have received their final two encounters, prevailing 3-1 in June 2010 and 2-1 in October 2025, when Haji Wright scored twice from Cristian Roldan assists
- They’ve received every of their final seven matches performed in Seattle, together with every of their 5 matches on the Seattle Stadium
- The win over Paraguay was the USA’s joint-largest margin of victory on the World Cup and the primary time they’ve scored a minimum of 4 targets in a match on the finals
- The USMNT final received consecutive video games on the match of their first two matches within the inaugural 1930 version, one among which was a three-goal victory over Paraguay.
- Australia’s solely earlier match in opposition to a World Cup host was in 1974, shedding 3-0 to West Germany in Hamburg
- They’ve received three of their final 4 World Cup matches (L1), which is greater than they received throughout their first 17 matches within the competitors (W2 D4 L11)
- These victories have come regardless of going through 31 extra photographs than that they had themselves throughout all three wins (26 photographs, 57 confronted)
- The 30 photographs Australia confronted of their win over Turkiye on MD1 was the second-most they’ve absorbed in a World Cup match, after a complete of 31 in opposition to West Germany in 1974)
- Nestory Irankunda grew to become Australia’s youngest ever World Cup scorer (20 years, 125 days) of their win over Turkiye on MD1 and will grow to be the primary participant underneath the age of 21 to attain in his first two World Cup appearances since Memphis Depay for the Netherlands in 2014
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