Avery Patterson

So I only added one more fullback because I am loading up some two position players based on what I saw in Emma's brain.

So I only have Avery Patterson listed as an additional fullback in this situation.

And I think what I saw in the first game against Spain, if Giselle Thompson was the starting left back and was hurt or unavailable, I think Emily Fox is the next left back.

And Avery Patterson is the right back in that scenario.

Is that how you saw it as well? Correct.

Correct, correct.

I actually have to be honest.

The first time I did this, I just had Cooper as the backup right back.

And then you have all these people trying to recover into the box.

And then Avery Patterson has two players.

And it's like, yeah, the dominoes definitely fall.

And so I wonder if that's something that's going to get re-examined.

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Patterson, franchise features.

And Mary Long.

Blue Velocity is to 149.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

All right, we have Avery Patterson, Mack Whitham, rated rookie Emilia White, Net Marvels Marta, and base Haley Hopkins.

16 packs, good value at 130.

This was really enjoyable.

Now, Hayes made five changes to her starting 11 from game one to game two, each of which I can certainly see the internal logic of, right? Ashley Sanchez and Giselle Thompson earned starts from their play as relief in game one, while their counterparts Alyssa Thompson and Avery Patterson struggled, I think, as starters in game one.

Similarly, I think Hayes did concede that Heaps and Johannes don't make the right pair necessarily against Spain in the midfield.

She chooses to let it ride with Heaps and adds Claire Hutton as a true defensive midfielder.

I think they want to work on what Giselle Thompson brings to the team and continue to cultivate that rather than sort of rotating people out.

Um, I don't know exactly who's gonna be the, the back-back-backup though for the US at outside back.

I don't know if that is an Avery Patterson, I don't know if that is a restructured Michelle Cooper, what they're looking at there.

But I do think that Giselle Thompson, in terms of her responsibility given and her opportunities for growth in these two games, I think she's going to the World Cup.

It's, as you said, when you have different options for different moments, um, maybe that's when this makes the most sense to sort of roll out there and, and test and try.

Um, I will say that I thought one thing for Trinity Rodman that was tough was in the first game she played left wing with Avery Patterson at left back, who has not played on the left and did not look comfortable in that position.

Kept trying to, like, find comfortable ways to get to her right foot, and I thought most of the time Trinity Rodman got the ball, it was coming back towards her own goal, going back towards the sideline, and she never really got a chance to pick up the ball at pace running at someone.

Mm-hmm.