2019 Women's World Cup - Do It Back to Back

[Jive Turkey 12,968]

back line is sloppy.

[LonghornJudas 1,137]

God dammit, Lavelle!

[ztejas 44,114]

Lavelle needs to learn how to make a fucking decision with the ball. Christ. 

@Jive Turkey as soon as I praise Dunn she lets one by her. Let's go for the reverse. Dunn sucks. She reminds me of Tim Ream. 

Edited June 24, 2019 by ztejas

[Huckleberry 34,413]

Yep, she has no timing whatsoever in terms of knowing when to make the crucial pass. Also, Morgan is continuously playing herself offside then calling for the ball.

Not dealing with Spain's high pressure well at all, and our keeper is going to give another goal away at this rate. We need to be playing more diagonal medium-to-long passes. We are cutting them up on those.

[Huckleberry 34,413]

Spain's defenders are pretty damn good on the ball. We're not playing through them today. Our attack needs to be about making runs and passing. Some give-and-go just like that as well.

[ztejas 44,114]

Damn. That goes net if Rapinoe hits it to the right post. 

[LonghornJudas 1,137]

Christ, Mewis...

[Huckleberry 34,413]

Oh come on Mewis. Rapinoe was just about to make the run to have a one-on-one with the keeper. Terrible decision to shoot, especially after some of Mewis's other passes so far today.

[Jive Turkey 12,968]

stop with the long range shots.  damn.

[Drew 2,830]

Can't wait for the Press/Pugh subs.  They both can add good passing and runs like you suggest Huckleberry

[ztejas 44,114]

Rapinoe hurt her feelings. Yellow card. 

[LonghornJudas 1,137]

That's a shit yellow, too...

[Buzzrock 15,120]

Oh come on Mewis. Rapinoe was just about to make the run to have a one-on-one with the keeper. Terrible decision to shoot, especially after some of Mewis's other passes so far today.

Well Megan can’t hit the side of a barn today so maybe not

[ztejas 44,114]

Just now, Buzzrock said:

 

Well Megan can’t hit the side of a barn today so maybe not

 

You mean other than the PK that she drilled, right? 

[Jive Turkey 12,968]

i'm somewhat impressed with Spain.  was thinking France or Germany or England would be the big hurdles.  but Spain can play.

[Huckleberry 34,413]

Morgan offside once again. She's played herself offside on every single run she's made that I've seen.

[drt 645]

I don't know what the pregame instruction to Morgan was but her runs have been awful for the way spain has been playing.

[ztejas 44,114]

Please - Mewis Lavelle and + Press Pugh

[Huckleberry 34,413]

And again.

[Hagbard Celine 11,189]

Bring on Lloyd and play through her as a false 9.   We've reverted to long speculative balls and our spacing is crap.

What happened to the 20-yard precision side-to-side and diagonals that we had in group?

[Huckleberry 34,413]

Morgan did something productive-ish.

[Buzzrock 15,120]

You mean other than the PK that she drilled, right? 

Right. But you knew that.

[Huckleberry 34,413]

Then was a full 3 yards offside on the free kick.

[Buzzrock 15,120]

Coach em up Jill

[LonghornJudas 1,137]

A lot to unpack in the first half, but certainly Lavelle has been pretty shit and I concur with the puzzling runs by Morgan.

Not a good half for the USA, but props to Spain for coming in prepared. We knew they were solid and they're putting our back line to the test, as they should.

[LonghornJudas 1,137]

Just now, Buzzrock said:

Coach em up Jill

Just don't hurt their confidence too much and don't show them any bad plays.

[ATLLonghorn 1,085]

11 minutes ago, LonghornJudas said:

but certainly Lavelle has been pretty shit and I concur with the puzzling runs by Morgan.

Lavelle is maddening. They should'v had a second goal after the ball she played to Rapinoe, but so many of her touches are just off. She's incredibly talented and incredibly inconsistent.

[Hagbard Celine 11,189]

spanish rb is beating rapinoe 2 of 3.

jill should see this and compensate..

[LonghornJudas 1,137]

They are hammering Morgan. Sergio Ramos must have provided the gameplan for today.

Edited June 24, 2019 by LonghornJudas

[ATLLonghorn 1,085]

Spain is hacking the shit out of the US and as long as the ref doesn't give cards they have no impetus to stop.

[RamjetFDO 10,643]

I missed the first half (damned work) and just went live, rather than FF the DVR.

In the past few minutes I've seen several fouls by Spain and a lot of our girls looking very much out of sorts as they get up.  Is this a case of frustration on the US's part with not having been played so aggressively and not knowing how to respond?  Too much "reading their own press clippings" and being incredulous that someone else might actually be as tough and as good as they are?

Or - something else?  

[Jebus 1,341]

And it continues 

[Hagbard Celine 11,189]

2 minutes ago, ATLLonghorn said:

Spain is hacking the shit out of the US and as long as the ref doesn't give cards they have no impetus to stop.

this.

[AbeFroman 3,101]

We need to get more physical and stop looking for calls. 

[Jive Turkey 12,968]

to the extent you were trying to read the tat on the neck of #16 for Spain:

[LonghornJudas 1,137]

As Coach Pop would say, "I want to see some nasty."

Especially now. This is where Hope Solo was an asset. Despite all the other shit, that girl will scrap and not take any shit.

[ATLLonghorn 1,085]

There are a lot of heavy legs right now for the US. Ellis needs to make a sub. 

[LonghornJudas 1,137]

Morgan running offside again...

[Drew 2,830]

Just now, ATLLonghorn said:

There are a lot of heavy legs right now for the US. Ellis needs to make a sub. 

We've been preaching it for almost an hour.  She knows who to put in...

[WBT 20,940]

Spain is creating some good chances

Edited June 24, 2019 by WBT

[Buzzrock 15,120]

I missed the first half (damned work) and just went live, rather than FF the DVR.
In the past few minutes I've seen several fouls by Spain and a lot of our girls looking very much out of sorts as they get up.  Is this a case of frustration on the US's part with not having been played so aggressively and not knowing how to respond?  Too much "reading their own press clippings" and being incredulous that someone else might actually be as tough and as good as they are?
Or - something else?  

Marketing themselves as Goliath might be the least self aware plan ever

[utee94 16,077]

9 minutes ago, ATLLonghorn said:

Spain is hacking the shit out of the US and as long as the ref doesn't give cards they have no impetus to stop.

Yup.  This is some bullshit right here. Rapinoe got a weak-ass yellow and yet they're slaughtering our players, with no yellows to be seen.  Complete crap.

[ATLLonghorn 1,085]

The US is completely out of ideas. Players are standing around and not making runs. This is a shocker from Jill Ellis.

[SameSame 1,748]

Funny how perception works, on twitter Spain supporters, US is soft and begging. US supporters, Spain is dirty.

And round we go.

[ATLLonghorn 1,085]

Just now, SameSame said:

Funny how perception works, on twitter Spain supporters, US is soft and begging. US supporters, Spain is dirty.

And round we go.

Spain supporters are full of shit and they know it.

[LonghornJudas 1,137]

And for this game, I don't disagree with either...

[tokamak 6,687]

The US is completely out of ideas. Players are standing around and not making runs. This is a shocker from Jill Ellis.

Some credit is due to Spain's defense IMO. They are organized. Agree that we look frustrated.

[utee94 16,077]

Just now, SameSame said:

Funny how perception works, on twitter Spain supporters, US is soft and begging. US supporters, Spain is dirty.

And round we go.

US is going down a lot for sure.  But Spain is playing dirty AF.  And twitter sucks.

[ATLLonghorn 1,085]

Just now, tokamak said:

Some credit is due to Spain's defense IMO. 

yeah, no.

[RamjetFDO 10,643]

2 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

 

Marketing themselves as Goliath might be the least self aware plan ever

 

The broadcast team isn't helping ... just now: "...imagine if Spain were to pull the shocking upset, ALL CAPITALS SHOCKING upset..."

Jesus dude.  It's Spain, not Thailand.  I get it, on paper, this shouldn't be 1-1, but it is... and it's because (from my brief viewing of this match) Spain is out-playing the US physically and not being held accountable for certain fouls by the ref.

That's football.  Get on with it.

Now it's time to find out if our girls can... get on with it.