2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

[Spark]

And I think that's where her fitness issues come in. I reckon she scores that if it's in the first hour or so.

Yeah it's a fair point. Or if it's in that 15 minute period where it looked she might win the game on her own.

 

[social]

She didn't sky it did she? She sliced it a little and it went a foot wide. A marginally better connection and it's top corner.

C’mon buddy

She’s one of the highest profile female footballers in the world

Messi, Ronaldo, etc would be hammered for that performance

She missed 2 * point blank open goals

Those guys don’t do it twice in a week let alone in the space of a few minutes

 

[Spark]

C’mon buddy

She’s one of the highest profile female footballers in the world

Messi, Ronaldo, etc would be hammered for that performance

She missed 2 * point blank open goals

Are you seriously calling the first one a point blank open goal

 

[BoyBrumby]

She didn't sky it did she? She sliced it a little and it went a foot wide. A marginally better connection and it's top corner.

Obviously though a player of Kerr's talent and given the sorts of goals she's capable of she should be burying it, but it's still not "why we lost" compared to the horrendous defending basically all night.

Oh yeah, hence my disclaimer.

But it was one of "those" moments (and as an English footy fan I know all too well what they feel like); genuinely thought it was 2-2 when it fell to her. The high premium football has on goals means means a moment of brilliance can counter a half (or two) of collectively ploppy defending.

 

[Number 11]

Some putrid hot takes in this thread. Defensive errors and being generally outclassed the killers unfort.

 

[Spark]

Oh yeah, hence my disclaimer.

But it was one of "those" moments (and as an English footy fan I know all too well what they feel like); genuinely thought it was 2-2 when it fell to her. The high premium football has on goals means means a moment of brilliance can counter a half (or two) of collectively ploppy defending.

True but in the reverse, one moment like Carpenter's can undo any amount of brilliance at the other end. You don't win big knockout games throwing errors like that in no matter how stacked you are going forward (as Argentina almost found out to their disaster last year)

 

[social]

Are you seriously calling the first one a point blank open goal

They both were

 

[Spark]

They both were

You have to be lobotomised to think the first chance was remotely straightforward let alone an open goal given that she wasn't even facing the goal

 

[The_CricketUmpire]

Well done England, good win in enemy territory. Australia just weren't good enough and were outplayed on the night. England just better. Australia is certainly quiet at the moment lol

 

[Kraken]

Well done England, good win in enemy territory. Australia just weren't good enough and were outplayed on the night. England just better. Australia is certainly quiet at the moment lol

yeah we’re okay over here chief. Good achievement for the girls, will be even better with a 3rd place finish

 

[social]

You have to be lobotomised to think the first chance was remotely straightforward let alone an open goal given that she wasn't even facing the goal

lol

Kerr is a really good player but there’s a reason why every single expert agrees with me

It’s fkn obvious

Great goal

Horrific efficiency

 

[Spark]

lol

Kerr is a really good player but there’s a reason why every single expert agrees with me

It’s fkn obvious

Great goal

Horrific efficiency

Ah yes the "lol" when you know you don't have a leg to stand on because you have no idea what you're talking about when you call a chance that required a glanced finessed header behind you when you don't have sight of goal "an open goal".

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Actually I'm Erling Haaland irl and I say the goal was not easy.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Hope they had lots of pictures of crying in the stands. Can't beat host nations going out.

Imagine how good we'd be if we had a full team.

 

[Uppercut]

I want to see social try to score that. 95% chance he'd fail to make contact with the ball.

Footy thread regulars will know that non-footballers thinking headed chances are easy is a gear-grinder for me.

 

[Howe_zat]

 

[Howe_zat]

edit: spark

 

[Spark]

I want to see social try to score that. 95% chance he'd fail to make contact with the ball.

Footy thread regulars will know that non-footballers thinking headed chances are easy is a gear-grinder for me.

Honestly most amateurs are probably heading that away from goal if they get any contact on it at all, let alone doing what Kerr did.

 

[social]

I want to see social try to score that. 95% chance he'd fail to make contact with the ball.

Footy thread regulars will know that non-footballers thinking headed chances are easy is a gear-grinder for me.

I am not a footballer

She’s being paid millions a year to convert those chances and failed on the biggest stage

 

[Uppercut]

I am not a footballer

She’s being paid millions a year to convert those chances and failed on the biggest stage

I'm not bagging on you for being bad at football. It's just that you so obviously have no idea what's hard and what isn't. There are chances professional footballers miss sometimes that are genuinely easy. But nobody in the world is good enough to score that chance even 50% of the time, and if you'd ever tried to do it you would immediately understand why.