[Hieronymus]

It was actually 1-nil (on a penalty) going into stoppage time when Germany scored in the second minute of stoppage time.  

Notably Evans was subbed out in the 89th minute just before the US gave up that goal. Watched the whole game. Evans was fabulous. And the penalty was on Gisele Thompson. A very careless play by her. Too bad she went pro rather than play at Stanford. Can't help but think she would have been better off training with the program that produced Naomi Girma.  

Thankfully Jasmine Aikey has been holding the fort in Evans' absence.  Despite being a converted midfielder/forward this season, she just won ACC Defensive Player of the Week!  And I'm really excited for how well freshman Ella Emri has been playing at center back too.  Really solid. With her playing so well I assume Aikey will be moved back up (likely to center forward) once Evans returns.  Aikey is already a 2-time Pac 12 Offensive Player of the Week.  It'd be amazing if Aikey can win ACC Defensive Player of the Week and Offensive Player of the Week in the same season!

Evans was very good against Germany and the sub was to get an attacker on while down 1:0 so while I would have pulled the other CB, it was defensible. She started vs. Spain in the game 1 loss, I think she didn’t play the next 2 games and came on late vs. Mexico in knockout rd 1. Not much to say in the Mexico game; they had nothing left in extra time. So no idea if she was out for injury or just coaches choice. There have been some weird player decisions; so I tend to think just coaches choice, but that is just guessing.

Thompson on the other hand played 2 of the most negatively impactful knock out games ever. -3 vs Mexico where she was offsides being lazy tracking back and she got beat tracking back poorly on defense twice. -1 vs Germany on the noted PK. Really not Ok for one of the 8 pro players on the team.

[Hieronymus]

It was actually 1-nil (on a penalty) going into stoppage time when Germany scored in the second minute of stoppage time.  

Notably Evans was subbed out in the 89th minute just before the US gave up that goal. Watched the whole game. Evans was fabulous. And the penalty was on Gisele Thompson. A very careless play by her. Too bad she went pro rather than play at Stanford. Can't help but think she would have been better off training with the program that produced Naomi Girma.  

Thankfully Jasmine Aikey has been holding the fort in Evans' absence.  Despite being a converted midfielder/forward this season, she just won ACC Defensive Player of the Week!  And I'm really excited for how well freshman Ella Emri has been playing at center back too.  Really solid. With her playing so well I assume Aikey will be moved back up (likely to center forward) once Evans returns.  Aikey is already a 2-time Pac 12 Offensive Player of the Week.  It'd be amazing if Aikey can win ACC Defensive Player of the Week and Offensive Player of the Week in the same season!

Evans was very good against Germany and the sub was to get an attacker on while down 1:0 so while I would have pulled the other CB, it was defensible. She started vs. Spain in the game 1 loss, I think she didn’t play the next 2 games and came on late vs. Mexico in knockout rd 1. Not much to say in the Mexico game; they had nothing left in extra time. So no idea if she was out for injury or just coaches choice. There have been some weird player decisions; so I tend to think just coaches choice, but that is just guessing.

Thompson on the other hand played 2 of the most negatively impactful knock out games ever. -3 vs Mexico where she was offsides being lazy tracking back and she got beat tracking back poorly on defense twice. -1 vs Germany on the noted PK. Really not Ok for one of the 8 pro players on the team.