Naeher had multiple critical saves, but I agree and give Girma the edge. The old saying is that offense wins a season and defensive wins tournaments/playoffs. As much as the front line was fun to watch, the USWNT defense gets the majority of the credit for gold.
She put the players in position to utilize their skills in the best way possible, she wasn't afraid to play more aggressive up front with a 3 headed monster in Rodman, Smith, and Swanson these ladies were giving defenses fit. Emma still has a lot to clean up defensively and in the midfield play from the previous coaching staff but getting a gold medal in your first major tournament is a great way to start your coaching career with the USWNT.
I think the single best thing she did was clean house and bring up younger players. No disrespect to the old guard, but they had their time to shine and now it's time for the young stars of the game to shine. After that her formation choice and fostering the dynamism of the front 3. Hayes is a top flight coach and I wouldn't be surprised to see her managing in the EPL one day.
EMMA IS A KILLER! She will sacrifice all and everything to win a game!!! She mostly talks soft and kindly,BUT in reality she’s a fearless combat soldier. She would have made an excellent general leading troops into battle!
Shouldnt lose sight that without Alyssa Naeher, this team wouldnt have not only won this game but many of previous Olympic matches. She made saves in this game most pro men would have not been expected to make. Shes going to be a huge loss when she retires.
Emma Hayes herself gave huge credit to LIndsey Horan in her role as Team Captain. If you haven't heard her post-gold-medal-match presser, you should. It didn't sound like anything I've ever heard from any other coach regarding a Team Captain. Horan may not have had a great tourney on the pitch, but Hayes was giving her enormous credit.
Swanson is the best player in the world ,for this year! I hope she can maintain that form for the next couple years. Rodman is growing and young , one day she will be the best player in the world.
Smith has been the best forward for the USWNT and has played like a top player in the world. That’s even after a slow start with Gold Cup. Likely on pace to get the player of the year with Mal close behind. Soph has 16 goal contributions for club and 12 for country 🤯 28 in total. She has 10 assists in total for club/country (who says she doesn’t pass??) and leads the national team in goals and tied for most assists. She has BITW potential. Rodman does too if she picks up her pace but Smith is entering her prime. Her numbers are crazy and underrated
Gold medal was WON moment Emma choose young sharp players over older established Legacy player up front, but Brazil stuck with Legacy of Martha up front! It was clear this was a 2nd Tournament too far for Martha! Best coaches make those tough but correct decisions for good of the whole team!! ❤
Yup, like Berhalter, he tried to manage them as if it was a club team. The difference is that he's a much more successful club coach than was Berhalter.
Credit to our defense. Brazil came out in the same sort of helter-skelter high press that caused Spain to cough up 2 early goals. Lucky for us Naeher and our back line held up better under that pressure (aided by favorable calls on that offside and non-PK). In a game of inches, it could easily have been 2-0 Brazil up and the USA chasing like Spain had to do. Bottom line is we won but no one should have any illusions about how close the competition is these days. Brazil, Spain, England, Germany, etc. are all nipping at our heels and Emma will have to retool this team to have us do well in the World Cup. First by shoring up our suspect midfield...
yeah....the legacy player thing is not based in fact lol the only player she didn't include was Alex Morgan and Alex was off and on injured so it just didn't make sense. We brought younger players to the WC that weren't brought this time like Ashley Sanchez, Alyssa Thompson, Sav Demelo.
@@dolphmanityit may be the same players but there is a huge difference in style of play and mindself injected by Emma Hayes. Under Vlatsko the USNWT style of play deteriorated, they became a shadow of themselves.
While Hayes did a good job, don't forget all the credit that should go to Twila Kilgore for moving the team past Andonovski and building the needed cohesiveness.
Joy returned to the team. Linsay Horan having hard talks, encouraging talks, less off field distractions It took awhile for me to appreciate Meg Rapino as glad to play for the US .Naomi Grima.
I said it and it worked. I said in so many RUclips channel comments section that if uswnt want to do well or win Olympic game they must protect Mallory Swanson. I know fully well that other players are very important with good quality in likes of Rose lavelle, shawn, Trinity Rodman, Sofia smith, Alisha Neyer ,Lindsey horan, Dunn, Davidson, Emily Sonnet, Krugger KC. I constantly hold my stand that if USA wants to win the Olympic gold medal in Paris 2024, Mallory Swanson must be protected to make her fit for the tournament. And it worked.
I had somewhat lost my hope in Krieger's opinions after she said the squad lacked leadership without Alex Morgan but then she regained by respect after she said Canada should've been disqualified for dronegate.
She got rid of all the high profiler old players and no one dared to question her which means I am the boss and players fear her and respect her and it is a European football style which had excellent success in the past in America
Question; Yes, I know there has been changes....BUT, one thing that has not necessarily changed... The team has difficulty scoring. It won 1--0 in several games in the knockout round or 2-1? The previous version of the team also had trouble scoring goals. Remember, it lost to Sweden in penalty kicks..when people shanked PKs that would have beaten Sweden. So in theory the previous version of the team could have gotten to the Quarters or even Semi-finals...>So while i recognize the culture, formations, people have changed SOME, it still needs to address its abiilty to score goals
ENGLAND mens team can't win a Tournament and lost two finals! Because coaches stock with older established legacy players over fresh sharp youth! Emma Hayes pocks the best team mix, regardless of how long players have been established in team! It's TEAM over legacy names! ❤
Maybe the US Team have stopped reacting to the frequent" F bombs" thrown their way, by an English lady who should know better. Nobody should condone vulgar language.
For some reasons, I just don't think women coaching men's football team will ever feel natural. Men's team sport is like a war battalion. I don't see no woman commando
Championship games aren’t pretty and yes Brazil had opportunities but US played better so they’re able to control the game and win. Where did they find this host who sounded uninformed
Since Emma is English, she would know the Brian Clough quote, saying that he might not be the best manager, but he was certainly in the top one. Spot any similarities?
Emma hays is not the coach of the team, she is the manager of the team and the British soccer managers are the one who invented the professional side of the job
That’s a deadly combination a European coach coaching a United States team with the United States mentality. I’ll go ahead and call now Brazilian World Cup we’ll go to the United States. They're ranked number one now. 🔥❤️
Mr unknowname*****picture you can’t argue about what happened. Only future events, example you can’t say Emma Hay didn’t win the gold medal or she is not British or USWNT had success with European coaches before, none of that is open for argument, need to learn how to speak about what happened not your imagination
did she turn it around? or, did she have the players they needed for the last WC? she didnt rotate, something people hammered Vlatko on. they werent all that dominant during the Olympics, honestly not much better than the WC. midfield was still kind of a mess, just like the WC. nothing much tactically different from either tournament. the US didnt get blown out at the WC, played very good defense, struggled to score, lost on PKs. Olympics team went extra time 3 times, struggled to score in regulation. maybe Emma brought some confidence. maybe the Olympic tourney just played out perfectly for the US. maybe right time at the right place? look, im happy they won. theres still a boat load of questions to be answered with this team. a number of the worlds best teams werent even at the Olympics so we dodged them. Spain failed epically so we didnt have to face them. for me, "we're back" , might be just a bit too soon. having Mal back and putting Smith at the 9 was the most important change from the WC. a change that Vlatko couldnt make cuz he was stuck with Morgan doing nothing at the 9 and forced to put Smith on the wing where shes not been effective internationally. gratz on a well earned gold USWNT. keep at it. im not against Emma mind you, i just like to realistically look at whats happened. sometimes the eye test isnt good enough, you have to really dig in and look harder.
I agree the USWNT central midfielders offered almost nothing this tournament which is scary. It helps that Rodman and Smith had much better Olympics than they did WC because the tactics are to pretty much get the ball to them and let them make a play. Hayes has only had a handful of games though. It will get better.
Well said. The defense won these medals and that was in place before Hayes arrived. The midfield is still full of question marks with Coffey as the only consistent performer. While I love the new line front keep in mind that all 3 knockout round matches were 1-0 affairs with 2 in extra time...hardly a dominant offense. Hayes ignored her bench, overworked her players who r in the middle of club season for the most part and showed the same lack of acumen in how to break down a defensive block. What Hayes did bring seemed to be a more relax atmosphere and more joy than the previous coach so that was something. She also showed an ability to make a tough decision which also had been lacking. And let's not forget Twila Kilgore who did most of the work building this team while Hayes finished her club contract. At first glance Hayes seems more of a Jill Ellis type than the teacher and tactician I was hoping for.
I think it’s important to remember Emma only had a month or so and four friendly games before the Olympics. She basically had to work with the players that were there, and make the most of it. She couldn’t mess with things too much, and remember that early on during the friendlies, the team just struggled to work together at times. They were only improving on that for and during the Olympics. I’m guessing the team will look different next year.
I think people need to keep in mind the Olympics is a lot easier to win than the world cup. Just in the top six nations the olympics was missing two of them in England and Sweden.
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NAOMI GIRMA. Player of the tournament.
Naeher had multiple critical saves, but I agree and give Girma the edge.
The old saying is that offense wins a season and defensive wins tournaments/playoffs. As much as the front line was fun to watch, the USWNT defense gets the majority of the credit for gold.
well, I don’t know how other players from other teams played
@@bkirstie doesn’t matter. POTT is usually picked from the winning team
Amazing what a competent coach can do.
Ali is a good communicator and a beautiful woman to boost. Emma knows what she is doing. The team is in the right hands and on the right track.
She put the players in position to utilize their skills in the best way possible, she wasn't afraid to play more aggressive up front with a 3 headed monster in Rodman, Smith, and Swanson these ladies were giving defenses fit. Emma still has a lot to clean up defensively and in the midfield play from the previous coaching staff but getting a gold medal in your first major tournament is a great way to start your coaching career with the USWNT.
I think the single best thing she did was clean house and bring up younger players. No disrespect to the old guard, but they had their time to shine and now it's time for the young stars of the game to shine. After that her formation choice and fostering the dynamism of the front 3. Hayes is a top flight coach and I wouldn't be surprised to see her managing in the EPL one day.
Horan & Lavelle are still there slowing things down.
Carli Lloyd, Julie Ertz, Rapinoe, and O’Hara were leaving or had already left before Emma arrived.
EMMA IS A KILLER! She will sacrifice all and everything to win a game!!! She mostly talks soft and kindly,BUT in reality she’s a fearless combat soldier. She would have made an excellent general leading troops into battle!
Emma had a legit goal
Congrats Emma Hayes.
A bright future looms.
Shouldnt lose sight that without Alyssa Naeher, this team wouldnt have not only won this game but many of previous Olympic matches. She made saves in this game most pro men would have not been expected to make. Shes going to be a huge loss when she retires.
Many good goalkeepers are going to come up after Alyssa Nahyar
In Emma we Trust! 🇺🇲👑
Emma Hayes herself gave huge credit to LIndsey Horan in her role as Team Captain. If you haven't heard her post-gold-medal-match presser, you should. It didn't sound like anything I've ever heard from any other coach regarding a Team Captain. Horan may not have had a great tourney on the pitch, but Hayes was giving her enormous credit.
absolutely. she did play really badly though. i love emma
I said it once and i will say it again.
Put some respect on Emma Hayes' name!
Shes a disgrace
@@conradhailey9866How and why?
Some of the improvement was from subtraction. Dropping Morgan was so far overdue.
Can we say the team has fully transitioned to the next gen?
USWNT-Young Guns, sky is the limit for these young ladies!!!
Swanson is the best player in the world ,for this year! I hope she can maintain that form for the next couple years. Rodman is growing and young , one day she will be the best player in the world.
Don't forget Naomi Girma. She was rock solid, not much got by her.
@@uncledude9424Yes, yes an exceptional player. With out a doubt!! The USA has 3 or 4 , or maybe 5 top ten players in the world!
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Smith has been the best forward for the USWNT and has played like a top player in the world. That’s even after a slow start with Gold Cup. Likely on pace to get the player of the year with Mal close behind. Soph has 16 goal contributions for club and 12 for country 🤯 28 in total. She has 10 assists in total for club/country (who says she doesn’t pass??) and leads the national team in goals and tied for most assists. She has BITW potential. Rodman does too if she picks up her pace but Smith is entering her prime. Her numbers are crazy and underrated
Gold medal was WON moment Emma choose young sharp players over older established Legacy player up front, but Brazil stuck with Legacy of Martha up front! It was clear this was a 2nd Tournament too far for Martha! Best coaches make those tough but correct decisions for good of the whole team!! ❤
I also love how Sam coffee said they want to make the 1999 team proud as well, and that they aren’t just proud of the 1999 but want to make them proud
basic management 101. Vladko was just that bad at his job
Yup, like Berhalter, he tried to manage them as if it was a club team. The difference is that he's a much more successful club coach than was Berhalter.
Credit to our defense. Brazil came out in the same sort of helter-skelter high press that caused Spain to cough up 2 early goals. Lucky for us Naeher and our back line held up better under that pressure (aided by favorable calls on that offside and non-PK). In a game of inches, it could easily have been 2-0 Brazil up and the USA chasing like Spain had to do. Bottom line is we won but no one should have any illusions about how close the competition is these days. Brazil, Spain, England, Germany, etc. are all nipping at our heels and Emma will have to retool this team to have us do well in the World Cup. First by shoring up our suspect midfield...
I don’t know why Brazil stopped doing the high press in the second half. because they were beating us with it.
Mal Swanson was healthy and she quit playing legacy players. Simple
yeah....the legacy player thing is not based in fact lol the only player she didn't include was Alex Morgan and Alex was off and on injured so it just didn't make sense. We brought younger players to the WC that weren't brought this time like Ashley Sanchez, Alyssa Thompson, Sav Demelo.
I agree. Neither Pinoe Morgan nor O’Hara belonged in the world cup roster but Vlatsko respected their legacies too much.
I mean yes, but Emma Hayes gets the best 130% of these players. Not quite as simple as what you say
She took Vlatko's starting 11 and replaced Morgan with Swanson and Sullivan with Coffey. That's it.
@@dolphmanityit may be the same players but there is a huge difference in style of play and mindself injected by Emma Hayes.
Under Vlatsko the USNWT style of play deteriorated, they became a shadow of themselves.
While Hayes did a good job, don't forget all the credit that should go to Twila Kilgore for moving the team past Andonovski and building the needed cohesiveness.
got rid of the players who were getting a pass for "days of old" greatness, for youth who were actually fired up to rep the USA!
Horan & Lavelle need to go. Old & slow.
A lot has changed since the World Cup last year...Emma Hayes is the ONE.
Joy returned to the team. Linsay Horan having hard talks, encouraging talks, less off field distractions It took awhile for me to appreciate Meg Rapino as glad to play for the US .Naomi Grima.
She needs to improve defensive lines and that would secure them a World Cup championship
I said it and it worked. I said in so many RUclips channel comments section that if uswnt want to do well or win Olympic game they must protect Mallory Swanson. I know fully well that other players are very important with good quality in likes of Rose lavelle, shawn, Trinity Rodman, Sofia smith, Alisha Neyer ,Lindsey horan, Dunn, Davidson, Emily Sonnet, Krugger KC. I constantly hold my stand that if USA wants to win the Olympic gold medal in Paris 2024, Mallory Swanson must be protected to make her fit for the tournament. And it worked.
No person dared to challenge her about personal change to the team
I had somewhat lost my hope in Krieger's opinions after she said the squad lacked leadership without Alex Morgan but then she regained by respect after she said Canada should've been disqualified for dronegate.
She got rid of all the high profiler old players and no one dared to question her which means I am the boss and players fear her and respect her and it is a European football style which had excellent success in the past in America
Because at Chelsea it’s about winning
Emma Hays doesn’t care or know or deal with the politics of the game which is always the problem with domestic coach
This is what happens when you pick players based on form not on past accomplishments.
…. F’n Berhalter…
MEGAN WHO!!!!!!!!!!
Question; Yes, I know there has been changes....BUT, one thing that has not necessarily changed... The team has difficulty scoring. It won 1--0 in several games in the knockout round or 2-1? The previous version of the team also had trouble scoring goals. Remember, it lost to Sweden in penalty kicks..when people shanked PKs that would have beaten Sweden. So in theory the previous version of the team could have gotten to the Quarters or even Semi-finals...>So while i recognize the culture, formations, people have changed SOME, it still needs to address its abiilty to score goals
The USA had the most goals of any team in the tournament
ENGLAND mens team can't win a Tournament and lost two finals! Because coaches stock with older established legacy players over fresh sharp youth! Emma Hayes pocks the best team mix, regardless of how long players have been established in team! It's TEAM over legacy names! ❤
Luckily the USA team got magical coach in Emma Hayes. She is a super tactician.
Maybe the US Team have stopped reacting to the frequent" F bombs" thrown their way, by an English lady who should know better. Nobody should condone vulgar language.
She's a great manager. She should be the first woman to manage a Premier League team.
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For some reasons, I just don't think women coaching men's football team will ever feel natural.
Men's team sport is like a war battalion. I don't see no woman commando
Championship games aren’t pretty and yes Brazil had opportunities but US played better so they’re able to control the game and win. Where did they find this host who sounded uninformed
Since Emma is English, she would know the Brian Clough quote, saying that he might not be the best manager, but he was certainly in the top one.
Spot any similarities?
European women coaches do well in the US since there are no involved in the U.S. politics of any kind and soccer business only
Really funny how the US are so dominant in women's football while they can't really compete in the men's game.
It was an entertaining match 🤔
Emma hays is not the coach of the team, she is the manager of the team and the British soccer managers are the one who invented the professional side of the job
no, they do well with their European knowledge and the US mentality. That’s something that Europeans do not have over the Americans mentality.
That’s a deadly combination a European coach coaching a United States team with the United States mentality. I’ll go ahead and call now Brazilian World Cup we’ll go to the United States. They're ranked number one now. 🔥❤️
Mr unknowname*****picture you can’t argue about what happened. Only future events, example you can’t say Emma Hay didn’t win the gold medal or she is not British or USWNT had success with European coaches before, none of that is open for argument, need to learn how to speak about what happened not your imagination
did she turn it around? or, did she have the players they needed for the last WC? she didnt rotate, something people hammered Vlatko on. they werent all that dominant during the Olympics, honestly not much better than the WC. midfield was still kind of a mess, just like the WC. nothing much tactically different from either tournament. the US didnt get blown out at the WC, played very good defense, struggled to score, lost on PKs. Olympics team went extra time 3 times, struggled to score in regulation. maybe Emma brought some confidence. maybe the Olympic tourney just played out perfectly for the US. maybe right time at the right place?
look, im happy they won. theres still a boat load of questions to be answered with this team. a number of the worlds best teams werent even at the Olympics so we dodged them. Spain failed epically so we didnt have to face them. for me, "we're back" , might be just a bit too soon. having Mal back and putting Smith at the 9 was the most important change from the WC. a change that Vlatko couldnt make cuz he was stuck with Morgan doing nothing at the 9 and forced to put Smith on the wing where shes not been effective internationally.
gratz on a well earned gold USWNT. keep at it. im not against Emma mind you, i just like to realistically look at whats happened. sometimes the eye test isnt good enough, you have to really dig in and look harder.
I agree the USWNT central midfielders offered almost nothing this tournament which is scary. It helps that Rodman and Smith had much better Olympics than they did WC because the tactics are to pretty much get the ball to them and let them make a play. Hayes has only had a handful of games though. It will get better.
Well said. The defense won these medals and that was in place before Hayes arrived. The midfield is still full of question marks with Coffey as the only consistent performer. While I love the new line front keep in mind that all 3 knockout round matches were 1-0 affairs with 2 in extra time...hardly a dominant offense. Hayes ignored her bench, overworked her players who r in the middle of club season for the most part and showed the same lack of acumen in how to break down a defensive block. What Hayes did bring seemed to be a more relax atmosphere and more joy than the previous coach so that was something. She also showed an ability to make a tough decision which also had been lacking. And let's not forget Twila Kilgore who did most of the work building this team while Hayes finished her club contract. At first glance Hayes seems more of a Jill Ellis type than the teacher and tactician I was hoping for.
I think it’s important to remember Emma only had a month or so and four friendly games before the Olympics. She basically had to work with the players that were there, and make the most of it. She couldn’t mess with things too much, and remember that early on during the friendlies, the team just struggled to work together at times. They were only improving on that for and during the Olympics. I’m guessing the team will look different next year.
I think people need to keep in mind the Olympics is a lot easier to win than the world cup. Just in the top six nations the olympics was missing two of them in England and Sweden.
@@kernelthai I feel like Emma treats them like humans first,
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Young players had gained experience. New players were brought into the team. The old guard was phased out.
Not for Rose Lavelle
@@lexkanyima2195 Hormel & Lavalier need to go, stat.
@@got2bjosh why ?
@@lexkanyima2195 Old & slow.
@@got2bjosh BS
pep women version hahaha....
What would the storyline about “Triple Espresso” be if they were losing 2-1 or 3-1? The defenders won the gold medal.
What would be the storyline if you let go of your bigotry and stopped making what-ifs in order to not give them credit for what they actually did?
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Enjoy Ali’s thoughts as usual 🫶