Women’s World Cup France 2019, 7 June - 7 July

Oh boy, our first VAR, yay rah

Still not convinced that getting decisions right is worth it tbh

Anticlimax king VAR

woof! quality header

someone should think about marking renard

Honestly just treating the second half as an extended cut remix.

Yeah we needed that Henry goal just to give the 2nd half some color

Germany team seems to have changed a lot from the last time I remember following them. Only players I can recall are marozsan and popp.

Oh and dabritz

China completely fucked up that transition. Should have been a goal. All stemming from a criminally bad square pass. Houillier will be getting ginola flashbacks.

Germany running out of ideas here. Need one of the centre backs to step into midfield occasionally.

China off the post. Germany look completely shook at the back.

Frustrated German team. Lack a strategy in the box

fuck is this referee doing, that's two fks against china in two minutes for completely fair tackles

just straight up gave germany a free-kick when their player dragged down the chinese one

chinese players got away with murder in the first half tho

bad refereeing both ways is still bad refereeing!

good hit for the german goal

Spain pretty lucky. 1-0 down for most of the game and out of jail thanks to two penalties.

Caroline Graham Hansen best in the world 1v1 possibly

var strikes again. italy 'goal' off a beautiful through ball ruled out on the tightest of margins. i assume australia are favourites here but italy have started well.

pen to aus

scored on rebound

Offside is fucking ridiculous now. May as well ban forward passes.

terrible defending but that's a calm dribble and finish from the italy #11.
probably jinx her but the italian goalie has looked impressively assured.

Deep women's football cut: Sam, Kerr Ladies

feel like the nu-var era we are in where ref assistants can't flag for offside until the attacking phase is completed is changing the game in some fundamental way that i can't articulate but am uneasy with.

Oh fucking hell. That one was slightly offside tbf, but even a legit close offside now feels like its ruining the game.

australia play with such a stupidly high line that every game they play will have like 5 var reviews.
tbf all the initial decisions by the on field officials have been proved correct. i'd probably prefer the law to be if any of the attackers body is onside then they are onside rahter than if any of their body is offside then they're offside.

italy winner 5th minute of stoppage time!!

Well deserved!

Yay! As noted by the bbc commentator, australia didn't seem to get the 'no diving in womens football' memo

Glad I caught the last ten minutes of that.

Barbara Bonansea was destined for a great tournament

Think Australia will win the next two and go through but

a) a bit sloppy/nervous today
b) think they're slightly overrated in general / have had messy behind the scenes stuff disrupt preparations
c) their troubles in defense are well known

Not a bad match between Brazil and Jamaica but that second Christiane goal probably seals it.

If this hour long BBC puff piece on 'England's World Cup Lionesses' doesn't fire up the Scottish nation to get 100% behind Scotland's women's team I don't know what can.

... ah, they aren't showing it in Scotland! Wise move.

wow bbc inflicting y'all, hope solo in an evening gown

Is that where Hope ended up? Figures.

fun and frenetic so far

Excellent pen

Football - 22 people chase the ball for 90 minutes and at some point someone gets the ball tanned off their arm in the box.

England on a completely different planet to Scotland here

Challop: every penalty given in the tournament so far has been a dreadful decision.

In retrospect they should probably have given the BBC a proper studio rather than expecting them to make themselves heard over the half time noise.

Well this is getting interesting...

xxp even Spain's second penalty? I agree that the handball situation is getting out of, er, hand

Was that the one with the sending off? If so, especially that one - poor, scuffed clearance and follows through way too far but her leg is fully extended and the Spaniard runs into it.

35 minutes into Japan / Argentina and I don’t recall anyone having a shot.

Argentina with an impressive commitment to a 10-0-0 formation

optimistic about the 2nd half. Yankees will be getting scared now.

The Dutch have done well so far.

Waiting on that 7-0 scoreline imago predicted though.

Dutch have done very well

Here we go. VAR.

wtf with this automatic booking of players who accidentally give away penalties

Good call. High foot

I think it was reckless enough for a yellow

:D

Rapinoe's "ta-daaaa!" pose destined to become a standard celebration for an entire generation of kids

Fuck it. Not watching this.

Lavelle!!!

Deserved a goal. She has been great.

Very well taken

I love it.

So many superstars on this team.

I was happy Lavelle scored. Wouldn’t have been happy with winning 1-0 on a penalty.

Regardless, crazy amount of skill from the entire team here

I also really like the Netherlands in general, actually, so it’s such a treat to watch this game

Deserved win of course. Too bad VAR had to secure it. Otoh they would have scored at some point.

giving the Dutch keeper WOTM in the 86th minute is tempting fate

Not really too bad that VAR spotted a chest-high assault that the ref missed. Xp

Hope theh snub Trump now

Yeah that challenge really should have been picked up by the ref in the first place. Stonewall peno

otm

think she was unsighted for it

Definitely. Just wanted to see a non-penalty goal that is more about play and strategy

I love Rapinoe. She's cultivated a lack of fucks to give that more women require earlier on in age.

Did anyone from the US WH attend?

Rose Lavelle looks v classy btw

xp --

The White House on Wednesday said in a statement that the president will send a delegation to France for the Women's World Cup final on Sunday, where the USWNT will face the winner of Wednesday's Netherlands-Sweden semifinal.

Six women make up the group. They are: Karen Dunn Kelley, Deputy Secretary of Commerce; Jamie D. McCourt, U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco; Josephine K. Olsen, director of the Peace Corps; Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Marie Royce, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs; Shauna Rohbock, U.S. Army National Guard and former pro soccer player, and Kelly Loeffler, CEO of Bakkt and co-owner of the Atlanta Dream.

thx. we were looking for them to point them out (if anyone). I saw Macron. We couldn't get subtitles in english and my french sucks.

We were calling Lavelle - Rory. xpost

Macron's dishing out the trophies.

lmao @FoxNews just went live from a bar in France after the #USWNT win and people started shouting "Fuck Trump" on air😂😂 pic.twitter.com/EFstJx43BV

— Sara Pearl (@skenigsberg) July 7, 2019

people otm

Rapinoe's World Cup has to be up there with the greatest all-time talk-and-back-it-up performances in sports history. Tangle with a President and win World Cup and MVP? A socially conscious athlete pilloried for patriotism? No one will *ever* be Ali, but there's Ali in Rapinoe.

— Jason Gay (@jasongay) July 7, 2019

Seriously, "I ain't going to the fuckin White House" is perhaps my favorite thing an athlete has said.

Rose Lavelle looks like an adorable high school student yet plays like a complete badass. I like how she wears her socks pulled up over her knees.

this ticket tape parade in NYC is very heartwarming.