#match thoughts

She’s fine. She’s sometimes got good shots and crosses. She certainly takes wild shots, but she’s not so much better than anyone else

much better the. last week, everyone seemed to know their roles a lot more

still not a lover of this back 4 but it’s working for now

thought blinky was miles better tonight, managed to stay on her feet and not be overly noticeable ( not an insult)

the goal was definitely something that shouldn’t have been conceded, grace, jade and khiara have to do better there

do wonder if bunny’s role now will be to draw the defenders out so someone else can score? would be frustrating to loose her as a predominate goal scorer but logically get it ig

King Abdullah Sports City, 12th January 2025 Supercopa de España - Final 2-5 (5' Mbappe, 22' Yamal, 36' Lewandowski (P), 38', 48' Raphinha, 45+10' Balde, 60' Rodrygo)

I will make a taz bingo card

No more pockets

I’m still waiting for heel Cassidy

And heel danhausen

The Dusty chant💛🖤

Orange doing some heel shit

What are they doing

Just Supplex them

Dante dribbled oranges head

Hitting orange with soft style

Ok that was actual heel stuff orange

The diving ddt killed him

“WWE is fake” guy stop walking with your sign

Dante wtf

Ok who is actually going to dethrone Cassidy

OMG HOOK HI

“He’s the one with the face paint “ taz about danhausen

Why is top flight’s music playing

Wait-

PRIVATE PARTY!!!!!!!!

SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS

Quinn is back!!!

Wait the Hardy’s

They forgot about house of black

SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS

Action did not just drink another water bottle??



Some random highlights that I remember:

Viv wandering off, not paying any attention, when they were lining up for the starters photo and Katie having to pull her into the picture. A couple of moments from this by Kunjan Malde:

Setting up for our first corner and Liv saying to me "what do we think, on Jen's head?" and then Katie putting in a perfect ball right onto Jen's head and her scoring! You should have seen our faces 😂

Singing "We've got McCabe" after she was yellow carded for time wasting. And then in the next break in play Katie arguing with the ref that she'd been tying her shoelaces and hadn't been given enough time for the throw in so hadn't deserved the card!

Mana slipping down by the corner flag and then just lying there for a bit. See also: Kim being taken down and just sitting in the middle of the pitch for a moment watching the rest of the game carry on.

Of course, the continued existence and brilliance of 'Meadema' - looking forward to the stats at the end of the season as to how many times they've assisted each other tbh.

Have to say, Reading improved massively in the second half and Canada's Deanne Rose was a big part of that. If they can get their new players embedded into the team quickly then they could cause some serious issues for a lot of teams.

Thought we could have had a few more goals tbh, some really brilliant combinations at times but obviously very happy with 4 great goals! A fair amount of last ditch defending in the second half as well frankly but we kept a clean sheet - woo!

Great to see lots of sensible (and reasonably early) subbing - saw this stat earlier and think it shows that rotation is happening a lot more this season and hopefully to the good of all the players:

Some really sloppy play especially in the midfield, caused by a big change in tactics? Maybe.

Janina Leitzig is going to be so great one day, such a modern keeper, cool calm and collected for her age.

Defending was not there today, hopefully to be sorted out before we face the NWSL team.

Saki Kumagai is already doing really well.

We took some decent penalties today, surprising because they are not our strong point at all! And most of our PK takers are out.