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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]USWNT played the best game it played for a while against a tough opponent. But soccer is a funny game. You do everything except score, and you lose. The Swedish keeper had an amazing game. The double pivot with Sonnet and Sullivan worked, and Lavalle's absence (which forced the coach to play this lineup) actually worked out well for the team. Sonnet was a revelation, Sullivan for me was the best player on the field, and Horan played free and loose, the best she has played in the entire tournament. Rodman was terrific as long as she was on the field, Sophia Smith not quite so, and Morgan was not good enough for someone who leads the line in the #1 ranked team in the world. Ertz and Girma were great as always - Girma is probably the best CB of the tournament so far - and Fox had her best game of the WC. Dunne was good in parts but wasted the ball sometimes. The goalie was incredible in the PKs and strong in the air all through the game. Hats off to Ertz for giving everything she had after her comeback, what a player!
The coach and team management should be fired en masse for playing an old over-the-hill player like Rapinoe, who was clearly not fit and sharp enough to be on the field even for a minute. I have no problem with her activism, politics - I agree with all of it in fact - and am grateful for her long service to the team during her prime years, when she was a creative, smart and hardworking players. At her prime, one of the US soccer greats. But having her on this team and putting her on the field at a crucial stage of a knockout game is an absolute joke. Makes one think whether the coach is under some kind of real or imagined pressure to play her. It also undercuts women's soccer claim to being a serious and professional sport where winning counts for more than hype. Can we imagine France (men's champions in 2018) going to the 2022 WC with a half-fit Pogba, even though he was one of the stars of 2018 and is still playing? Or Kante? And then either of them inserting them into a round of 16 game with the score at 0-0? And where the hell was Ashley Sanchez? Or DeMelo? Even though Demelo had a poor half against Netherlands, she would have been better than the awful Rapinoe who couldn't even deliver a proper free kick or corner into the box. Sanchez and Demelo are young, creative, energetic players who could have made a difference at that stage.
Bottom line: I think this team and the pipeline has plenty of talent to continue to be one of the top 10 teams in the world (the glory days of winning a "new" sport are totally irrelevant). US soccer needs to make the right decisions, forget the hype (and arrogance) and select and play the right players (and coach). It might also not hurt to encourage young players to at least go out on loan to European clubs which is where most of the growth in quality is happening.
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Yes! All this. Where was Ashley Sanchez?! She should have played!!![/quote]

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