My son is in Montpellier France for the month in his study abroad program. A couple of the matches are within walking distance of where he's staying....won't be able to catch the US, though. He's at the same place Nostradamus studied.
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Huge fan of our US women’s team. They should definitely be getting paid more than our trash ass men’s team. They actually win games.
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I've been able to watch all the games so far. France and England both looked pretty good, several have not. France is directly in the way of the US if both teams win their groups. The same France team that beat the US badly in January. There are several teams that are very good that haven't played yet.
USA just gave them the worst beating in World Cup history.
Go team!
Running up the score is seldom a wise idea. There will be people who took note of this. Coulda, woulda, shoulda stopped at 7 or 8...
I tend to agree but goal differential counts as a tie breaker.... I wasn't a fan of the two late goals but overall great game
I understand the concept of goal differential, but that should not be in play for the U.S. team to advance to the knockout stage. They built up no 'goodwill' by this result and this could possibly come back to bite them in the butt in later rounds. They might not receive the advantage on a controversial call from the officiating crew...
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I have always been of the mindset - if you are playing a COMPETITIVE SPORT (especially at the highest level), if you don't want the score run up, stop them.
I don't like scores being run up in pee wee, or little kids games, don't get me wrong. but when its the highest level of the sport, I am not going to tell my players to take it easy when they will certainly need the practice moving forward.
I have always been of the mindset - if you are playing a COMPETITIVE SPORT (especially at the highest level), if you don't want the score run up, stop them.
I don't like scores being run up in pee wee, or little kids games, don't get me wrong. but when its the highest level of the sport, I am not going to tell my players to take it easy when they will certainly need the practice moving forward.
Well put.
You never want your players on the field and not playing their absolute best.
really tired of the snowflakes on the media and around the world whining about the US team dominating thailand like that.
i get the celebration aspect. hey, after the 8th goal or whatever, just high hive each other and run back on defense.
but the scoring aspect? screw them. if they could've scored 20, i want them to do it. its not the US teams, or ANY teams responsibility to make sure their opponent plays defense.
they are grown adults playing at a professional level. the goal is to win the WC, and DOMINATE while doing it.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
I think most people had a problem with the celebrating, not really the number of goals scored. Someone on the radio had a poll about it and it was like 60% No Problem, 35% Celebrating was the issue, 5% the number of goals.
really tired of the snowflakes on the media and around the world whining about the US team dominating thailand like that.
i get the celebration aspect. hey, after the 8th goal or whatever, just high hive each other and run back on defense.
but the scoring aspect? screw them. if they could've scored 20, i want them to do it. its not the US teams, or ANY teams responsibility to make sure their opponent plays defense.
they are grown adults playing at a professional level. the goal is to win the WC, and DOMINATE while doing it.
Good win for the US over Spain.. I only got to watch parts and pieces but they didn't look particularly good.. and it's great to get an ugly win out of the way.
England had their chances to equalize and extend the game into OT. Shame also that Lyon is literally 500+ miles from London, yet the crowd seemed to be mainly Americans. Poor show. I think the majority of football fans in Europe have yet to fully embrace the women's game.
When I saw the play that triggered a review in realtime, I laughed at how badly the England player missed, but on replay, that was a penalty. I'm glad they got it right.
Also, amazing stop on the PK. Everyone on the pitch knew it, that was the best chance England was going to get and they blew it.
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