Why do people on this forum have such mixed reactions to Rose Lavelle?

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Anonymous wrote:She’s not an attention seeker. She is very, very good. Her style is more European than American.

Last time I checked the Americans were the world champions not the European?

Because they have a euro style player who is the best player in world.
Rapinoe made PKs, embarrassing to accept the hold ball

I don’t know about “embarrassing,” but PKs should maybe only count for .5 goals in the tally for the Golden Boot. It’s silly when someone can win the goalscoring tally off of PKs.

And before anyone starts, I thought this first in reference to Harry Kane last summer. So ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:One has to factor in that the WWC is an event. Many people watch who know nothing about soccer and care even less about soccer. It is like the Olympics but with gender politics thrown in.

So many people see a player they identify with as representing their political/world view, etc beliefs. I think it’s stupid because as a fan you have know idea what these athletes are like IRL. If you question or say another player is better, it is seen as detracting from the player they identify with.

This was shown in the pre and post game coverage. It was very light on actual analysis and film breakdown. No players were criticized and no one questioned any of the coaching decisions. The film was not kind to a few players. Some of the formation decisions were very questionable. This is in contrast to how the men’s game is covered. They take film and break down the plays and payers. Talk about different formations to maximize your strength while exploiting weaker player on the other team. Also talk about adjustments made by the coach throughout the game. They will call players and coaches out. It was a network decision. I thought it was a wasted opportunity to educate a lot of non soccer fans. Show the complexity and the brilliance of the game. Oh well.

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Lavelle’s play reminds me of Iniesta. We need a midfielder like that in our 3, and for all their qualities Ertz, Horan and Mewis ain’t it. Sauerbrunn is 34 so this was most likely her last World Cup. I could see Ertz being played as the 5/6 alongside Dahlkemper, which would allow Mewis, Horan and Lavelle to start in the midfield.

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Anonymous wrote:Lavelle’s play reminds me of Iniesta. We need a midfielder like that in our 3, and for all their qualities Ertz, Horan and Mewis ain’t it. Sauerbrunn is 34 so this was most likely her last World Cup. I could see Ertz being played as the 5/6 alongside Dahlkemper, which would allow Mewis, Horan and Lavelle to start in the midfield.

6 is a defensive midfielder. 4/5 are central defenders.

[Anonymous]

That’s probably why he listed 5/6 instead of like 5/7 or 5/8

[Anonymous]

Lavelle and Pugh are back with the Spirit tonight. And . . . Lavelle is out with a (predictable) hamstring injury.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lavelle’s play reminds me of Iniesta. We need a midfielder like that in our 3, and for all their qualities Ertz, Horan and Mewis ain’t it. Sauerbrunn is 34 so this was most likely her last World Cup. I could see Ertz being played as the 5/6 alongside Dahlkemper, which would allow Mewis, Horan and Lavelle to start in the midfield.

6 is a defensive midfielder. 4/5 are central defenders.

“Alongside dahlkemper” means centerback.

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Depending on where you’re from or where you are, the 5 could be either CB or the holding mid, and the 6 could be the holding mid or left cb. Don’t be fastidious. As someone else pointed out, “alongside Dahlkemper” means CB.

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NP here but in what formation is the 6 a left CB? LOL

[Anonymous]

You all can bash how untalented with a non-European Style is play, but all of you wished your DD or DS would make the USWNT or USMNT.

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Anonymous wrote:You all can bash how untalented with a non-European Style is play, but all of you wished your DD or DS would make the USWNT or USMNT.

See some of us are just soccer fans and do not associate the USMNT or in this case USWNT as a possibility for anyone in our family.

[Anonymous]

This World Cup team was not a great team. The individual players were in most cases very good(some were showing their age) but they really did not play well together. The different styles of play did not mesh well specially in the final 1/3.

Another thing no one has really talked about was the shot selections. Seemed like a lot of players took shots instead of passing to a wide open player with a better opportunity to score. Can’t blame them(it’s a lot of money on the line) but in the knock out round there were many missed opportunities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here but in what formation is the 6 a left CB? LOL

6 is usually a holding mid. But the original point is a good one in that Ertz is very effective in a center back or holding mid role.

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Stupid question from a parent who did not play soccer and does not know much about it: with this talk of Ertz moving from midfield to centerback, is it typical for the "best" players to play in the center of the field in soccer - center forward, midfielders, centerbacks and goalie?

I grew up with baseball, and understood that you typically wanted to build a team that was strong up the middle. I was just curious if the same principle applied to soccer. If so, this would seem to confirm something I have observed over the years, where it seems like any time a team "upgrades" with kids from outside the club, they usually come in as players in the center of the field, and push boys/girls who used to play those positions to the wings, whether offensive or defensive.

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Anonymous wrote:Stupid question from a parent who did not play soccer and does not know much about it: with this talk of Ertz moving from midfield to centerback, is it typical for the "best" players to play in the center of the field in soccer - center forward, midfielders, centerbacks and goalie?

I grew up with baseball, and understood that you typically wanted to build a team that was strong up the middle. I was just curious if the same principle applied to soccer. If so, this would seem to confirm something I have observed over the years, where it seems like any time a team "upgrades" with kids from outside the club, they usually come in as players in the center of the field, and push boys/girls who used to play those positions to the wings, whether offensive or defensive.

Yes. Same hold true in soccer.