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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The big question is how much fresh blood Ellis will add before the Olympics.  Is she going to replace older players like Rapinoe (34), Lloyd (36), Krieger (34), etc with younger players?  This team has 12 players that are 30 or older and quite a few of them play on the wing where speed is important. [/quote]

Press and Pugh would be a good start. Lavelle might be able to play as in inverted winger which allows for Horan to start. Morgan and Heath should still be options.[/quote]

Yes, to Pugh, but Press is 30 years old so she is not a young player.  Perhaps she could replace Rapinoe, who is 34, for a year or two, but it is unlikely that she would be a starter for the next WC.   As for Lavelle, she is our best midfielder so she should stay in the midfield.  I think Julie Ertz may end up moving to center back to replace Sauerbrunn, who is 34. [/quote]

Ertz is so good as the 6.  I appreciate moving her back to CB might solve the current problem of 4 excellent MFs for only 3 spots (Ertz, Lavelle, Horan and Mewis), but I don't think Lavelle, Horan and Mewis have ever played the 6, and they almost certainly would not do as good a job as Ertz.  Plus, Davidson is a future star and is almost certainly the replacement to Sauerbrunn at CB, maybe as early as the 2020 Olympics, but certainly by 2023 WC.[/quote]

Then Mewis and Horan would have to battle it out for the last midfield spot.  Lavelle has to play.  [/quote]

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