Olympic qualifying 2020, US vs Costa Rica on February 3

We clearly have CONCACAF quality refs again. They are just bad and we just have to live with it.

 

They’re gonna be all over Horan and Press the rest of the night

 

Damn. Another crack.

3-0

Press

 

Press with another beauty and has a brace. Press is having herself a night!

 

“Christen Press only scores golazos.” Damn right, Aly Wagner!

 

I've been having trouble with my browser (FireFox) I have switched to Chrome and I guess I now need to learn the idiosyncrasies of Chrome as, at least for now, FireFox seems unstable and slow on some sites.

 

Well guys, I guess I decided to pay 30 bucks for the Sling tv to get FS1 to watch the USWNT. I couldn't stand not being able to watch another match, knowing I missed the game against Panama.

It's worth it with this team.

 

The thing about Krieger is that she has an incredible soccer brain

 

Did anyone notice Lloyd's soccer smarts. She was coming back from an offside position and made no attempt to play the ball allowing an onside player to play it and then Lloyd got a half chance that otherwise she would never have had.

 

O'Hara for Dunn.

 

Probably for the better tonight. Dunn has been a little off with some bad passes and touches.

 

What a whiff from O'Hara....at least she's having fun out there.

 

She's always been confident. She's just never had opportunities because Alex Morgan got there first as a marketing phenomenon and federation cash cow. She's always been more talented than Morgan as a CF, but she's now become an elite winger which forces coaches to put her into the lineup regardless of who is playing CF.

 

15 minutes into this half, and we haven't scored. Free kick chance.

EDIT: I asked, the USWNT answered.

 

4-0

Mewis gets a goal.

The zone did not work.

 

She's always been confident. She's just never had opportunities because Alex Morgan got there first as a marketing phenomenon and federation cash cow. She's always been more talented than Morgan as a CF, but she's now become an elite winger which forces coaches to put her into the lineup regardless of who is playing CF.

 

Heath in for Ertz

 

Lloyd out for Rapinoe

 

Final sub: Rapinoe in, Lloyd off.

 

Since when did Press develop this free kick ability. She has never shown any free kick ability before.

 

7,082 in attendance

 

Even though this is a week day and they are in Houston and this is against a very weak opponent and this is CONCACAF the attendance is disappointing.

 

The "terrible" USWNT attendance in the absolute worst market Houston is still 3x what the men got in the biggest market LA on a weekend evening.

 

Do you ever watch her play, or just show up to criticize her on BS threads? She's an incredible player, IMO by far the best forward in the US program.

 

We learn nothing from matches of this sort but we have to play them to get to matches that matter and test us a little bit.