Women’s World Cup
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Anonymous
+1 I was hoping Australia would move on, but England were the better team today. They dominated physically and took advantage of the opportunities they were given. It was unfortunate that some of Australia's usually steady core had off games (Ellie Carpenter and Steph Catley, for example), but hats off to the Lionesses on their first World Cup final. Their coach deserves so much credit for steering them there, especially given the key players who were out with injuries. While it's not the outcome they wanted, the Matildas could still win the third-place game, which would still be a great outcome for the nation. |
Anonymous
Australian's goal was incredible. But is it me or should England's keeper have been able to at least touch the ball? I wonder if she will be a weakness against Spain. |
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Anonymous
No the keeper had no chance on that one. |
Anonymous
England’s coaching staff is really really good. Wonder if Sarina Wiegman would take the US job? She has a lot of connection to the US. England coaching staff came up with the game plan and the players executed it. They took out Australia core players. Very physical game by England by design. |
Anonymous
Why? Super far-away shot, and the keeper was well-positioned. Maybe she's a bit too short? |
Anonymous
I’m Australian and think this is going to be a HUGE boost for girls and women’s soccer in Oz. Also, as a Queenslander, I’m so pleased that, although we only account for 20% of the population, almost half the players are from Queensland. I hope other states (and countries?) take note of what can be achieved through long term, low scale government investment in regional sports programs targeting girls. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102703530 |
Anonymous
+1. I was also rooting mildly for Aus as I thought it'd be great for the sport to have the home time in the final with the whole country cheering them on. They had also looked very good against Canada, Denmark and France, one of the favorites for the tournament. But England deserved to win. Solid at the back, moved the ball well and controlled it for large parts of the game, and came up with moments of individual brilliance or combinations upfront. Ozzies fought hard, never really looked like completely in control, but had enough individual talent to tie and even win the game. Kerr's goal was a moment of genius, although 1 of the 3 England defenders should have closed her down instead of backing away. Although to be fair, they were trying to close down the pass angles to the runner on the left while trying to keep up with Kerr charging at full speed, and didn't think Kerr posed a direct threat on goal from 30 yards out. They had 3 chances at the end before England scored their 3rd. One of those goes in - not easy chances as two were 1-touch and the goalie made a great save on the third one - and the game turns on its head. Overall a great game. Had everything, and was played at a high speed throughout. Both teams have such amazing athletes, the speed at which they were closing down opponents, including the goalies, even after 90+ minutes was something. England v Spain will be quite a match-up. On paper and form, Spain might be slightly ahead on paper just because of the way they control the ball and the supreme collection of talent they have. But England has the game and experience to solve whatever problems Spain poses, and my money will be on them. |
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The greatest story of this World Cup is Vilda and the Spanish Federation. No other country could leave 13 national team players home and still make it to the finals. They are undoubtedly the next world power.
Welcome to World Cup final. |
Anonymous
+1! I do think we received a preview of what the future of global women’s soccer looks like with the Spanish and English. Also, we definitely haven’t seen the last of Australia, Sweden, and Japan. I’m half Japanese and was rooting for them all tournament so I’m still licking my wounds, but I know we’ll be back! |
Anonymous
No US does not have the cache of talent playing at World Cup level as the other countries. Absolutely not. Look at development of players - if that's not telling, what is? It's about aggressiveness, speed and physical attributes (height). It is most definitely NOT about technique. What Spain has is everything US has + technique. England has technique in spades. The goals that were missed by US was not a coaching thing - it was a player thing. You saw Spain's last goal v NED - that's called technique. NED goal to tie up Spain - that was all technique. Our girls could not kick that ball in. It's not about how many shots on goal as it is, you need to know how to score. It's a team sport and the US don't play soccer the way it's supposed to be played. Now that other women around the world are playing soccer, of course they will be better than us because soccer is is not an American sport culturally. Around the world, they watch soccer just for fun - in the US - we only watch IF US is in the World Cup. That's the difference right there. Developmentally, we are clueless. It's the coach who can make us better but I would suggest in this tournament it was bad coaching + bad players. |
Anonymous
Wow. So most players are new to a World Cup? |
Anonymous
Physical game is what is typically associated with english football from what I understand. It will be interesting to see that style vs the tiki taka that Spain tends to play. |
Anonymous
Last year 15 national teams players submitted a letter saying they will no longer play for the national team unless the coach is fired. This was the federations response The players will not be allowed to return to the national team in the future unless they apologized to the RFEF and “asked for forgiveness,” the statement reads. “The RFEF is not going to allow the players to question the continuity of the national coach and his coaching staff, since making those decisions does not fall within their powers,” the statement reads, according to The Athletic’s translation. “The Federation will not admit any type of pressure from any player when adopting sports measures. These types of maneuvers are far from exemplary and outside the values of football and sport and are harmful.” |
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No way - that's awesome! Spanish have balls lol. That's pretty amazing as it's your talent that is saying this is what I need to win and the federation saying you don't know what you're talking about cause we are responsible for outcomes you only play for us!
Puts US soccer to shame!!! Spanish deserved this - they obviously knew who right coach was. |