Up next for Sol: Saturday at St. Louis

AT ST. LOUIS

Time: 1 p.m. PDT.

On the air: none.

Where: Robert R. Hermann Stadium, St. Louis.

Records: Sol 3-0-0, Athletica 0-2-0.

Record vs. Athletica: First game.

Update: Sol Coach Abner Rogers will have the chance to test his team’s depth because it will be missing three key players. Forward Marta scored for Brazil in a 1-1 tie with world champion Germany on Wednesday. Brazil plays Sweden in Gothenburg today. Sol forward Han Duan is with China’s national squad for the Chinese Provincial Games. Sol midfielder Camille Abily scored for France in its 2-0 victory over Switzerland in Dijon on Wednesday. The teams play each other again today. The absence of the trio “just gives other players an opportunity to step up and see if they deserve to be in the starting lineup,” Rogers said. St Louis, which features U.S. international players Hope Solo, Lori Chalupny, Tina Ellertson and Angie Woznuk, has lost its first two games and has not scored a goal.

-- Grahame L. Jones