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YES! WE GOT THE GOLD MEDAL!!!

 

Congrats! Gold for Germany!

Now finish off Brazil tomorrow!

 

#calledit

 

Great victory for the Germans! Well done Maro

 

HA HA HA HA

 

#calledit

 

YEEES! Congrats to the Ladies! That second half was a really good game to watch!

 

And now Silvia Neid be like...

 

I hope the girls invite me to the celebratory orgy

 

Busy with Manchester United and other stuff, but managed to catch the final 15-2o mins of the Olympic final.

Critical changes are hopefully going to take the next team to a higher level, but to send Neid and a few of these players out with a full set of WC-Euro-Olympic's is a very unique accomplishment that even I can't crap on.

Well done girls, but role on the next era for the wnt as there's definitely better to come if you ask me.

 

After the girls failure at the WC to see Germany holding both WC's at the same time, I really hope the guys can go and complete the set of Germany holding both Golds for Olympic football tomorrow.

Olympic football and Germany haven't really been a thing before this, but it would be pretty amazing to see Germany possess Gold in male and women's football competitions....

 

We have the advantage of playing the tournament at home

 

I hope we party so hard that Hope Solo gets the Zika

 

Neid finally switched Maro to AM for this game, and she solved the problem on defense by literally making a Schult a third cb!(or at least came racing out of the penalty box to plug in all the holes on defense that Bartusiak & Krahn kept making) But the game wasn't clinched until finally Behringer came out for Goessling.

Of course Pia made some mistakes; she takes out too early what I consider Sweden's most dangerous player in Jacobbson, but keeps in Schelin who was way too selfish whenever she got the ball.

But overall an very exiting game!

 

Great job by our golden girls which is why I will not dwell too long on the question why we committed up to six players to attack with five minutes to go when the Swedes clearly were only dangerous on the counter...

 

LOL, hmmmm... lets see.

Why oh why would the coach who's pretty much derided by every poster in this thread, allow at least six of her players on every attack to continue running recklessly forward close to the end of the game, when everybody watching at home, and everybody in the stadium, could all see Sweden's only chance to score is via an opportunistic counter attack...

Just be pleased that Germany won a medal at the Olympic's lol; this really wasn't expected.

 

It looked like Marozsan was playing CM to me, randomly finding herself in the exact spot she usually prefers most (just behind the forwards) to expertly execute the games opening goal.... It's also a goal near identical to one she scored for Frankfurt away to Hoffenheim last season too.

Anyway, Marozsan must have been played in every role but the defense or GK in this tournament lol, so I'm pleased she actually had at least one game where she was able to receive the ball in an area of the field to showcase what she does best for a change.

Yeah, once again the Olympic football tournament continues to be a very odd tournament, generally lacking in quality/intensity of WC or European Championship finals, but always coming up with a decent final match in the end to showcase the women's game to an otherwise disconnected audience sat in the stands.

 

Are you sure it was a mistake? You tend to value speed over just about everything when you're assessing players, hotjam2 (see your consideration of Thomis), but it seems to me that Sofia Jakobsson (written with a "k", just one "b" and two "s", by the way... ) didn't produce in 55' much more than what Blackstenius did in 35'. It seemed a spot-on substitution to me.
And Schelin, as selfish as it can seem, was always a constant danger: you don't take out such a player (I could be wrong, but wasn't it her that, in the last minutes, put that ball on Schough's feet? The chance for 2-2 that Schough proceeded to horribly waste? ).

By the way, I see a bright future ahead for Blackstenius. I expect this goal to be one of the first highlights of a long and brilliant career!

 

Mit unserer Goldmedaille fahr'n wir nach Holland!