Another goal has been scored New England 2-0 Orlando That's #70 against Orlando, tying Minnesota's record from last year.
it's amazing to think they were once 6-1-2 (w-d-l), a 2.11 ppg average, with wins over NYRB, Portland, Philly and RSL. Since then they are 1-3-17, with a 0.29 ppg average. Where's Jason Kreis when you need him?
Well, clearly Jason Kreis was the problem with that team. Since he was righteously canned the purity of their record is almost Mangrovian...............
Wasn't sure if it was going to be 4th down or not. Even so, I wouldn't put it past Oregon to go for it and play for the win, and I'm not sure we could have stopped them. We lost that game on the FG kick, overtime was just making it official.
You're sixth place, and final playoff place, team in the East is DC United. Is this where the DC collapse happens?
At least you'll have a beautiful stadium next year. Oh it could be worse, you could be a FIRE fan......
Especially since they went to VAR to issue the red and I don't believe sound is included in VAR, so they couldn't hear any foul or abusive language. (Foul and Abusive Gestures maybe, but I'd argue nothing he did falls into that unless you're looking for an excuse to toss a Rapid)
Oh, they were most definitely looking for an excuse to toss a Rapid, but I think they found it somewhere else in the chain of events.
Canada 7-0 Panama - Canada qualifies for France 19. We're minutes away from USA/Jamaica for another spot. Wednesday the U.S. and Canada will play for the relatively meaningless CONCACAF Women's Championship title, after Panama and Jamaica face off in the slightly more meaningful third place match. Winner goes to France, loser gets a home/home series against Argentina for a last ditch ticket to the World Cup. The big shock is Mexico's pratfall in the group stage. Jamaica is going to be a speed bump. Women's top level soccer is in the process of a huge change. Paul Riley has spent the last four years turning the Western New York Flash/North Carolina Courage into the prototype for the future of the women's game. Jill Ellis and the USWNT has taken notes. Basically Riley and the Courage player faster than anyone else. The Portland Thorns have as much, probably more, talent, but Riley has gotten his team to buy into a faster speed of thought and speed of play than I've ever witnessed in the women's game. They do it every day in practice and for 90 minutes in games. They miss a lot of passes, and their goal conversion rate appears very low, but then you see them break a team and score three quick goals. When they miss a pass, they have practiced that and they know what recovery run to make. They wear teams down and break them. Teams can't keep it up for 90 minutes, they're not prepared. If you watched the NWSL final, that was a great example. Ellis has been trying to follow suit. But it's harder with having players for a week every other month. And having different players. Riley has been working on a relatively stable squad for four years. But it is coming internationally. The beat downs the USWNT administered in Cary last week appear similar to their predecessors in each preceding WWCQ and OQ tournament. But even four years ago, the teams below Costa Rica were terrible. Out of shape players, teams that had probably less than a couple of weeks of practice together. That's mostly changed. All four teams in Cary will stocked with real soccer players. Jamaica is another squad of real players with professional and high level NCAA experience. But this new U.S. squad crushed them. The real question is if Ellis has time to get this style ready for France. The Canada game will be interesting to see if the U.S. puts up five or six on them. Canada has appeared to have narrowed the gap over the years, but a lot of that has been Christine Sinclair being Christine Sinclair. Christine Sinclair is old now. And the U.S. has shifted gears.
14:42 Megan Rapinoe was criminally unmarked and behind the defense on a wonderful long crossing pass from Abby Dahlkemper. Took the goalkeeper one on one and roofed it. 2-0.
20:35 Ertz to Dunn to Ertz. From the middle Ertz hits it deep to the corner where Crystal Dunn ran it down and crossed it back along the 6. Ertz headed past a helpless keeper with Horan waiting in case Ertz wasn't there. 3-0.