2015 women's world cup

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.

A lot of what's going on in terms of officiating is just mystifying.

The ref blowing the whistle for full time in AUS-NGA at about 91:15 when the board had already gone up for four additional minutes? Ok, it was 2-0... if there'd been only one goal in it surely there'd be some kind of official protest.

With the games on so late and some of them only available on the BBC Sport app, I find myself falling asleep with my tablet next to me in bed, waking up not sure if I dreamt certain incidents. Very pleased to see that Jeon Gaeul's peach of a glancing header for KOR was actually real.

CIV get goal of the tournament so far, holy shit

What a screamer.

ok this is the first time two potential crackers have been on simultaneously, starting w/ netherlands/canada but this could change

another fucking awful decision, this time on nz

As an American, seeing the Mexican women's team get totally owned isn't quite as satisfying as seeing their men's team get totally owned.

lady andrade!

there's yer heartbreaking denouement

If that Spain free kick had gone in at the end, it would have been drawn lots between them and Costa Rica to stay in. Great goals from Korea.

Reckon the Aussies can end Brazil's run

Funny how Brazil and Japan are the only nations with 100% record, but have really had trouble scoring goals. Meanwhile, the Swiss finish 3rd after scoring 10 in a game, rather like Hungary in the men's WC82 (but there was no opportunity for 3rd-placed teams to progress in that event).

France too good. #RealFinal coming up vs Germany.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33212249

lol

feel like this could be a really good match-up

almost rooting for norway after that video

haven't been able to watch it yet :(

this ought to be one of the better balanced 2nd round matches

didn't see china/cameroon but on the match stats alone it seemed a bit of a thriller

i saw the highlights, chances at both ends sure

Norway all over this at the moment

ahahahahaha

idiotic, idiotic goalkeeping leads to corner, leads to goal, england made a sub during the corner too, never change, never learn

need i add that the sub was of england's only good player

Kirby not great tonight tbf

when you're not even surrounded by the imagination-free cloggers you're supposed to be playing with it's hard to be great

think they've been more chokey than anything, passing was terrible first half but they've picked up a little.

work has been taking its toll tho, eyelids drooping badly, won't make extra time.

yeah this jill scott plays in a way they understand more than fran kirby, pacy tenacious winger

oh nice hit

MAYBE questionable gk positioning

Bronze has been dece going forward, almost made up for horrible defending

she's basically sam byram

right, it's time for the yankee hype queens to KNEEL BEFORE THE LADY

if only colombia didn't have two crap keepers eh