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Originally Posted by |Zach|
I think this team still had the requisite moxie to be a winner. They had all the pieces and I think they were poorly coached. Really rudderless on offense. I don't feel like the squad selection is as bad as others do but I get where you are coming from. Striker position was a damn mess.
I was pretty disappointed in Sophia Smith bottling her big moment.
On the bright side our keeper was amazing.
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Agreed, and part of that coaching decision was the refusal to play youth. Even if that meant relying on rapinoe who for all her past succesa was bad on almost every single touch. Having a young gun like alyssa thompson play 1 minute is criminal. They had a few young guns who played zero minutes. I get subbing vets late for PKS (to some extent). But man, not only could youth have provided a spark, also you get the future ready. It was almost like shelving Reyna for the men but way worse. Morgan was ok enough but did we really need a 37 year old playing that many minutes? And then after burning her you wait until the 25th hour to sub her for rapinoe to take the PKs?
The squad selection had a lot of their hand forced. It's just puzzling why he gave so much favoritism to old and slow veterans and didn't use the youth on the bench that he had. Imagine if vlatko coached 22 year old Alex morgan in her first world cup. She would've never seen the pitch