USA vs Portugal live score, updates, highlights and result from USWNT's final Women's World Cup 2023 group match

The U.S. women's national team will have its knockout fate determined in its Group E finale against Portugal on Tuesday in New Zealand.

With the game kicking off in the early morning hours back home in the USA, the USWNT will look to keep their perfect knockout qualification record alive, having reached the knockout stage of every single Women's World Cup to date, winning their group on all but one occasion.

It will require only a point to achieve that goal, but victory against Portugal will still be of critical importance, knowing that anything less will likely see them finish behind the Netherlands in the final Group E standings, handing the U.S. a much tougher route to the World Cup final.

Portugal need victory to escape the group in their first-ever Women's World Cup appearance, and such a massive accomplishment will require a massive upset. Defeat for the U.S. will almost certainly leave them on the outside looking in, unless the Dutch are also similarly stunned by Vietnam.

All scenarios for the USWNT to reach the knockout stage of the 2023 Women's World Cup

The Sporting News is following the USA vs Portugal match live, providing score updates, commentary and highlights as they happen.

Predicted lineups:

USA (USA, right to left): 1. Naeher (GK) — 23. Fox, 12. Cook, 4. Girma, 19. Dunn — 16. Lavelle, 8. Ertz, 10. Horan — 20. Rodman, 13. Morgan, 11. S. Smith.

Portugal (3-4-3, right to left): 12. Morais (GK) — 9. Borges, 15. C. Costa, 17. Seica — 3. L. Alves, 6. Jacinto, 11. T. Pinto, 5. Marchao — 10. J. Silva, 20. Nazareth, 23. Encarnacao.

3 hours 30 mins to kick: Portugal captain Ana Borges, the most-capped player in Portuguese women's history with 151 appearances, is a winger converted to full-back, and even