FIFA Women's World Cup

@MiketheSnow said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

It is harder to break down a team who get bodies behind the ball, than to counter a team who try to play football against you. We didn't have the strength, the skill or the quality to break them down. And when chances fell to us, we couldn't take them

Broke them down many times, didn't finish them off

We made very few clean chances. One disallowed headed goal, one sharp volley saved, and one header over the bar. Not nearly enough end product in the final quarter

@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

@MiketheSnow said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

It is harder to break down a team who get bodies behind the ball, than to counter a team who try to play football against you. We didn't have the strength, the skill or the quality to break them down. And when chances fell to us, we couldn't take them

Broke them down many times, didn't finish them off

We made very few clean chances. One disallowed headed goal, one sharp volley saved, and one header over the bar. Not nearly enough end product in the final quarter

33% conversion rate and it's a draw
66% conversion rate and it's a win

I am 200% behind the growth going through woman’s sport. Unequivocally.

BUT.

That was the lowest quality match I’ve seen in any adult sport, ever. Capped with a classic modern football faux pas with a technical VAR offside call.

Woeful.

So Norway and Switzerland play out a nil all draw. All to play for in the final round.

Switzerland vs New Zealand. There will be no element of surprise this time. However the Swiss will hopefully try to play and leave themselves open to a counterattack or two. We need to be defensively solid but offer more on attack.

Norway vs Philippines. Norway have underachieved, I expect them to play with desperation against a team they will expect to beat.

I'm not sure how countback will work if we fail to win. A draw keeps us in the mix, a loss and it's over for us

That draw doesn't help NZ, who will need at least a point against Switzerland. Assuming Norway don't get upset - again.

@Bovidae said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

That draw doesn't help NZ, who will need at least a point against Switzerland. Assuming Norway don't get upset - again.

If both games are drawn, who goes through out of us or the Philippines? Will their win be the tiebreaker?

@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

@Bovidae said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

That draw doesn't help NZ, who will need at least a point against Switzerland. Assuming Norway don't get upset - again.

If both games are drawn, who goes through out of us or the Philippines? Will their win be the tiebreaker?

GD will be the tiebreaker, so NZ.

We have to win, assuming Norway will win. We were able to dominate the Philippines defence, but had no end product. I can see Norway going through when we lose to Switzerland

@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.

Did know this but “soccer” just reminds me of the ugly longball style of play that we use to play here in NZ, and not the beautiful game on display in Europe, and on occasions now here too

@Mattasaurus said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

Ferns look sloppy .. lazy passing and giving away a lot of possession. They look a little clueless in the box too.... maybe they've played their "big game" already Loooooong way back

Clueless in both boxes. Bit of a calamity really. I reckon either of the teams my 14 year old son plays in would probably beat them.

@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

We have to win, assuming Norway will win. We were able to dominate the Philippines defence, but had no end product. I can see Norway going through when we lose to Switzerland

Yup, Norway and Switzerland will go through, losing to the Philippines was a shocker.

Hopefully plays the reverse psychology card

@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

We have to win, assuming Norway will win. We were able to dominate the Philippines defence, but had no end product. I can see Norway going through when we lose to Switzerland

I decided to check out the Norwegian websites and that is not one happy team. The star player who was benched against Switzerland spat the dummy. Apparently they also haven't scored a single goal in the past 4 games. I would say it's looking pretty good for NZ.

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

We have to win, assuming Norway will win. We were able to dominate the Philippines defence, but had no end product. I can see Norway going through when we lose to Switzerland

I decided to check out the Norwegian websites and that is not one happy team. The star player who was benched against Switzerland spat the dummy. Apparently they also haven't scored a single goal in the past 4 games. I would say it's looking pretty good for NZ.

At the ground, we were unsure what happened - looks like Hegerberg, former Ballon D'Or winner, withdrew from the team just before the start. Saying it was a twinge but given she went on strike for the national team for a couple of years, maybe it was something else.

@KiwiPie said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

@canefan said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

We have to win, assuming Norway will win. We were able to dominate the Philippines defence, but had no end product. I can see Norway going through when we lose to Switzerland

I decided to check out the Norwegian websites and that is not one happy team. The star player who was benched against Switzerland spat the dummy. Apparently they also haven't scored a single goal in the past 4 games. I would say it's looking pretty good for NZ.

At the ground, we were unsure what happened - looks like Hegerberg, former Ballon D'Or winner, withdrew from the team just before the start. Saying it was a twinge but given she went on strike for the national team for a couple of years, maybe it was something else.

According to Norge sources she definitely suffered a freak injury after the national anthems. The big debate is how they can't score goals, but then bench their most potent goalscorer. Seems pretty chaotic.

Kinda the reason why I don't like football, one team does all the work to create 20 chances and squanders them all, the other creates one chance, scores off it and wins the game...

Still it's very difficult to win a game if you can't put the ball in the back of the net - no-one but themselves to blame.

A frustrating game to watch us squander so many opportunities, but probably a fair reflection of where this team is at, a world class team and players have composure and are clinical in front of goal and a non world class team score more from random chance than clinical precision.

I hope they can pull in another big upset, but that hope seems forlorn.

@Windows97 you don't get the element of surprise twice mate. At least the Swiss might play to not lose, in which case we might get a draw, and hope the Filipinos can hold out the Norwegians. The ultimate pain would be if the Philippines wins and goes through instead of us

@canefan I don't really think it was the element of surprise, but understand what you're saying. We created more than enough chances to win the game - just didn't take them.

@Windows97 said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

@canefan I don't really think it was the element of surprise, but understand what you're saying. We created more than enough chances to win the game - just didn't take them.

I mean Norway might have taken us lightly. Switzerland will not

I've been very impressed with the Italian referee in this game between Japan and Costa Rica

Japan practically through to knockout stages

Looking comfortable if a little inaccurate

Just turned over to see Ireland score from an amazing corner

Direct from the corner. Outstanding

Followed by unluck of the Irish just beore half time

Own goal which should have been dealt with

1-1

Feel a bit sorry for Zambia - 2 x 5-0 defeats. But you can't hold a high line against top teams and then give their midfielders time and space. Both Japan and Spain were getting runners in behind relentlessly. Costa Rica used the low block to minimise the damage.

USA looking like the better team, but the Dutch are up 1-nil midway through the first half

According to commentators, that is the first time that the USA have been behind in a World Cup game since 2011

@Stockcar86 said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

USA looking like the better team, but the Dutch are up 1-nil midway through the first half

@stargazer will be in full celebration mode about that.

Bugger.

1-1 after 70 minutes. Don't break out the good salted licorice yet @Stargazer

@Stockcar86 I prefer the sweet black licorice haha.

1-1 Final. Good result for Netherlands

Yesssssssssssssssssssss.

The Netherlands will be the happier of the two teams and were hanging on at the end. They miss Vivianne Miedema up front. The best game so far.

@Bovidae said in FIFA Women's World Cup:

The Netherlands will be the happier of the two teams and were hanging on at the end. They miss Vivianne Miedema up front. The best game so far.

And going forward

I'd much rather be the Netherlands playing Vietnam in my last group match over the US playing Portugal

Great end to the first half for Australia

Up 1-0

And Nigeria equalise with a fortunate deflection and bounce

Aus 1 -1 Nig

Cracking match this

Nigeria score

Deserved

Been coming

Aus 1 -2 Nig

Not an expert but YC?