What to know about the U.S. womens national teams heartbreaking World Cup loss

Christine Brennan:

I think so and a couple of the players who were injured should be back. There is less than yours a year from now John of course the Olympic Games and that's a very big tournament for women's soccer and the U.S. should be able to come right back and have that chance. It's good that they can do that.

But I think also just we're the finishers. You know, when we think of the great names and U.S. Women's Soccer from Mia Hamm to Brandi Chastain and her penalty kick that was so instrumental back in '99 in the Rose Bowl, and Abby Wamback and Megan Rapinoe, even four years ago.

This team just didn't have the wherewithal to get the ball in the back of the net. They had 11 shots on goal. And the Swedish goalkeeper was terrific, absolutely great. But the Swedes only had one shot on goal. And U.S. actually outshot Sweden overall 21 to seven.

So there were so many opportunities. And you wonder, where was that, that, you know, putting down the hammer and just making that final move. And even in the penalty kicks, of course, missing three of the last four penalty kicks, that is just unheard of.

And so is that a mindset issue? Is that nerves? Is that too many expectations for this team, and some of its young players like Sophia Smith, who missed one of the penalty kicks, although two veterans were the others Megan Rapinoe and Kelly O'Hara who also missed. You know, you've got to put that on goal. You've got to make the goalkeeper make the save there. So, so many questions, and obviously, so few answers right now.

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