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Dominate the game (and play good soccer) and lose. Would rather have won the game and not impressed by taking more advantage of our size and speed.

Agreed! I hear this a lot from soccer folks -- "we played the better match with attractive possessing & attacking soccer, but lost." The object is the result!



Y'know, the assumption seems to be that we lost BECAUSE we played different, "better" soccer, but there's also the other possibility...the way Japan was rolling through the tournament, had we not played better possession and team tactics, we may have lost that game in the first 15 minutes rather than in penalty kicks.

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