05' 0-0 Wow, the graphics buffering comet trails are very psychedelic. You don't know where the players are, but you know where they came from
10' 1-0 Pickett right ck, driven head-high to 4m 6-right. Pressley starts at 3m right post facing away, runs a designed curl to the ball and leaves Menges in her wake, leans endline-ward and heads a redirection over Eckerstrom's left shoulder, into back left low. That's using your head @Toni_Deion!1-0 | #ORLvPOR pic.twitter.com/lALcEiIXQ2— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 11, 2019 18' 1-0 Stream improves! Crnogorčević heads from ~12m left post, just wide left low past Kopmeyer's dive.
28' 1-1 Boureille entry pass(?) toward Brynjarsdóttir surrounded 1-v-4 at 12m 6-right. van Egmond(?) turns to face own endline, sticks foot out and deflects ball through the scrum. Kopmeyer dives horizontal left, ball skitters just beyond her reach, Brynjarsdóttir cuts hard between Pressley and Reid(?) caught ball-watching. Ball bounces off right post low, away to 4m 5-right. Brynjarsdóttir arrives first, sliding volley over Kopmeyer's right shoulder, across goal into back left low. .@dagnybrynjars with the hustle for her first goal of the season. #BAONPDX #ORLvPOR pic.twitter.com/EwmeL7Y3jG— Portland Thorns FC (@ThornsFC) May 12, 2019 Always. Follow. The. Shot. @dagnybrynjars gets the rebound and the goal. 1-1 #ORLvPOR Watch Live: https://t.co/L2403ek9iW pic.twitter.com/r5g93Ye7CF— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019 31' 1-1 1H hydration break. 33' 1-1 Orlando crosses from box top wide left to 6-top left post, Menges heads a high pop-up to 15m 2/5 right. Marta waits under it alone, winds up a huge left roundhouse full volley to 1/4 right low hard, Eckerstrom dives horizontal and blocks it over endline right. 34' 🚫 @Breck28 🚫 #BAONPDX #ORLvPOR pic.twitter.com/KV5bFX9nwW— Portland Thorns FC (@ThornsFC) May 12, 2019
35' 1-1 Carpenter gets to box top mid-right, Hill fouls her just outside the box. Foul, yellow card on Hill. 36' 1-2 Andressinha fk at 17m mid-right, right instep over wall into right 90, over Kopmeyer's left glove. Oh my, Andi. 😱 #BAONPDX #ORLvPOR pic.twitter.com/COyjVwvAv9— Portland Thorns FC (@ThornsFC) May 12, 2019
HT 1-2. The first (bad) stream might have been hard-wired into NWSL's screen-cap pipeline. Ever since the switch, they don't do grandstand-level screencaps, only field-level screencaps or wide-angle GIFs.
46' 1-2 Portland subs in (1 of 3) #20 Hayley Raso for #7 Ana-Maria Crnogorčević. 57' 1-3 Carpenter fakes a turn-away, does a dragback cut down mid-right, lures Hill into a lunge, stays upright past her to 3m mid-right. Shross to 1m right post, headed(?) high and away to 8m left post. Foord measures the drop, perfect knee-high right roundhouse volley, deflected(?) across mouth into back right edge 1/5 high. So clean, @CaitlinFoord. 👌 #BAONPDX #ORLvPOR pic.twitter.com/2uCqltnf9c— Portland Thorns FC (@ThornsFC) May 12, 2019 Wait for it.... Wait for it....@CaitlinFoord POW!1-3 #ORLvPOR Watch Live: https://t.co/L2403ek9iW pic.twitter.com/OV0VDbqA45— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019
65' 1-3 Pressley fouls Purce in the box. 66' 1-3 Foord pk, right instep to 1/5 left 1/4 high, Kopmeyer dives and double-blocks down to 7m left post -- and she pops back up. Raso wins her race in that lane, hop-volleys toward 1/3 left, Kopmeyer dives again and blocks it straight down. Pressley curls her run to it, does a twisting fall and volleys away through box top (her) mid-left. What does @hkopmeyer say to PKs?"Not today."1-3 #ORLvPOR Watch Live: https://t.co/L2403ek9iW pic.twitter.com/XBtAFQdZz5— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019 66' | Incredible double save from @hkopmeyer on the penalty! WOW! 1-3 | #ORLvPOR pic.twitter.com/cWegXNJV1R— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) May 12, 2019 90+2' (of +3'?) 1-3 Weather delay, for lightning! The pbp guy (and NWSL's web pbp) thought R1 had simply called the rest of the game, but no.
I can't hear you! This week the robot could have beaten me with its hand tied under its back (ok, robots don't have hands or backs, but you get the point). Normally it's @Smallchief teching me idioms in English that I don't know about, but now it's you. Thank you, I guess I get what being a honey badger could mean.
I guess this is the first goal for mom Dagny, for sure dedicated to little Bjorn. What a fantastic FK!!! Andressinha should save some of these for the World Cup.
Actually I don't think the final roster for WWC has been finalized yet from Brazil. If you take the WWC 2019 rosters thread as a reference (and @lil_one keeps it quite well updated), it looks like Brazilian roster hasn't been named so far. Also, if it's true that Andressinha hadn't been called to NT for SheBelieves Cup in March, she was on the squad instead for the friendly matches in April vs Spain and Scotland, according to Wikipedia. So, I assume she's at least a serious candidate for the final roster.
Wasn't able to watch the games live. Well, I was wrong about SBFC, though in my defense, I somehow missed the news the Canadians had been called in, so I didn't know Sheridan wouldn't be there. Last week, I thought the SBFC midfield played really well, but this game, once again, their midfield disappeared. Washington just kept waltzing right on through with hardly any pressure. The Utah/Houston game was quite surprising. I thought Houston played very poorly (lots of disconnected passes, it almost looked like the team had never played together before) and yet somehow (well pretty much through Daly's brilliance) they managed a win. However, if they ever do all get on the same page, their offense could be brilliant. For Utah, I guess loosing Scott was all it took to break their clean sheet streak. Did the Orlando vs Portland stream ever get better? I stopped watching after a couple minutes because I couldn't take it anymore. Yes. Not sure it's an idiom, though there is a meme that "honey badger don't care" which started from this Youtube video: (I will say CoachJon is completely right; Daly really personifies a honey badger)
It did, but it took quite a while. Once they fixed whatever the problem was, it was fine. It definitely was really horrible until fixed, the worst I've ever seen. Grrr ....
[CHI-NC] Stanton/Vasconcelos for Mautz/K.Johnson. Our starting XI for #CHIvNC, presented by @MagellanCorp MORE | https://t.co/F7Lz85CfWQ pic.twitter.com/ulel0iKOVj— Chicago Red Stars (@chicagoredstars) May 12, 2019 Roccaro for Kurtz; Rowland for Labbé. 1127680713178976256 is not a valid tweet id Chicago: OK (<= Q) DiBernardo, (<= OUT) Stanton Wright / (OK => OUT) Mautz / INTL (USA) Brian Davidson Ertz Naeher North Carolina: (Q <= OUT) Rowland / OUT (OK =>) Perea, (=) Harbison / INTL (USA) Dahlkemper Dunn McDonald S.Mewis (CAN) Labbé
I was wondering if we'd ever see Roccaro when Kurtz got the start last week. It's bewildering how her pro career has turned out.
09' 0-0 Chicago get caught in NC's box, long outlet to Hamilton at circle back left, in a 2-v-2. Hamilton veers rightward at circle left, perfect diagonal pass right springs Debinha outpacing Gorden(?). Debinha dribbles to arc right, shoots across mouth, Boyd blocks at 7m right post. Ball leaks through her wicket but dies in grass, Boyd turns and grabs it. .@Debinha7 is sprung for a half-field run on goal, but @emilynboyd1 snuffs it out. 0-0 | #CHIvNC Watch Live: https://t.co/inBuEZNuhw pic.twitter.com/ubWN23OeEK— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019 11' 0-0 Debinha gets to 15m 6-right, shoots across mouth under Boyd's right hand diving, just wide left low. 13' 1-0 DiBernardo turns 180 through circle halfback left, passes to Nagasato running unmarked through circle top right -- meanwhile, Kerr starts her parallel run through circle top left, 3m behind Roccaro but outpacing her greatly. Nagasato goes 30m mid-right, lags a perfect outside-in ground pass through arc right. Kerr overtakes Roccaro with 1m lateral separation, touches to 8m 6-right, shoots across mouth just left of Rowland's shoes. Rowland sprawls down on right side and tries to make a wall with her torso, but ball tunnels through the gap below her ribs, loses momentum, still has enough to trickle in behind her, into back left low. Tell us if you've heard this one before?@Yuki_Ogimi ---> @samkerr1 ----> @chiredstarsPR GOAL.1-0 | #CHIvNC Watch Live: https://t.co/inBuEZNuhw pic.twitter.com/uPJ6iad6Q8— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019
Rowland's never been the best at the reaction saves, but I'm wondering if she's still not fully healthy? Seems she's a bit wary of going down to make a save.
33' 1-1 O'Sullivan(?) backpass to Mathias at 25m box right. Mathias creeps to 22m box right, 1-v-1 on Stanton -- North Carolina set up their track-start dueling-pairs across 12m, with Ln.Williams leaning past Wright at spot, Erceg-vs-Short to her left, Colaprico-vs-Spetsmark near left post. Mathias cuts inside past Stanton, all defenders get syncopated, Short tugs self ahead of Erceg. Ln.Williams back-cuts Wright playing high-line-all-step-up a half-beat too soon -- I think Ln.Williams peeked left and saw Short 1m ahead of her, and knew she had cushion to go early. Mathias chips a shross toward left post for Erceg/Spetsmark -- Ln.Williams leaves Wright at spot, hop-lunges at 6m 1/4 right, extends left foot ahead and redirects a soft bouncer into 1/5 right, behind Boyd's momentum as she went to left post. NC has used this pattern before it must be a Riley playground thing .@lynnraenie feeeeelin' it. 1-1 | #CHIvNC Watch Live: https://t.co/inBuEZNuhw pic.twitter.com/OGkIdunwYn— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019
It seems in the men's game, the goalies are better able to defend against such goals. They use their feet more and better. I've seen too many goals like that this season. EDIT: The post above is in regards to the first goal by Chicago. PS - Don't ever count out the Courage.
40' 2-1 Wright left throw-in at circle top, DiBernardo volleys back to her, Wright chips a mini-lob over DiBernardo's head at 35m box left. DiBernardo turns and chips to Kerr facing her at 27m mid-left -- meanwhile, Vasconcelos front-cuts across Mathis through 22m box left. Kerr one-touch twisting header down to arc top mid-left, Vasconcelos touches to arc tangent left, surrounded 1-v-4. Vasconcelos shoots right foot extreme pull against her run, ball bounces past Rowland's dive just inside left post low. Rowland seems tentative diving onto her just-healed right shoulder. Everything was beautiful about this @murph_vas7 goal. 2-1 | #CHIvNC Watch Live: https://t.co/inBuEZNuhw pic.twitter.com/J72aoiyvBA— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019 45+1' (of +1') 2-1 NC left ck, inswings to 2m 1/3 right. Kerr bravely heads down at ball just as Wright lifts a knee and socks Kerr in the right eye socket. Kerr stays on feet, drops back to 1m center. Ball bounces up off Short's torso, drops at 6m left post, Spetsmark goes down onto back and dinks a bicycle tap. Nagasato kicks it up, ball drops at 8m 1/3 left. Hamilton, facing away, does a high-toes ball stop, turns as ball drops straight down at her feet, shoots knee-high right roundhouse pull off left post -- Boyd twists self down onto right side reaching for it. Ball bounces away, off Boyd's back still down, pops up to 3m center, Kerr steps forth and blasts it away. Stoppage, Kerr stays down on own goalline, holding right orbital. A bit of madness in front of the @chiredstarsPR goal right before half, but escape unscathed. 2-1 | #CHIvNC Watch Live: https://t.co/inBuEZNuhw pic.twitter.com/Cw57MPT9JD— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019 HT 2-1.
49' 2-1 DiBernardo and Colaprico swarm O'Sullivan at 33m box right, O'Sullivan does a spin-cw but own right heel drives ball away. Colaprico passes to Kerr's feet facing away at 22m mid-right -- and Vasconcelos back-cuts Zerboni through 27m right post. Kerr dinks a square pass to 17m center, Vasconcelos touches to 9m center, Rowland comes out and slides down at 6m. Vasconcelos taps right outstep past Rowland's left hand, slow roller off right post low, bounces sharply across mouth through 2m center. Vasconcelos, continuing her run through 4m, stretches left foot out, gets a toe-poke, ball rolls just wide left to endline 1-left, and Mathias keeps it in and clears. We loves her, but she'll have the Benny Hill music for that someday Through on goal and everything but the finish. 2-1 | #CHIvNC Watch Live: https://t.co/inBuEZNuhw pic.twitter.com/OU2zPoceVl— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019
80' 2-1 Ln.Williams spins ccw away from Wright (who seems to have below-par leg strength today), to 3m wide right, crosses low to 5m 1/4 right. Boyd dives and hangs on, Pruitt races in and jumps a bit too exuberantly for it, leaves her feet and spins in air, trips over Boyd calves-first onto back. Foul, yellow card on Pruitt. 87' 2-1 Both GKs have been sharp on long serves into box. North Carolina can't quite combine with speed today (in the steady rain ), and so they've mustered only a string of long, high crosses, mostly lost. Chicago's threat of Kerr, and their willingness to overlap other players past Kerr for her to pass to, has earned several corners. 90' 2-1 Chicago lightning counter, Kerr turns at arc top right, taps rightward to Elby overloading through box top mid-right to 15m. Elby shoots right instep across mouth, past Rowland's dive, off left post low, ball bounces sharply across 6-box. NC counter down box right, Chicago cede a corner. +4'. The post continues to have a heckuva 2019. 2-1 | #CHIvNC Watch Live: https://t.co/inBuEZNuhw pic.twitter.com/gQ8wodTqSL— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 12, 2019