A very subjective look into AWFC

Don’t you just love it when you can’t find your laptop charger and your entire existence pauses for who knows how long? This is exactly why I’m about 5 hours late today so, I know you’ve been holding your breath… you can breathe now. I’m here and not only am I here but I currently don’t know exactly what to write about. It’s not like there aren’t topics such as Lauren James’s stamp… Australia playing stellar football, no DVD vs Spain, etc etc etc but come to think of it, one thing I’d like to talk about is how important it HAS to be, for any team, to learn to adapt without their “star” player.

In the past we have seen how many teams have coped with “that special player” missing, such as Alexia Putellas for example… Barcelona played so well and won the lot. Spain has also played incredible well, again, without Putellas. This is not by any means a way to imply that Alexia isn’t needed or anything like that, I just so happen to think about those to examples back to back, involving her. You could make an argument, I guess…. but I don’t truly buy into that.

What I’m about to say is definitely insane and I will deserve any sort of criticism and I’m prepared for it…. In my eyes I enjoy England playing more without Keira Walsh. And I know this is stupid… it really is. I know how absurd it sounds that any team would be better off without the best player in her position in world football. I understand that and frankly I’m pretty disgusted at myself. I’m also not ready/equipped/smart enough to bring facts… like I said, it’s just an opinion. Having her injured meant bringing back Rachel Daly and by result not starting Carter which is a great move all around. Formation change… and as much as I don’t love her, one bit, Lauren James was fantastic… until she did what she did and she’s gonna learn and come back stronger which is SCARY. Damn she’s goooood.

My assumption with this particular point about star players missing is the fact that DVD will not be available against Spain. I don’t know why Jonkers didn’t tell her to get booked vs Vietnam but here we are. Someone needs to step up and they need to play the best game of their entire lives in a couple of days. There isn’t really an option. It’s not negotiable. Anything less than that and the oranje leeuwinnen are stroofwaffelled aka f*cked.

More on this tomorrow… I need to delay the reality of this topic as much as possible as my heart can’t take it.

d ❤

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