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

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

For all that, that might have been the most emotional end to a 0-0 draw at that level I've seen in a long while.

I remember their goalie from the it 2007 11-0 defeat to Germany. Think she scored two own goals in that one.

Don't know if anyone mentioned it on ILX at the time

😐

Japan really Spained that up

love when the dutch fans break out the verdi. holland starting like they're a goal down with only 5 mins left to score

cracking start. lovely strike off the bar for new zealand. right-to-left diagonals working for holland.

Feel like the key to breaking thru here for the Dutch will be getting the full backs much further free to free up space for Martin's and Van de sanden. But can see why they're reluctant because NZ are playing two up top and look dangerous on the counter.

Japan vs Argentina was dire yesterday but thought the Japan #3 was really good.

That is an horrific miss from holland

Some big whiffs

This can't possibly end without goals

And you were right. But what a crazy match.

don't fancy chile's chances here. sweden are asking all the questions

Same barrage with no result so far

the USA are going to have to give us all the goals we've been missing out on. or will Thailand offer similar resistance?

And now...rain.

And with that game on pause Fox has taken to a LOT of USWNT bus shots and groups of fans.

Hold on, a football game got stopped because it was raining?

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.