We are just a couple of weeks away from the start of the Concacaf W Championship, also known as the Concacaf Women’s Pre-World Championship, heading to Australia / New Zealand 2023 and Paris 2024. Within this competition that will take place from July 4 to 18 In Monterrey, the participating teams will be fighting for the pass to the World Cup that will be played next year and for their pass to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Looking ahead to this tournament, the eight participating squads are already preparing to face this new commitment. The United States National Team is one of the teams that already had its first preparation game prior to the Concacaf W Championship. The USWNT faced the Colombian National Team in Colorado in their first match of two against the Colombians.
Since coach Vlatko Andonovski took over the team following the departure of coach Jill Ellis, the criticism of the United States’ form of play has not stopped. All these criticisms and lack of confidence in the new coach began after the poor performance of the Americans in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, from that moment the “almighty” United States began to see itself vulnerable in certain aspects, which has bothered and fans worried.
The United States has had a lot of problems lately in terms of opening the scoring in the first half, as well as having problems down the stretch. These two points have been some of the ones that have worried the fans the most.
In this first game against Colombia, once again the United States could not open the scoring in the first half, Sophia Smith had to do so in the second half of the match. Although the USWNT did not suffer the match with its rival, there were moments when Colombia gave flashes of wanting to score and made the United States and the defense tremble.
Fortunately, the United States won this first match 3-0, but with the W Championship so close with strong teams like Canada and Mexico, the United States leaves a lot to be desired and really makes you question whether it will be the true rival to beat and how “simple” “will get your ticket.
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