Alarich II Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 32 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said: Any team that loses 13-0 has no business being in the tournament. In principle I agree, 24 teams at this stage are probably too many. I would have preferred a mode with 16 teams where only the group winner qualifies and then proceeds to the semi-finals. You may expect to see worse and more often with Infantinos plans of a 48 team-WC in 2022. But you also have to consider that in terms of revenue, women's football is still in the early developing stages and big discrepancies in terms of professionalization are to be expected. And understandbly, they need a stage to make womens football more attractive. Also the US are fielding a spectacular team. They've been amongst the top 3 teams every time since the start of the womens wc and even then their team this year is probably one of the best, maybe even the best they've ever had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alarich II Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Germany-Spain very entertaining so far, lack of Marozsan is telling though and German defence is not looking great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alarich II Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 And a fantastic attack pays off. Well done! (Although the Spanish goalie should have kept that one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 The Spanish striker Garcia is fast and seems to be pretty good at getting herself into goal scoring positions. On the downside she doesn’t seem to be particularly good at putting away the resulting chances. Nahikari is a cool name though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mother of The Others Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Sweden was euro-shoving people off the ball a lot from behind, etc., against.... Chile? So it was tough to like their dominant performance. NED scored in injury time to win. Then the US went up by more than 6, which seemed like bad karma. Then I remembered that total goals scored is one of the wacky tiebreakers for determining who gets out of group play in these tourneys, huh? So you have to try to murder Thailand worse than you think the next team will. That's kind of sick. I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.... but then at 12- 0 they showed a Thai baby crying from the constant goal scoring celebrations, and it went back to being bad mojo again. You ladies just made a baby cry! But on the plus side there was that moment when (Alex?) held up her hand like, "I've scored a goal for every finger." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 I really can't make my mind up as to whether the VAR-assisted penalty in the Norway-France game was a penalty or not. Well, obviously, it was a penalty given, but I thought it was less than clear cut - and I don't know what the rules say about such a situation. Syrstad Engen tries to clear, hits the ball (but badly and barely), it is cleared, but on the follow-through her studs hits the French player. I'm obviously not neutral - so did anyone else see the situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Apart from that, the Norwegian team looks better than expected for me. We struggle at left back, and Hjelmset in goal needs to be more assured when coming from her line, but all in all it looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 I don't usually enjoy football like at all, but the women's world cup has been on at work and I'm enjoying the hell out of it. I have nothing more substantive to add unfortunately but i have really loved watching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 3 hours ago, Rorshach said: I'm obviously not neutral - so did anyone else see the situation? It’s the kind of thing refs sometimes use as an excuse not to give a penalty but it’s a nailed on foul and card outside the box so it should be given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 2 hours ago, ljkeane said: It’s the kind of thing refs sometimes use as an excuse not to give a penalty but it’s a nailed on foul and card outside the box so it should be given. Good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alarich II Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 Saw the second half of AUS-BRA, man the Brazilians looked like a beaten team for the last 30 minutes. Well done, Aussies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 Scotland have been screwed over a bit with the penalty decisions in this World Cup. They’ve had 2 penalties awarded against them, one for England and one for Japan, which didn’t look like penalties to me and the VAR has just ignored what looked like a stonewall penalty for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted June 16, 2019 Author Share Posted June 16, 2019 The Chile goalkeeper is really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 On 6/11/2019 at 5:04 PM, ljkeane said: In a 3 team tournament with Thailand? Did you see what our all backups team did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 24 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said: Did you see what our all backups team did? They beat a team drawn from a playing population of 727 players and probably the second weakest side in the tournament after Thailand? Being serious that was more impressive performance than the win over Thailand for me. Chile didn't offer much of a threat but they kept going and didn't collapse in a heap like Thailand did. And Endler was really good. The US does have a very good attack and good depth but I'm not sure we've learned a lot from these two games. The concerns about them going into the tournament were that their defence doesn't look that impressive on paper and in attack they tend be very good at putting sides outside the top 10 or so to the sword but the goals dry up quite a bit against the stronger sides. Comfortably beating two of the worst 3 or 4 sides in the tournament doesn't really show much either way. Anyway, Germany are comfortably beating South Africa and Spain and China are drawing so they should both go through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mother of The Others Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Fell in love with team France. (In the 2nd half Vs. Nigeria). The precision passing lifts airmailing it right on target, sometimes in the middle of chaotic situations. Passing triangles that swirl and move without the ball intuitively, exactly when the ball handler needed an outlet. Attack concepts applied so naturally, frequently, not requiring just the right circumstances. It was artful. None of it was going in the net, but Damn nonetheless. Now i understand how scoreless ties can fascinate people. It sucked that the goal came off a penalty kick do-over. Not how you want to win or lose. High stakes, as allowing a second goal would have been tragic for Nigeria's hopes of getting to the next round, and they had to play with 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 This retaking penalties because the goalkeeper is inches off the line is so tedious. Is this what we’re wasting all this time with VAR for? Still, great comeback from Argentina to draw the game after being 3 down. Brutal for Scotland though. A real mixed bag for England, they were comfortably the better side in the first half and Japan were all over them in the second half. They managed to find a second goal on the break though and that’s a good win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Well that was ridiculous. Another Scotland football team I won’t bother following in the future. VAR also ruining the game but that’s a side issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philokles Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 That might be the funniest five minutes of football I’ve ever seen. As if Scotland blowing a 3-0 lead in 20 minutes to crash out the World Cup wouldn’t be funny enough on its own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teng Ai Hui Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Strategically speaking, I was hoping for USA to lose against Sweden. The bottom half of the bracket looks easier than the top half. Now they will probably face France in the quarterfinals and England in the semifinals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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