Emma Hayes' had already won one and lost one match in this triple header, but brought many of her starters back into the line-up for the final encounter in Colorado, including Girma and Alyssa Thompson.

The match was goalless when the two sides went in at the break, although Girma had seen a header go over the bar and Thompson had done well to beat her defender on the left and lay the ball off to Clare Hutton, who then hit the woodwork with her shot.

The US came out with renewed resolve after the interval, and it was Girma who broke the deadlock less than three minutes after the restart with her first international goal since October 2024.

That breakthrough came when Rose Lavelle's corner came to Kennedy Wesley at the far post, and the defender headed the ball back across goal to her former Stanford University team-mate Girma for her to send a powerful header into the back of the net.

The second came less than ten minutes later when a defence-splitting long pass from Trinity Rodman sent Lavelle off on the counter, before she slotted home with a low shot from the edge of the penalty area.

Hayes made a double substitution just after the hour mark, replacing Thompson and her sister Giselle with Jaedyn Shaw and Avery Patterson. It was after those switches that the US hit their third goal as Wesley struck from a corner with the outside of her boot.

Girma was replaced by Lilly Reale with seven minutes to play, as the US closed out their second win in this three-game series against Japan.