Problem is that Thailand kept it as low as 3-0 in the first half through heart, hustle and organization. So much harder to play with heart at 6-0...
52' 4-0 Lavelle jumps backward to head at 33m wide right, Thongsombut undercuts her with a bend-over. 53' 5-0 Heath fk at 33m wide right, over Horan in a scrum at 4m center. Ball drops untouched(??) to 3m 1/3 left, Morgan lifts right outstep and flicks in off her shin. 54' 6-0 #_ ground cross back to 12m center, Lavelle swings left low roundhouse and glances ball to 6m 1/5 right. S.Mewis is thereat between 2 defenders (neither marking her), reflex-blasts in with left roundhouse. This is becoming a North Carolina-like beatdown -- we're used to this pace, nobody else is.
New rule, you have to play it back to the keeper before each shot and you can only shoot with your off foot. With Carli on this is about to get brutal.
What can they do, they earned their spot. It’s just unfortunate that they ended up in the USWNT’s group.
Even if it were a possibility, it is not, I would not move to Thailand. I spent sometime there in the 70s and was miserable the whole time. I could not wait to get back to Laos and Vietnam where people only shot at me and the weather was only wet, hot and sticky.
56' 7-0 Ertz passes to Dunn at 27m wide left. Dunn slips a diagonal pass into 12m mid-left for Mewis running on, she pulls one-touch ground cross just behind Morgan reaching back at 8m left post, to 11m 2/5 left. Lavelle front-cuts Thongsombut(?) up centerline, blasts left instep under Chor Charoenying into center back low. Torrential downpour in Riems 1138540464993267712 is not a valid tweet id 57' 7-0 USA subs in: - (1 of 3) #10 Carli Lloyd for #16 Rose Lavelle - (2 of 3) #23 Christen Press for #17 Tobin Heath.
You could argue the first touch was a save rather than a deliberate play. But the second touch was definitely a back pass
Did that idiot Fox announcer just suggest that Thailand can lose to the US & Sweden and then have a chance to get through one goal differential while they’re down 7-0?
Lose to Sweden 1-0 and beat Chile 5-0 and hope that's one of the top four third-place resumes? Not even their coach thinks that. Probably need to draw Sweden, which doesn't seem possible.