FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
She didn't set anything alight.

Two games and the word 'grim' fits both of them, NZ and Ireland adopt the same general strategy - opportunism. NZ got theirs and Ireland didn't.

Too many games in women's football where one team are clearly the underdogs and have to rely on athleticism, stamina and marking the opposition player who receives a pass with the only feature they can control, and that is denying them space. There are few women players who can control, move and beat a defender that you see time and time again in men's football!
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There's a big drop off after about the top 6 women's nations. Nowadays in the men's that probably happens after closer to 20 teams.
 
mattcity5 said:
It would be similar.

The figures they show as possession usually (Inc men's PL) are actually just a proportion of passes made. So if we do 400 and Everton do 100 then we have 80% possession and Everton 20%. It's a bit a a basic way if doing it but it's what gets used.

If they're now showing an amount where no team has possession then they are doing something different. Potentially any time where the ball is moving, away from a player, is counted as out of possession. Might not be that but possibly.

I'm sure the difference will be explained at some point as the tournament goes on.
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I would have thought that possession remained with the team which touched it last until it was intercepted, or as it seems to be described in this tournament as 'turned over'!
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I would have thought that possession remained with the team which touched it last until it was intercepted, or as it seems to be described in this tournament as 'turned over'!
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Yeah maybe. It'd be wrong to count City as not in possession as the ball gets moved around the pitch. Trying to find out more about how they measure it but only found an Athletic article that I'm not willing to pay for...
 
mattcity5 said:
Yeah maybe. It'd be wrong to count City as not in possession as the ball gets moved around the pitch. Trying to find out more about how they measure it but only found an Athletic article that I'm not willing to pay for...
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Was brought in for the Qatar World Cup and known as "In Contest".

There's more about it at this Radio Times link
 
After the first couple of games it's got all the makings of AFCON.

Under 1.5 goals per game was the way forward....I do expect some big scores chucked in though as well as we've got some proper Davina V Goliath matches in the groups.
 
Eccles Blue said:
I am watching Nigeria v Canada. Come on Canada. :-)
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I watched most of that too@Eccles. Sometimes insomnia has it's benefits. It was quite a competitive match and I quite enjoyed it, the match that is not the insomnia. I am now going to watch Spain v Costa Rica, putting my day off work to good use.
 
Just turned on the Spain v Costa Rica game and the game is into the second minute and the first fuckin' thing I hear on the commentary is 'Manchester United'. Less than two fuckin' minutes. Normally they have the impeachable decency to wait till after five minutes. 'Sgetting worse since we the first to win a 'modern era' treble.
 
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