I think a school night has a far more captive audience than 5pm on a Saturday.
The media still prints newspapers?
Is this the same game broadcasters OS didn’t want to pay for? Surely it’s also not the same game lengthy discussions were had on these very forums about not wanting to invest in because you can’t get enough eyeballs on it…
Shit aye, what a difference a few weeks makes.
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ummmmm the discussion was about the perceived value that the international market saw, versus the valuation that FIFA gave the women’s world cup.
Your comment literally makes zero sense as you’ve taken the only market in the entire world cup, where extremely high viewing is almost guaranteed. You’ve cherry picked stats from Australia, with regards to viewing a game that was played by Australia and claimed a huge success, without viewing data from other games. Number i’ve seen floating around suggest 3 million people tuned into the English teams’ win over Nigeria. Considering the population of England, i’d suggest it’s actually disappointingly low.
The main stats that will count will be total viewing numbers, which is expected to hit 2 billion. To put into perspective, the men’s world cup had 1.5 billion viewers just for the finals…
I haven’t had a chance to watch the replay yet but live at the ground she came on late and seemed to do alright given the limited game time, except for one errant pass to the far sideline. Besides, it’s in the nature for strikers to be rubbish for 85 minutes but if they do three things right then they just scored a hat-trick…
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Where’d you access the heat maps? What does Fowlers look like? Nominally they had Fowler up front rather than EvE. I’d say from the eyeball test that Fowler was getting in front of her to press & dropping back to defend more too.
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Fowler had less touches than Van Egmond, but were way more purposeful. Looks like it’s just an on the ball heatmap, rather than tracked for the entire game.
Full story on the heatmaps tells a story of Australia sitting quite deep in their own half, which makes sense why Egmond and Foord show them well into our half. If you look at the Denmark defence, they sit quite high up