Question about the winning American goal in the US vs Iran game.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. I might have missed that part of the rules.

I thought that it applied to any player who was in the play, including someone who was setting up an assist.

I do like this new rule better.

And, it's funny, but I saw the game played the way Pulisic finished, as the ideal way to play soccer, even back when my daughter played. Most American coaches, back in my daughter's time, were beginning to change their strategy. At one point they wanted the fasted running player, striker, who would run onto a ball and take it in for a one on one with the goalie. And then it changed to having an athletic fielder running down the side and crossing it to the front to finish the way Pulisic did.

My daughter got a goal like that in one of her last high school games. In a game we should have won, but we had a coach who didn't have the depth to defend our three goal lead with proper adjustment, positioning of players. It wouldn't have been hard to put our best player on their best player to shut her down.

It was high school, where you have extremely good players, playing with kids who probably would never see a soccer game again after graduation