Tokyo Olympics: A Statement Win From Sweden Rocks the USWNT

Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

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🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The USWNT got a rude awakening to the start of their Olympic tournament, with Sweden dismantling them on Wednesday in a 3-0 win. Steph Yang joins for the first match-day reaction pod here at Full Time, where we try to make sense of the defeat and figure out what comes next, plus review the results from every single game (with big wins from the Netherlands and Brazil, opening victories from Team GB and Australia and Canada and Japan settling for the only draw on Wednesday). For all our Olympic women’s soccer coverage at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/tag/tokyo-2020-womens-soccer/ Our guide to the tournament (free and unlocked to read): https://theathletic.com/2711374/2021/07/16/tokyo-2020-olympics-womens-football-soccer-guide/ For even more Olympics podcasting from The Athletic, subscribe to The Offside Rule: Olympics Edition on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-offside-rule-olympics-edition/id1478431097 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Meg Linahan here and welcome to day one of the Olympic tournament and our second Olympics edition podcast here at full time with Meg Linahan.
0:24.4	My fellow writer, Steph Young, is here and equally as sleep deprived and we are ready, well, as ready as we can be to discuss this morning's stunning 3-0 loss to Sweden for the U.S. women's national team, plus the rest of the first
0:39.7	match day in Japan. Before we get into it, subscribe to the athletic for all of our women's soccer
0:44.9	coverage and beyond. There's always a deal for you at theathletic.com slash full-time. Let's go right
0:51.5	to stuff. We just have to start with Sweden.
0:56.0	We have to start with Sweden 3, USA, Zero.
1:01.1	Sweden doing the thing, first of all.
1:03.6	Sweden very much outplaying the U.S. women's national team
1:07.7	in pretty much every single sense on Wednesday.
1:14.1	So I think our big debate this morning on Slack so far has been, okay, was it tactics?
1:22.1	Was it the U.S. Women's National team honestly playing like shit?
1:25.7	Or was it both?
1:27.2	It was both. It was both.
1:29.3	Why not both?
1:31.2	Yeah.
1:32.5	Which I'm in the middle of doing a little write-up on it, and hopefully you'll read that
1:40.9	as well as listening to this podcast.
1:43.1	But the one thing I'll say is actually the more I process it, the better I feel about it.
1:49.6	Not that we lost, not that the United States lost in and lost in style to Sweden.
1:56.4	But just that when you talk about the tactics and them playing like shit,
2:02.0	the playing like shit thing is fixable.
2:03.9	The playing like shit thing, which we can maybe unpack a little bit,
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