Injury Report (6/2 and 6/3 games) Chicago: Johnson, McCaffrey; DiBernardo (Q), Short (Q), Green (Q); Ertz, Huerta, Naeher (INT) Houston: Mewis (SEI), Simon (Q) NCC: D'Angelo, Doniak (SEI), King; Hamilton (Q), Hinkle (Q), Williams (Q); Dahlkemper, Dunn, Mathias, Mewis, Zerboni, O'Sullivan (INT) Orlando: Camila (D45), Krieger, Marta, Hill; Monica (Q), Pressley (Q); Harris, Morgan (INT) Portland: N/A (bye) Seattle: Averbuch, J. Johnson (D45), Oyster; Catley (Q), Long, Rapinoe (INT) Sky Blue: Skroski; Rodriguez (Q); Lloyd, McCaskill (INT) Utah: Arlitt (SEI), Laddish (SEI), O'Hara; Rodriguez, Sauerbrunn, A. Smith (INT) Washington: Farquharson (D45), Ship (D45), Pugh; Huster (Q); Ordega (INT) Notables DiBernardo and Short finally move from out to questionable North Carolina is severely depleted; of all teams to beat them, could it really be Houston Dash? Marta has always been a durable player, I can't recall any major injuries. Weird to see her listed as out. Nicole Barnhardt should make her 2018 debut for Utah. No details on Pugh's knee injury, just "swelling."
Predictions for 6/2-6/3 games Washington 2, Chicago 1: it isn't reflected in their record, but I think the Spirit play as a better unit than CRS. The two teams are only separated by 4 points in the table, and Spirit have a game in hand. NJ 0, Utah 0: I hate predicting scoreless draws, but Sky Blue is pretty hapless, and Royals are without Arod and O'Hara. Houston 2, NCC 1: this prediction sounds crazy, but Courage are missing 8-10 regular starters, and Dash are playing with confidence. May POTM Daly was called up by England but apparently is still around for this game. Seattle 3, Orlando 0: this one could be way off, but what the hell
If I am not wrong, at the moment I am the only one keeping up with the robot for this week-end games, at 3 points. Let's see how it will end...
The numbers say lunatica has scored 4 points so far. And, there are four predictors with three points:
Oh, ok... I had it all wrong. Anyway I like that the robot is not leading the week-end at the moment. Will it manage to get ahead again?
The good news is that lunatica and SiberianThunderT came in with this weekend's best scores at 7, more than half of the available points. The bad news is that the robot and Blaze20 came in with 6 points each, so the robot now is 10 points in the lead. And, congratulations to Blaze20 for getting Houston v NC exactly right.
Yes, if I get it right, the rest of the week-end will have no games because of the USWNT friendly match, isn't it? So it basically resumes on 16th of June and we have a "week-off", haven't we? NJ 1 WAS 0 As strange as it sounds, I guess Sky Blue will happen to get a win, sometime: I don't think they'll end the season with a sad 0 in their "won games" column. So, although Washington is not a bad team at all, why not this week? After all, Spirit are the closest team in the rankings for Sky Blue (ok, anyway 7 points ahead) and they're probably going to miss the same players as last week-end, i.e. Pugh injured and Ordega on NT duty, so they're probably going to be quite toothless. Sky Blue will miss Lloyd: it could reveal an advantage! Well, that's my bold prediction: if I need to somehow close the gap with the robot I can't play it safe, can I?
WAS 4 NJ 4 why not? NJ is one minute away from a 4-3 victory then WAS earns a penalty shot to tie the game.
I think this is where the discipline of the robot takes over. But just watch, I hope the final score is ... 4-4.
The injury report is out, with the national team absences. Based on that: NJ 0 WAS 0; It will be worth watching for me if Tori and Maddie Huster get to play together, otherwise
Wow the injury/international absence report for Spirit and Sky Blue reads like a novel. If the "questionable" players do not play, NJ could be without 10 players, and Washington 13 players! Who the heck knows.... I'll say Sky Blue 2, Washington 1.
Ehh.... I have really no clue about this game and that makes me very ambivalent toward even trying to predict it.... But I guess I'll go with 0-0
BalanceUT is back with a winner. But we missed Blaze20 today. Still, three with a maximum score of 3 points: CoachJon, SiberianThunderT, and BalanceUT. They each pick up 1 point on the robot, which gets 2 points for the correct goal differential although its 2-2 prediction wasn't good on goals scored. But then, 59Amerinorsk predicted 4-4 and also got 2 points.
Somewhere, someone posted a table showing teams' NWSL points per game so far this year. Here's a table with those numbers, plus a few more details, especially including strength of schedule so far. That helps put the points per game into a little better perspective. You have to look at the table carefully, because the teams with the most and fewest accumulated NWSL points so far of necessity are going to have played weaker and stronger schedules, respectively, since they don't play themselves. But, especially for teams other than North Carolina and NJNY, it may be helpful: