Canada v USA - Monday, July 18th - 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific - Greater Monterrey , Mexico

[narduch]

Cheap pk

[Jedi Ram]

Damn PK

[Jedi Ram]

No VAR? 

[Razcal]

Garbage call, but the US likely deserve a goal.

[dyslexic nam]

How can you have VAR and not use it there to review that obviously shit call?  Doesn’t matter that the Us deserve the lead.  That wasn’t a PK. 

[footballfreak]

It was a pk. Hard to take, but it was the right call.

[dyslexic nam]

Just now, footballfreak said:

It was a pk. Hard to take, but it was the right call.

Not for me.  She had an arm on her but let go long before she decided to go down.  

[JamboAl]

It was a penalty.  Chapman clipped Lavelle.

[Soro17]

Why are we time-wasting? 

[footballfreak]

Just now, dyslexic nam said:

Not for me.  She had an arm on her but let go long before she decided to go down.  

Not the arm. Watch the legs on the replay. Clipped one leg into the other.

[Jedi Ram]

1 minute ago, Soro17 said:

Why are we time-wasting? 

Hydration break

[Colonel Green]

It's nice that the team remembered to try to score in the final ten minutes of the game.

[footballfreak]

Gonna take a second to bitch about our throw ins. They’ve been absolutely terrible. Our ball retention on throw-ins might be below 50%.

[Jedi Ram]

Last time any team scored against USA during any CONCACAF tourneys was 11 years ago. 

[Soro17]

1 minute ago, footballfreak said:

Gonna take a second to bitch about our throw ins. They’ve been absolutely terrible. Our ball retention on throw-ins might be below 50%.

Yep. Bad throw led to the penalty. 

[dyslexic nam]

Pfft. 

[footballfreak]

Positives:

• Prince was great. Beckie should have been the one to come off. 
• Riviere is class and is still getting better.
• Ditto Grosso. Disappointed not to see more of her. At a certain point we should look at sticking her up top if none of our forwards are going to show up.
• Sheridan was solid all tournament.

 

Negatives

• The final third. No service to the forwards. Getting the ball into wide positions, but no meaningful crosses.
• Inability to exploit the centre when defenders cheat wide.
• Dumb turnovers 
• throw-ins were absolute trash

[Gian-Luca]

Ultimately I think the incredibly weak group we were in did us no favours. The Mexicans gave the Americans a tougher match than any of the teams we played and was better prep for them for the final than what we got.

 

[Unnamed Trialist]

Too bad, at least we were close. You feel a lack of urgency sometimes, like they are sleepwalking, even when behind a goal. Even the bench, the coaching staff. It's irritating.

What I would say is the main problem with the team right now is that we are slow to allow the old and oldish guard to change. There are too many hierarchies that are unjustified. Rapinoe stayed on bench, did she not? Couldn't Sinclair be a player to come on for a final 30 m push? Beckie is not clearly better than Huitema, not in her club play and not for Canada. 

I make an effort not be nasty about some details of the women's game. But one thing that is pretty imprecise is reffing. I am not saying this ref was bad, or the lines, or that the penalty could not be called; she did not affect the game. But there are always little errors that are really unbelievable, like you feel they are not even watching closely. Basic stuff that you sit there and say WTF?

I also suspect that those running the lines do not help at all, you get the sense that they just shut up and let the ref make her mistakes. There's a lot of work to be done.

I saw a CL game this year in the stadium with Stéphanie Frappart reffing, who they say is the best in the world. She had serious difficulties, it was a bit of a mess, she missed some constant hacks and then let the match get away from her because of her own errors. It was Barça-Real Madrid at Camp Nou and it was going to be high-spirited--it was like she'd never seen such a thing before. And she is a regular Ligue 1 ref. 

Edited July 19, 2022 by Unnamed Trialist

[The Ref]

What was the point of having VAR in this game.  The penalty called by the referee was a mistake.  It was an enhanced falling by Lavalle and nothing more than that that the ref bought.  That call was inconsistent with the officiating.  A sin all too common. An undeserved goal by cry baby Morgan.

 

[The Beaver 2.0]

Not sure Bev got her tactics and formation right. And I am not sure she's quite figured out the strengths of her players and where best to play them.  Beckie is very athletic, but often does not connect well with her teammates, and I question playing her up front. She played in the back, more or less, for the final 10 or so minutes, and I wonder if that isn't a better place for her. To that end, I think Beckie, Buchanan and Gilles as a back three makes good sense, with 5 in the midfield, perhaps Lawrence and Riviere out wide, Scott/Quinn in the middle, with Grosso and Flemming flanking them. Then Prince up front with one of Leon/Huitema.  Sinclair could come off the bench, but she struggled to get into the game tonight, and I suspect Priestman and Sinclair need to consider winding down Sincy's time with the Nats. We needed to own the midfield, but we were never going to do that with only three in the mid.

I felt the PK call was soft, to be honest. The Yanks were woeful in the shooting department, but that Levell is a helluva player. So damned smart.

There are leaders on this team, leaders ready to take over from the old guard. Time to let them do so.

[Admin]

How does the playoff with Jamaica work? 

If it is home and away.... that would give us a competitive game for the women on home soil... which we almost never get.

[narduch]

3 minutes ago, Admin said:

How does the playoff with Jamaica work? 

If it is home and away.... that would give us a competitive game for the women on home soil... which we almost never get.

According to wikipedia it is 2 legs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_–_Women's_qualification_(CONCACAF_play-off)

[sloth8]

Yes, according to CONCACAF regulations, Canada will host the 2nd game of the 2-leg play-in series. Away goals rule will apply. The FIFA match calendar says that the games will happen sometime between September 18-26, 2023.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

39 minutes ago, Admin said:

that would give us a competitive game for the women on home soil... which we almost never get

Yup!

Last one was during the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015?

An 8 year gap.