[Hieronymus]

U20s got better after a rough Italy game. It also turned out that Italy is good as they won the group.

Tied Japan 2-2 and overall were the better team. Birkel was fine but Boamah had a rough game. Her distribution was way off, positioning was off and she got caught carrying the ball forward for the first Japan goal.

The New Zealand game was a full rout 9-0. NZ didn’t mark anybody except empty grass. Hard to rate players but Nguyen got to start.

Brazil was a mixed bag. The US was by far the better team in half 1, but far inferior in half 2. Extra time was probably a push so a  tie felt fair. Boamah played good defense but still was shaky distributing. Nguyen came on for 20ish minutes and was solid. Birkel was fine until PKs, but looked pretty sad there. Wrong direction 4 out of 5 kicks and couldn’t handle the fifth. US went out 5-4 on PKs.

[Hieronymus]

U20s got better after a rough Italy game. It also turned out that Italy is good as they won the group.

Tied Japan 2-2 and overall were the better team. Birkel was fine but Boamah had a rough game. Her distribution was way off, positioning was off and she got caught carrying the ball forward for the first Japan goal.

The New Zealand game was a full rout 9-0. NZ didn’t mark anybody except empty grass. Hard to rate players but Nguyen got to start.

Brazil was a mixed bag. The US was by far the better team in half 1, but far inferior in half 2. Extra time was probably a push so a  tie felt fair. Boamah played good defense but still was shaky distributing. Nguyen came on for 20ish minutes and was solid. Birkel was fine until PKs, but looked pretty sad there. Wrong direction 4 out of 5 kicks and couldn’t handle the fifth. US went out 5-4 on PKs.