dude, if any of them watched women’s soccer we’d recognize them from the preview threads.

I fuckin’ love it.

Mets fans

He hasn’t played the field at all this year.

and Formiga, too. you’re already without her for the third game of the group stage...so let’s take her out early here instead of trying to secure a result against Australia.

it’s dumb as shit. I think they’ve claimed the men would wear additional stars if the women win a WWC, but I don’t believe for a second they actually would.

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looool the Bruins dragged Tim Thomas out of wherever for this game

they need at least 1 of Cameroon-NZ and Argentina-Scotland to tie so that the third place in that group has only 1 or 2 points. then pray for the USWNT to go ham on Chile (or for Thailand to get a result on Chile) to advance on GD over 3F.

I swear to god if she plays Pugh in the attacking midfield behind the striker and Press out wide...I just don’t get it. I think the opposite way around is a clearly better use of both of their skills.

yeah, I mean, 1, fuck that and beat everybody in front of you as badly as you can, but also if I’m reading the bracket right 2F is likely to hit Germany in the quarterfinals anyway. don’t play bitch ball to get Germany instead of France!

Canadians are really gonna throw around “classless” in the context of sports today? Wow.

LOL at anyone who thought the US was going to try to finesse their way into a 2nd-place group finish to avoid France/Germany early in the playoffs.

gee whiz I don’t think we’ll finish second to Sweden on goal differential.

I wonder if they’re better off just plugging Brunn in for Dahlkemper and leaving Mewis in the midfield. Of course I won’t learn anything useful re: defense by watching them play Thailand.

with this roster they should play Krieger if either OB gets hurt. but as Fizzy’s pointed out Jill thinks Sonnett can play OB for ??? reasons.

oh god Becky’s ruled out today. this better be an abundance of caution.

+1, glad VAR exists for close calls but hate the way they’re handling offside this tournament in deference to it

Sonnett (who is a fucking CB, Jill) will be her sub but I wish it was Krieger, especially against any teams that will bother attacking.