Certainly Brazil looked amazing and on the day deserved to win. It could be debated forever, but I thought the goalkeeper change unnerved the defense, and ultimately the team, especially since Scurry seemed nervous and uncertain in the early stages. Bad decision in retrospect. Hope’s ungracious remarks after the match pay her no compliment, and make one wonder if this team had the togetherness and spirit needed to go through. Can you imagine Lehmann trashing Almunia in public after an Arsenal loss? First rule after a loss– don’t throw a teammate under the bus.

What I saw even before the sending off of a US player was very little from the bars and stripes. Brasil played extremely well and US played bad and got schooled a couple of times. Deal with it, we all have bad days and if you cannot then don’t compete b/ you will never loose. I think everyone is crying b/ the US women has been historically so dominant and in this game they were not, did everyone think this was going to last forever?