How The U.S. Beat The Netherlands For A Fourth Women’s World Cup Title

Geoff, goalie play during this World Cup has done for goal keeping what Curry has done for shooting threes in the NBA. Everybody wants to be a goalie now, I bet.

Agree, Neil. Despite some opportunities from the Dutch, the U.S. has been the far more dangerous team. They made more than double the number of passes in the opposition’s penalty area. They’ve created three more chances. They’ve made more than double the amount of passes in the attacking third.

The difference is van Veenendaal. The model can’t account for that.