2015 women's world cup

europe vs africa again, let's see how eurosport's irrepressible co-commentator manages to offend everyone this time

oh it's a different co-commentator. but she IS the chelsea manager so

this will not be 10-0

sweden have ian harte at left-back, i.e. can't run, can't really defend, best set-pieces in the tournament

might be 10-0 if they score with every corner

nigeria have dominated this

nice goal, game on

yes!

sweden with a brilliant passing goal, 3-2

aha!

keeping the ball in the corner when sweden are practically begging for the killer blow wtf

It's fine, they've got two easier games coming up to get the points. Oh.

I'm ready

cameroon just had 3 players offside from open play, wtf is this, i'm switching to the colonies game

fucken Hope Solo eh

great goal, deserved equaliser

Playing this tournament on fieldturf is disgraceful fwiw

otm

this ref is a loose cannon, expect controversy

Woohoo Press, woohoo Chicago Red Stars

rapinoe is so ooooooo

Playing this tournament on fieldturf is disgraceful fwiw

― dan m, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:13 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm x 1 000 000 000 000

the other disgrace is the officiating. check out japan's winning penalty decision, complete fucking joke

Fun fact: Canada's only competition in bidding for the tournament was Zimbabwe.

god that ws like watching England men

somewhat amusing miss from spain there

Screamer from montoya

watching the wrong game

spain are missing some v gratifying chances though, plus a ripping save just now

was wondering who this sprightly young talent (formiga) bossing the brazil midfield was…she's 37, runs better than any of 'em

BBC's alleged full match coverage has felt pretty patchy and hard to follow to me

Injury time winner for Mexico ruled out, a diabolical decision. Great to see the women's game attaining the same standards as the men's in one area at least.

this was an ideal opportunity to trial a video review system, not least because female players striving to attain higher standards is one thing, but referees being substandard is entirely another, and completely unacceptable

germany ffs

:D

beautiful free kick

hell of a free kick

yyyyep

if you showed someone the first half-hour of this match and then told them it'd be 1-1 on 70 they'd have laughed you out of the room

Norway got a lot better at high pressure play in the 2nd. Made the difference, forced errors from Germany.

absolute joke of a non-penalty there

yes!!! hurrah!

china smash into netherlands for 90 minutes without scoring, cue pass of the tournament

ok that is the worst goal of all time

then a nice goal from CIV

but if that third Thai goal ends up the winner then idk

sheesh, the ending

fucking abysmal match obv but quite exciting, the winning goal surely will go down in history as one of the great sporting crimes

i went and saw china play netherlands this afternoon. great!

i saw canada and new zealand with heavy rain falling, lightning in the vicinity, game postponed. there was a lot of muttering in the stands at the end, "there's like... ten minutes overtime, then it goes to a shootout-- wait, it's over!?" booing everytime the referees did anything. mass confusion about why the goal was not allowed.

didn't see that game so I dunno why the goal was disallowed, these first matches are in a mini-league so they won't go to penalties, that happens once you're into the knockout section

disallowed for offside, one of the rare occasions they've gotten an offside call right

I was in the stands for Germany/Norway and Thailand/Cd'I yesterday. Côte must have been cursed. I think they hit the post at least three times? Our section of the crowd was definitely favouring them. Lots of booing and muttering at how many Thai players were letting themselves be carried off on stretchers once Thailand had the lead.

I won money on the thailand win so yeah. Odds at 6.10 or something

this tournament is being ruined by these referees

if they weren't female I'd make a joke about them being MLS refs

Man, fuck a rest day.

nor did dany n'guessan tho :(

ooh

4-2!

own goal

Oops

Hold on!

game non-ironically on

welp

was it over the line before

cross

the defender hit it

game off

Defend Japan ffs

not since Golgotha etc etc

I absolved my post of seriousness four seconds before the fifth goal, nothing to see here

trying to keep the ball in the corner when you're 3 goals up in injury time = pure, pure savagery. the true heart of this usa team revealed

desperate late lunge from LJ

Tactics

was kinda boggling at that xxp

5-2 is a scoreline which resonates down the ages and is probably a reasonable summation of the game, in that it followed the pattern of every first-half bloodbath ever

poor lj

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/listen-to-all-five-u-s-goals-as-called-by-telemundos-a-1715908057

The call of Lloyd's 3rd was something else, sounded like he was going to die

we all died

the keeper especially

Reasonable damage limitation effort from Japan, after beig 4 down in fifteen minutes, but Jesus, those fifteen minutes...

Can't understand how a team with that sort of experience, full of world cup winners and olympic finalists can possibly freeze like that. Wouldn't be too surprised if it comes out that there was some Ronaldo-in-1998 type clusterfuck prior to the game.

on sunday i went to a national women's soccer league game. it was really fun, plus much better quality than the majority of the world cup games that i caught on tv. Seattle Reign v Portland Thorns, so a derby game. world cup winner megan rapinoe plays for seattle, christine sinclair was up front for portland. $15 a ticket, so economical. a franchise record attendance of over 6000 were there. the crowd contrasted with most men's sporting events you'd go to in that it's mainly women, families, and there's lots of gay couples. nice change from the rowdy-hetero-bro vibe. 3-0 win for Seattle, i managed to miss the final 2 goals waiting to buy kettle-corn :/ but for sure would attend regularly if i lived in a city with a team, maybe they'll expand to vancouver one day.

I've been to a few Chicgo Red Stars games, otm as far as crowd composition, but less ppl overall at their games. Christen Press is a great player, and Julie Johnson in defense is like retroactively awesome bc the games I went to were all pre World Cup.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/kim-little-finishes-hat-trick-by-making-mincemeat-of-ho-1725795630

Kim Little is awesome

I love having the Pride in my city. Morgan had a beautiful chip goal tonight.

also SAnderson is an up-and-comer

there was a great goal in the uk fa cup final yesterday too

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/womens-soccer-lifetime-1201975617/

nwsl has a new media deal, will have a game broadcast every weekend of the season starting April, on lifetime.