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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,914
    Cliffy6745 said:
    Lol yikes 
    I know it isn't the full roster that will be playing in the gold cup but holy shit.  That was embarrassing.  Trapp was complete garbage in both of these losses...no clue why Berhalter insists on playing him in the defensive midfielder role over Tyler Adams..  Oh yeah it's because he coached Trapp in Columbus...what a joke.  And he wants to play Adams at right back when he is a natural for the 6 spot.  Group stage of gold cup shouldn't be an issue to get through but after that they better get their shit together because this past week was an absolute disaster.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    Indifference71 said:
    Cliffy6745 said:
    Lol yikes 
    I know it isn't the full roster that will be playing in the gold cup but holy shit.  That was embarrassing.  Trapp was complete garbage in both of these losses...no clue why Berhalter insists on playing him in the defensive midfielder role over Tyler Adams..  Oh yeah it's because he coached Trapp in Columbus...what a joke.  And he wants to play Adams at right back when he is a natural for the 6 spot.  Group stage of gold cup shouldn't be an issue to get through but after that they better get their shit together because this past week was an absolute disaster.
    Horrible. What a shit show 
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    edited June 2019
    I am actually not a big fan of what the women did today. I have been on the right and wrong side of enough 6 or 7 - 0 games to know how shitty that feels. Honestly not even fun scoring more at some point, unless it’s the last few guys on the bench. I stopped watching for the most part after 5 or so but was flicking back and forth with the yanks and saw them celebrating a goal or two between 10-13. Fuck outta here with celebrations at that point. If I was in that game, Alex Morgan wouldn’t be playing another minute in this tournament

    and I am aware that this is probably the wrong take and I am an old man 
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,292
    Cliffy6745 said:
    I am actually not a big fan of what the women did today. I have been on the right and wrong side of enough 6 or 7 - 0 games to know how shitty that feels. Honestly not even fun scoring more at some point, unless it’s the last few guys on the bench. I stopped watching for the most part after 5 or so but was flicking back and forth with the yanks and saw them celebrating a goal or two between 10-13. Fuck outta here with celebrations at that point. If I was in that game, Alex Morgan wouldn’t be playing another minute in this tournament

    and I am aware that this is probably the wrong take and I am an old man 

    (Just questions)
    Would it have been worse if they just played keep-away and Toyed with them?

    And, put a player out because their better then you?
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    cutz said:
    Cliffy6745 said:
    I am actually not a big fan of what the women did today. I have been on the right and wrong side of enough 6 or 7 - 0 games to know how shitty that feels. Honestly not even fun scoring more at some point, unless it’s the last few guys on the bench. I stopped watching for the most part after 5 or so but was flicking back and forth with the yanks and saw them celebrating a goal or two between 10-13. Fuck outta here with celebrations at that point. If I was in that game, Alex Morgan wouldn’t be playing another minute in this tournament

    and I am aware that this is probably the wrong take and I am an old man 

    (Just questions)
    Would it have been worse if they just played keep-away and Toyed with them?

    And, put a player out because their better then you?
    On one of the better teams I played on, if we were up by 5, we had to connect 10 passes before taking a shot. It at least slows it down a good bit.

    More for the fact she was in the game up by 10 and that’s stupid and they were celebrating goals 10-13
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    Also, I said it’s not the right take
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,292
    Cliffy6745 said:
    cutz said:
    Cliffy6745 said:
    I am actually not a big fan of what the women did today. I have been on the right and wrong side of enough 6 or 7 - 0 games to know how shitty that feels. Honestly not even fun scoring more at some point, unless it’s the last few guys on the bench. I stopped watching for the most part after 5 or so but was flicking back and forth with the yanks and saw them celebrating a goal or two between 10-13. Fuck outta here with celebrations at that point. If I was in that game, Alex Morgan wouldn’t be playing another minute in this tournament

    and I am aware that this is probably the wrong take and I am an old man 

    (Just questions)
    Would it have been worse if they just played keep-away and Toyed with them?

    And, put a player out because their better then you?
    On one of the better teams I played on, if we were up by 5, we had to connect 10 passes before taking a shot. It at least slows it down a good bit.

    More for the fact she was in the game up by 10 and that’s stupid and they were celebrating goals 10-13
    Think they made all of their substitutions before 10 goals.

    .Cliffy6745 said:
    Also, I said it’s not the right take
    Kool
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,750
    Cliffy6745 said:
    I am actually not a big fan of what the women did today. I have been on the right and wrong side of enough 6 or 7 - 0 games to know how shitty that feels. Honestly not even fun scoring more at some point, unless it’s the last few guys on the bench. I stopped watching for the most part after 5 or so but was flicking back and forth with the yanks and saw them celebrating a goal or two between 10-13. Fuck outta here with celebrations at that point. If I was in that game, Alex Morgan wouldn’t be playing another minute in this tournament

    and I am aware that this is probably the wrong take and I am an old man 
    goal differential is a part of the format.  hate the game not the playa.
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  • mickeyrat
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    interview the coach asks, if it were the men at 10 would we be having this conversation?
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,862
    the celebrations is the embarrassing thing.  Goal differential isnt influenced by showing up your opponent as well as your home country
  • mickeyrat
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    MayDay10 said:
    the celebrations is the embarrassing thing.  Goal differential isnt influenced by showing up your opponent as well as your home country
    of all the goals, how many were scored by first time at the cup players?
    hmm? you tellin me after years of hard work and effort to even makr the team, then the work to get back to the WC, first timers are supposed to temper there joy at scoring in the WC?

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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,862
    yes.  
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,750
    gfy.


    The Americans' 13 goals against Thailand were the most in a game in men's or women's World Cup history.

    The United States men's national team has scored 12 World Cup goals in the past 6,202 days.

    Alex Morgan is the just the second player in Women's World Cup history to score five goals in a single game. Michelle Akers was the first in 1991.


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  • mickeyrat
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     But to put blame on the United States ignores two obvious points. First, the Americans didn't make the rules under which the number of goals scored is part of deciding the outcome of the tournament. Goal differential counts. The U.S. women want to win their group. Unlike just about any other sport, they have a vested interest in running up the score.

    And second, it isn't the United States' fault it can't clear its bench. It is allowed three subs. It used three subs.

    "If this is 10-0 in a men's World Cup, are we getting the same questions?" U.S. coach Jill Ellis asked at repeated queries about the score. "I think a World Cup, it is about competing, it is about peaking, it is about priming your players ready for the next game."

    But beyond that, why is it the obligation of the U.S. team to act in the interest of a creating a picture of a falsely level playing field. Why shouldn't FIFA or the Asian Confederation get blamed for not doing more to promote the women's game in places where it lags behind?

    Are we really going to blame players for celebrating a goal, in many cases in their first World Cup, instead of looking at the underlying reasons for the disparity in the first place?

    It's understandable that Thai players looked stunned and embarrassed after the game, far from the joyous scenes after they beat Ivory Coast in their World Cup debut four years ago. It is unfortunate for them. But it's also competition. Both sides of it.

    "Obviously, we have the utmost respect for everyone we play," Rapinoe said. "But it's the World Cup, and that's part of it. That's part of growing the game and growing the pool."

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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,914
    mickeyrat said:
    MayDay10 said:
    the celebrations is the embarrassing thing.  Goal differential isnt influenced by showing up your opponent as well as your home country
    of all the goals, how many were scored by first time at the cup players?
    hmm? you tellin me after years of hard work and effort to even makr the team, then the work to get back to the WC, first timers are supposed to temper there joy at scoring in the WC?

    Agree with you here.  Scoring a goal at the WC is just about the pinnacle of the sport.  How the hell are you not supposed to celebrate that?!?
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    Goal differential is irrelevant after about 7 goals...
  • mickeyrat
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    how hungry are the Thai women going to be in the next 2 games and future WCs?
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  • Cliffy6745
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    mickeyrat said:
    how hungry are the Thai women going to be in the next 2 games and future WCs?
    Who cares
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    The celebrations are ridiculous. 
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,914
    Cliffy6745 said:
    The celebrations are ridiculous. 
    So you're on the US men's world cup team and you score your first WC goal in a blowout...you're telling me you wouldn't celebrate that??  Were the celebrations a bit much?  Probably.  But I'm not going to fault someone for celebrating something you dream of doing your whole life.

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