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?
Matchup is set 🔒
🇺🇸 vs. 🇳🇱 for a spot in the semis pic.twitter.com/rgv0qYrqZj— U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) July 27, 2021
