Match Thread: World Cup Group B - Matchday 3 - Canada v Australia - July 31, 2023 - 6 am ET / 3 am PT / 8 pm local time

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

...and this appears to be without Sam Kerr playing. Not able to watch but think I'll be giving the highlights a miss later.

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

11 minutes ago, vancanman said:

...As it stands:

Being able to read some katakana after working in Japan finally comes in handy.

[vancanman]

1 minute ago, Ozzie_the_parrot said:

Being able to read some katakana after working in Japan finally comes in handy.

Flags also come in handy.

EDIT:  Unlike me at a math jamboree

Edited July 31, 2023 by vancanman

[kacbru]

Buchanan with a real shocker all game. She can't be well. 

[Colonel Green]

Well, that was the ending this match deserves.

[kacbru]

But wait, there's still time for more misery. 

[vancanman]

Eight more minutes?  Put us out of our misery. 

[Cadeau]

Anticlimactic performance...you cant teach guts.

[beachesl]

Shitty frosting on the vomit cake.

[lamptern]

I rarely say anything negative. But THIS is embarrassing.

[beachesl]

Imagine...having a premium penalty taker at a  world cup!

[kacbru]

At least one of the co-hosts progresses. 

[TGAA_Star]

Y'all just a damn disappointment!!! Like losing to Australia 4-0...WAKE THE HELL UP!!! THIS TEAM WINS A GOLD MEDAL IN TOKYO AND DOESN'T EVEN GET OUT OF THE GROUP IN AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND!!! What the hell are we doin? Like seriously what the hell are we doin? 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup...may as well focus on that now or even 2024 Olympics because this fuckin shit performance here in 2023 ain't it!!! 

[RJB]

So many of the other games I've watched had technical players, noticeable tactics, and good team play. We seem to have lacked in all three areas.  A very disappointing tournament. 

I'll say something I've said before(including this thread): the Olympic gold was a tournament victory yes, but to have won it with two wins and four draws said much about our luck and less about our quality. I mean, we had a +2 GD for crying out loud!  And winning that was great but it hid a lot of the problems that were now seeing in this team.

Perhaps we need a "are we overrating ourselves" thread. 

Edited July 31, 2023 by RJB

[Jack1997]

Rough, Priestman out?

[lamptern]

Ah, sounds familiar, we could say all started from the missing penalty kick from highest profile player of the team. For me, This game proves that it was all luck in Tokyo.

[vancanman]

What does Sinclair do now.  I really hope this isn't how she ends her international career.  

[kacbru]

3 minutes ago, RJB said:

So many of the other games I've watched had technical players, noticeable tactics, and good team play. We seem to have lacked in all three areas.  A very disappointing tournament. 

This is exactly my thought as well. 

[Gian-Luca]

Kudos to Schmidt for not sugarcoating things in her post game interview 

[Cadeau]

One thing I ain't gonna miss is the constant lionizing of Sinclair. Canada media need to vary their talking points.

[dyslexic nam]

Only got to watch some of the game because I had a meeting with the boss this morning, but this is indicative of where our program is at right now.   I think we got very lucky at Tokyo and our inflated world ranking is a product of historical results that no longer apply.  We won many games on the back of a player who was at the top o the world game, but she is aging out and there is no clear successor. 

Other countries have gotten more technically proficient while we have stagnated.  Watching teams like France or the US play you see a level of sophistication that is simply absent from our game.  Maybe we have occasional flashes of good play, and we can still play attractive footy against weak opponents, but against the world's best teams our lack of collective quality is exposed.  Not sure if that is a Priestman issue or a player issue - but we seem to have a squad of individuals that play at a high level so it may indicate coaching.    

Unfortunately, I think it will be challenging for us to make that quantum step back up to elite level in the short term.  Domestic pro teams would certainly help build the developmental structure but I am not convinced that Project 8 will survive.  I always thought that the MLS model where we have a couple of teams in NWSL was a more sustainable model for women's soccer in this country.  The reality is that if this is what the best of the best look like in terms of Canadian talent, I can't see people consistently shelling out $$ to watch a diluted version of what we just saw.  

Fack...

[TGAA_Star]

And this is a team who won the gold medal in Tokyo...LMAO BULL SHIT I CANT FUCKIN TELL

[Sinc_Tanc_Olympic_Action]

Of course this team isn't getting the respect they want.  Btw I wanna change my user name. 

[Colonel Green]

47 minutes ago, Jack1997 said:

Rough, Priestman out?

Much like Herdman, I don't think the CSA can afford to replace her even if they wanted to.

[Stanley]

53 minutes ago, RJB said:

Perhaps we need a "are we overeating ourselves" thread. 

Someone was overeating, probably the Canadian team before the game.