Canadian women pay for defensive errors in loss to Japan at SheBelieves Cup

classybuzzFebruary 23, 2023

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Canada’s marketing campaign at the SheBelieves Cup began and ended in disappointment.

Taking part in below the cloud of a bitter labour dispute with Canada Soccer, the sixth-ranked Canadian women completed 1-2-0 at the four-team event after an uninspired 3-0 loss Wednesday to No. 11 Japan.

Canada had rebounded from a rocky efficiency in a 2-0 loss to the top-ranked U.S. in Orlando final Thursday to defeat No. 9 Brazil 2-0 in Nashville on Sunday. However in opposition to a well-organized Japan, the Olympic champion Canadians seemed uncharacteristically unsure and paid for a string of defensive errors.

“For us it was a nasty day at the workplace,” mentioned Canada coach Bev Priestman. “It in all probability displays the (event) … I believe it reveals the place the group are at emotionally, bodily exhausted. I believed we had been very flat immediately, which is actually tough as a coach. As a result of you understand what they will do.

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“I don’t thoughts shedding so long as we be taught from it and take this second and transfer ahead going into April.”

The Canadians’ subsequent outing is scheduled for April 11 in opposition to No. 5 France in Le Mans throughout the April FIFA worldwide window. Whether or not it occurs doubtless is determined by whether or not the labour deadlock might be resolved.

The Canadian women have mentioned they are going to boycott the April camp if their grievances aren’t addressed. And they need to be in a authorized place to strike, in contrast to this window.

The Canadians performed the event below protest — and the specter of authorized motion from Canada Soccer after briefly downing instruments over their labour dispute with the governing physique.

And it confirmed in opposition to the U.S. and Japan.

“I don’t assume what you noticed on the market was a Canadian efficiency,” Priestman mentioned bluntly. “I don’t assume I’ve felt like this as a coach for the 2 video games (in opposition to the U.S. and Japan) that I’ve ever in this event, ever in my time (in cost).”

The women need the identical backing and preparation forward of this summer season’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand as the boys did earlier than Qatar. Each women’s and males’s groups additionally need Canada Soccer to open its books and to clarify why their applications are being lower in 2023.

As all through the event, they wore their coaching tops inside-out throughout warmups to cover the Canada Soccer crest and purple T-shirts, symbolizing gender equality, etched with the phrases “Sufficient is Sufficient” throughout the anthems. Gamers from each groups wore purple tape on their wrist.

“The equal pay difficulty is out of my arms and that’s the robust half,” mentioned Priestman. “However what I can management is getting us again to the fundamentals. I can solely management what occurs on a soccer pitch … The off-the-pitch half’s there. I can’t cover from it.

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“However I do know that the group, myself and Canada Soccer — particularly after this event — shall be wanting to do all the pieces they will to be certain that we flip up for April how we left off (2022), which was a five-game unbeaten streak and virtually six apart from a 93rd-minute (aim in a 2-1 loss to Brazil) at the back-end of the yr.

“You look at the 2 contrasts and that doesn’t occur in a single day. We’ve bought to get again to work and be clear the place we’re going.”

As soon as once more, your entire Canadian squad posed for the pre-match picture somewhat than simply the beginning 11. It was 26 levels Celsius at the mid-afternoon kickoff some 45 kilometres north of Dallas.

After an excellent begin to the sport, the Japanese — additionally 1-2-0 at the event — started to take management halfway by means of the primary half.

Kiko Seike opened the scoring in the twenty sixth minute, tucking the ball below goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo after a Rikako Kobayashi go discovered the Canadian defence wanting with centre again Shelina Zadorsky caught out of place. It was Japan’s first aim of the event.

D’Angelo was harm on the play, colliding with Seiko going for the ball. She had to be helped off the sector, not placing weight on her proper leg. Kailen Sheridan, who began the primary two video games of the event, got here on in aid.

There was no fast phrase on the extent of D’Angelo’s damage.

Yui Hasegawa made it 2-0 from the penalty spot in the forty first minute after Jun Endo nutmegged Kadeisha Buchanan and was taken down by the Canadian defender at the aim line fringe of the penalty field.

Canada was compromised once more in the 77th minute when an unmarked Endo took a feed from Hinata Miyazawa and beat a defenceless Sheridan with a robust shot from close-range. Japan got here shut to making it 4-0 in the ninetieth minute with the Canada defence caught brief yet another time.

Japan misplaced 1-0 to each Brazil and the U.S. But it surely seemed assured and composed in opposition to Canada, stroking the ball across the area.

“We knew what they had been good at however we allow them to be good at it,” Priestman lamented.

Canada conceded three objectives for the primary time since a 3-0 loss to the U.S. in the ultimate of the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship in February 2020.

Canada’s all-time report in opposition to Japan dropped to 4-8-4.

Priestman made 5 adjustments to her beginning lineup with captain Christine Sinclair, Evelyne Viens, Cloe Lacasse, Zadorsky and D’Angelo slotting in. For Sinclair, it was cap No. 322.

Midfielder Quinn, who goes by one title, sat out for the second recreation in a row due to sickness. Priestman has been with out the injured Nichelle Prince, Jayde Riviere, Deanne Rose and Desiree Scott at the event.

Wednesday marked the primary time assembly with Japan since a 1-1 tie in Canada’s event opener at the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021. Japan made it to the quarterfinals in Tokyo earlier than shedding 2-1 to Sweden, which misplaced a penalty shootout to Canada in the ultimate.

The Canadians completed third in their solely different look at the SheBelieves Cup in 2021 in Priestman’s debut as coach.

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