WWC19 | Final: USA v Netherlands

I'm currently on a train full of Americans heading for a city full of French people. Who do you reckon I should cheer for tonight?
 
Congratulations to England, a convincing and well deserved (obviously) win, and their best game of the tournament so far. Norway will still be content with our overall performance in this championship. Qualifying against the Netherlands was big for us in itself, and beating Nigeria, South Korea and Australia, and being within shooting distance of France, is good enough for us, particularly when lacking our best player.

Against England the girls looked decidedly nervous, particularly close to the goal lines, with hestitation/panicky shots in the one end and very uncarachteristic havoc defending from the otherwise very solid duo of Mjelde/Thorisdottir.

That said, England’s attacking combination play was much too quick and fluent for us at times, Bronze, Parris and White opened us up time after time. England was better than us at almost every aspect of the game. Ingrid Hjelmseth, our goalie, was our player of the match, Graham Hansen much too alone and easily taken out by two English defenders.

I did miss Alex Greenwood though.
 
Grande said:
Congratulations to England, a convincing and well deserved (obviously) win, and their best game of the tournament so far. Norway will still be content with our overall performance in this championship. Qualifying against the Netherlands was big for us in itself, and beating Nigeria, South Korea and Australia, and being within shooting distance of France, is good enough for us, particularly when lacking our best player.

Against England the girls looked decidedly nervous, particularly close to the goal lines, with hestitation/panicky shots in the one end and very uncarachteristic havoc defending from the otherwise very solid duo of Mjelde/Thorisdottir.

That said, England’s attacking combination play was much too quick and fluent for us at times, Bronze, Parris and White opened us up time after time. England was better than us at almost every aspect of the game. Ingrid Hjelmseth, our goalie, was our player of the match, Graham Hansen much too alone and easily taken out by two English defenders.

I did miss Alex Greenwood though.
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Your girls have been a credit to your country and the tournament itself, you should all be very proud. Already looking forward to watching you at the Euros in 2 years.

Can we assume you are a temporary England fan for the remainder of the World Cup? :D
 
Come on you French beauties! 3-2 to France with Gauvin, Le Sommer, Rapinoe and Heath amongst the goals. Renard and Dahlkemper to get booked. Yep, you saw it here first.
 
Will be supporting France tonight, think the US will definitely beat England if they play to their potential but the French side is beatable, though with home advantage and clearly a very good side.
 
Lumped on France, hoping Le Sommer has a good game.

Come on les bleues!
 
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What's with the captaincy of the US team ? Seems like Morgan and Rapinoe are rotating it match by match
 
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