Women's World Cup

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  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    USA score again :weep:
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    But if they win, imagine how annoyed Trump will be.

    #silverlining
  • SlackerSlacker
    Not great so far,still giving the ball away far too easily.Still, only one goal in it........
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Yeo :biggrin:
  • imagelostimagelost
    SuzanneClaret said:

    Great save.

    This is very stressful.

    :ale:

    :gin
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Goal :wahoo:

    2-2

    Hand me that gin!
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    It’s gone to VAR

    :sofa:
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Goal cancelled by VAR.

    Offside.

    :weep:

  • HamstewHamstew
    edited July 2019
    Poxy VAR
  • everhopefuleverhopeful
    Not poxy VAR!
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Well it just gave us a pen.
  • HamstewHamstew
    Weak pen
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Pen was poor.

    ‘Keeper dived the right way.

    ENG 1-2 USA
  • horshamhammerhorshamhammer
    Hardly a clear and obvious error, was it?
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Nope.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    It’s going from bad to worse.
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    Can you imagine the men get a penalty in the semi final of the World Cup and we let Harry McGuire or John Stones take it. Unbelievable!
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    We are now down to 10 women.

    /over

    :puzzled:
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    It’s like professionals against novices
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited July 2019
    How bad is the captain? She can’t pass a ball 5 yards yet steps up to take a penalty from 12 yard?
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    PrestonHammer said:

    Can you imagine the men get a penalty in the semi final of the World Cup and we let Harry McGuire or John Stones take it. Unbelievable!

    Yeah, don't get that really. Ellen White is bang on form and full of confidence. Surely she should have taken it.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    BBC keep putting up stats showing how many more passes we made than them but 75% of them were to Americans.
    Easy to see why the US are best in the world
  • SlackerSlacker
    Well that second half had the lot didn’t it?By far the better team won.
    Ah well,cricket tomorrow. :whistle:
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    I enjoyed the first half, open play with good touches and both teams playing positive stuff but the second half was poor, I get it was hot and the players looked exhausted but sooooo many balls given away needlessly or kicked aimlessly.

    VAR both giveth and taketh away, our goal was correctly ruled offside but everything about the penalty was poor, the decision and the execution, not sure how that could be given as even with VAR it was tricky to see exactly what contact was made.

    Bright was pretty poor overall but unlucky to be sent off, to my eye she clearly got the ball.

    At the end of the day you have to hand it the US team, the better team won the day.



  • HamstewHamstew
    Slacker said:

    Well that second half had the lot didn’t it?By far the better team won.
    Ah well,cricket tomorrow. :whistle:

    It just gets worse doesn't it
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    I do agree that the penalty was terrible, the moment she paused after the whistle I thought this isn't going to go well. However I can fully understand her taking it if we rewind back to the way she found a not much bigger than a football size gap to fire beyond the whole Cameroon team on the line during our last sixteen match. Today I think she lost it in her head rather than her ability to take a penalty.


    I think a penalty taker needs both superb technique but also nerves of steel. Penalties are easy on the training ground, don't present too many problems when you are 2-0 up in a match, but when behind in a tournament or a penalty shoot out, that's different, that needs a different calibre of penalty taker. Noble has it and of course Ray Stewart had it but I recall when I used to play for a team and we had a superb striker, far better than the rest of us if being fair and could score some goals that wouldn't of been out of place in stadiums that people would pay to enter, yet would never even take a penalty. He was brilliant in motion but once the match stopped as it does for a penalty his head would kick in and by his own admission he couldn't do it.
  • alderzalderz
    Steph Houghton has been excellent for the whole tournament with a very weak central defensive partner, IMO. Yes, her penalty was dreadful, but she has a history of being very good at penalties. I personally would have wanted Ellen White taking it, but I don't know if she takes them or not.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    I do hope there is no great rush to start dishing out MBEs, OBEs off the back of what has been (to me) a par performance at best in the World Cup. A number of England’s opponents were either part time or lacking in basic infrastructure in their country so rightly we should have beaten them. The first serious test was failed (the Japan game Was a good performance, however both sides had already qualified by then). Even Phil Neville considered not reacting the final as failure. England largely rode off the back of the excellent Ellen White who must have put away every opportunity that came her way - lethal.

    I still think the men’s endeavours were overegged somewhat - we only managed to beat the mighty Sweden and Columbia in the knock outs and lost to Croatia and Belgium (twice)
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Not far off though. Look how far they have come in 10 years. Give it 10 more and who knows.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    I thought they did themselves and us proud.
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