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***Official 2023 Women's World Cup Thread***

The US women played well today but the Swedish goalie (Musovic) was outstanding for 120 minutes. IMO, it's unfortunate Rapinoe entered the game (in place of Morgan), as she demanded the leadership role and played poorly, failing to deliver quality corner / free kicks and missing her PK badly.

Sweden has the highest ranking of all teams remaining, Japan has looked dominant and England is rampaging, but I'm going with a dark horse and will pick the Netherlands. Go Oranje!!!
 
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IMO, What hurt the USWNT the most today was not having Rose Lavelle (suspended due to yellow cards). Either way, Sweden has been better in their four games than the USWNT has been and deserves to move forward.
 
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clonedude said:
Love all the Rapinoe hate... shows how absolutely clueless, and hateful people are. Dumb.
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FYI, I do want to clarify My thoughts are not hate for Rapinoe. I actually love Rapinoe and what she's accomplished with this team in her career. My daughter even has her jersey from the last world cup. I just don't think she did anything on the field that helped the US this year.

I think this US team wins easily if Mallory Swanson doesn't tear up her knee in April which could have allowed Ertz to play her normal mid possition and if Rose Lavelle wouldn't have gotten that 2nd yellow against Portugal.

Pk's are a hard way to lose, and Rapinoe and Smith are going to have lifelong regrets missing those potential winners. Sucks.....
 
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tzjung said:
FYI, I do want to clarify My thoughts are not hate for Rapinoe. I actually love Rapinoe and what she's accomplished with this team in her career. My daughter even has her jersey from the last world cup. I just don't think she did anything on the field that helped the US this year.

I think this US team wins easily if Mallory Swanson doesn't tear up her knee in April which could have allowed Ertz to play her normal mid possition and if Rose Lavelle wouldn't have gotten that 2nd yellow against Portugal.

Pk's are a hard way to lose, and Rapinoe and Smith are going to have lifelong regrets missing those potential winners. Sucks.....
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Smith has plenty of opportunities ahead of her to overshadow this miss. Rapinoe will have this as her last moment on the National stage.
 
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ISUCubswin said:
What did she provide this years team? She shouldn’t have been out there
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And that's her fault? Why was she out there?

Rapinoe and the USWNT have accomplished more in soccer than our men's team EVER will most likely... but not good enough for some haters I guess? The men's team never even gets to the round of 16 hardly ever.

I don't understand why everyone has to hate on everyone all the time nowadays? Don't get it? Rapinoe, and all these other women, have accomplished 10x more in their lives than pretty much anyone on this site... but some old guy in his underwear sitting in his basement typing on a computer is going to trash them. Talk about loser.

We weren't good enough this year.... and didn't catch some breaks... that's how sports go. If you wish to rip on this team for that... that says a LOT more about you. Alex Morgan hasn't played well either, but nobody calling her out for some strange reason?
 
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AlaCyclone said:
IMO, What hurt the USWNT the most today was not having Rose Lavelle (suspended due to yellow cards). Either way, Sweden has been better in their four games than the USWNT has been and deserves to move forward.
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I agree that Sweden has been better in the 4 games, but they were not better than the US this morning. We definitely stepped up and dominated everywhere on the pitch today. Sometimes that's just not enough to get it done though.
 
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clonedude said:
And that's her fault? Why was she out there?

Rapinoe and the USWNT have accomplished more in soccer than our men's team EVER will most likely... but not good enough for some haters I guess? The men's team never even gets to the round of 16 hardly ever.

I don't understand why everyone has to hate on everyone all the time nowadays? Don't get it? Rapinoe, and all these other women, have accomplished 10x more in their lives than pretty much anyone on this site... but some old guy in his underwear sitting in his basement typing on a computer is going to trash them. Talk about loser.

We weren't good enough this year.... and didn't catch some breaks... that's how sports go. If you wish to rip on this team for that... that says a LOT more about you. Alex Morgan hasn't played well either, but nobody calling her out for some strange reason?
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Morgan was ******* atrocious, too.

But she also didn’t miss a PK that would’ve won todays game.

No one here is ******** about Rapinoes accomplishments, they’re saying she probably should’ve been left stateside. Get your head out of her ass
 
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ISUCubswin said:
Morgan was ******* atrocious, too.

But she also didn’t miss a PK that would’ve won todays game.

No one here is ******** about Rapinoes accomplishments, they’re saying she probably should’ve been left stateside. Get your head out of her ass
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Lots of our women were atrocious... Smith missed a game winning PK too... but you only b*tched about Rapinoe for some strange reason?
 
clonedude said:
Lots of our women were atrocious... Smith missed a game winning PK too... but you only b*tched about Rapinoe for some strange reason?
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I only watched ET prior to the PK and thought Smith stood out really well. Put the team in a couple different positions to score and we couldn’t capitalize
 
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I only watched ET prior to the PK and thought Smith stood out really well. Put the team in a couple different positions to score and we couldn’t capitalize
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Can we all just admit that we didn't have a good enough team this year and the breaks didn't go our way... and move on? Or do we need to call out individuals and hate on people? That's all I'm saying.
 
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clonedude said:
Can we all just admit that we didn't have a good enough team this year and the breaks didn't go our way... and move on? Or do we need to call out individuals and hate on people? That's all I'm saying.
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We did not have a good team

And I probably would’ve trusted anyone but Rapinoe in that moment.
 
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And she put herself on the team and inserted herself into the game today?

Our head coach is not good IMO.
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Agreed, she did not put herself in and the coach is to blame there. But Rapinoe was publicly lobbying to play after she didn’t see a minute in the second game. If you are going to do that, when you get a chance, don’t play like ****.
 
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AllInForISU said:
Agreed, she did not put herself in and the coach is to blame there. But Rapinoe was publicly lobbying to play after she didn’t see a minute in the second game. If you are going to do that, when you get a chance, don’t play like ****.
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If she was lobbying to play, then I agree you better perform if you get minutes... however... that's a really weak coach to succumb to those demands. You could see from the minutes she has gotten, she's nowhere near the same player she used to be. She should not have been put in these games... but ultimately that's on the coach.

With that said... she has done a TON for the USWNT... and seen tons of success along the way. She deserves some respect for all that IMO. Many young women and girls look up to her for how she has fought for women in this country. She's accomplished a lot.
 
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clonedude said:
If she was lobbying to play, then I agree you better perform if you get minutes... however... that's a really weak coach to succumb to those demands. You could see from the minutes she has gotten, she's nowhere near the same player she used to be. She should not have been put in these games... but ultimately that's on the coach.

With that said... she has done a TON for the USWNT... and seen tons of success along the way. She deserves some respect for all that IMO. Many young women and girls look up to her for how she has fought for women in this country. She's accomplished a lot.
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People criticize individuals all the time even if they were great before.

She objectively looked terrible and deserves all the criticism she's going to get for it along with the rest of this piss poor performance.

You don't get a golden shield of anti criticism because you were successful before.

She sucked this tournament and was a complete embarrassment to her legacy and the USWNT
 
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