
Kate the Great added to USWNT!
Amazing stuff for K8 the great

Amazing stuff for K8 the great
What a great goal! Hope that’s the goal of the week!
Mattey with the breakdown of last-gasp URFC draw on road Saturday
Sean Walker does good work here
Okay, it has been alternating wins and losses, and with this potentially the easiest game left (relatively, any given soccer match day all the teams can win), the royals need to make the most of this game to secure playoffs (and attempt a run for a home game. However that may need 4w, or sometime pretty close to that).
Miyabi might have had her best game of the season last week. Everybody has had moments, who is your guess to shine? I absolutely won't think anything less of them if it doesn't happen this season, however a Joseph g or a would give me a bit more hope for the playoffs.
Brecken with the very late laser to tie, as clutch as clutch gets
Recap: Rough 4-2 loss to San Diego, but Tanaka's now our all-time leading scorer. Plus (+++) a look ahead to tomorrow's Orlando match!
Tough one to watch last week. Utah's defense had its worst night of the season. SD only had 1.78 xG but put up 4 goals, and it felt like the same breakdown on repeat: Byars getting in behind our back line over and over. That said, Tanaka was a bright spot with a brace (now the club's all-time leading scorer, which is genuinely huge) and Utah actually outplayed SD in the second half without much to show for it.
Bigger picture: this is 3 of our last 5 matches where we've conceded in the first 10 minutes, and we've let in 9 goals in that window alone across that stretch. Coenraets said pre-match last week that he wasn't too worried about the defensive side and wanted to focus on attack. After last week I have to imagine that's getting revisited.
Silver lining: we're back at it tomorrow (Sat, 5pm MT) against Orlando, chasing our first-ever sweep of the Pride. Big Banda-shaped question mark on that one given how exposed we looked to exactly this kind of run last week, but Milazzo shut her down completely last time we played them, so hoping we see more of that.
What'd everyone else think? Is anyone else worried about how we're conceding early, or is this just a blip?