[ADPinWDC]

+1 on seeking analysis.

I'm not an expert on soccer, but my assumption is that there's a coaching problem.  It's the opposite of the Monty era in Stanford MBB: position by position the US seems to have a big advantage, but the net effect is less than the sum of the parts.  To me that sounds like coaching.  

Two other possible explanations:
1.  The US players may have less familiarity with each other than the players from Netherlands & Portugal, some of whom play on the same teams in league play.
2.  Small sample size.  There is a lot of randomness in soccer.

On the other hand, Andonovski made two strategic decisions that struck me as mistakes in real time.
-Putting in Rapinoe.  I love what Rapinoe has done over the years, but she's past her prime.
-Not turtling at 80+ minutes.  I know that phrase may be controversial on this board, but the risk/reward is very different from Shaw's football tendencies.  It struck me as crazy how aggressive we were at a point in the match where we just needed not to lose in order to survive and advance.

RIGHT! -- Puting in Rapinoe to replace speedy strker Alex Morgan, who had some of the best shots... deflected. 
I believe Morgan would have made her penalty kick and we move on.  But, PKs are limited to players on the field at the end.

[ADPinWDC]

+1 on seeking analysis.

I'm not an expert on soccer, but my assumption is that there's a coaching problem.  It's the opposite of the Monty era in Stanford MBB: position by position the US seems to have a big advantage, but the net effect is less than the sum of the parts.  To me that sounds like coaching.  

Two other possible explanations:
1.  The US players may have less familiarity with each other than the players from Netherlands & Portugal, some of whom play on the same teams in league play.
2.  Small sample size.  There is a lot of randomness in soccer.

On the other hand, Andonovski made two strategic decisions that struck me as mistakes in real time.
-Putting in Rapinoe.  I love what Rapinoe has done over the years, but she's past her prime.
-Not turtling at 80+ minutes.  I know that phrase may be controversial on this board, but the risk/reward is very different from Shaw's football tendencies.  It struck me as crazy how aggressive we were at a point in the match where we just needed not to lose in order to survive and advance.

RIGHT! -- Puting in Rapinoe to replace speedy strker Alex Morgan, who had some of the best shots... deflected. 
I believe Morgan would have made her penalty kick and we move on.  But, PKs are limited to players on the field at the end.