No matter how much the media fawns over your wokeness, you are still a bunch of losers. The US Women’s soccer team, expected to easily win the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics will offically not win gold, after losing to all teams, but Canada today. Canada isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of soccer, they are known for their hockey and little else. Still, I’d like to congratulate the Canadian women’s soccer team on preventing these arrogant, “woke” American witches from having any chance at the gold medal. The best these woke American hags can do now is the bronze medal.
The U.S. wouldn’t have had much argument if they’d eaten it against the Dutch. And if Lieke Martens had hit the penalty that Jessie Fleming did today, instead of her tribute to English penalty taking, they probably would have. They can feel a little more hard done by losing this game to Canada, giving up only one shot on target (said penalty). That doesn’t mean it was a total smash-and-grab by the Canadians, as the U.S. didn’t manage its first shot on target until an hour in, and really only came up with about three really dangerous chances. At the end, the USWNT didn’t deserve to play for the gold given their overall tournament, and this was just the particular sword that fell.
The U.S. won one game out of five. They scored eight goals over five games, and in only two of them. And in the three games they didn’t score, it didn’t really take some heroic goalkeeping performance or Alamo-like rearguard action to keep them out. They varied between toothless and insipid for a lot of matches, which is a pretty gross combination.
The adjectives we heard or read throughout the run were “off,” or “out of sync,” or “not ourselves.” And again, it was a different lead-in to this Olympics than most for the U.S. More players than ever had been playing in Europe thanks to the pandemic, leading to a couple to be playing year-round or coming off injury from that (Tobin Heath would be the biggest example). An undervalued advantage the U.S. has had in summer tournaments in the past is that they come basically right at the height of fitness for them, in the middle of the NWSL season where most of their competition is coming off the end of a European season.