Posted on 08/02/2021 8:26:17 AM PDT by conservative98
United States women's national team forward Megan Rapinoe said the semifinal defeat to Canada in the Olympic Games on Monday is a "bitter one to swallow."
The USWNT fell 1-0 through Jessie Fleming's second-half penalty and will miss out on the chance to win a gold medal.
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"It's terrible. We just didn't have it today," Rapinoe said after the match. "Just too many errors from us again. I felt like the space was there for us to play and we just couldn't get into it, too many touches or, you know, an errant touch.
"That's football. They got, I think, one shot on goal, a PK, and from what it sounds like it was a PK. So yeah, it's a bitter one to swallow. Obviously we never want to lose to Canada. I don't think I've ever lost to Canada.
"So it's a bitter one. Obviously there's still a lot to compete for. That's what I told the girls and what we talked about in the huddle. It's not the color we want, but there's still a medal on the line. That's a huge thing and we want to win that game, but yeah, this is ... this sucks. It sucks."
The loss marked the first time the USWNT have been defeated by Canada since 2001, snapping a 36-game unbeaten streak against their North American rivals.
"For those of us that were part of the 2012 team [Canada lost to the USWNT in the semifinal after extra time at the London Olympics], it's nice to get a little revenge in an Olympic semifinal," Canada captain Christine Sinclair said.
"I was just sitting there thinking how proud I am of this team," she said. "It's a very unique group. It's a special group and I'm so proud to be a part of it."
The USWNT have endured a tough time at the Olympics, starting with a 3-0 loss to Sweden that snapped a 44-game unbeaten streak and a scoreless draw with Australia in the group stage.
Megan Rapinoe has said the USWNT will find it hard to take the Olympic semifinal loss to Canada. Photo by Naomi Baker/Getty Images Vlatko Andonovski's side needed penalties to defeat Netherlands in the quarterfinals, but Rapinoe said she struggles to understand why the team was not able to perform in Japan.
"It just hasn't flowed for us. It hasn't been easy," she added. "But it just didn't click for us. I don't know if it was just roster rotations. I know it's a tough tournament, trying to save people.
"But our bench is deep, deep, deep as hell. So I don't think we can really put it on that. I can't quite put my finger on it. I've been thinking about the whole tournament, we just didn't have that juice that we normally do.
[[I am overjoyed that there won’t be subject to the obnoxious post game celebrations that we always get when this team wins!]]
Instead we are likely gonna have to suffer through interview after interview of her and her ilk making excuses about why they lost. Wonder if the lingerie company is still gonna feature the lower as one of their models? Would be funny if sales dropped way off because of the loss
They’ll blame Trump supporters for not supporting them.
No! Neither one is a good spokesperson for that company. Both are disgusting
Well put..
Very likely true. The left are relentlessly pathetic
Rapinoe : “we just didn’t have that juice that we normally do.”
A loss to Sweden, scoreless tie to Aussies, now a Semi loss to Canada......Ya hate to see that.
.....United States women’s national team forward Megan Rapinoe said the semifinal defeat to Canada in the Olympic Games on Monday is a “bitter one to swallow.”...
Too bad, Megan! Phooey to you!!!!
“When you stop caring the whole exercise of spectator sports becomes pointless.”
Allow me change your statement a bit. When you stop LOVING your country spectator sports are pointless. Loving your country is the reason for the Olympics in the first and last place. Why watch the Olympics when half the participants are embarrassing your country?
Yup!!!!
I’m sure she doesn’t swallow!
They earned it.
This woman is a real piece of excrement. She loses and she puts these passive aggressive middle fingers out to the teams that won by saying stuff like ‘we never want to lose to THEM’ suggesting they are lesser.
“but Rapinoe said she struggles to understand why the team was not able to perform in Japan...”
Because you hate who you are representing...bitch.
Maybe because those teams are actually better.
She is the epitomé of the “Ugly American” in more ways than one.
Have they actually scored a goal in tournament play, when it mattered?
Yeah, I’m sure.
Oh, Megan, you got a little bit o’pube stuck in your teeth...
That militant homosexual witch serves Satan, whether she acknowledges it or not.
Horrible role model for girls and women everywhere!!
She should slither back into whatever hole she came out of.
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