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FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023

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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    I haven’t watched much women’s football, but this is a really decent match 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited August 2023
    Nigeria with their professional players are a much better version of Haiti who we only beat 1-0.
    Lucy heavy touch Bronze needed to do better with that one, two.

    Nigeria ahead on points but luckily still 0-0

  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    AddicksAddict said:
    Looked like a penalty to me. Much more contact than just contact. 
    Definitely a shove. 
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Got to up our game or they will be flying home. 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Take two, Joe Currie. Gasp not grasp.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    England have been turgid. Walsh certainly is the best in the world at knocking it out to the full-back
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,015
    Leuth said:
    England have been turgid. Walsh certainly is the best in the world at knocking it out to the full-back
    Yep, pretty poor from us so far. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,856
    Very poor so far from England 
    couldn’t argue if Nigeria had the lead by now 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Needed Daly on the end of that good cross by Greenwood.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    These commentators are absolutely unbearable
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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,981
    This has been a painful watch
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    TEL said:
    Cloudworm said:
    any streams for people overseas?

    Optus sport if you want to pay 
    Free to air for NZ
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,230
    When the Mexican wave starts you know how the game has been 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    shirty5 said:
    When the Mexican wave starts you know how the game has been 
    Should still execute everyone in the stadium, and the broadcast producers for showing it, just to be safe
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,981
    Can get 9/4 Nigeria to qualify 
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,171
    James is starting to get into it a bit more now but it's been frustrating to watch her getting marked out of the game and us bypassing the two quality midfielders we have free. Stanway and Walsh should be dictating this but they're peripheral so far. We keep playing balls over the top but these Nigerian defenders are quick and strong so Russo and Hemp are struggling to hold onto anything in the final third. Hemp in particular is struggling with being outmuscled. I wonder if we'd be better off bringing on Beth England and letting her scrap with some of these defenders and letting James run the channel instead
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,723
    No way Nigeria are the 40th ranked woman’s team in the World on this performance 
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    edited August 2023
    England will go out out at this rate. No spark. 
    As good as James was against China, she has been equally as bad tonight. Cue she scores.  
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Nigeria's defence, which don't get me wrong has been good, has a mistake in them, is probably what will decide this
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    flyingkiwiDK said:
    No way Nigeria are the 40th ranked woman’s team in the World on this performance 
    Rankings make no sense...
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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Stanway having an absolute stinker. Get her off I beg
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    we look very tired. 
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    I don’t follow women’s football closely enough to be knowledgeable about it but I can’t quite understand how the England team has regressed quite so much since last year. Injuries and retirements for sure but this is light years away from the performances of last summer (albeit they were at home). 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    At least Daly got on the end of that corner.

  • Manic_mania
    Manic_mania Posts: 2,258
    Sillybilly said:
    I don’t follow women’s football closely enough to be knowledgeable about it but I can’t quite understand how the England team has regressed quite so much since last year. Injuries and retirements for sure but this is light years away from the performances of last summer (albeit they were at home). 
    Isn't there something like 6 players missing from the team that started the final last year? It's basically a different team.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    'Super stop'?  Was right at her, she could have stayed still and it would have hit her.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    Going to have to come from a set piece I think, we've not had any ideas of how to play around their defence, Nigeria have been really well organised and strong at the back.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Manic_mania said:
    Sillybilly said:
    I don’t follow women’s football closely enough to be knowledgeable about it but I can’t quite understand how the England team has regressed quite so much since last year. Injuries and retirements for sure but this is light years away from the performances of last summer (albeit they were at home). 
    Isn't there something like 6 players missing from the team that started the final last year? It's basically a different team.
    Five, I think. 
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195

  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,171
    Alex Greenwood has had a good game. Other than that though it's a struggle to pick out an England player who's done much. I'd like to see us change the plan a bit, bring on England for Hemp and Nobbs for Walsh to take better care of the ball, as Walsh looks very leggy. I get why we haven't brought Kelly or Toone on as they'll offer more of the same but it doesn't look like we've got much faith in the rest of the squad to change things here.

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