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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
How is she playing, let alone starting?
If Canada wants to keep progressing, we will hit a point where we can't have someone hang out around Sesselmann to be available to bail her out when someone inevitably walks around her every few minutes or when she dives for a ball, totally missing, and leaving someone free behind her.
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There are not many options if you leave Sesselmann on the bench. The other two centre-backs on the team, other than Buchanan, are Moscato and Zurrer.
Moscato struggles with speedy strikers and likely would've performed worse than Sesselmann yesterday. While I realize Sesselmann had a very poor showing, Moscato would've been exposed time and again by someone like Bachmann.
Zurrer, while tall and athletic, is also a poor marker and tends to struggle on the big stage or in critical moments. Last fall, Canada was close to drawing with Japan in a friendly. However, Zurrer's ill-advised back pass with just seconds left on the clock cost them the game.
As for why Herdman starts Sesselmann, it's because she's a leftie. Canada has only two of them on the entire roster. With Sesselmann, Buchanan can play on her natural ride side of the pairing. If Buchanan plays with Moscato or Zurrer, she has to take the left side, which she doesn't prefer.