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

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Damn it, I had £1.50 on 14-0.

fwiw Thailand have beaten local minnows by comparable margins so don’t feel too sorry for them.

Sprinting to keep it in play at 13-0 in the 90th minute. The coach leaping up to pump fists and high five for the 13th goal. Extremely small time

did they even sub anyone

Feels a bit like I've eaten about three tubs of ice cream now

Damn it, I had £1.50 on 14-0.

fwiw Thailand have beaten local minnows by comparable margins so don’t feel too sorry for them.

― ShariVari, Tuesday, June 11, 2019 10:57 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not feeling sorry for them as much as I'm wondering why (how?) they're here at all. I think USA's display proves how fast women's football is developing. With a fast evolution, the margin between the highest standard and mediocrity is enormous. Germany (men) beat Estonia 8-0 tonight; same diff, but it happened in qualification.

(I put € 1.00 on 15-0 just after half time)

The thirteenth goal was the culmination of about four minutes of exclusively trying to get the ball to their ageing legend and succeeding, tbf

No small feet

(sry)

too much fucking perspective

The United States Women's National Team has scored 13 World Cup goals today.

The United States Men's National Team has scored 13 World Cup goals in the past 6,202 days.

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 11, 2019

I noticed the scoreline thanks to Ned's tweets at 8-0. I was leaving my desk for a work function and in the time it took me to walk from my desk to the function, they had scored two goals.

omg FIFA don't want it to be ten. It will still be ten

I imagine FIFA will be eyeing viewing figures nervously after this.

for all you fancying australia before this tournament, they needed a 91st minute goal to draw with thailand in the recent asia cup

and even then only won on penalties

seeing players go wild over scoring rout-number goals against obviously inferior opposition is weird but I feel like that's a matter of unspoken etiquette rather than anything more innate, and that you could make an only partway contrarian case for the polite smile and handshake to mark your ninth against minnows being the more arrogant gesture

Yeaahhhhh, I think that's more than partway contrarian tbh.

i liked the old italian football thing of when you were 5 up or so just totally taking the foot of the gas and having an uncompetitive snooze fest for the remainder of the game

I'm sympathetic to the argument that that you best respect opponents by always competing your hardest, but even i thought the us celebrations were verging on the sociopathic

Iirc that italian football thing traditionally kicks in at 1-0 up

Commentator just said that the ref for this Nigeria vs South Korea game actually played for Russia in a previous world cup which is p cool.

Quite the own goal from Korea there. Shame because they'd started well.

xp North Korean ref for Cameroon v Canada did likewise

Bizarre own goal there.

Totally crazy.

Incredibly soft pen.

Who'd have thought it?

hoofing someone in the knee at full pelt has traditionally been frowned upon iirc ime. granted Norway would have got away with it sans VAR

Delphine Cascarino snubbing the Irish to come on as sub for France

Yeah, that's more clearly a penalty than the second Spanish one which was a similar offence.

Sucks, but we put up a decent fight and should beat SK to advance

Engen flicked the ball and caught the French player’s thigh as she jumped in. It wasn’t particularly dangerous play, it wasn’t deliberate and she seems to have got the ball. idk

is there supposed to be provision made for when a leg follows through after a clearance and connects w/ an opponent? feel like there isn't really but not dredging up any obvious comparable incidents rn

lot of ppl taking about a two-footed tackle by Torrent in the same incident, seemed like more of a block to me. still think a penalty is correct w/ the caveat of it being a bad advert for VAR all the same insofar as it reaffirms how many grey areas there are and always will be

How did france look? Unlucky but figured it out? Evenly matched?

thought france looked p good. norway did cause the odd problem on the flanks, i don't think the french full backs are particularly strong, but their CB pairing is great, not just renard but the #19 as well. diani had a spectacular first half down the right. not sure of the permeations of the draw but they looked solid last 4 prospects, although i didn't see either brasil's or england's opening games. wasn't that convinced by gauvin at CF but she did score.

didn't think the pen was soft.

australia done more in the first ten mins here than they did in entire game vs italy

var on a possible pen but thought there was a hanball in the build up to the incident

no pen

now that's what i would rate as a 'soft' penalty. marta scores.

Fun half, aussies in dire straits but now there’s hope

Equaliser, but both these teams look p ropey imo

Crazy match. In a good way!

Australia showed good spirit but Brazil have been pathetic ( their second goal was sweet tho)

not sure China are especially great but they're v watchable

This BBC commentator is good imo?

Offside given about 20 seconds after Scotland player (2 yards onside) receives the ball. Japan go down the other end and ping it straight over the keeper’s head into the net, 1-0 Japan

Japan are far better and deserve the lead but yeah it was a total nonsense

Scotland keeper is very bad?

The game plan seems to be long floated diagonals which the lone striker has no chance of reaching, combined with not clearing the ball properly.

Quality of defending only matched by quality of officiating

didn't see their game vs england but scotland look total trash

they were trash against england tbh, england should have been 4 up