Feel bad for that poor gal on the England team.
Brutal.
My whole rec league soccer career was as a fullback (defender). I sorta know how she feels, having had too much juice once on a pass back to the keeper and watching it sail into the corner of the net. But I didn't have the eyes of the world and the hopes and dreams of my country on me at the time.
And congratulations to the US women!! Grandma and I were watching the game, and ... the first goal after
three minutes? 4-0 at one point in the
first half? We were gobsmacked. And watching the replay, if the announcers mentioned it, I didn't catch it. Key to that play was not just the corner kick and the midfielder coming across but the two players who swept the defenders out of the lane. Great set piece.
And watching that kick from midfield... any number of times in my soccer career, I'd see the keeper way out, and we'd be trying to move the ball upfield, and I'd yell, "Just kick to goal!" The difference being that it would've been a chancy lob for us big strong guys, and Carli Lloyd launched a 50-yard rocket.