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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know if this is just recent scheduling additions to my cable tv lineup (it was on fox sports), but I've been able to watch a bit of womens college soccer.

Last night I watched the 10/1 TCU vs Texas Tech (big 12) women's match, it was very windy and it showed, but there was a lot of attempts at possession style, but there was still a lot of unforced errors via unconnected passes. It was also clear when individual speed and size matchups were a mismatch, so the couple of foot races to the goal were "exciting". I don't think speed & size will or should disappear from teams if it works (why would you handicap yourselves). Unfortunately there must have been a goal (final 1-0) after my recording stopped since I saw only until the last couple minutes and it was still 0-0 then. http://www.ncaa.com/news/soccer-women/article/2017-09-30/womens-soccer-no-8-texas-battles-past-texas-tech-double

However, as wrong or right as it may be to make the comparison, I also watched the first half of the recent Man City v Chelsea match right after and the appearance of the value of connected passes was significant. Tangentially, I had read/heard an analysis that one thing, of the many things, that differentiate Marta from other players at that level is her ability to connect passes. Clearly pace of the ball and first touches are significant. I didn't see that well displayed at the DA game I watched, lots of poor passes that led to defense stepping in and disrupting play which I think was caused by a lack of stretching the defense. I know these girls are young, but I've watched some girls do great build passing from u8 and on depending on the team. I've seen it in u8 rec, u8 rec tournaments, travel league play and tournaments. And I am not so sure I can blame the training/coach when it doesn't happen. I've seen coaches pull their hair out/ stomp on their cap when girls can't apply the concepts in game play. Maybe it's the lack of game confidence, don't want to make a mistake so play suffers.

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