# FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 4, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647 "2015-06-04T17:53:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/81 "2015-06-11T21:56:52Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > …and now it’s 1-1 in the 82nd minute after Norway scored on an absolutely perfect direct kick. No, it was even perfecter. Maybe even absolutlier perfecter than that. I’ve never seen a shot fit so tightly into an upper corner of a goal like that. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/82 "2015-06-11T23:41:27Z")
You can see it at the [1 minute mark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ZZxB21UIQ)in these commentary-free highlights. Hell of a shot. Off topic, is anyone watching the under-20s? Check out these [three goals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCbC5Mxo8FI)from Mali v Ghana last night. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/83 "2015-06-12T00:00:29Z")
China just beat the Netherlands 1-0 to make Pool A very interesting.If New Zealand can beat Canada 1-0 next all the teams will be on 3 points with 0 goal difference. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/84 "2015-06-12T00:58:18Z")
Ivory Coast vs. Thailand has been pretty entertaining, for two teams which have no realistic hope of getting anywhere. Ivory Coast has been generally the better team, although not by a lot, and scored first, then surrendered three (one of them DEFINITELY offside, one of them likely offside), pulled one back in the 87th minute to be down 2-3, and has been attacking like crazy through 6 minutes of stoppage time, including hitting the crossbar. The also missed TWO wide open shots earlier, hitting a post and another crossbar. Edited to add: it ends at 3-2, despite another massive chance for CIV, 6:30 into stoppage time. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/85 "2015-06-12T01:08:57Z")
Canada vs. New Zealand… suspended DUE TO LIGHTNING! ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/86 "2015-06-12T02:26:54Z")
Here are the highlights from [Thailand v Cote d’Ivoire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQhAb0pqeo4) - judge the offsides for yourselves. Canada v New Zealand 0-0 at halftime, with the New Zealanders missing a penalty. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/87 "2015-06-12T03:29:14Z")
And Canada and New Zealand end up 0-0… but a pretty darn fun and exciting 0-0. All four teams in the group still very much alive. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/89 "2015-06-12T07:47:19Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > The ones calling the game weren’t calling it domination. When you dominate a game, you give up almost no real goal scoring chances and are creating chance after chance for yourself. Not true. A team can dominate and have very few goal attempts. It happens all the time and is indicative of a certain style of play. You may choose to play patient, possession football and take your time to look for openings. Now the opposition may in fact have more shots on goal than you do (but they might be low-quality attempts or long range efforts) but it is still “domination” in my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/90 "2015-06-12T13:33:20Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Canada v New Zealand 0-0 at halftime, with the New Zealanders missing a penalty. I saw two missed offside calls. The first one was easier to miss as a defender moved towards goal after the ball was in the air giving the illusion that the Thai player was onside. The second one was a terrible missed offside call and the Ivory Coast should be pissed about that one. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/91 "2015-06-12T14:40:30Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > I saw two missed offside calls. The first one was easier to miss as a defender moved towards goal after the ball was in the air giving the illusion that the Thai player was onside. The second one was a terrible missed offside call and the Ivory Coast should be pissed about that one. Agreed that one was tricky, but the other was egregious. Good Lord. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/92 "2015-06-12T21:23:19Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > I saw two missed offside calls. The first one was easier to miss as a defender moved towards goal after the ball was in the air giving the illusion that the Thai player was onside. The second one was a terrible missed offside call and the Ivory Coast should be pissed about that one. I just saw some highlights in passing, but completely agree. One was, with the benefit of super-slo-mo replay, probably offside, but can’t say it was an egregiously bad call. The second one, on the other hand, you can say that. And agree that the referee for Germany -Norway decided to split the difference between the super tight US game and the ‘no death, no foul’ Brazil game, by calling it tight on the Norway players and letting the Germans re-enact Bambi vs Godzilla (as Godzilla). OK, not quite that bad. Maybe, if one was generous, you’d say that she called a style that the Germans were used to, and the Norwegians weren’t. But even then it was a little idiosyncratic. Though, she wasn’t the worst official of the day, at least. And can’t say she really swung the game either: Germany was fairly clearly better overall, but Norway really earned their point in the second half after getting (figuratively and literally) kicked around all first half. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/93 "2015-06-12T22:13:31Z")
Australia leading Nigeria 1-0 early in the second half. Am I the only one who’s starting to feel that the way commentators talk about African and South American teams is vaguely racist. “Flair”. The Nigerian players have “Flair”. Would they ever use that word to describe, say, Sweden, even if the Swedish players were undeniably individually brilliant and creative? ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/94 "2015-06-12T22:50:41Z")
That was weird at the end of the Australia game. They announced 4 minutes of stoppage time, and then the ref blew the game dead after only 1. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/95 "2015-06-12T23:02:22Z")
I’m hoping Ecuador does a better game this time than on its debut. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/96 "2015-06-12T23:17:50Z")
Besides getting beaten up and pushed around the Swiss… ☹ Also, I really dislike the English commentators I got on the feed. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/97 "2015-06-13T02:26:01Z")
Disappointing performance from the Khaleesis. Not that we looked bad, exactly, but we couldn’t put it together. Still, almost certain to go through. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/98 "2015-06-13T16:11:43Z")
Well, we might be better if our players were actually playing for us. Fox just announced 7 Colombians had US ties; Mexico have 12 players born or raised in the USA [Can Mexico's American Players Deliver Las Tri Their First World Cup Win?](http://screamer.deadspin.com/can-mexicos-american-players-deliver-las-tri-their-firs-1708810933) ; the England GK is American and I am sure there are others. Reminds me of past Mens World Cups when many teams had Brazilians including Japan. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/99 "2015-06-13T16:16:14Z")
We also need our Swedish coach back. We produce great players but just lousy coaches. Remember Steve Sampson? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/100 "2015-06-13T17:19:39Z")
Great goal by Colombia v France. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647/101 "2015-06-13T18:17:07Z")
Colombia still up 1-0 in the 60th minute. If they can hold on this will be a serious upset. Since when are the US team the “Khaleesis”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifa-womens-world-cup-2015/721647.md?page=6)