USA vs. Australia: Date, Time, Live Stream for 2015 Women's Soccer World Cup

The biggest competition of women's football lands in Canada, giving the U.S. women's national team the next best thing to home-field advantage at the World Cup finals.

The USWNT play Australia in their opening match on Tuesday, wary of the threat of their southern-hemisphere opponents. 

Here is how you can watch the highly anticipated action, with timings and streaming information.

Viewing Info 

Date: Monday, June 8

Time: 7:30 p.m. (ET), 12:30 a.m. (BST)

Live Stream: Fox Sports 2Go (U.S. only), BBC iPlayer (U.K. only)

TV Info: Fox Sports 1 (U.S. only), BBC Two and HD (U.K only)

Match Preview

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When the World Cup comes around for the women's game, the USWNT always want to be within a shout of winning the tournament—and they usually are. 

And when you have a player like Alex Morgan in attack, every side in the competition will fear you. 

But a giant of the women's code is likely to make her final appearance at a World Cup, as USWNT striker Abby Wambach makes one final bow. The former World Player of the Year will be desperate to lead her country to glory in Canada as she looks to add one more accomplishment to her long list of achievements. 

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The USA take on Australia in their first match at the 2015 World Cup—with the two sides separated by eight places in the world ranking, per FIFA.com. The American side currently sit at No. 2 in the world, while the Matildas occupy 10th place. The U.S. have not finished outside of the top three since the inception of the women's World Cup in 1991, but the Aussies will give them a stiff first test. 

Sports Illustrated highlighted the importance of the competition to the American public, giving their recent front cover over to USWNT forward Sydney Leroux:

Jeff Kassouf of NBC Sports recently focused on the strengths of Wambach, and explained why she is so respected around the world:

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Physically, Abby Wambach is one of a kind. That much is obvious every time she steps onto the soccer field. Listed at 5-foot-11, the world’s all-time leading international goal scorer—for men or women—has scored almost half of her to-date 182 goals for U.S. Soccer with her head.

She towers over most opposing defenders, especially when playing second-tier teams and inferior regional foes, when Wambach looks like an NBA center being guarded by a high school point guard.

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Wambach is likely to be used as the team's finishing weapon, entering games late to pummel the opponent. But Australia will be hoping to leapfrog her influence with their cultured tactical approach.

The Matildas play a European style 4-3-3, opting for a possession brand of football with skill and speed. They recently destroyed Vietnam 11-0 in their warm-up for the competition, and the USWNT will take them lightly at their own peril. 

Australia's 41-year-old coach Alen Stajcic was clear when describing the philosophy of his team, per Richard Parkin of The Guardian: 

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We’ll play the same way all the time, we’ve got a positive mindset and we’re going to take it to teams, and for them to beat us they’re going to have to play good football. They’re going to have to break us down, we’ve got a high work-rate in defence, there’s a lot of pressure on the ball, and you would have seen that all night [against Vietnam], they were chasing and pressing.

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Australia have high hopes, but they will know they are very much inferior to the sheer depth of the Americans. This is the final roll of the dice for many of USWNT's players, and with Morgan on fire, they know they can win the competition. 

The U.S. are veterans at tournament football and always have a professional focus when the chips are down.

Wambach and Co. will understand the threat of the Aussies, but they certainly will not fear them. An early goal will settle the nerves for USWNT, and a comfortable win should ensue.