Two to players during the match.
Four to coaching staff during the match.
Two to players after the final whistle.
What a shambles of a game! I watched the highlights with my wife. Her reaction: “they are not being good examples of what women’s football is capable of!” And she’s right. Too many misplaced passes and shots missed, but even worse was the constant shirt-pulling and dirty shenanigans.
Most of Brazil’s players lost their heads during the match, and so did the staff. Very poor show.
To be fair, the first yellow to their coach was a bit silly. He refused to change his dark blue shirt that was deemed too close to the dark blue jerseys of the US squad. The rest were deserved, including many that weren’t given.
I agree, that was a silly card. Though he didn’t help the situation by draping his white shirt over the shoulder of the assistant ref after he took it off. Very passive-aggressive and pretty demeaning to the official. That probably drew the ire of the ref so she was going to be more willing to throw another card at him.
That was really the big takeaway from this match - especially with the Brazilian players and staff. Far too many antagonistic actions that came back to haunt them.
That first player who got sent off not leaving the pitch for several minutes was ridiculous.
Her reaction was over the top, but she was absolutely right to be furious about the second yellw card she got. She gave a very weak shove to the USA player - who then collapsed like a ton of bricks. Embarrassing fakery.
Good to know the women can shithouse just as well as the men 😁
Right result in the end, the US looked much the better side, red card or no. Some superb saves from the Brazilian keeper, that double save in the first half was magnificent.
Yeah, there was too much flopping going on for sure. And yeah, that double save was great, especially since she apparently hurt her shoulder in the landing of the first save.
The commentators in that video were predictably crap. One of them was talking about how this was going to be a life-changing positive experience for the USWNT. I mean, it was good experience for dealing with a dirty, riled-up team and doing shithousery against them. But if that overall experience really transforms the team then they were in a pretty poor state.
Happy cake day
Oh, thanks.
Here’s the misconduct summary:
I think maybe brazil’s… physicality may be working against them somewhat at this point.
