[Hieronymus]

Yeah 5:0 Duke. Needless to say that didn’t go well.

Good is a short list:
- Emri came in and made a brobdingnagian difference at outside back. She plugged a disastrous hole there.
- Sammy Smith who I have criticized on defense mostly held up. Goal 4 she was late to react when Freer tried to pull the outside trip, but I am not sure Freer had it anyway. Will check later. Wasn’t really watching and she may have caused the dubious penalty for goal 5 as well, but still mostly she held up.

Edit: on goal 4 Freer passed a player off to London but never really locked on her new mark. I actually don’t think she was trapping - she just lost track of Ministrella (sp?) behind her and reflexively moved forward. Smith was irrelevant. It wouldn’t have been offsides anyway - Freer would have kept her on.

Bad- oh boy:
- Williams simply was destroyed. She got switched from RB to LB after she didn’t close down on the first goal. It didn’t help as she was constantly beaten to the end line for crosses. Second goal she dropped off the scorer. Maybe London should have picked the player up; so i am not sure how to assign fault, but it wasn’t good.
- No MF control at all. Kohler was off all game and Bray and SLS couldn’t keep up physically. Bhuta played some in the first half and it helped, but she couldn’t flip things around.
- forwards didn’t get the ball much, but did nothing when they got it. Thomas needs to stop shooting near post most of the time. And passing forward to the goalie. I worry Winn is a win more player. Good against inferior teams, but ineffective against better ones.
- the CBs struggled , but they also didn’t get much help. See goal 2 and 4 comments. On goal 3, Bray dropped her player to Freer who wasn’t ready and couldn’t recover. Freer overall was the most discombobulated I have ever seen. But both she and London constantly were marking space, not players.
- the overall defensive shape was compact, but the announcers were correct - nowhere near enough pressure on the ball. For example, on goal 1 yes Williams got lit up, but they can’t allow the time and space to hit negate diagonal cross field pass,
- miserable official but at least it didn’t matter.

I would have liked to see Emri at CB and Freer shifted to RB some, but it’s a small complaint in the grand scheme.

[Hieronymus]

Yeah 5:0 Duke. Needless to say that didn’t go well.

Good is a short list:
- Emri came in and made a brobdingnagian difference at outside back. She plugged a disastrous hole there.
- Sammy Smith who I have criticized on defense mostly held up. Goal 4 she was late to react when Freer tried to pull the outside trip, but I am not sure Freer had it anyway. Will check later. Wasn’t really watching and she may have caused the dubious penalty for goal 5 as well, but still mostly she held up.

Edit: on goal 4 Freer passed a player off to London but never really locked on her new mark. I actually don’t think she was trapping - she just lost track of Ministrella (sp?) behind her and reflexively moved forward. Smith was irrelevant. It wouldn’t have been offsides anyway - Freer would have kept her on.

Bad- oh boy:
- Williams simply was destroyed. She got switched from RB to LB after she didn’t close down on the first goal. It didn’t help as she was constantly beaten to the end line for crosses. Second goal she dropped off the scorer. Maybe London should have picked the player up; so i am not sure how to assign fault, but it wasn’t good.
- No MF control at all. Kohler was off all game and Bray and SLS couldn’t keep up physically. Bhuta played some in the first half and it helped, but she couldn’t flip things around.
- forwards didn’t get the ball much, but did nothing when they got it. Thomas needs to stop shooting near post most of the time. And passing forward to the goalie. I worry Winn is a win more player. Good against inferior teams, but ineffective against better ones.
- the CBs struggled , but they also didn’t get much help. See goal 2 and 4 comments. On goal 3, Bray dropped her player to Freer who wasn’t ready and couldn’t recover. Freer overall was the most discombobulated I have ever seen. But both she and London constantly were marking space, not players.
- the overall defensive shape was compact, but the announcers were correct - nowhere near enough pressure on the ball. For example, on goal 1 yes Williams got lit up, but they can’t allow the time and space to hit negate diagonal cross field pass,
- miserable official but at least it didn’t matter.

I would have liked to see Emri at CB and Freer shifted to RB some, but it’s a small complaint in the grand scheme.