DVR'd a later version of the game so I could watch the Rapinoe yellow. That was a bad call. Was a foul but no way do I call that a yellow especially with another defender standing right in front of the Australian.

OT: Our men's team just upset Germany at home 2-1. This after beating a top Dutch team just a few days ago.

Also, our U20 team beat Colombia earlier toda 1-0. That's promising.

Men's team 3-0 in last three matches against top 15 teams. Our last game against Mexico they were #15 and then this great road swing.

looks like the men's team has a number of young guys that have potential

ladies are back at it on Friday

(06-10-2015 06:01 PM)Tribal Wrote:  OT: Our men's team just upset Germany at home 2-1. This after beating a top Dutch team just a few days ago.

Also, our U20 team beat Colombia earlier toda 1-0. That's promising.

As a clarification by upsetting Germany at home, you mean that Germany was home (not the US)

(06-10-2015 10:49 PM)tribe_pride Wrote:  

(06-10-2015 06:01 PM)Tribal Wrote:  OT: Our men's team just upset Germany at home 2-1. This after beating a top Dutch team just a few days ago.

Also, our U20 team beat Colombia earlier toda 1-0. That's promising.

As a clarification by upsetting Germany at home, you mean that Germany was home (not the US)

Richtig.

Only thing with the men is they have the tendency to get a bit of a hangover after something big like this. Need to go strong into the Gold Cup next month to lock up the Confederations Cup berth. Agree with the point that we have a lot of young players making contributions. Easy to forget that these two games we were without two of our best offensive weapons, Altidore and Dempsey. Yes, the other teams were playing without some of their best as well, but the level of play and technical skill exhibited in the second half is something I haven't seen from a U.S. team ever. Crisp passes of all length, control and touch on the ball, and general confidence. The future is bright.

Now time to focus on the ladies against the Swedes tomorrow night.

Round of 16 and our gals won 2-0 over Colombia. We should have won 5-0...some poor officiating both ways...horrible yellow card on Rapinoe disqualifies her from the next match.

Alex Morgan ♡♡♡♡♡

Holiday out too. We're deep so it's not the end of the world, but those two take all of our corners. Our defense has been amazing all tournament.

Yeah - shouldn't be a big deal against China in the next round. Semifinals against the Germany-France winner (ranked 1 and 3 in the world - we are 2) is when we will need our full team and they need to play well up top.

Colombia today finished up with their #3 keeper in goal which led to Morgan's goal because it was not good at all. Their top keeper got her 2nd yellow in their last game and then their backup got a red card (time where Wambach missed the PK). D has been great but offense has to get much better.

The women just seem like they are out of sync, Columbia played with a lot of spunk, US women seem to be just sort of going through the motions.

Maybe Press playing in place of Rapinoe will be the shot in the arm they need?

Mens team is in the middle of a transition, Klinesman is finally getting his type of players in place, the next few yrs will be interesting.

Sorry to bring up an old messageboard debate, but didn't "someone" once claim our women's team could beat our men's team?

Keeping with our nerdy way, we played Colombia...Columbia is in SC.

(06-23-2015 07:37 AM)Tribal Wrote:  Sorry to bring up an old messageboard debate, but didn't "someone" once claim our women's team could beat our men's team?

Keeping with our nerdy way, we played Colombia...Columbia is in SC.

There is no doubt that our womens team is in trouble if they continue to play the way they played last night. Were it not for the red card, we may have lost to Colombia.

Germany looks dramatically better than we do.

I am happy that Wambach and Rapinoe are out for the next game...we need a different game plan and those two basically zap our team of any fluidity in the style of attack. You cant win against a quality opponent simply crossing from the outside every time. We need someone with speed and control to try to penetrate the box here and there to keep the opposition honest.

(06-23-2015 07:58 AM)nogretheogre Wrote:  

(06-23-2015 07:37 AM)Tribal Wrote:  Sorry to bring up an old messageboard debate, but didn't "someone" once claim our women's team could beat our men's team?

Keeping with our nerdy way, we played Colombia...Columbia is in SC.

There is no doubt that our womens team is in trouble if they continue to play the way they played last night. Were it not for the red card, we may have lost to Colombia.

Germany looks dramatically better than we do.

I am happy that Wambach and Rapinoe are out for the next game...we need a different game plan and those two basically zap our team of any fluidity in the style of attack. You cant win against a quality opponent simply crossing from the outside every time. We need someone with speed and control to try to penetrate the box here and there to keep the opposition honest.

Wambach is eligible. Rapinoe and Holiday are out.

(06-23-2015 07:37 AM)Tribal Wrote:  Sorry to bring up an old messageboard debate, but didn't "someone" once claim our women's team could beat our men's team?

Keeping with our nerdy way, we played Colombia...Columbia is in SC.

That was back before the Field Marshall took charge of the USMNT.

Also remember it was right after beating mighty Algiers 1-0 in stoppage time on a sitter, and everyone here acted like the USMNT just beat Brazil.

Either then or now, USMNT would have crushed the USWNT (and then includes both before and after the Field Marshall took charge). Our women are and have always been amongst the best in the world in Women's Soccer but the men are just too big, strong and fast and would therefore dominate the women.

All that said, let's good USWNT! Beat China and stay healthy.

Good chance a semifinal match against the Germany/France winner will be the World Cup champs as the other half of the draw is not as strong. 1,2,3 and 16 ranked teams on top half while the bottom half has 4, 6, 8 (hosts), 10, and 12 ranked teams (still a 16 matchup between 4 Japan and 12 Netherlands)

Predictions:

Germany/US in 1 semi and Japan/Canada in the other Semi with Germany beating Japan in the finals. Hope I am wrong on the winner of the semifinal matches but Germany has looked the strongest so far and the US and Canada have only been doing what they have needed to do but have not looked strong on offense (but strong on D)

In thinking on it, as plodding as the USWNT has looked, they have only surrendered 1 goal in 4 matches something to be said for that, considering they were in the toughest group.

(06-23-2015 07:58 AM)nogretheogre Wrote:  

(06-23-2015 07:37 AM)Tribal Wrote:  Sorry to bring up an old messageboard debate, but didn't "someone" once claim our women's team could beat our men's team?

Keeping with our nerdy way, we played Colombia...Columbia is in SC.

There is no doubt that our womens team is in trouble if they continue to play the way they played last night. Were it not for the red card, we may have lost to Colombia.

We didn't watch the same game. IMO, our women thoroughly dominated Colombia in every area. We missed a pk, Rapinoe was fouled an additional time in the box (ref finally called it the 2nd time just minutes later) and we had several balls hit Colombia's post. We should have beaten them, at minimum, 5-0.

I do agree that Germany looks like the top team...appropriate given their #1 ranking.

(06-23-2015 03:32 PM)Tribal Wrote:  

(06-23-2015 07:58 AM)nogretheogre Wrote:  

(06-23-2015 07:37 AM)Tribal Wrote:  Sorry to bring up an old messageboard debate, but didn't "someone" once claim our women's team could beat our men's team?

Keeping with our nerdy way, we played Colombia...Columbia is in SC.

There is no doubt that our womens team is in trouble if they continue to play the way they played last night. Were it not for the red card, we may have lost to Colombia.

We didn't watch the same game. IMO, our women thoroughly dominated Colombia in every area. We missed a pk, Rapinoe was fouled an additional time in the box (ref finally called it the 2nd time just minutes later) and we had several balls hit Colombia's post. We should have beaten them, at minimum, 5-0.

I do agree that Germany looks like the top team...appropriate given their #1 ranking.

There was no domination in the first half. At times, we had difficulty possessing, with multiple turnovers and desperation passes left and right. Our frustration with Colombia's ball handling lead to several US fouls. Colombia didnt have many chances during that time, but neither did we. After the red card, with the man-advantage, we started to sling a few passes together, although the effort was lackadaisical and still resulted in many turnovers. We scored on a shot that should have been stopped from a bad angle and a PK.

Meanwhile, Germany dominates on all fronts with creative, spirited attack. MAAAYYYYYBEEEE our defense will be good enough and a bounce or two will go our way to beat them.

If the USA cannot mount some sort of attack vs China, we will never even see Germany.