2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

[moogoo]

Didn't see a thread for this yet.

Anybody actively watching? I will catch whatever games I can just to have some soccer on.

International level women's soccer can be entertaining as well with some real talented players.

Can the US 3-peat? My guess is no.

 

[mgarbowski]

The only thing I hate more than Leagues Cup is the existence of time zones.

 

[Shwafta]

I'd love to watch, I watched almost every match of the last one! But it's so hard when the games are all at like 11pm or later. :/

 

[LionNYC]

I remember staying up for the U20 World Cup when the kickoff times were crazy. I'm not doing that again.

Even the final at 6 AM ET is a bit of a stretch for a Sunday.

 

[joe]

Caught the last 20 minutes of Ireland v Australia this morning, Irish were unlucky to not get a point. Honestly thought the tournament started tonight

 

[mgarbowski]

Caught the last 20 minutes of Ireland v Australia this morning, Irish were unlucky to not get a point. Honestly thought the tournament started tonight

Another victim of the International Date Line.

 

[Seth]

Not watching the 3:00am ones but watched Ireland/Australia this morning and anticipate watching Canada/Nigeria tonight. Looked ahead a week or so and there's usually one match in the morning and one at night at reasonable-for-the-east-coast hours.

 

[nickp91]

Staying up extremely late for AFL Footy has trained me for watching this year’s Women’s World Cup games

 

[Seth]

Tyrone Slothrop (@slothrop@chaos.social)

My ROFL for the day: The women´s football (soccer) world cup is on. In an interview, one of the German players was asked "so who´s the female Neymar"? Her reply was "I don´t think there´s a female Neymar. For example, I don´t know any female players who keep laying on the ground for two or...

chaos.social

 

[moogoo]

i kinda like that the refs in the WWC are using a mic to announce their decision after VAR review. next step is letting those viewing at home listen to the ref/var discussion.

 

[Seth]

Watched a bunch of matches, very entertaining. One thing I've noticed is they're showing possession stats in three parts—team A %, in contest %, team B %—which is interesting. So instead of something like 60/40, it'll be 50/25/25, which seems like it'd be a lot more accurate and more reflective of what's actually happening in the match.

 

[JCMore]

I've only seen the USA game yesterday, but I agree with both Seth and M moogoo 's points with the minor distinction of I'm not a fan of hearing the ref/var discussion while they are making their decision. I think the refs need a little bit of privacy when discussing with their Vars. No need for fans to be involved in the process.

 

[Kenny]

Watched a bunch of matches, very entertaining. One thing I've noticed is they're showing possession stats in three parts—team A %, in contest %, team B %—which is interesting. So instead of something like 60/40, it'll be 50/25/25, which seems like it'd be a lot more accurate and more reflective of what's actually happening in the match.

I think they did that breakdown in the men’s World Cup too? I definitely remember seeing it somewhere

 

[mgarbowski]

Most possession stats are based entirely on completed passes, not time. It’s a shortcut that is usually close enough and saves a lot of work. To break it down between A, B and neither means someone has to track the time. Might be a while before that becomes the norm.

 

[Martin Hare]

Could this goal win the Ferenc Puskás Award? For me definitely, generally there are beautiful goals at the Women's World Cup so far...

Joga Bonito, the most beautiful goal of the championship! Brazil entertained in the first round at the Women’s World Cup, the talented debutant scored a hat-trick and added an assist

 

[FootyLovin]

Bot skepticism made me reluctant to click. But that was quite a goal. The kind of skill I've been waiting to see in the USWNT matches.

 

[Gotham Gator]

 

[Gotham Gator]

That was pretty fucking unpleasant this morning.

 

[joe]

There was no universe in which I was going to stay up to watch that, but I'm certainly glad I didn't in reading about it.

 

[LionNYC]

Sweden advances over the USWNT. I'm confident in saying that.