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

yankees are a wrecking machine

Lol that explains why my SlingTv broadcast is in Spanish

oh holy shit that was a blunder from the goalie.

an absolute beauty of a strike though. chef kisses fingers stuff

LOL

everyone ragging on england for slack play yesterday can be made to watch that tbh

spain getting cocky and wanting a red card too

We didn’t see a proper replay but I reckon if you zoomed in and slowed it down and ignored any context that’s a red all day long

"hoof it to Rapinoe" works often but maybe wanna try some other tactics here and there

The pace of this shit is great

feel like US are asking the questions. every through ball they attempt comes close to working out

spain are getting forward in numbers surprisingly well, good game

Yeah, this is rolling pretty well all around.

What a bullshit yellow

at last! controversy!

Nah this is still fun

Yes, fun game.

yeah good game. the longer it goes on, the better spain look

bullshit pennn

Yea wtf

fucksake

Penaltyball has been superseded by VARball.

No way will it stand

since when did catching somebody with your studs in the box after the ball has gone not a penalty?

RIGGED

VAR ran so much smoother in last year's cup

Xpost

she pulled out of the tackle and barely brushed her. 'caught with studs' is nonsense

it's not really. you're not allowed to have contact with the opposition player with your studs up? like ever?

this thread is 85% moaning about calls lol

Fair penalty call. Good shot. Go USA!

a lot of people are demanding a standard of leniency in refereeing that doesn't exist in men's professional football

Yeah, I think it was a penalty, just a pity it was for USA.

Basically no need whatsoever to go to VAR.

Players catch each other accidentally all the time. The test aiui is whether the conduct was either intentional, reckless or dangerous. What seems to have happened in this World Cup is a massive expansion in what is considered reckless / dangerous play.

Noodle Vague is tiebreaking vote

15 mins of stoppage

That was a soft pen

Seven minutes of overtime must be close to some type of record.

Nah

Xp not even close

Nowhere near. Spain infuriatingly ineffectual going forward.

Aye fair enough the pen was soft but v much "I've seen them given"

Rapinoe has gotta be pretty beat by now

I tried Googling "longest overtime in World Cup Soccer" and couldn't find anything.

It's not overtime

Probably because it's not called overtime.

(xp!)

Iirc per caek, referees completely make up the amount of added time

They probably won't do a 13 minute added time marathon in the immediate future because it would be embarrassing to VAR imo. It would damage confidence, in the sport, to see it,

Sadly at work and can't watch this now. Don't think the decisions i've seen have been wrong, mostly, but VAR seems to encourage a pedantic emphasis on some types of infraction at the expense of context and any idea of intentionality. And it fucks with the flow of the game and encourages more dissent/nitpicking from the players. And the handball interpretation is just fucking silly now.

It's kinda messed up that this narrative has been allowed to dominate discussion of the actual football and i feel bad for falling into that too but it's aggravating and it does feel like it's operated in favour of the big teams more, no doubt cos they get fouled more iften but also because they're just better at gaming the rules as they stand.

Pretty 'hm' about all this in the end.

Tom D., I don't really follow soccer. What is it called?