England aren't the same team without Mead. Someone needs to score in her absence. They look vulnerable on the counter-attack.
@mariner4life And they still call it soccer there too? Sounds fucked alright
@JK said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
@mariner4life And they still call it soccer there too? Sounds fucked alright
History lesson the term ‘soccer’ from aSOCCiation football was used at the same time as rugger, to distinguish two forms of football. It is of British origin. The idea that ‘football’ just applied to Association Football and not other forms of Football came later, soccer is the earlier name. Ergo, keep calling it soccer, or Association Football - don’t let them hijack the term football just to apply to one sort. Soccer wasn’t the ‘first’ sort of football, just one branch of a family that has been around since they used to be the crap out of each other, village vs village over the fields in between - with some sort of leather thing somewhere there too.
@Machpants said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
@JK said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
@mariner4life And they still call it soccer there too? Sounds fucked alright
History lesson the term ‘soccer’ from aSOCCiation football was used at the same time as rugger, to distinguish two forms of football. It is of British origin. The idea that ‘football’ just applied to Association Football and not other forms of Football came later, soccer is the earlier name. Ergo, keep calling it soccer, or Association Football - don’t let them hijack the term football just to apply to one sort. Soccer wasn’t the ‘first’ sort of football, just one branch of a family that has been around since they used to be the crap out of each other, village vs village over the fields in between - with some sort of leather thing somewhere there too.
The collective intelligence of the Fern never ceases to amaze
@KiwiPie said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
NZ import as captain - Ali Riley is at her 5th World Cup for NZ, imagine the dedication to do that when she has always played her club football away from NZ. Top player and has played for top European clubs. Legendary Fern status
Ferns playing Philippines now.
Riley in acres of space on the left - could have taken it to the line and crossed it unchallenged, but instead she stopped and passed it back to someone on the edge of the box, who lost it. I didn't understand that at all!
Roles reversed. We are trying to break the Philippines down, they are defending tightly. I'm not convinced we have the quality to unlock them
@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
Roles reversed. We are trying to break the Philippines down, they are defending tightly. I'm not convinced we have the quality to unlock them
Need to use height in the box
Play Wimbledon style for a bit
If we can't make chances I hope the coach has more attacking options available. We made one cross that Wilkinson couldn't catch up with. I think we need to drive down the wings and make the early cross. It's very hard to try and score against a static D
Putting the ball in the back of the net is a significant weakness from what I've seen of the Ferns. I was thinking 1-0 was a likely scoreline for this game, so it's not good that we're down.
I hope Milly Clegg is on the bench. Scored several goals for the Nix. Really young, but it's the time to be brave and bold right now
@MiketheSnow said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
Won’t get a better chance than that
She is some athlete mind
Similar to the Filipino girl's goal chance. A bit higher
We are on top, but these girls have no idea where the goal is. I predict we lose 1-0, or 2-0 as they capitalise on our mistakes
Let's not fuck spiders. Go on the attack and take the win, or at least take the Filipinos out of the running
@Machpants said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
Well, at least they won one game!
I'll wait a bit until I drop another line like this, beautiful set up by myself 
@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
Let's not fuck spiders.
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean haha but great saying
Two decent efforts so far in this half- but, neither troubles the scorers. And now we put one in the back of the net, but millimetres offside in the build-up.
Fuck it!!!! 
@Machpants said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
Let's not fuck spiders.
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean haha but great saying
Let's not muck about
We need a goal so the coach brings on a player who hasn't scored for NZ since 2018. Meanwhile she has a goal scoring wunderkind sitting on the bench. Jesus wept
@MiketheSnow said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
Should have done better with that chance
Good save
Jale has not scored for NZ since 2018.