Game dayyyyyy
🇨🇦 vs. 🇬🇧
7am EST (CBC)
12pm BST (BBC)
Let’s gooooo @CanadaSoccerEN @TeamCanada pic.twitter.com/dgNvp9LZx5— Janine Beckie (@janinebeckie) July 27, 2021
Posted on 07/21/2021 1:28:34 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Let the Games begin! After a year of waiting, the U.S. Women’s National Team will launch its Olympic campaign on July 21, taking on Sweden in its first match at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Kickoff is at 5:30 p.m. local/4:30 a.m. ET at Tokyo Stadium in Tokyo and the match will be broadcast in the United States on the USA Network and Telemundo, with streaming coverage also provided at NBCOlympics.com and through the Telemundo Deportes App. The match will also be replayed later that day on NBCSN at 8:30 a.m. ET and 6 p.m. ET.
The USA enters the tournament looking to capture its fifth gold medal and, in the process, become the first reigning Women’s World Cup champion to capture Olympic gold. Seventeen players on the USA’s Olympic roster helped the USA win its fourth World Cup title in France during the summer of 2019.
To do so, the USA will not only have to navigate a grueling schedule with only two rest days between matches in the heat and humidity of the Japanese summer, but will also have to contend with a talented field of opposition, beginning with Sweden.
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Match Day No. 3️⃣ coming your way Tuesday!
🇺🇸 vs. 🇦🇺 // July 27 // 4am ET pic.twitter.com/uHhuBcmP9p— U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) July 24, 2021
Game dayyyyyy
🇨🇦 vs. 🇬🇧
7am EST (CBC)
12pm BST (BBC)
Let’s gooooo @CanadaSoccerEN @TeamCanada pic.twitter.com/dgNvp9LZx5— Janine Beckie (@janinebeckie) July 27, 2021
Another opportunity ahead. LET'S GO! 😤
🇺🇸 vs. 🇦🇺
📍: Ibaraki Kashima Stadium
🕓: 4 a.m. ET
📺: @USA_Network, @TelemundoSports, @NBCOlympics
📰: https://t.co/tnPM7LbbZC@TeamUSA | #Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/6fbtcwoH1V— U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) July 26, 2021
MATCH DAY! 🍁
📺: https://t.co/nfO6JYOiQ3
📍: Kashima, Japan
⏰: 7am ET / 4am PT
🆚 : Great Britain
#️⃣: 🇨🇦🇬🇧 #CANWNT #Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/c59FBA5dhk— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) July 27, 2021
Thanks for the great links and stuff KC_Lion,
We are lucky to have you here!
Starting very soon - Go USA!
Halftime 0-0
Morgan offsides header goal,
We need more focus.
FOCUS USA!
SHOCK 0-0 Full Time,
Olympic Gold is still on the table.
FOCUS USA!
We had some severe storms last night and have had a complete cable service outage since late yesterday evening. Still out this a.m., so I couldn’t watch. Was the U.S. just sluggish or was this a tactical, play defensively and accept the draw kind of game? The U.S. started in a goal differential hole but ran up the score on NZ to get back in the driver’s seat on the tiebreaker in group play. Against Australia, smothering Sam Kerr and settling for a draw would be enough. Would have been good to win but with Kerr lurking, staying defensive in a knockout situation may have been the smart strategy.
Sorry about your connection problem.
USA definitely a bit sluggish.
Was happy when Press got substituted out.
Offsides Morgan header goal, we need better focus.
Saw what we can do with good passes against New Zealand.
Which is also a focus issue.
FOCUS USA!
This U.S. team is too old. I think several players have lost a step. They will still dominate weaker sides but elite opponents have caught up. That kind of problem gets masked for the U.S. because we qualify through CONCACAF, where no one except Canada can match up. If we played through Europe, the U.S. team wouldn’t win as many games and wouldn’t always qualify, but they’d be a better team. CONCACEF contributes to a false sense of security. It would be better if problems got exposed sooner. We have way too many players over 30.
Sweden and England may be the class of the tournament this time. Germany and France are also in that class but didn’t qualify. Win or lose, the U.S. is due for a major rebuilding cycle, starting in about two weeks.
Right now, Sam Mewis, Lindsay Horan, Rose Lavelle and Tierna Davidson are the building blocks going forward. Andi Sullivan was in that group but went down twice with back to back ACL tears and fell out of the mix. She has worked her way back and was on the bubble for this squad; she’s another to keep an eye on. I think Mallory Pugh will be back as well. She was brought along too fast, becoming a regular while still in high school and leaving college after one semester. She should have stayed in college to develop and toughen up, but she has tremendous speed and touch and is a natural playmaker. Heath, Rapinoe and Press have all been around forever, but they’re all aging out. Beyond that, I think every position on the team will be up for grabs.
USA is definitely going to need to retire some of the older gals.
Sweden is playing very well.
Another great post by you sphinx and you were not even able to watch!
Hope that gets fixed soon.
I think coach Andonovski needs to throw a chair across the room.
Who f-—king cares about any of this horsesh!t.
That’s what the barbarians said in 776 BC.
The Greeks already had a written language in the 8th century BC Olympics so they were not barbarians. Back then only the men competed. Women did not even get to watch. See how civilized they were.
Wow. The top backet is loaded. The U.S. is actually advantaged by a second place finish in the group. I may be excessively cynical, but FIFA is FIFA. If there was any game playing going on in establishing the brackets way back when, I wonder if any friendly little FIFA helpers assumed the U.S. would win its group and stacked things accordingly. In which case the U.S. really crossed things up by losing to Sweden. The best laid plans ....
Not that anyone should question FIFA’s integrity.
I hadn’t stopped to think about it, but I see that it’s Great Britain here, as opposed to England in the World Cup. In theory that enlarges their player pool, but I don’t know their team well enough to know if it actually makes a difference this time. Does anyone have a handle on the UK permutations?
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