Womens Soccer World Cup

[wolfie]

Who's getting ready for this? The first match has just started.

Monday England start against Mexico.

Tuesday USA start against Korea.

[wolfie]

sorry Canadians but you are losing at the moment.

[Adam West]

Right now there are only 4 really good Women's teams....USA, Brazil, Germany, and Sweden. Japan is pretty good too but I think just a bit behind the top 4. Then it drops off dramatically from there.

Personally, I think Brazil has the best talent but I wouldn't be surprised to see the USA win it especially after losing the last World Cup. Hope Solo got benched in favor of Brianna Scurry who is a really good goal keeper but is out of her prime and not nearly as good as Hope Solo. Apparently, the USA coach thought it would be a good idea to bench Hope because Scurry has had a lot of success against Brazil...needless to say Brazil won, the US coach was fired and Hope is back in as top goalkeeper. Should be an interesting showdown.

[wolfie]

England 1---Mexico 1

and we were lucky to get that. Not a good start.

[Hector]

Viva Mexico!

[Wee67]

I rushed to watch Sunday morning's matches to cleanse my palate of the bitter, bitter taste left from Saturday's USA match (I'm looking at you, Hector )

[Hector]

[Adam West]

USA women won easily as expected.

[wolfie]

England looking good to get out of the group but if they don't beat Japan on Tuesday it could be Germany next and it will all end in tears.

[Adam West]

Japan has a really good women's team and a tie won't move them into the #1 slot. Maybe France will pull off a shocker but I doubt it so start planning for Germany. The U.S. really only has Sweden to worry about and needs to get out as the #1 seed. Otherwise they will be playing Brazil in the quarterfinals. They can beat Brazil but would be a much better match up to see them play each other in the finals.