The U.S. women’s national team faces Japan on Saturday, April 11 in the first of three matches against the Nadeshiko.<\/p>\n
It’s been a perfect start to 2026 for the USWNT, which has won all five of its games this year by a combined score of 15-0.<\/p>\n
That included a successful run through the SheBelieves Cup last month, as Emma Hayes side won the title with wins over Argentina, Canada and Colombia.<\/p>\n
Watch USWNT vs Japan on Sling<\/a><\/p>\n Japan is coming off a title at the 2026 Asian Cup, defeating host nation Australia 1-0 in the final on March 21.<\/p>\n These teams last met in the 2025 SheBelieves Cup, with Japan defeating the USWNT 2-1 to win the tournament title.<\/p>\n Following Saturday’s game, the USWNT and Japan will face off two more times: Tuesday, April 14 at Lumen Field in Seattle and Friday, April 17 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado.<\/p>\n USWNT vs Japan prediction, pick<\/p>\n The USWNT dominated Canada 3-0 in their most recent meeting last summer. Canada looks like an improved side from that match, but the U.S. should still have enough to edge out its rival in this one.<\/p>\n Prediction:\u00a0USWNT 1, Canada 0<\/p>\n USWNT vs Japan channel, start time, streamingWhen:\u00a0Saturday, April 11Where: PayPal Park (San Jose, California)Time:\u00a05:30 p.m. ETChannel\/streaming:\u00a0TNT<\/a>, TruTV, HBO Max, Universo, Peacock (Watch LIVE<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. women’s national team faces Japan on Saturday, April 11 in the first of three matches against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[937,938,1368,3620,3623,3619,3630,3622,3628,3152,935,542,3629,3627,420,3633,8,3625,3634,220,948,173,33,465,3632,3621,939,2597,2593,1755,3626,1050,3631,934,2198,58,3624],"class_list":{"0":"post-3612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-commerce","12":"tag-competitions","13":"tag-contains","14":"tag-contains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","15":"tag-content","16":"tag-emma","17":"tag-emma-hayes","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-events","20":"tag-hayes","21":"tag-hockey","22":"tag-international","23":"tag-international-sports-competitions","24":"tag-japan","25":"tag-live","26":"tag-live-sporting-events","27":"tag-local","28":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-nihon","31":"tag-online","32":"tag-online-video","33":"tag-or","34":"tag-overall","35":"tag-overall-positive","36":"tag-positive","37":"tag-soccer","38":"tag-sporting","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-sports-news","41":"tag-u0026","42":"tag-uswnt","43":"tag-video","44":"tag-volleyball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}