PBP: USA-Japan: Oly group play

Full time: 1-0

 

You'll break into easy, trust me. Just don't become a drone as it happens all too often in this field.

 

good effort.
sooo happy we won.
still not impressed with this team. HAO is playing well and very happy with her. A-rod created some nice opps, but now needs to breathe and finish
Solo has made a few very bad mistakes. But i always though Barnhart has played just as well if not better than her this year.

 

apparently we have the invisible woman on the field because i saw her get all kinds of passes

 

once my debts paid off, im done.

 

Perhaps the ref from Thailand was chosen bc she could communicate in the English and Japanese LANGUAGES..

 

Hey, the asian teams are suppose to have the 12th player in the crowd (although I didn't hear them today) so we might as well have our invisie player.

 

post match thread
https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=731964

 

knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics on Saturday, team officials and state media said

The man then committed suicide by throwing himself from the second story of the site, the 13th century Drum Tower just five miles from the main Olympics site.

WTF

 

There was no analysis to be given but the poster's point that Brandi wasn't giving Hope any credit..I countered that w/ an example to the contrary.

 

ahh... i see.

 

What? Did that Li guy from Canada's Greyhound beheading escape?

 

Part of the problem is that they play soccer while the other teams play football; imo, it's part of the cultural thing to which some posters alluded in another thread.

The aggravating thing is that lack of quality passes through the middle. Also, they have to get out of the habit of playing "Abby ball". Abby's not there..so stop booting the forward ball as she's going to be there to knock it in. In reality, that's not a good way to play the game in general.

Overall, the US played much better than they did in Wednesday's match. Better communication and more aggressiveness. At least the US showed the desire to win.

 

No worries..I can do that!