USWNT v Japan in April 2026, pre/pbp/post

This will backfire when you'll have to watch (and comment on) another Japan's win!

 

Do you think that japan will win all three matches or, maybe, be limited to only a two out of three victory?
I do not remember ever, on the men's or the women's side, having three consecutive matches against the same team. But, not being up on the overall schedule, I could miss things. Shoot I do not even remember the date(s) of the artificial "She Believes" tournament and this, somehow, could relate to that.

 

They will win every match that should have @soccernutter in attendance.

 

On Nadeshiko Japan's thread we have figured that it could be a way to simulate the timing the teams would have to face at the group stage of a big international tournament (although of course, in that case, the games wouldn't be all against a same opponent).

 

Extra incentive??????

 

Off-topic, but I would like that move, because it could resurrect those tournaments and it would give me the chance to attend them through a potential better weather. I've been in Algarve in early March twice: in one of those circumstances the weather had been anyway great, but in the other one it had been quite constantly rainish (does the word exist in English? I mean not properly fully rainy, but close to).

 

Most probably the correct word is drizzly, since there used to always be an annoying half-rain in the air.

 

US has that HUGE advantage of all three games played at home. Plus Japan will have to change to unfamiliar pitches & training facilities from one game to another to another, whereas US players are already used to them

 

I'm in Oregon's Willamette Valley, where it's the rainy season from November into April (temperate rain forest) and we have many names for liquid precipation depending on its characteristics. For what you are referring to, I think our term would be rainy on and off. For intermittent rain and sun, we call it liquid sunshine. We're used to rain enough that we seldom use umbrellas, although we all have at least one and probably several.

 

I posted the FOTMOB power rankings(for best performers)of the respective Japan/USA players from the top, neutral WSL league

3rd. Fujino……….:….16 Fox
8th. Hasegawa………32 Thompson
15. Seiko…………….47 Tullis-Joyce
24. Miyazama……….65. Macario
35. Yamashita………111 Girma
74. Ueki……………..136 Coffey
86. Koga…………….—- Nighswonger
93. Kumagai
117 Minami
120 Nagano
123 Miniki


edge maybe to Japan?

 

Edge to Japan if you accept (for example) that Girma's ranking - 111 - is in any way reflective of her quality (when healthy).

I am not doubting the numbers, but I'm not sure what they're worth.

 

That's what I thought-- not so much to train for it as to see how this year's team reacts, and to see if anything special must be planned for with this version of the organization(s)

 

Move Girma up about 60-70 spotss (min), 40-50 for Coffey. Wilson, Rodman, Lavelle, and Sonnett cannot be on the list..

 

As soon as I saw Girma at 111, my 'fraud meter' for this ranking went off the scale.
Thanks, but no thanks. LOL.

 

The only other website player ratings that I know of is Sofasoccer but they only go to top 50(which Girma didn’t make it)

Dunno why Girma is so much in the dump in the ratings: Chelsea has had a lot of injury problems this season, so team chemistry(which usually jacks up stats) might not be there. And then not a fan of Girma’s main partner, Millie Bright, wn over bloated CB who will often crash into/knock over her own teammates to get the ball—so I can see Norma getting out of the way anytime there’s an high ball coming their way.

And there’s always an difference between playing for club & country