Summary

  • Click the 'Watch live' button for coverage from York Community Stadium

  • Australia beat Samoa 73-0 last weekend and will qualify for quarter-finals with another win

  • USA seeking to keep their World Cup hopes alive after heavy defeat by England in their opening game

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Live Reporting

Tom Rostance

  1. USA 5-14 Australia

    Kat Merchant
    2014 England World Cup winner on BBC iPlayer

    Australia backed themselves and they were right to. Caitlyn Halse goes straight through.

  2. converted try

    Converted try - USA 5-14 Australia

    Caitlyn Halse (con Wood)

    Great score! Australia's lineout does bear fruit this time, the forwards get the ball out quickly and the Aussies have players open.

    Full-back Caitlyn Halse takes a great angle and ignores the overlap to go herself and dive under the posts. An easy conversion is added by Sam Wood.

  3. USA 5-7 Australia

    Rupert Cox
    Rugby commentator

    The Australian lineout has not been perfect, there has been a few turnovers.

  4. USA 5-7 Australia

    Australia are now on top, this has been an excellent game without hitting the high-scoring streaks of some games. Much more even and competitive. Piper Duck breaks the line with another great take but the pass to Maya Stewart is incomplete.

  5. USA 5-7 Australia

    Rupert Cox
    Rugby commentator

    Ilona MahreGetty Images

    Maher wants to play a big part tonight and you can tell.

  6. USA 5-7 Australia

    Piper Duck wins a lineout nicely for Australia but they can't drive over the line and the US win a turnover.

    Australia line-outGetty Images

  7. USA 5-7 Australia

    Kat Merchant
    2014 England World Cup winner on BBC iPlayer

    That was brillaint response from the USA and it all started from that line-out. It's the forwards doing what they do best. Tafuna has been everywhere this evening.

  8. try

    Try - USA 5-7 Australia

    Freda Tafuna

    The US had been camped in the Aussie half an finally make it count! A lineout goes through the back, Hope Rogers is dragged down but when the ball is recycled Freda Tafuna dives over the line.

    The conversion is fluffed as the wind blows the ball off the tee and the shotclock runs out!

    Freda TafunaGetty Images

  9. USA 0-7 Australia

    USA scrum-half Cassidy Bargell has lost a contact lens. Nightmare. I think she's got a new one in.

  10. USA 0-7 Australia

    Kat Merchant
    2014 England World Cup winner on BBC iPlayer

    We have had two really important turn overs from Ilona Maher. She is just so quick to get over that ball.

    Ilona Maher.Getty Images

  11. USA 0-7 Australia

    Australia have been penned in so full-back Caitlyn Halse sees the opportunity to boot the ball in behind the States and turn them around. It's very nearly a sensational kick for Desiree Miller to get on the end of but it does ease the pressure nicely.

  12. USA 0-7 Australia

    Kat Merchant
    2014 England World Cup winner on BBC iPlayer

    Really good defence from Australia, they are not getting caught in too tight.

  13. USA 0-7 Australia

    The USA won the first women's World Cup in 1991 but have not reached the final since 1998.

    Australia came third in 2010.

  14. USA 0-7 Australia

    The US have reacted brilliantly to going behind and have Australia penned in their own 22. Can they score in the red zone though?

  15. What is a wing?

    Our guide says 'They are usually the quickest players and should provide the main source of tries.'

    Desiree Miller ticks the box. Learn more about the positions in rugby here.

  16. 'Miller has the pace to burn'

    USA 0-7 Australia

    Kat Merchant
    2014 England World Cup winner on BBC iPlayer

    They knew they were playing with the penalty advantage and they had the numbers. Miller has the pace to burn out there.

  17. converted try

    Converted try - USA 0-7 Australia

    Desiree Miller (con Wood)

    Eventually the pressure pays off, wing Desiree Miller hansg out on the left and has the space to dart in for her fourth of the World Cup.

    Sam Wood drills a peach of a conversion.

    Desiree MillerGetty Images

  18. USA 0-0 Australia

    The Aussies are building plenty of pressure but the ball is slow to come out and USA are defending stoutly...

  19. USA 0-0 Australia

    Looks like a tremendous attendance in York as the first chants of 'USA! USA! USA!' boom out.

    Cassidy BargellGetty Images

  20. USA 0-0 Australia

    Kat Merchant
    2014 England World Cup winner on BBC iPlayer

    It's going to be a really physical game tonight and it's the little things that are going to make the difference.