Tokyo Olympics QF: USWNT vs Netherlands, July 30, pre/pbp/post

thanks, Wiegman will change tactics they say she gets 'horse whispered a lot from some of the genuis Dutch men's coaches, and those are.......dunno, don't follow broso much

I would start Williams-Morgan-Press, then sub in Heath-Loyd-Rapinoe around the 60-75 min mark winning loosing or tied, their experience would be invaluable later on, especially if it goes to PK shootout.

I would start S Mewis, but even if she only comes in at the 60 minutes, she'll play half the game if it goes an full 120 min.

O'Hara-Dalhkemper-Davidson-Dunn(as I don't think the Brunski can handle guarding Miedema)

last sub as fire distinguisher for an injury or wherever needed

 

For tomorrow's game, I don't think getting players experience should be particularly important. The Olympic quarterfinals is a major event. It should be much more important to try to win. And although Lynn Williams has a lot of good qualities, I, prima facie, wouldn't start someone against Holland in an Olympic quarterfinal who played only 16 minutes in the group stage.

But your starting line-up is thought-provoking. It's certainly younger and faster than mine.

Would you start Sam Mewis instead of Lindsey Horan? I'd start Horan. For one thing, the latter has played better than the former so far in this tournament. For instance, Horan had a nice goal against New Zealand, and Mewis had a number of turnovers against Australia.

Is "Brunski" Tierna Davidson? If so, what reason is there to believe that she can't handle guarding Miedema? Davidson has looked good this tournament. However, Davidson is very young. Also, you may have watched her play much more than I have. I hadn't focused on her play prior to this Olympics.

 

Sauerbrun. They put Davidson in their lineup as a starter in the post...

 

I do not think it matters who plays or who starts or even who is available. What matters is how whoever plays and how they are instructed to play and how much damage the three group games did to the team's motivation. In the group games they never directly confronted what has been going wrong for the last year and a half or more. The team has been told to "slow down" and "take it easy" for so long that it will be extremely difficult to change that attitude. Players learn how the coach wants them to play over time and suddenly switching to a higher tempo and greater pressure will be very hard.

I believe, as I have said before, that if they do manage to win it will be because the Dutch play more stupidly than the US and I doubt the Dutch will play that stupidly.

Most people do not know how hard it is to overcome the stupidity of playing slow for a long time.

I hope I am wrong but it would not at all surprise me if this match is the last the US plays at this Olympics.

 

Other Chapter in the Holy Gospel according to Caitlin:
https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-...ers-are-trusting-the-process-under-andonovski

 

If the players on the USWNT really "Trust" Vlatko Andonovski then they are more stupid than I have ever thought they could be.

 

They can hardly throw him under the bus before the match, can they. There will be plenty of time after if the results don't go well.

 

They can just ignore what the idiots on the bench tell them and play good soccer instead of whatever the coaches have them playing.

 

*extinguisher?

Or was this intentional?

It's a lot easier to identify a fire than to put one out, and the consensus on this forum over the past week is that the team has, so far at this tournament, been better at doing the former than the latter.

 

Nonsense

 

Have I ever disclosed that I’m an Olympic Gold Medalist??...??
Full Disclosure: It was my neighborhood Olympics and the event was the beer chug relay………anchor leg beeeochzzz.

28,800 seconds to Kick.

 

More nonsense

 

Thank you, MRAD12. I could say more, you could have said more, but I respect how concise you were.

 

Vlatko Andonovski is nonesense!

 

I do not think there is a consensus on that. Some posters simply do not repeat themselves over and over.

 

The 21st century definition of "consensus..."

 

Yes I do.

Men and women alike. If someone is excused for personal reasons, it's not my business to know what these reasons were. If nobody could confirm anything, it's just a sign that those reasons, being personal, were well protected, as I expect they should be, and as I know I would want them to be if they were mine.

I assume that, if she pulled out from an high level friendly game (let's remember anyway that it was just a friendly game) "just hours before kickoff", it was an emergency and those personal reasons were indeed pressing. Why should we think otherwise? Frankly, the way you're insisting about this point since months is well beyond ridiculous, it's even offensive to Wiegman. In your "alternative universe", how do you explain her absence? Fear? Carelessness? Incompetence? Unprofessionality? Are you aware of how absurd each of these theories sound? In your opinion, Dutch federation would have accepted an unreasonable excused absence without blinking?

I'll repeat what I said, to make it clear: Sarina Wiegman probably had a personal emergency that, for very reasonable motivations, she didn't want to disclose to the world (even if we live in an era where it seems like people should feel compelled to share any detail of their lives with anyone else). If you preemptively don't believe her and try to build strange conspiracy theories to explain her absence in a different way, you're acting not differently from those lunatics who stalk victims of crimes by claiming that these crimes have never happened and that they invented them to push some kind of political agenda.

Stop it! There was no mystery at all to discover in that meaningless incident!

 

The US game with Netherlands will be shown live on Telemundo channel...A Spanish language channel...You do not need a cable subscription...

NBC will be showing TODAY show when the US game is on...

 

It’s going to be on NBC Sports Network

 

I was just trying to help out people, living in US, who do not have cable...Those people do not have to look for game stream links on Internet...They could watch the game on TV with Spanish commentary...

The game, on Telemundo, could be recorded on a DVR which could record regular TV programs...A hard drive has to be connected to the DVR...

 

Vlatko looking for a more physical starting lineup to wind down the Dutch & then maybe later bring on finesse?

just wonder if Lloyd suppose to be the playmaker(while Lavelle not in?

 

Interesting that Van de Sanden is starting. She's been quite underwhelming, lately, compared to the player she was in 2017.