The U.S. women's national team has joined Spain in the women's soccer knockout rounds of the 2024 Paris Olympics, but there's so much at stake in Wednesday's final day of group stage fixtures.

Will Canada complete the most imperfect perfect group stage of all time? Will France bounce back from a late collapse and avoid being undone in group play on home soil? And will Spain, Brazil or Japan be a hard-luck, big-name, third-place team to miss the knockout rounds? 

Is Canada really going to do it — overcome both a six-point deduction and the ignominy of its drone scandal?

The latter may take time to settle, but the former is right there for the team after a stunning late win over hosts France has them 2-0 with zero (!!) points ahead of a meeting with an impressive Colombia.

And how about this scenario? Should New Zealand upset France and Canada take down Colombia, all four teams would finish with three points. Fortunately, there's no absurd scenario where they all finish on the same goal differential, but things could finish wild in Group A.

The USWNT will win Group B unless it gets clobbered by Australia and Germany smashes Zambia, a scenario that is very unlikely given the solidity of Emma Hayes' team so far. And Germany is not safe either, especially considering all four of the group's games have seen a minimum of three goals.

World Cup winners Spain can complete a very impressive 3-0 group by beating Brazil, who is not a lock for the knockout rounds in Marta's final Olympics after losing to Japan. And this Japan side will like its chances going into the final day versus Randy Waldrum's stingy and stubborn — and unfortunately scoreless — Nigeria.

11 a.m.
Japan vs Nigeria
Brazil vs Spain

1 p.m.
Zambia vs Germany
Australia vs United States

3 p.m.
New Zealand vs France
Colombia vs Canada