I'm a medium fan of this event - soccer is probably sport #8 that I follow but I do have my armchair opinion after the 13-0 drubbing, specifically.
I'm okay with 13-0 as a result by itself BTW. My issue is that Alex Morgan is still in the game scoring her 4th and 5th goals. I mean it was 7-0 after 56 minutes and 8-0 in the 74th when she netted the hat trick. To me, if she's record-chasing (I know this is coach's decision for who plays - she tied Michelle Aker's single-game record for World Cup goals, yay) that's a cheap way to go about it.
If she's not explicitly record-chasing and just out there playing hard - that's great she's such a professional but how about we a) give some experience to a sub (or honor if the sub is a veteran) and b) not get our most dangerous striker hurt unnecessarily by either a freak incident in a blowout or by a pissed off Thai woman who feels angry/embarrassed. Maybe the issue is with number of allowable subs - I have no idea why this is limited to three when you have 23 people on the team. For instance, Rose Lavelle (a forward) scores two goals including her second one in the 56th minute when the game was well won and veteran Carli Lloyd comes on as a sub in the 57th minute and gets a goal later on in stoppage time - that was awesome! Let's have more of that (like 21 year old Mallory Pugh coming on as a sub in the 69th and scoring in the 84th!)! Would love to see Davidson get some burn, even if garbage time.
By limiting subs to 3, I get you're trying to showcase which teams have the endurance and mental fortitude to win (which admittedly the whole 'beautiful game' isn't my reason for enjoying watching/playing soccer, but whatever) - but in this game who was going to win was not in doubt with nearly 40 minutes left. So the point of 3 subs wasn't at play - I wish they would allow more subs in blowouts at least - not unlimited but certainly more than 3.
Like I said, you have 23 players on the team and you were stomping them. It just seems more sporting in a 13-0 soccer match if your subs came on and continued doing damage (which they did no doubt!) rather than your best offensive finisher getting five goals in a blowout. As mentioned, this is probably just annoyance directed at the substitution rule and not anything that can be changed in the middle of the tournament or at any player/coach on the dominant side. US women kick ass!