[oldalum]

13 goals is a world cup record; I don't think we are going to have a problem with goal differential, if that ever even became a tiebreaker. 

I agree with everyone on the celebrations. But goal differential is another matter. The tiebreaker would come into play if Sweden and we both win our first two matches (likely) and we end up tying Sweden in our match against them, which is entirely possible given we lost to them last time we played them (the infamous Hope Solo "cowards" match). So if we stop at, say, 8 goals vs. Thailand, which seems reasonable, who is to say Sweden can't score 9 on them -- or whatever they need to in order to score one more than us overall (they will know somewhat the number they have to beat, but not our score against Chile). So, given the stakes, our incentive is to run up the score as high as possible.

[oldalum]

13 goals is a world cup record; I don't think we are going to have a problem with goal differential, if that ever even became a tiebreaker. 

I agree with everyone on the celebrations. But goal differential is another matter. The tiebreaker would come into play if Sweden and we both win our first two matches (likely) and we end up tying Sweden in our match against them, which is entirely possible given we lost to them last time we played them (the infamous Hope Solo "cowards" match). So if we stop at, say, 8 goals vs. Thailand, which seems reasonable, who is to say Sweden can't score 9 on them -- or whatever they need to in order to score one more than us overall (they will know somewhat the number they have to beat, but not our score against Chile). So, given the stakes, our incentive is to run up the score as high as possible.