OT: USA vs Japan Final | Page 2 | The Boneyard

OT: USA vs Japan Final

Status
Not open for further replies.
Joined
Sep 16, 2011
Messages
48,657
Reaction Score
166,504
Next time you're walking around the mall, take a look around at what passes for "women" nowadays - it's like a jail break from the fat and sloppy farm. Hope's doing fine.
Haven't been to a mall in over a decade. Don't need to hit up the mall to see fat people, America is full of them. Still doesn't have anything to do with Hope Solo being a train wreck.
 
Joined
Jan 13, 2014
Messages
622
Reaction Score
2,196
Is there a mercy rule in World Cup soccer.

Reminds me of watching our UConn Women's basketball. Play all out to the final whistle.
 
Joined
Aug 25, 2011
Messages
13,756
Reaction Score
71,722
Actually, not good for women's soccer. Shows how bad it is. This game is good for US but shows how bad this is. It's unwatchable.

You see those goals scored on keepers playing too far out all the time at the highest levels of the men's game. Japan - a very skilled technical side - is just getting steamrolled right now. It happens (e.g. Germany / Brazil).
 
Joined
Aug 28, 2011
Messages
2,719
Reaction Score
6,221
Yes, but, that's mostly offset by the up-close shots of her private bits that leaked onto the net last fall. Based on that, I bump her back up to "will tolerate."

Are you kidding? Those pictures were disgusting.
 

jleves

Awesomeness
Joined
Aug 27, 2011
Messages
4,265
Reaction Score
15,115
Actually, not good for women's soccer. Shows how bad it is. This game is good for US but shows how bad this is. It's unwatchable.
That's just way too simplistic of a thought. It's one game - US got some breaks early and a few falling in, going just by a defender, ricocheting perfectly to an open foot - those things happen and in no way indicates the level of play or state of the game.

To follow with that logic, you would have said it was bad for Football when the 49ers crushed the Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl 24.
 
Joined
Dec 25, 2011
Messages
7,188
Reaction Score
8,765
I agree, quality wise it's pretty much lousy. In women's hoops they play a fundamentally strong game but lack athleticism as compared to men. In soccer it's really both. And the flopping is worse than the NBA, 3 of the last 5 goals I can recall were on penalty shots.

I will probably watch some, they play hard. But 8PM is Fare Thee Well PPV.

Flopping? Watch Robbens (Netherlands), Ronaldo (Portugal), Neymar (Brazil), or even Klinsman back in the day (Germany), all flopped religiously. Heck the Italian national team makes it an art form.
 
Joined
Feb 20, 2012
Messages
6,155
Reaction Score
9,244
Flopping? Watch Robbens (Netherlands), Ronaldo (Portugal), Neymar (Brazil), or even Klinsman back in the day (Germany), all flopped religiously. Heck the Italian national team makes it an art form.


Exactly. it's sickening at the highest levels of the mens game, especially the Italians
 
Joined
Feb 20, 2012
Messages
6,155
Reaction Score
9,244
Great showing, our womens team got better as the tournament went on and the coaching staff did a brilliant job.
 
Joined
Aug 26, 2011
Messages
6,048
Reaction Score
19,051
jleves said:
That's just way too simplistic of a thought. It's one game - US got some breaks early and a few falling in, going just by a defender, ricocheting perfectly to an open foot - those things happen and in no way indicates the level of play or state of the game. To follow with that logic, you would have said it was bad for Football when the 49ers crushed the Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl 24.

First goal I thought was a thing of beauty - US spread out on the set piece and opened a lane, Lloyd crashed in from the weak side with a beautiful outside of the foot finish. Chipping the goalie from midfield is impressive no matter how much you fault the goalie.

Second goal was sort of a hustle/garbage goal off a nice flick on, the third was a horrible header from Japan but a clinical volley - the sort of composed finish the USMNT could have used v Belgium.

There was some good stuff in that blowout.
 

UConnSwag11

Storrs, CT The Mecca
Joined
Aug 26, 2011
Messages
13,935
Reaction Score
52,147
First goal I thought was a thing of beauty - US spread out on the set piece and opened a lane, Lloyd crashed in from the weak side with a beautiful outside of the foot finish. Chipping the goalie from midfield is impressive no matter how much you fault the goalie.

Second goal was sort of a hustle/garbage goal off a nice flick on, the third was a horrible header from Japan but a clinical volley - the sort of composed finish the USMNT could have used v Belgium.

There was some good stuff in that blowout.
that half field chip, damn... and my girl tobin getting her goal... the women are very good, if you dont like soccer or appreciate it you wont like it... i like the pace they play at and how technical they are
 
Joined
Sep 16, 2011
Messages
48,657
Reaction Score
166,504
that half field chip, damn... and my girl tobin getting her goal... the women are very good, if you dont like soccer or appreciate it you wont like it... i like the pace they play at and how technical they are
Not all soccer fans are going to like women's soccer just like not all basketball fans are going to like women's basketball.
 

UConnSwag11

Storrs, CT The Mecca
Joined
Aug 26, 2011
Messages
13,935
Reaction Score
52,147
Not all soccer fans are going to like women's soccer just like not all basketball fans are going to like women's basketball.
no i know i agree, i probably worded it wrong... still dont know how to, it's in my head but wont come out...
 

Eskapeesto

The specter of ExtraPesto is haunting the Cesspool
Joined
Nov 16, 2014
Messages
1,013
Reaction Score
4,258
ITT:
tumblr_m8k0sm5mtq1r8zv7zo1_500.jpg

32193655.jpg
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Online statistics

Members online
68
Guests online
2,256
Total visitors
2,324

Forum statistics

Threads
156,974
Messages
4,075,008
Members
9,965
Latest member
deltaop99


Top Bottom