Women's World Cup 2015

[speedracer]

Penalties for everyone! Hooray!

 

[speedracer]

England seems to think lumping it forward to Jodie Taylor and hoping she can score 1v7 is a sound offensive strategy.

 

[deep]

England
diving into the final

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[No spoken words]

Deep, have you thought about getting a twitter account? You can more easily spam that way, I think.

 

[PennyLanePHINS]

So the PK's were a wash because neither should've been called. Though Japan would've won a dangerous free kick.

 

[deep]

I got nothing

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[PennyLanePHINS]

Wow what a blunder after such a good performance. Sucks that match ended like that.

Was hoping to see some bonus time. Oh well.

 

[speedracer]

I'm surprised that it took Japan that long to start playing the ball down their right side again.

Football is a cruel sport.

 

[PennyLanePHINS]

Feel gutted for England. Funny how that can happen. I wanted the Japan-USA rematch but just couldn't help but cheer for England as the 2nd half went on and they created so many chances. They're a different team from a year ago.

And it would've been cool to see England in the final now that I think about it - especially an underdog/underpaid England that you can get behind...compared to another England team.

I still think it sucks they had to drop out of bidding for the 2019 WWC. I believe the FA said they would stop bidding for FIFA tourneys until Sepp is gone? France will be a great host too, but England showed they can fill seats when 80,000 watched the USA-Japan gold medal match in London 2012. So imagine now after all this buzz? Oh well. Not to mention England is 1 hour closer than France to my time zone...but I'll stay up regardless.

Hope they beat Germany, since we won't see them at the Olympics because of the lack of a Great Britain team.

 

[cobl04]

I was watching this morning, heartbreaking stuff for England, and it was just soooo England the way it happened. Felt terrible for all involved, they were so rawly emotional, but at the same time... how do you fuck up that badly??

 

[speedracer]

Bassett just managed to nick the ball with her toe. If she hadn't touched the ball, it would have bounced to an open Japanese attacker 10 yards from goal. Can't really fault her for trying to make a play on the ball there.

 

[deep]

A real shame they are playing in this stadium
The sunlight and shadows works against one team.

 

[No spoken words]

Wow.

 

[deep]

coin toss

 

[deep]

put Wambach in

 

[Oregoropa]

We haven't had this advantage on Japan since the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot


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[Headache in a Suitcase]

A real shame they are playing in this stadium
The sunlight and shadows works against one team.

They should really only play in stadiums void of light

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Too bad that Japanese goalie had the shadow in her eyes. Otherwise she would have stopped that 5th goal

 

[deep]

The other stadiums used in this series have not had this design or sun issues

 

[deep]

As the day goes on there is less sun in the second half. Advantage to the team that is not there first

The announcers have mentioned it several times

 

[deep]

O'hara a good sub
Fresh legs

 

[deep]

"Hope Solo is lucky that sun has moved on and does not have to worry too much about it."

announcer

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Well the announcers are idiots, too

Obviously sun in the eyes can have a negative effect. But it's not like they only play in fucking domes. I think all these players have had to deal with sun and shadows before.

It's a complete non issue. Like deflated footballs, only dumber.

 

[PhilsFan]

I asked Kato Kaelin on Twitter and he says the US will win.


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[deep]

you can not understand one goal keeper having the sun in their eyes and the other not as being an advantage in a one off championship game?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

you can not understand one goal keeper having the sun in their eyes and the other not as being an advantage in a one off championship game?

Minimal effect, if any.

These women are the best at what they do in the world. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they've played with the sun in their eyes before.

Japan fell behind because they couldn't keep up with the pace. Not because they didn't wear sunglasses.

 

[deep]

I do agree not a big effect

In another stadium, I would expect USA to win, but perhaps not as big


A small advantage can make a difference

I think Canada got put out because of this stadium and the sun

They should have played this one someplace else, then you and every one watching on TV would not have had to hear anything about this one goal keeper having the sun in her eyes.

 

[phanan]

Well that was fun to watch.

 

[deep]

I enjoyed yesterday's game more.
Much better game and stadium.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I do agree not a big effect

In another stadium, I would expect USA to win, but perhaps not as big


A small advantage can make a difference

I think Canada got put out because of this stadium and the sun

They should have played this one someplace else, then you and every one watching on TV would not have had to hear anything about this one goal keeper having the sun in her eyes.

Why stop there?

Wind tends to only blow in one direction, which could make shots harder for one goalie. Especially if the winds die down at half time. So let's get rid of wind.

The crowd could be significantly louder on one side of the stadium than the other, so let's get rid of them, too.

One linesman may call a tighter game than the other.

They should really just simulate every game on a computer to make sure nobody gets any disadvantages.