'Obviously we never want to lose to Canada. I don't think I've ever lost to Canada.' 🇨🇦's defeat of Team USA in the women's soccer semifinal at Tokyo2020 prompted plenty of reaction south of the border. Here's what they're saying: (via EmmySadler)
."And this team, I mean, wow, what a performance, what a fight. Just so proud of our team, and one more to go."U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski was quick to rotate his roster with a long list of substitutions -- something that brought in a steady stream of fresh legs but also provided stark difference in strategy from Canada, as noted by U.S. star forward Alex Morgan, via"There was a lot of rotation, so in a way I think we had the freshest legs of any team.
Coaching his first major tournament, Andonovski approached the Olympics as though he were playing chess. Everyone else, though, was playing soccer. His constant player rotation left the team disjointed. Against the Netherlands and Canada in the knockout rounds, he subbed out his entire, three-person forward line. In neither of those games did the change produce a goal.
No women’s soccer team has ever won a World Cup and Olympic gold back-to-back, and one reason often postulated is that success restrains evolution. Formulas that lead to trophies are retained, and trotted out again 13 months later, by which point stars have aged, opponents have caught on and tactics have become outdated. ... They’d clung to past success, and hoped to recreate it. They couldn’t.The Guardian, U.S.
Canada came out exactly as the USWNT should have expected. It was physical, gritty and sought to close down the spaces the USWNT loves to play in. Canada's four-player diamond midfield especially managed to overrun and overwhelm the USWNT's central trio. But the Americans also made it a lot easier for Canada. They were static in their off-the-ball movement and rarely found the space to create outlets; and when they did try to the move the ball, they did it sloppily.
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