US v. China, April 6, 2014 in Colorado: Pre-, during, and post-game discussion

The usual way Press scores at Tyreso is if Marta spoon feeds the ball to her
So are you advisng that Sermanni should tied, bound & drag Marta out of Sweden ad make her play for the red, white & bleu?
Pure madness!!!..............hmm........... but it could work! and those easy going Swedes could have liberal kidnapping laws

 

Mewis can fill the role of Marta for the USWNT.
Five letters in her name, and starts with an "M".

 

Her ball distribution has been very good of late. Game could have been different with her at left back. Klingenberg did a lot of end line driving when the end line wasn't available.

 

As I've said in the past, I'm probably a little biased when talking about Heath or evaluating her performance [my profile picture says it all]. Please bear with me when it sounds like I'm over-glorifying her. I know she's not perfect, and that she's probably not the x-factor for the team that I often like to think she is.

 

such a boring game, until rapinoe came in a spiced things up. we got first goal because chinese keeper screwed up and second because that shot was awesome by rapinoe but also lucky. Without heath these games are getting boring, also this useless possession is boring to watch with no long balls. sermanni is starting to tick me off by not putting in heath. yeah i know i like heath, and proud of the reason, the games are not so boring. kliningberg rocked this game

 

Didn't see this posted: Attendance was 14,903 (83% of capacity). Decent size, but not as good as last time it was at DSP when they drew 18,589 (102.8% of capacity).

 

Agreed 100%. The amount of complaining above is stunning.

I agree that Brian was excellent. Her great skills in the middle of the field are much needed.

 

Wow, I thought you were joking. But it's true.

U.S. Soccer has announced that Tom Sermanni has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team.

— U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (@USWNT) April 7, 2014

 

WOW I did not see that coming.

 

lol. I thought the same thing.

 

I think we may need to open a new thread..

 

There still seems to be a good deal of people on twitter who think its an Aprils Fools.

Something internal must have happened, nothing on the field warrants this.

 

Well Gulati was at the game

 

You know, anyone can create new threads, not just WPS_Movement...

 

Wow, just wow. I guess he should have started Abby?

 

ahhahaha, hysterical. I was half jokingly thinking the same thing.

 

That is technically a Lie since that would indicate more than half of Press goals are made on passes or plays set up by Marta and that just not true. Mainly that it because Tyresö's midfield i not as Marta dominated as you seem to believe it is the trio MARTA-VERO-SEGER that runs it (with some good support). So saying that Press get most from being spoonfeed by her midfield may be technically correct (she still get much done from other sources, but you can hardly argue that the MF Trio is behind most of her goals).

 

I've been suggesting this since last fall; Press performance significantly falls without Marta beside her at Tyreso. The last couple of games only confirms that; 8-1 victory with Press scoring 3 goals with Marta in it. But with Marta sitting on the bench; 0-0 a week later against the same Austrian CL team, with Press not getting a single shot on target.

 

how can you explain her goals for FCG and a defeating marta on the other side of the pitch? it's called a slump with the line up she plays with on the NT. if i remember, they were saying morgan lost her scoring touch in early 2013 when nothing was getting netted. but we'll stick with the theory that press' pedigree is a fraud.

what's odd is, 2014 would be press' soph year with the team since sermanni gave her an intro in 2013 ? wow, morgan had a great freshman start (end of 2011 thru 2012) and a big time soph slump in 2013 including injuries similar to RGIII. i guess it doesn't work that way for other players.

 

Please. Go look at those highlights in that game. Oh and here's the boxscore:

1-0 Press (Klingenberg)
2-0 Marta (Rilany)
3-0 Marta (Diaz)
4-0 Dahlkvist (Press)
5-0 Press (Boquete)
5-1 Tseng Shu-O
6-1 Edlund (Press)
7-1 Press (Seger)
8-1 Marta (Press)

Yeah, really looks like Marta is the one supporting Press.

 

like i said, it's that 2nd year slump. and no one can explain why it happens in sports. but it doesn't apply to the uswnt, nothing applies to it. she had a briliant 2013 and can't find the net in 2014 even against tomato cans.

 

Here's the problem with your summation:

1.) Even when Morgan is in a mini scoring slump she still finds ways to produce by providing assists to her teammates. Like I've mentioned before, Morgan has had at least 1 goal or assist at each of her last 8 matches at the WC and Olympics.

2.) In 2013 Morgan scored all 6 of her goals (3 against Germany, 2 against Canada, 1 against Sweden)vs. strong opponents in tight matches. Do we really care if she scores a hat trick against Russia or Mexico when the team can blow away these teams if she just sits on the side lines and drinks tea? We need players to step up in crucial situations and not pad their stats in a Swedish league saturated with players that probably aren't good enough to play college ball here in the states.

 

...and ALL the players in the NWSL are good? Their are crappy players in all leagues, including the highly praised NWSL.