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2019 Women's World Cup

Discussion in 'World Football' started by Lyonniste, Jun 7, 2019.

Discuss 2019 Women's World Cup in the World Football area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. Westlondonscot Gold Member Gold Member

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    I said once to a guy at work that the conference teams would beat any womens team and he berated me. I said they are too short and the women wouldn't out be able to get past the defence or get a header from any corner. He said clubs should be paying them 30 to 100k a week and I said why as they don't get the sponsors and never could as it isn't as good as men's. He had a go for ages then refused to speak to me. I respect women's football, going 90 mins is * hard and there is some interesting play but it is very slow moving and doesn't have the physicality of mens football (in some ways a good thing as not nearly as dirty).
     
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    It might've sounded disrespectful how I said it but I honestly believe it..

    You see a lot of falling over. Being unable to trap a ball. Turning in to trouble. Weak passes or shots that barely get off the ground. Corners that are slow and terrible..

    It isn't a surprise that under 15's and the likes hammer some of the best women's team's in the world..

    Saying all that it is still half interesting to watch and I'll be watching this world cup..
     
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  3. cammy07

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    The huge difference is the quality in goalkeeping, I'm sure there is a few who are good but the majority really are horrific. Seen a penalty in the Brazil game where the keeper was already across the goal before she'd even hit the ball, and incredibly she still managed to miss :56:

    I'd fancy our U16's to absolutely smash that English team to bits..
     
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  4. Westlondonscot Gold Member Gold Member

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    Not offensive, just unfortunately true. The lack of clubs available to girls as kids or even a cultural /societal thing which stops girls from playing football will hinder them. Also at 15 I was 5ft11, taller than 90 odd % of women at the world cup. A clear natural advantage that men have in sports. No matter how skillful that will still count.

    You will see a couple of absolute thumpings in the women's world cup, most games have also had 3 goals plus. So there is things to see.
    @cammy07 yeah the keeping is bad. Again height and build is a thing. They can make some decent saves (I thought Alexander had a good game) but they seem to struggle with crosses in.
     
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    You could chip half the keeper's on their line :giggle1:
     
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  6. Officer Doofy Come to me, human man Gold Member

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    The way I read it was that 335 incidents including any of the 4 points mentioned above were present in the WC. 95% of them were called correctly in the moment by the referees. However some decisions were overturned after they had reviewed the incidents, which led to 99.3% of correct calls.

    Like you said, it literally improved the fairness of the competition and was nearly perfect.
     
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    That Number 3 for England is a proper corker if I do say so myself:84:
     
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    I don't think Thai women have been * this hard by the US since soldiers on leave from Vietnam
     
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    13-0 for * sake. :56:
     
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    Some of thise goals were crackers as well.

    What a player that morgan was though tonight,absolute smashed them.


    Glad i watched this than our *
     
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    Personally think that's out of order, by all means win the game and win it well, but putting 13 past them and celebrating after as if they'd won the world Cup is a bit far. Makes a mockery of the tournament tbf.
     
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    My view is that if you lose to any team 13 nil at a world cup you do not deserve to be there.
     
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    Ouch - what a game!

    Good point, and as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, without more funding for the game across the globe, it's hard for the standard in the women's game to improve. Still, the stature of the USA women's team is refreshing considering how awful the men's team has been...

    Also, I don't mind ruthless score lines like this. Far too often, it feels like teams tend to take their foot off the gas rather than pressing for more goals after bagging three of four. Would love to see a score like this against Sevco. :56: :57:
     
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    I briefly flicked over and they didn't give two penalties to the USA and one was as clear a pen as you'll see. Even VAR reviewed them and didn't give them.

    The USA also had one ruled off for offside that I caught. It was offside by about 2mm. Strangely the assistant flagged for it, but in other games we are told they have allowed massively offside play to go ahead to use VAR.

    It was almost as if they were trying to keep the score down. It makes a mockery of the game and VAR.

    They all expected a lot of teams to get thrashed in the group games. Teams like Argentina average conceding 5.5 goals a game according to the stats the other day.
     
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    Thailand should have cheated a bit.

    They should have sent a team of ladyboys to beat the USA. :giggle1:
     
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