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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s Kelley O’Hara giving Trinity props for her total effort endline to endline

https://twitter.com/justwsports/status/1819852658817343564?s=46

You don’t have to think she’s the best player ever, or even on the team currently, to give her due. Smh[/quote]

You’re missing the point I’m making. The defense and goalie got mid grades for a clean sheet, but a winger / forward got credit for the defense and the game’s highest rating partially based on that.

I’m not hating on Rodman, I’m critiquing the doofus that was rating the team.

Rodman’s work endline to endline is commendable, but it’s also largely because she IS a turnover machine. Her pass completion % is awful for a winger, internationally she is one of the worst at that. And as for progressive passes, the same - she lacks a team and field vision, which shouldn’t be the case for a player that should have a closer to 180° view of the field. Those are not debatable. For this game specifically, there was a chart out on the possession and passing from 70m into this match, and the glaring missed services all came from Rodman.

So I find it hard to justify crediting her for defensive effort when she causes her own workload. While dumping all over the defense for a clean sheet and relatively few Japanese attacks.[/quote]

You are not wrong at all.  On one hand, she caused a lot of turnovers. Again, she could have passed the ball more to open teammates, but she did pull off a beauty of a goal. (Pure talent!)  If she didn't make that goal, her rating would have been significantly lower.  She has time to become even better, but let's hope that happens before her speed runs out... because when her speed does run out in 3-5 years time, her primary value to the team will diminish significantly.  [/quote]

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