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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Game winner from Trinity!![/quote]

So in the end it’s just a kickball goal. The finish was great though (the defending was poor). [/quote]

Beautiful ball from Dunn, exquisite touch from Trinity to bring it down before turning the defender inside out with sublime skill, and then a wonderful left-footed strike into the far top corner. Hell of a sequence and great finish!
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Yeah don’t know about that. That is not a high probability shot and it is certainly not the shot you want her to taking all the time. A great skill and exquisite touch is not her game. It is more like an exhausted player get lucky against other tired players. The US physically beat up the smaller Japanese all day. The longer the game goes the more this impacts the smaller players.

The take away is the US is not a technical skilled team, has weaknesses in midfield and defense but plays a strong, athletic and physical game. They will beat 90% of the team with that. The one person who does not fit in is Rose Lavelle. She just does not fit this team. It would be interesting to see another player that is a better style of play fitin her place.

Credit for the win goes to Hayes putting the players in the right places, play your style and grind it out. Though I think the US would have won in a shootout. [/quote]

I’m the pp, agree with this. We are good athletes, big and fast.  As the game wore on we had the advantage. Japanese defender was definitely tired. But thats what won the game not technical skill.

So kickball does work![/quote]

It’s hard to make a stupider statement than this. They won the game on an inch perfect pass that Rodman took down well, cut back inside, and hit a brilliant shot to win it. 
Highly technical all around. [/quote]

Dunn’s pass was brilliant. Rodman’s shot was well struck, but I’m not sure I’d say brilliant, she was looking down the whole time after cutting back. Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good, and that shot was lucky. [/quote]

If it was any other player in the world, you’d be gushing about how she took it down beautifully, cut it back to her weak foot, and hit a perfect shot, but because it’s Rodman, you say it’s luck. 
You’re pathetic. [/quote]

That’s quite an assumption. Half of Rapinoes screamers were like that too. I certainly didn’t gush about her. The USWNT is missing a true, dependable goal scorer.

To anoint Rodman based on that shot is silly, especially considering the rest of that match. Rewatch it, every Japanese attack came from her pinching into the middle and opening up a giant hole on the wing.

If Sophia had made the same shot, I’d say the same thing about the shot. If Swanson, Lynn, Horan etc…all the same thing.

[b]Great pass in, great handling, deft cut back to create space.[/b] Blind, but well struck ball that made the top bin. Even Rodman said she didn’t see it. She got lucky. Many many many goals are lucky. She had a rebound earlier in the tournament that was lucky. There is no personal attack on calling it lucky and blind. It was the 105th minute….i just don’t get why people can’t take the critique of Rodman, but everyone seems fine dumping on the rest of the team (and Coach) for the lack of offense. Rodman was part of that lack of offense![/quote]

What the hell are you talking about. The pass was nothing special. You see 5-8 in every game. It’s a pass to space and there was no one around her. The first touch was horrendous and very luck. It could have ended up any where- 6 feet behind her, over the end line, off her hand, to the defender, etc. Rodman had to stop and look down lot get the ball after it bounce off the side of her chest. If the defender had not fallen down she would have gotten the ball. All of Rodman forward movement was stopped and she was flat footed.

It was a lucky play made in over time where the player fumbled around with the ball. [/quote]

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