PBP: NWSL Week 10 Discussion

Discussion in 'NWSL' started by Semblance17, May 29, 2018.

  1. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [SkB-UTA]
    Groom for Lloyd (and Beckie to CAM); Tiernan for McCaskill.

    Stengel for Rodriguez; Lytle for Tymrak; Miramontez for Sauerbrunn; Barnhart for A.Smith.

    Sky Blue: Q Rodriguez / OUT Skroski / INTL Lloyd McCaskill
    Utah: Q none / OUT Arlitt Laddish O’Hara / INTL Rodriguez Sauerbrunn A.Smith
     
  2. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #27 Gilmoy, Jun 2, 2018
    Last edited: Jun 2, 2018
    03' 0-1 Gibbons is way up at circle back wide right, passes toward Beckie past circle right, intercepted by Jónsdóttir at midfield box right. Jónsdóttir chases to circle top box left, taps square left to Lytle(?), continues her own run -- both Killion and Gibbons are drawn to Lytle, nobody picks up Jónsdóttir! Lytle chips up wide left to Jónsdóttir loose behind Gibbons, from 35m to 13m box left. Fast cross on the run drops at 2m 2-right, Matheson separates laterally from Frisbie and slide-volleys perfectly, rising past Sheridan into center back high.

    10' 1-1 Frisbie lags a long pass from circle top wide left to 9m box left. K.Johnson is 1/2 step ahead of Corsie at 25m mid-left (held onside by Miramontez across the mowed stripe), veers away from her and gets to ball first. Groom is amidst 4 through arc left, but nobody within 5m of her. K.Johnson one-touch right outstep pass to 12m 5-left, Groom runs on and shoots one-touch left instep across mouth, outswings perfectly away from Barnhart's dive, into back right low.
     
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  3. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    26' 1-1 Frisbie chases bouncing ball away through own 25m box left. Elby runs the other way, pokes ball first and hip-bumps Frisbie down into a hard judo fall on her right side. Side of head bounced off turf? Frisbie stays down, play continues: Sky Blue try a counter into circle center, but Scott comes back and clears it to Barnhart. Stoppage.

    28' 1-1 Trainer comes out, Frisbie walks into near touch. Sky Blue have a sub up, but resume with 10 for now.
     
  4. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    30' 1-1 Utah cross to 6-top, Jónsdóttir slides through ball and undercuts Gibbons, who goes down. Stengel collects with a drag-and-spin left across 6-top, can't shoot, taps back to Gorry. One-touch shot sails wide left.

    31' 1-1 Sky Blue subs in (1 of 3) #17 Dominique Richardson for #9 Amanda Frisbie. Gibbons resumes.
     
  5. Smallchief

    Smallchief Member+

    Oct 27, 2012
    Club:
    --other--
    Great goal by Groom.....and a great pass from Johnson. Beckie has been good this half too -- and I havent been impressed with her up till now this year.

    Sky Blue can't hold the ball in the midfield. Maybe more long balls forward to Johnson and Groom?

    I get more impressed with Elby of Utah with every game. Matheson, as always, gives 110 percent.
     
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  6. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    #31 SiberianThunderT, Jun 2, 2018
    Last edited: Jun 2, 2018
    The DC-CHI game is now streaming directly on NWSL's site, which is awesome for me since I don't have Lifetime...

    But that 5hr lightning delay, though! There is NO ONE on Spirit Hill, and maybe 30 people in the far side stands. I don't know if this game is still showing on Lifetime as well, but if it is, it's a sorry look.

    =edit=
    Holy shit the skies apparently just opened up over Germantown, it seems! And there's maybe 30 other people in the near side stands too.
     
  7. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    Yellow to Lohman
    Free kick Nagasato
    Wys blocks it but Kerr buries the rebound.
     
  8. WWC_Movement

    WWC_Movement Red Card

    Dec 10, 2014
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    Papua New Guinea
    These girls are WET
     
  9. WWC_Movement

    WWC_Movement Red Card

    Dec 10, 2014
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    Papua New Guinea
    This game is not on Lifetime TV now.
    Lifetime TV is showing "Fiancé Killer" now, followed by "I Killed My Ex Boyfriend".
     
  10. WWC_Movement

    WWC_Movement Red Card

    Dec 10, 2014
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    Papua New Guinea
  11. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [SkB-UTA]
    86' 1-2 Matheson turns past midfield right touch, Jónsdóttir hits the 'turbo' button on her joystick and backcuts Stott way up at circle top, opens big separation. Matheson chips up wide right over Jónsdóttir's shoulder, Jónsdóttir outpaces Stott and Richardson not closing outward. Stengel trails Freeman through box top right post, Gibbons leads Thorsnes through arc left. Jónsdóttir catches up to ball at 14m wide left, one-touch right instep cross to 6m 3-right. Freeman shuffles feet, fends off Stengel closing onto her back/right shoulder, pokes an awkward clearance -- and it's a perfectly disasterous down-bouncer past Sheridan wrong-footed, bouncing up across mouth behind her turn-and-dive, into 1/6 left 1/2 high.

    The 2nd replay shows that Freeman put so much of her weight backward to bump with Stengel, she had none left to put forward into the ball. Tough play.

    FT 1-2.
     
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  12. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [WAS-CHI]
    25' 0-1 Nagasato fk at 25m left post, trick play: Chicago has this meme of Colaprico standing just in front of the 5-wall center, and then -- stepping aside for a low shot :p This time, Colaprico ducks as Nagasato chips right instep fast low hair-skimming shot just over Lohman not jumping :alien:. Ball inswings and dives to left post low, Wys dives and slides in front of it but never squeezes ball (which is sopping wet anyways).

    Meanwhile, Gilliland(?) and Kerr are 2-v-1 on Church at box top 6-left. They casually interchange, so Gilliland ties up Church and Kerr is unmarked :eek: on the outside. As Nagasato shoots, Kerr backcuts Church (an unfair match-up to begin with), already 1.5m ahead at 7m 2-left as ball rebounds to 5m left post. Simple one-touch finish floats way over Wys, into right side netting high.
     
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  13. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    48' 0-2 White crosses from 30m box right to box top right post, Nagasato does a perfect :eek: jump-halfspin chest trap to own feet at 15m, settles and backshields Quinn. Square pass left to Mautz shielding E.Johnson, Mautz turns cw and creeps outward to 14m 6-left. Three defenders converge on her, as Nagasato backs up unnoticed to 16m left post. Mautz taps back to 15m left post, Nagasato snipes one-touch left instep through a seam, past Wys's dive just inside left post low.
     
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  14. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    With last night's results we are now in a season where there are more home losses (17) than home wins (16).

    It was mentioned earlier that you could potentially ignore the bulldozer team NC, in which case the numbers come to 12 and 12, but I think that if you want to ignore a team that wins no matter where it plays, you also should ignore the team that loses no matter where it plays. That is, if you're taking NC out of the data, you should probably take NJ out for the counterbalancing reason.

    You need to make sure you don't double-count NJ's games against NC, so instead of removing another 5 home losses and 3 away losses (3 home wins) from the overall data, you remove 4 and 2, so the overall numbers fall to 8 home losses and 10 home wins.

    As such, if you ignore the teams for which location clearly doesn't matter, you finally return to a weak home field advantage for the rest of the table. It's pretty weak, though.
     
  15. cpthomas

    cpthomas BigSoccer Supporter

    Portland Thorns
    United States
    Jan 10, 2008
    Portland, Oregon
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Interestingly, looking at the last 98 games (the games played so far this year and the games played in the latter part of last year, but excluding all of Boston's games), the home loss/win ratio is just about the same as your 8/10. In fact, it's a slightly smaller home field advantage: 35/40. This does not exclude the North Carolina and Sky Blue games.

    Our data samples are small, but there's certainly a suggestion that home field advantage may be minimal in the NWSL.
     
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  16. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [HOU-NC] Shim for K.Mewis; Hanson for Agnew.

    Speck/Kawamura/Roccaro for Zerboni/S.Mewis/Dunn; Kurtz/Eddy for Dahlkemper/Mathias.

    Houston: Q Simon (she starts) / OUT K.Mewis / INTL none
    North Carolina: Q Hamilton Hinkle (starting) L.Williams (starting) / OUT D’Angelo Doniak King / INTL Dahlkemper Dunn Mathias S.Mewis O’Sullivan Zerboni
     
  17. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    09' 0-0 Perfect through-ball lets Daly splits the CBs to 8m 6-left, left instep shot across mouth beats Rowland but outswings just wide right.

    15' 0-0 Houston have much midfield control. North Carolina have sporadic forays across midfield, but can't sustain it.

    17' 0-0 Daly(?) serves from ~22m box left -- ball rises hard into Kurtz's solar plexus, she goes down with a wouf and taps out. Brief stoppage, Kurtz walks off -- can smile about it, promptly checks back in.

    Daly is gimpy, too: left leg/thigh?
     
  18. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    22' 0-0 Debinha dribbles to box top mid-right, Brooks as last defender standing-pokes ball off her foot. North Carolina collollect but lose it, Motlhalo switches to Ohai at circle top box left. Ohai drives at Kurtz, veers inside to turn her, cuts outside behind her back -- through box top to 12m mid-left, left foot shot stays wide left into side netting ... at 21:01, which is 22' :p
     
  19. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's Dog Day at BBVA! The roving camera has picked out a Maltese and a black Lab/mix.

    25' 0-0 Hanson loose pass at own ~25m wide right, Hinkle is that high up and steals it, maintains her pace into the void behind Hanson. Hinkle makes a cut past Van Wyk(?) at 5m box right, follows ball into box but Brooks(?) calmly passes to Hanson.

    26' 0-0 Houston find Daly pressing the right flank through box top wide right, 2-v-2 but ball rattles off defenders and they clear. Stoppage: Motlhalo is down on back at circle center. Teammates nearby are not overly worried: just a bump? Motlhalo trots into near touch, returns.
     
  20. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    28' 0-0 Goofiest play ever. NC miss(?) a diagonal pass toward right corner, everybody just watches it roll from arc top ... and it hits the corner flag pole, trickles into the rut of the right touchline, and sits 1/3 in, 1/3 on, 1/3 out. It's still a live ball :laugh: Chapman accelerates to collect it, but now Houston are pinned deep on their own endline. Ohai can't keep an outlet pass in, NC win a right throw-in. For pks, they'll flip a coin to choose sides, and it'll land on its edge and stay there --

    30' 0-0 Ohai stripped by Eddy at arc top wide left -- then sprints back 30m and disrupts Debinha from behind, allowing Van Wyk to intercept.

    32' 0-0 1h hydration break. It's 95°F in Houston :unsure: Camera finds -- more dogs!
     
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  21. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    38' 0-0 Simon comes back to ball at circle top left, slips while planting to stop-and-turn, goes down flat -- and stays down. Debinha collects and counters to 22m arc left, shoots long through Houston's back line. Campbell blocks ball down and smothers it.

    39' 0-0 NC long cross from the left, McDonald(?) chases it down at 8m wide right. Eddy comes up and fights to 13m just outside box right, Ohai tugs her down from the shoulders. Foul.

    41' 0-0 Roccaro crosses from 12m wide right to 4m center, Campbell catches and absorbs a shoulder-bump from McDonald, rolls out of it like a paratrooper.
     
  22. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    42' 0-0 Houston hoof a high cross to 25m arc left. Daly stops and stoops under ball, Kurtz lunges into/upon Daly's back -- and falls upon her. Daly stays down, holding back of head. Foul on Kurtz. The pbp tandem promptly open discussion on who fouled whom -- tiny blame on Daly for leaning in and "bridging", but most of it to Kurtz for leaving her feet and flattening another player's space. Stoppage.

    45' 0-0 Daly gingerly walks off field, between 2 trainers but unassisted. Almost surely done now: Latsko and Kgatlana are warming up.
     
  23. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    45' 0-0 Ohai taps square to 26m center, Simon runs on and waffles a shot way high right. Daly returns :eek: +7'

    45+1' (of +7') 0-0 Debinha jukes down box left to 3m, creeps inward, chips a cross to 5m right post. L.Williams lunges in exuberantly, shoulder-strikes Chapman(?) flat. Foul, yellow card on L.Williams.
     
  24. Gilmoy

    Gilmoy Member+

    Jun 14, 2005
    Pullman, Washington
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    45+4' (of +7') 0-0 NC long serve to box top center, Brooks backheads just enough, Campbell is able to collect the bounce.

    45+6' (of +7') 0-0 Houston attack down box right, long cross to mid-left headed(?) across by Eddy. Ohai collects, Eddy pokes it up left touch and out.

    45+6' (of +7') 0-0 Daly dribbles at 24m mid-right. Chip to 5m left post, Ohai bursts through and heads square to 4m right post. Motlhalo lunge-heads softly just inside right post -- offside.

    45+7' (of +7') 0-0 Debinha dinks a pass over arc top to 12m left post for L.Williams (or McDonald), Campbell races out and collects on one bounce first.

    HT 0-0. More dogs (and more of the same dogs). Maybe there's only about ten dogs present today? It's an Extra-Long Tongue day, to shed heat -- and not just for dogs --
     
  25. Smallchief

    Smallchief Member+

    Oct 27, 2012
    Club:
    --other--
    Daly, no surprise, is injured -- but soldiers on. Two most reckless players in the NWSL: Daly of Houston and Raso of Portland. Both talented, gritty, hyper-competitive --and I love to see them play, but it's like a train wreck waiting to happen with them on the field.

    Campbell at GK and Brooks and Van Wyck at center backs have been outstanding for Houston.
     

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