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Message: [QUOTE="SimpleDawg, post: 4023688, member: 9267"] Come on tho. Everybody knows there are 10 really good teams in any World Cup or Olympics female soccer competition. This tournament alone should've proven Australia, Canada, Brazil, U.K., Sweden, and Netherlands. And then you have France, Norway, and Germany. That's 10 formidable opponents we should expect. 2019 was a really good World Cup, but let's not forget Great Britain missed a penalty kick against us otherwise it looked like Ellen White herself could've beaten us. So that could've been our exit, but we only just got by them. Vs Spain, we scored on 2 penalties.... the first one questionable and the 2nd one I'm not sure if Rose didn't try to land on her feet. So there's another example. In 2015, Julie Ertz fiercely pulled down a German player as she was about to easily score, but Germany followed with a missed penalty. Otherwise that game wasn't pretty either and we could've taken our exit then too. In 2003, we got hammered by Germany. In 2007, it was a lopsided score vs Brazil even tho there were questionable coaching/lineup decisions. It's never easy. Also, while it's true this might've just been one bad tournament - since no World Cup winner was able to follow that win with a subsequent Olympics gold medal - I think it's pretty much fact that we can't roll out this same roster for the 2023 World Cup. We certainly won't win with all of our front line 35 or older. Who do we have behind them tho? That will be the question. [/QUOTE]

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