I'm currently on a train full of Americans heading for a city full of French people. Who do you reckon I should cheer for tonight?
WWC19 | Final: USA v Netherlands
- Thread starter jojojo
- Start date
What a question! For France of course!
Whoever you think would be easier for us!
Congratulations to England, a convincing and well deserved (obviously) win, and their best game of the tournament so far. Norway will still be content with our overall performance in this championship. Qualifying against the Netherlands was big for us in itself, and beating Nigeria, South Korea and Australia, and being within shooting distance of France, is good enough for us, particularly when lacking our best player.
Against England the girls looked decidedly nervous, particularly close to the goal lines, with hestitation/panicky shots in the one end and very uncarachteristic havoc defending from the otherwise very solid duo of Mjelde/Thorisdottir.
That said, England’s attacking combination play was much too quick and fluent for us at times, Bronze, Parris and White opened us up time after time. England was better than us at almost every aspect of the game. Ingrid Hjelmseth, our goalie, was our player of the match, Graham Hansen much too alone and easily taken out by two English defenders.
I did miss Alex Greenwood though.
Against England the girls looked decidedly nervous, particularly close to the goal lines, with hestitation/panicky shots in the one end and very uncarachteristic havoc defending from the otherwise very solid duo of Mjelde/Thorisdottir.
That said, England’s attacking combination play was much too quick and fluent for us at times, Bronze, Parris and White opened us up time after time. England was better than us at almost every aspect of the game. Ingrid Hjelmseth, our goalie, was our player of the match, Graham Hansen much too alone and easily taken out by two English defenders.
I did miss Alex Greenwood though.
Your girls have been a credit to your country and the tournament itself, you should all be very proud. Already looking forward to watching you at the Euros in 2 years.
Can we assume you are a temporary England fan for the remainder of the World Cup?
Anyone know who the ref is for this match?
Edit: found it
Edit: found it
Come on you French beauties! 3-2 to France with Gauvin, Le Sommer, Rapinoe and Heath amongst the goals. Renard and Dahlkemper to get booked. Yep, you saw it here first.
Will be supporting France tonight, think the US will definitely beat England if they play to their potential but the French side is beatable, though with home advantage and clearly a very good side.
2-2 France to win on penalties.
Lumped on France, hoping Le Sommer has a good game.
Come on les bleues!
Come on les bleues!
Last edited by a moderator:
Thats a horrible dive! Young would be proud
Rapinoe scores. Trump will be kicking the cat.
1-0 already. I have a bad feeling its gonna get a lot worse for France.
Maybe needed more than two in the wall?
(Hindsight)
(Hindsight)
So obvious what was going to happen. Terrible setup of the wall
"him"?
Unlike the cl final I think this goal helps this game
Do you know, It genuinely never occurred to me that jojojo might be female!
Rapinoe is on a mission.
If it is a dive then book her.
Awful dive that
That was an awful dive.
And we've caught upto the cheating in the men's game
What a nuts game
Sad to see diving in this game, the lack of diving has been refreshing so far.
A booking would put a stop to it.
I'd like to see a Brazil vs Germany scoreline.
What's with the captaincy of the US team ? Seems like Morgan and Rapinoe are rotating it match by match
These dives are unacceptable, book them and get this stamped out before it starts creeping in.
Great atmosphere.
France have been really disappointing so far.
Alex Morgan looks to be hurt
That doesn't look right... She looks proper ill
I don't think USA have been much better since the goal. Both teams look like they could score right now.
Weather taking its toll. Awful last 10
Frances left back is a proper dramatiser 
reminds me of Suarez
reminds me of SuarezThat was the worst freekick dummy I’ve ever seen
This diving