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Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute. The narrative that the US team can’t compete with the world because our youth system is trash and needs to be completely uprooted, and everything Spain is doing should be copied by everyone else, that whole narrative maybe turns out to be just a little overblown? So many bad takes on here by people who think they know everything there is about soccer.

Becasue they lost one game? Really?
In the past decade, the Spanish women's team has gone from nothing to the best in the world, while the US has gone in the other direction.
The narrative is correct.

Spain is very good. But I’d suggest that the Netherlands women’s team from 2019 was better a more complete team playing a very similar style.

From 2003-2011 the USWNT had some years of underperforming as they phased from 99ers, to Wambach, to Rapinoe / Morgan years. This Chicken Little routine is so old at this point. We’re really blessed with a very deep bench in the US for women’s football, that we constantly manage poorly and still were consistently the team to beat and fear. Ask Spain if they’d rather play Brazil or the US…even after today they’d still pick Brazil.

In the game today -- Germany had nothing left in ET. Some of the US women did as well that is why Horan came out. Japan women same thing -- seems to me the US Women were better conditioned.

The younger keeper comment seems a bit off -- current US keeper has had great games with great saves -- I don't think two clean sheets in knock out rounds indicates they need to do anything soon.

Younger keeper was a different comment thread from a different poster.

Anonymous wrote:Our biggest liability right now is captain lindsey horan. She constantly misses the ball, loses it, cannot keep up with our team or her opponent. She shouldn’t be starting and definitely should be playing 90. There is no way for Emma to justify her as a starter anymore.

She constantly complains, throws her hands up, etc. we need to start exploring other midfield options because she has played horrible.

We finally scored today minutes after she was subbed - because she is ineffective in midfield and drags the team down.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute. The narrative that the US team can’t compete with the world because our youth system is trash and needs to be completely uprooted, and everything Spain is doing should be copied by everyone else, that whole narrative maybe turns out to be just a little overblown? So many bad takes on here by people who think they know everything there is about soccer.

Becasue they lost one game? Really?
In the past decade, the Spanish women's team has gone from nothing to the best in the world, while the US has gone in the other direction.
The narrative is correct.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute. The narrative that the US team can’t compete with the world because our youth system is trash and needs to be completely uprooted, and everything Spain is doing should be copied by everyone else, that whole narrative maybe turns out to be just a little overblown? So many bad takes on here by people who think they know everything there is about soccer.

Becasue they lost one game? Really?
In the past decade, the Spanish women's team has gone from nothing to the best in the world, while the US has gone in the other direction.
The narrative is correct.

Spain is very good. But I’d suggest that the Netherlands women’s team from 2019 was better a more complete team playing a very similar style.

From 2003-2011 the USWNT had some years of underperforming as they phased from 99ers, to Wambach, to Rapinoe / Morgan years. This Chicken Little routine is so old at this point. We’re really blessed with a very deep bench in the US for women’s football, that we constantly manage poorly and still were consistently the team to beat and fear. Ask Spain if they’d rather play Brazil or the US…even after today they’d still pick Brazil.

In the game today -- Germany had nothing left in ET. Some of the US women did as well that is why Horan came out. Japan women same thing -- seems to me the US Women were better conditioned.

The younger keeper comment seems a bit off -- current US keeper has had great games with great saves -- I don't think two clean sheets in knock out rounds indicates they need to do anything soon.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute. The narrative that the US team can’t compete with the world because our youth system is trash and needs to be completely uprooted, and everything Spain is doing should be copied by everyone else, that whole narrative maybe turns out to be just a little overblown? So many bad takes on here by people who think they know everything there is about soccer.

Becasue they lost one game? Really?
In the past decade, the Spanish women's team has gone from nothing to the best in the world, while the US has gone in the other direction.
The narrative is correct.

Spain is very good. But I’d suggest that the Netherlands women’s team from 2019 was better a more complete team playing a very similar style.

From 2003-2011 the USWNT had some years of underperforming as they phased from 99ers, to Wambach, to Rapinoe / Morgan years. This Chicken Little routine is so old at this point. We’re really blessed with a very deep bench in the US for women’s football, that we constantly manage poorly and still were consistently the team to beat and fear. Ask Spain if they’d rather play Brazil or the US…even after today they’d still pick Brazil.

In the game today -- Germany had nothing left in ET. Some of the US women did as well that is why Horan came out. Japan women same thing -- seems to me the US Women were better conditioned.

The younger keeper comment seems a bit off -- current US keeper has had great games with great saves -- I don't think two clean sheets in knock out rounds indicates they need to do anything soon.

She is a great keeper. She is 36. Gotta start giving experience to the next younger keeper in games that matter.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute. The narrative that the US team can’t compete with the world because our youth system is trash and needs to be completely uprooted, and everything Spain is doing should be copied by everyone else, that whole narrative maybe turns out to be just a little overblown? So many bad takes on here by people who think they know everything there is about soccer.

Becasue they lost one game? Really?
In the past decade, the Spanish women's team has gone from nothing to the best in the world, while the US has gone in the other direction.
The narrative is correct.

Spain is very good. But I’d suggest that the Netherlands women’s team from 2019 was better a more complete team playing a very similar style.

From 2003-2011 the USWNT had some years of underperforming as they phased from 99ers, to Wambach, to Rapinoe / Morgan years. This Chicken Little routine is so old at this point. We’re really blessed with a very deep bench in the US for women’s football, that we constantly manage poorly and still were consistently the team to beat and fear. Ask Spain if they’d rather play Brazil or the US…even after today they’d still pick Brazil.

In the game today -- Germany had nothing left in ET. Some of the US women did as well that is why Horan came out. Japan women same thing -- seems to me the US Women were better conditioned.

The younger keeper comment seems a bit off -- current US keeper has had great games with great saves -- I don't think two clean sheets in knock out rounds indicates they need to do anything soon.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute. The narrative that the US team can’t compete with the world because our youth system is trash and needs to be completely uprooted, and everything Spain is doing should be copied by everyone else, that whole narrative maybe turns out to be just a little overblown? So many bad takes on here by people who think they know everything there is about soccer.

Becasue they lost one game? Really?
In the past decade, the Spanish women's team has gone from nothing to the best in the world, while the US has gone in the other direction.
The narrative is correct.

Spain is very good. But I’d suggest that the Netherlands women’s team from 2019 was better a more complete team playing a very similar style.

From 2003-2011 the USWNT had some years of underperforming as they phased from 99ers, to Wambach, to Rapinoe / Morgan years. This Chicken Little routine is so old at this point. We’re really blessed with a very deep bench in the US for women’s football, that we constantly manage poorly and still were consistently the team to beat and fear. Ask Spain if they’d rather play Brazil or the US…even after today they’d still pick Brazil.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute. The narrative that the US team can’t compete with the world because our youth system is trash and needs to be completely uprooted, and everything Spain is doing should be copied by everyone else, that whole narrative maybe turns out to be just a little overblown? So many bad takes on here by people who think they know everything there is about soccer.

Becasue they lost one game? Really?
In the past decade, the Spanish women's team has gone from nothing to the best in the world, while the US has gone in the other direction.
The narrative is correct.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So surprising but I have to say Spain, France and Germany all looked really bad to me. Shockingly bad for their seeds. Having seen US play, I did not think they were that good. Sometimes I think you have bad games but I am shocked that all 3 top teams had such bad games while the US have had good games. I'm not convinced that the US plays "better" but they definitely looked like the better team v Germany today. They were iffy v Japan who I think ran out of steam but they have not sucked as much as I've seen them (World Cup games for sure).

They picked the wrong players for this past world cup. Never should have stuck with Ertz, Morgan and Rapinoe. Game had passed them by. Need to start playing a younger goalie soon as well.

Anonymous wrote:So surprising but I have to say Spain, France and Germany all looked really bad to me. Shockingly bad for their seeds. Having seen US play, I did not think they were that good. Sometimes I think you have bad games but I am shocked that all 3 top teams had such bad games while the US have had good games. I'm not convinced that the US plays "better" but they definitely looked like the better team v Germany today. They were iffy v Japan who I think ran out of steam but they have not sucked as much as I've seen them (World Cup games for sure).

Anonymous wrote:So surprising but I have to say Spain, France and Germany all looked really bad to me. Shockingly bad for their seeds. Having seen US play, I did not think they were that good. Sometimes I think you have bad games but I am shocked that all 3 top teams had such bad games while the US have had good games. I'm not convinced that the US plays "better" but they definitely looked like the better team v Germany today. They were iffy v Japan who I think ran out of steam but they have not sucked as much as I've seen them (World Cup games for sure).

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute. The narrative that the US team can’t compete with the world because our youth system is trash and needs to be completely uprooted, and everything Spain is doing should be copied by everyone else, that whole narrative maybe turns out to be just a little overblown? So many bad takes on here by people who think they know everything there is about soccer.