84' 0-0 Endless Spanish attacks now, many crosses intercepted or cleared. Spain now lead 20(7)-(0)1 shots(sog) 86' 0-0 Spain subs in (3 of 3) #2 Celia Jiménez Delgado for #17 Lucía García. 87' 0-0 China PR subs in (3 of 3) #21 Yao Wei for #17 Gu Yasha.
Another good framed chance for Spain, but it looks like they woke up too late with good finishing: they could be not in time to test Peng Shimeng often enough to actually score.
89' 0-0 Spain left ck, to left post face-high. Peng goes to left post, Jiménez Delgado cuts in behind her (but doesn't make contact), Peng goes into left post, punches ball over endline, sags down. Stoppage, trainers examine Peng Shimeng ... she resumes. +4'. 90+1' (of +4') Spain left ck, headed away.
How many keepers have China started in goal over the past 4 years? It seems like they have an endless amount.
FT 0-0. Both teams clinch advancement with 4 points. China PR 1(0)-(9)24 shots(sog), 0-8 corners(!), 2-1 offsides, 14-14 fouls, 9-14 clearances, 39% possession, 64% (204/318) - (444/580) 77% passing. Spain showed more, but China's defense was calm under pressure. Peng's 9 saves topped out with fairly routine single-body-length dives, maybe 300 milliendlers , but she made them all.
Due to this thing about earning an income, I missed the match. But what I have seen of Hermoso, good passing, good touch, good movement, poor finishing.
well it was good run, nice to make it out of the group. We'll have one last game it seems. We need to have a bit more something in the attacking end if we ever want to do something of note in the womens game. I fully expect the US to beat us by 4 or 5 goals.
Come on, have just a little faith in the upset of the century! After all, hasn't Spain lost just by 1-0 in a recent friendly match vs USA?
US were missing 4 or 5 of their starters IIRC. Anyway, the US won't have nearly as many shots as they have been but they are the most clinical team in the tournament and our goalkeeper is terrible.
I think Spain is capable of giving the U.S. problems with their possession game. They gave the U.S. a tough game last time they played, even if the U.S. was without a few starters--often U.S. subs are as good as the starters. Spain's problem is that they struggle to convert good possession into quality chances and goals. I thought they improved in that regard today--and were very good overall--but still could not score despite a huge possession advantage. They will have to score, of course, if they expect to beat the U.S.
I get that if you are used to watching males, but think about how they do as shot stoppers. There have been some really good keeping this tourney from Endner (Chile), Correa (Arg), Schneider (Jam) just off the top of my head. But second to that, and what got me to wrap my head around the ideas you are talking about, was listening to those who do have more experience watching the women's game, and playing with women. As an example, in high school, the female soccer team was one of the best in the state (in California), but we me were middling, to be generous. But every time we played the female team, we'd crush them. I paid attention to them and their playing and how it was not male, but excellent v. other female teams.