The Japanese didn't out play us. They took full advantage of our non-ability to close that game out. That game should have been called at halftime because we should have been up 10-nil.
Had our gals not relaxed so much everytime they went up a goal...
The first Japanese goal was because our defender tried clearing the ball BACK ACROSS THE FRONT OF HER OWN GOAL. There was another instance where one girl tried to clear it towards the outside, and another defender came in from the outside, and tried to take the ball away from her, IN FRONT OF HER OWN GOAL.
I coach high school girls basketball, and my girls would be running laps for such simple mistakes.
Shouldn't there be two Women's World Cups?
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SuperDork
7/18/11 10:16 p.m.
racerfink wrote:
The Japanese didn't out play us. They took full advantage of our non-ability to close that game out. That game should have been called at halftime because we should have been up 10-nil.
Had our gals not relaxed so much everytime they went up a goal...
The first Japanese goal was because our defender tried clearing the ball BACK ACROSS THE FRONT OF HER OWN GOAL. There was another instance where one girl tried to clear it towards the outside, and another defender came in from the outside, and tried to take the ball away from her, IN FRONT OF HER OWN GOAL.
I coach high school girls basketball, and my girls would be running laps for such simple mistakes.
Sounds like you are contradicting yourself.
You say the Japanese didn't outplay us, then proceed to quantify all the major mistakes we made.
Note, that the Japanese did not make similar mistakes.
I think "taking full advantage of our non-ability to close out that game" IS outplaying us.
Let's think of it like racing. If I dominate 99 out of 100 laps, but you cross the finish line first, who outplayed who?
We were still making them look like a 2nd place team. No contradiction there at all.
