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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of the angst here is just too bad.  
Italy can play Park the bus and win with it - and coaches players and fans can love it or hate it.  
Klopp can play his gegenpress and the same follows in Love it or hate it
USWNT can win right now in many styles, it’s okay to disagree about preferred styles of play now and in the future.

What sports and history tell us though is clear: adapt or lose eventually.

Anyone who believes an XI with Rapinoe, Morgan, Krieger, ertz, Lloyd et al will win the WC as a heavy favorite in 2023 better be prepared for another outcome.   That’s an old team.  Worse Let’s just say that team loses LaVelle and another 1 or 
2 to injury.   That leaves a lot of young first time World Cup 
players mixed with a lot of older players.   Is Rapinoe still the captain of that team?  The same Rapinoe who trashed her prior coach? And does that team get caught adapting style of play in 2022 late in the game instead of now when it makes sense ?   Time will tell not these posts
Tiki taka or tic tock goes the clock are both obstacles at the moment.  
Hopefully the us overcomes and continues to prevail 
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The World Cup team is going to look very different. Lloyd, Krieger and Rapinoe aren't going to be involved in 2023. Sauerbrunn and O'Hara, too. They're barely hanging on for the Olympics. Morgan would be 34 so the next couple years will determine if she still is on top of her game.

Ertz will be fine. There's plenty of other talent in the pipeline but the U.S. will be favored. It's going to be much harder without the experience that helped pull them through last year. You could see England and France really were close but the U.S. had that small edge to make the right plays at the right time. England converts that PK and maybe it is a different story.[/quote]

There may be young talent, but it is not equally distributed among positions.  Name me a young striker, who is as good as Morgan or a winger, who is as creative and skilled as Heath?  Some positions are not as deep as others.   [/quote]

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