Official 2015 Women's World Cup Thread

[GirlySports]

Tancredi running down the line with a busted wheel

[mile]

Great save!

[bigtmac19]

Good lord that was close

[Acey]

Bachmann is so much better than anyone else on the field it's just fantastic.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Acey

Bachmann is so much better than anyone else on the field it's just fantastic.

Sinclair is still the best. Her touches this game have been great

[bigtmac19]

Chapman is amazing. Really impressed with her presence on the field

[M*A*S*H 4077]

Originally Posted by bigtmac19

Chapman is amazing. Really impressed with her presence on the field

Player of the tournament for Canada thus far and I don't really think it is close.

Woohoo! Quarterfinals!

[Stay Golden]

Originally Posted by bigtmac19

Chapman is amazing. Really impressed with her presence on the field

She defends like a pitbull on the back line.
This would be a completely different team without Chapman and Bachman.
Canada's mid would evn more over cautious.

[Acey]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Sinclair is still the best.

Even with her teammates standing around watching her attempt to walk through us (mostly successfully) she still has a bigger impact on the field than Sinclair, and her backchecking to Sinclair's zero effectively makes her 50% more of an asset as far as I'm concerned.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by Acey

Even with her teammates standing around watching her attempt to walk through us (mostly successfully) she still has a bigger impact on the field than Sinclair, and her backchecking to Sinclair's zero effectively makes her 50% more of an asset as far as I'm concerned.

Well she can be the best player not playing in the tournament now!

Go Canada!

[bigtmac19]

Now let's go Colombia tomorrow!!

[Acey]

Highlights

The number of Americans that have taken over Edmonton is absurd. They take their women's team extremely seriously.

[GirlySports]

go colombia!

and hopefully Norway-England goes to penalties

[Trojan97]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

go colombia!

and hopefully Norway-England goes to penalties

Does something happen if they do? or are you talking just from a fatigue standpoint?

[GirlySports]

Fatigue

[dash_pinched]

Thank goodness they won to avoid the following:

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Acey

Sesselmann's incompetence is what makes these games interesting.

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.

[Acey]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Fatigue

Not to mention they have to fly 2,000 miles across the country and have one day's less rest while Canada has zero travel. We're in a good spot.

[Mango]

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.

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.

[Acey]

Norway vs England --- 3 pm MT --- Ottawa
Winner plays Canada in Vancouver on Saturday

Norway: Hjelmseth, Skammelsrud Lund, Ims, Mjelde, Ronning (C), Gulbrandsen, Herlovsen, Wold, Mykjaland, Minde, Hegerberg

England: Bardsley, Rafferty, Williams, Houghton (C), Bassett, Carney, Moore, Bronze, Chapman, Duggan, Kirby

Head-to-head: 1-0 NOR

Norway is a strong side, drawing tournament favourites Germany in the group stage. They conceded only 2 goals in the group stage, one a unsavable wonder strike against Ivory Coast and the other to the tournament's leading goal getter, Mittag of Germany.

England has struggled like only the English can, flashes of coherence and the other times they look lost. Hard to see them winning this game.