Anonymous wrote:Rapinoe missed…of course.

Anonymous wrote:Heartbreaking way to go out but have loved seeing all of the various other teams develop. I will miss Megan Rapinoe, Julie Ertz, Kelly O’Hara, Alyssa Naeher and others who likely won’t see another Cup. Cheering for Australia and Nigeria to make a run.

Anonymous wrote:I like Rapinoe, played a part in so many iconic moments, and I respect her political antics even if I don't agree with them. But I really don't want to see any more of her ads after that game. It's sad. Morgan did not play great but she still has something. Rapinoe looked gassed after 5 minutes on the field.

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Anonymous wrote:It is 4:45am here on the west coast. That last pk sure looked like a save to me, even with the goal line technology.

Andonovski absolutely deserves to be fired for that Pino sub, and I’m sure will be.

I’m pretty sure Pino is my least liked athlete ever. I guess it’s not her fault she was subbed in, but her first touch was emblematic of why she has no place on this team. Her service was absolute garbage. I see better play on U14 ECNL teams.

Then of course there is her blown pk. Again, to be fair, 2 others did the same thing, and I love O’Hara.

But that game, those decisions, and the outcome is so unfair to the vast majority of the US team that deserved to win.

Everyone knew continuing to choose politics over performance would bite this team. After her benching post-Portugal, I thought Andonovski’s sense of self-preservation might prevail. Obviously not.

Essentially US soccer from the youth level to the National team. We are a political favorite feeder system.

I don’t think your statement is accurate about US Soccer. However, if you are correct, that political favorite feeder system produced a team that, today at least, dominated the #3 ranked team - 11 shots on goal for US v 1 for Sweden.

Over 4 games in this WC, US only conceded 2 shots on goals. In 4 games. Yet they only won 1 of those 4 games. That is a little unlucky, even for a team that was otherwise second best for large stretches of the Netherlands and Portugal games.

Shots on goal or conceded don’t mean much. Soccer rankings are notoriously bad. The US in no way dominated this game. US quality of play was poor all tournament. Most US chances were off of set pieces, and Sweden defends those well, so it’s unsurprising that it was 0-0 game that went to the proverbial coin toss that is PKs.

You either didn’t watch the game today or have an axe to grind.

I agree that the US quality of play was poor for the first three games, other than 30 minutes against the Netherlands.

But they were the superior team to Sweden today, and the US was unlucky not to score. xG stats from today’s game says that US should have won by over 2 goals in regulation.

But hey, at the end of the day, Sweden won and the US is out. Congratulations to Sweden, and there are several US players who will rue their poor finishing today.

xG does not measure who "should have won"

You are being deliberately obtuse.

However, at the end of the day, all that matters in tournaments is whether you advance. It doesn’t matter if you played like crap, or the other team underperformed its stats. All that matters is winning.

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Anonymous wrote:It is 4:45am here on the west coast. That last pk sure looked like a save to me, even with the goal line technology.

Andonovski absolutely deserves to be fired for that Pino sub, and I’m sure will be.

I’m pretty sure Pino is my least liked athlete ever. I guess it’s not her fault she was subbed in, but her first touch was emblematic of why she has no place on this team. Her service was absolute garbage. I see better play on U14 ECNL teams.

Then of course there is her blown pk. Again, to be fair, 2 others did the same thing, and I love O’Hara.

But that game, those decisions, and the outcome is so unfair to the vast majority of the US team that deserved to win.

Everyone knew continuing to choose politics over performance would bite this team. After her benching post-Portugal, I thought Andonovski’s sense of self-preservation might prevail. Obviously not.

Essentially US soccer from the youth level to the National team. We are a political favorite feeder system.

I don’t think your statement is accurate about US Soccer. However, if you are correct, that political favorite feeder system produced a team that, today at least, dominated the #3 ranked team - 11 shots on goal for US v 1 for Sweden.

Over 4 games in this WC, US only conceded 2 shots on goals. In 4 games. Yet they only won 1 of those 4 games. That is a little unlucky, even for a team that was otherwise second best for large stretches of the Netherlands and Portugal games.

Anonymous wrote:Heartbreaking way to go out but have loved seeing all of the various other teams develop. I will miss Megan Rapinoe, Julie Ertz, Kelly O’Hara, Alyssa Naeher and others who likely won’t see another Cup. Cheering for Australia and Nigeria to make a run.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, it’s a lack of quality that is the problem…and has been a problem, even when the results were there. It’s the same issue on the men’s side and with MLS - unbelievable that there were knuckleheads who thought Messi would struggle in MLS. We desperately need better development and a stronger technical focus from youth to the highest levels.

Yeah - Let's make little youth factories funded by the taxpayers and call it free.

Or you have a better idea?

Yeah, that post is asking for taxpayer funding - nice reading comprehension.

So who is goig to pay for all this great youth development?

It’s a poor man’s game everywhere else in the world yet they all do a better job developing players than pay to play US club system.

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Anonymous wrote:It is 4:45am here on the west coast. That last pk sure looked like a save to me, even with the goal line technology.

Andonovski absolutely deserves to be fired for that Pino sub, and I’m sure will be.

I’m pretty sure Pino is my least liked athlete ever. I guess it’s not her fault she was subbed in, but her first touch was emblematic of why she has no place on this team. Her service was absolute garbage. I see better play on U14 ECNL teams.

Then of course there is her blown pk. Again, to be fair, 2 others did the same thing, and I love O’Hara.

But that game, those decisions, and the outcome is so unfair to the vast majority of the US team that deserved to win.

Everyone knew continuing to choose politics over performance would bite this team. After her benching post-Portugal, I thought Andonovski’s sense of self-preservation might prevail. Obviously not.

Essentially US soccer from the youth level to the National team. We are a political favorite feeder system.

I don’t think your statement is accurate about US Soccer. However, if you are correct, that political favorite feeder system produced a team that, today at least, dominated the #3 ranked team - 11 shots on goal for US v 1 for Sweden.

Over 4 games in this WC, US only conceded 2 shots on goals. In 4 games. Yet they only won 1 of those 4 games. That is a little unlucky, even for a team that was otherwise second best for large stretches of the Netherlands and Portugal games.

Shots on goal or conceded don’t mean much. Soccer rankings are notoriously bad. The US in no way dominated this game. US quality of play was poor all tournament. Most US chances were off of set pieces, and Sweden defends those well, so it’s unsurprising that it was 0-0 game that went to the proverbial coin toss that is PKs.

You either didn’t watch the game today or have an axe to grind.

I agree that the US quality of play was poor for the first three games, other than 30 minutes against the Netherlands.

But they were the superior team to Sweden today, and the US was unlucky not to score. xG stats from today’s game says that US should have won by over 2 goals in regulation.

But hey, at the end of the day, Sweden won and the US is out. Congratulations to Sweden, and there are several US players who will rue their poor finishing today.

xG does not measure who "should have won"

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Anonymous wrote:It is 4:45am here on the west coast. That last pk sure looked like a save to me, even with the goal line technology.

Andonovski absolutely deserves to be fired for that Pino sub, and I’m sure will be.

I’m pretty sure Pino is my least liked athlete ever. I guess it’s not her fault she was subbed in, but her first touch was emblematic of why she has no place on this team. Her service was absolute garbage. I see better play on U14 ECNL teams.

Then of course there is her blown pk. Again, to be fair, 2 others did the same thing, and I love O’Hara.

But that game, those decisions, and the outcome is so unfair to the vast majority of the US team that deserved to win.

Everyone knew continuing to choose politics over performance would bite this team. After her benching post-Portugal, I thought Andonovski’s sense of self-preservation might prevail. Obviously not.

Essentially US soccer from the youth level to the National team. We are a political favorite feeder system.

I don’t think your statement is accurate about US Soccer. However, if you are correct, that political favorite feeder system produced a team that, today at least, dominated the #3 ranked team - 11 shots on goal for US v 1 for Sweden.

Over 4 games in this WC, US only conceded 2 shots on goals. In 4 games. Yet they only won 1 of those 4 games. That is a little unlucky, even for a team that was otherwise second best for large stretches of the Netherlands and Portugal games.

Shots on goal or conceded don’t mean much. Soccer rankings are notoriously bad. The US in no way dominated this game. US quality of play was poor all tournament. Most US chances were off of set pieces, and Sweden defends those well, so it’s unsurprising that it was 0-0 game that went to the proverbial coin toss that is PKs.

You either didn’t watch the game today or have an axe to grind.

I agree that the US quality of play was poor for the first three games, other than 30 minutes against the Netherlands.

But they were the superior team to Sweden today, and the US was unlucky not to score. xG stats from today’s game says that US should have won by over 2 goals in regulation.

But hey, at the end of the day, Sweden won and the US is out. Congratulations to Sweden, and there are several US players who will rue their poor finishing today.

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Anonymous wrote:It is 4:45am here on the west coast. That last pk sure looked like a save to me, even with the goal line technology.

Andonovski absolutely deserves to be fired for that Pino sub, and I’m sure will be.

I’m pretty sure Pino is my least liked athlete ever. I guess it’s not her fault she was subbed in, but her first touch was emblematic of why she has no place on this team. Her service was absolute garbage. I see better play on U14 ECNL teams.

Then of course there is her blown pk. Again, to be fair, 2 others did the same thing, and I love O’Hara.

But that game, those decisions, and the outcome is so unfair to the vast majority of the US team that deserved to win.

Everyone knew continuing to choose politics over performance would bite this team. After her benching post-Portugal, I thought Andonovski’s sense of self-preservation might prevail. Obviously not.

Essentially US soccer from the youth level to the National team. We are a political favorite feeder system.

I don’t think your statement is accurate about US Soccer. However, if you are correct, that political favorite feeder system produced a team that, today at least, dominated the #3 ranked team - 11 shots on goal for US v 1 for Sweden.

Over 4 games in this WC, US only conceded 2 shots on goals. In 4 games. Yet they only won 1 of those 4 games. That is a little unlucky, even for a team that was otherwise second best for large stretches of the Netherlands and Portugal games.