#FIFAWWC posted about Kristen Hamilton's goal. This was a prototypical NC Courage full blast attack - 3 one-touch and 2 two-touch passess, a Hinkle serve, and score. You can hear the brakes screech when Hamilton cuts back on Polkinghorne. We interrupt our #FIFAWWC coverage to highlight this absolute worldie from @khamilton17 and the @TheNCCourage 🙌🙌🙌pic.twitter.com/7W0qYtFb3y— FIFA Women's World Cup (@FIFAWWC) July 6, 2019
Notice the "Week 12" in large outline font along the bottom border? I didn't, for about 11 weeks More soccer tonight!💻🇺🇸 @YahooSports💻🌍 #NWSL site/appHow/where to watch ➡️ https://t.co/V0fwZGeBRC pic.twitter.com/ERBak2Kv0i— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 6, 2019
[#2.WAS-ORL.#8] Matthews for Harrison (and Bailey => LB); Feist for DiBiasi; Berryhill for Dougherty Howard (and P.Nielsen => DM). The XI for #ORLvWAS. Sullivan with the armband.#CatchTheSpirit pic.twitter.com/SZx6EPmgUe— Washington Spirit (@WashSpirit) July 6, 2019 Kennedy for Viggiano; van Egmond for Callahan; Zadorsky for Reid. Your Pride XI taking on the Washington Spirit at Exploria Stadium. #ORLvWAS 📺 https://t.co/Cy3MiPw1UQ pic.twitter.com/BFYKV1dQJF— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) July 6, 2019 Washington: Q (=) Farquharson / OUT (=) Crosson McGrady / MAT (=) Eubanks / INTL (USA) Lavelle Pugh Orlando: Q (=) Edmonds (OUT <=) Weatherholt / OUT (OK =>) Callahan (INTL =>) Emslie / MAT (=) Leroux / BACK (CAN) Zadorsky (AUS) Kennedy van Egmond / INTL (USA) Harris Krieger Morgan
Weather delay until 20:20 EDT. #ORLvWAS UPDATE: Due to inclement weather kickoff has been delayed. Stay tuned for an updated time.— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) July 6, 2019 UPDATE: Kickoff for #ORLvWAS is now set for 8:20 PM ET.— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) July 6, 2019
[#6.CHI-NJ.#9] McCaskill for Vasconcelos. The #MKOT Starting XI, presented by @MagellanCorp 📝: https://t.co/aUBe1uv5Sg pic.twitter.com/RRqNFDRfl8— Chicago Red Stars (@chicagoredstars) July 6, 2019 Sheridan for Haricic; RF Monaghan for Kawasumi (and Eddy => RM); Doyle for Hoy (and R.Rodríguez => CF). Your starting XI for #CHIvNJ! Kickoff at 8 pm ET! 📱💻 @YahooSports pic.twitter.com/cNSK73hA1R— NJ/NY Gotham FC (@GothamFC) July 6, 2019 Chicago: (OK <= Q) Wright / Q (OK =>) DiBernardo Stanton (=) Naughton / OUT (=) Jahansouz Mautz / INTL (USA) Brian Davidson Ertz Naeher Sky Blue: Q none / OUT (INTL =>) E.Johnson (=) Freeman Richardson Tiernan / BACK (CAN) Sheridan / INTL (USA) Lloyd
16' 0-0 Nagasato crosses from ~8m wide right to 7m center, Kerr jumps and twist-heads toward right post, Skroski glances ball off her forehead, it pops up softly to Sheridan at 2m center. 22' 0-1 Skroski long clearance from own 25m bounces just past midfield box right. Wright slows down and waits for the backspin to bring ball to her, Monaghan overtakes her on the inside and pokes ball ahead. Eddy and Monaghan criss-cross, Eddy taps back to Monaghan veering leftward through 35m 6-right. Gorden steps up to Monaghan, Eddy continues her own run upfield, Naughton is horrendously forked trying to cover Eddy through arc right and Rodríguez through arc left. Monaghan passes to Rodríguez unmarked through arc top 6-left, to 14m. Rodríguez shoots left instep bend outswinging away from Boyd's left hand diving flat, just inside right post low. Cool as you like from @raque_rocky. #CHIvNJ pic.twitter.com/Bq3ZSPZs8E— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019
[ORL-WAS] 07' 0-1 Huster receives behind midfield right touch, passes ahead to Hatch at circle top right touch, she spins ccw past Pickett and passes ahead to Matthews at 25m wide right. Pressley closes out to her at arc top wide right, Matthews does a stutter-and-go down box right and beats Pressley to 4m. Fast ground cross to 3m 1-right, Feist makes her run behind Zadorsky at 3-right and in front of Kopmeyer tight against right post, shoots right sole drag-behind flat across mouth just behind left post low. Feist's 1st NWSL goal! If you're gonna score your first #NWSL goal, @Baysfeist11, might as well make it a backheel, right?#ORLvWAS pic.twitter.com/Rgh2khc0h0— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019 22' 1-1 Greening dribbles across midfield box right, taps rightward to Marta coming back to midfield. Marta square pass left to Boyles at circle right, one-touch through-ball up centerline catches Staab and the line way high at 30m. Ubogagu back-cuts Berryhill even higher, sprints up centerline with 3m lead to arc tangent right. Bledsoe comes up to 13m, Ubogagu cuts left past her to 10m left post, passes left instep into center back low. Ubogagu has 3 goals in 3 games <== 1, 2, 3 .@ChiAlreadyKnow rounds the keeper and home free. #ORLvWAS pic.twitter.com/bn0hG2RzOX— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019
26' 2-1 Berryhill kicks long from own arc top right, Hill jumps at circle top mid-right and heads ball upfield. van Egmond taps back to Kennedy at circle top right, promptly releases self rightward to create a triangle -- and Hill starts her run up to Washington's high line across 25m, already behind LB Bailey caught high. Kennedy taps to van Egmond at 27m mid-right, Berryhill drops back behind her own line, Hill starts her parallel sprint through arc top mid-right. van Egmond fires a perfect through-ball between Staab and Bailey, Hill runs on at 11m mid-right, shoots one-touch right instep across mouth over Bledsoe's right hand, off bottom of crossbar 1/4 left, bounces down hard into left side netting just behind left post 1/4 high. Hill perfectly used the available space to create her track start, and the W-League vets can pass. OH HILL YEAH, @r_hill3!#ORLvWAS pic.twitter.com/hMb2ddB8kQ— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019 30' 2-2 Huster longball from circle back right touch bounces at 30m mid-right, perfectly in stride for Matthews with inside position on Zadorsky tight alongside her. Matthews dinks right outstep into stride, follows to spot. Kopmeyer comes out to 8m center, Matthews shoots left instep past her, into back left edge 1/2 high. .@toryhuster ball? *chef's kiss*@Cheynalee_ finish? *no doubter*#ORLvWAS pic.twitter.com/cxcB2RMNYI— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019
34' 2-2 Boyles chips long down wide right for RB Greening, she chases it down at 1m wide right. Ground cross to 14m 6-right, Kennedy shoots one-touch left instep half-volley toward 1/4 left 1/2 high, Bledsoe lunges right and double-blocks ball down, catches the bounce. Tell us if you heard this one before?Goal-bound then @AubreyBledsoe happened. #ORLvWAS pic.twitter.com/pj8oQiD9gt— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019 HT 2-2.
[CHI-NJ] 46' 0-1 Chicago subs in: - (1 of 3) #33 Katlyn Johnson for #9 Savannah McCaskill - (2 of 3) #7 Michele Vasconcelos for #2 Nikki Stanton. 54' 0-1 K.Johnson chases back to 27m center, Killion boxes her out, Johnson fights her way around and Killion falls down backward, no call. Johnson passes square right to DiBernardo at 30m mid-right. DiBernardo chips to 7m 1/4 left, Kerr separates leftward from Skroski, jumps and heads across mouth past Sheridan's dive, into back right low. AR flags Kerr offside! 56' 0-1 Sky Blue subs in (1 of 3) #7 Jennifer Hoy for #4 Paige Monaghan.
58' 0-1 Chicago right ck, to 3m right post, Sheridan double-punches away above Wright(?)'s head. Colaprico dumps a header back into 8m 3-right, Killion jumps and heads away -- off the back of Lewandowski's head, ball reflects behind both to Kerr unmarked at 6m right post, in an offside position but onside on a double-deflection off two defenders Kerr spins-and-shoots right roundhouse to 1/4 right, Sheridan reflex-blocks with (or ball hits) left knee, ball bounces away through box top mid-right and Sky Blue clear. 57’ | Queen of the North 🙌 🇨🇦 WHAT. A. SAVE.0-1 | #CHIvNJ pic.twitter.com/r0gxSeCUEu— NJ/NY Gotham FC (@GothamFC) July 7, 2019
[ORL-WAS] 48' 3-2 Washington collect at own 1m mid-left, clear poorly up wide left. Greening intercepts and drives to 4m wide right, ground cross to 6m 6-right. Marta jumps and flicks ball through her legs, Sullivan overpursues down 6-right, ball bounces backward to 7m 6-right. Marta turns cw back to ball, continues her cw turn and shoots left instep across mouth, into back left edge 1/2 high. Uh oh.... Marta is finding her groove. #ORLvWAS pic.twitter.com/3IQvaWK3aA— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019
[CHI-NJ] 68' 0-1 Vasconcelos plants to jump-stop at midfield wide left, goes down with left knee(?) pain. Stoppage. 71' 0-1 Trainers arm-carry Vasconcelos 1/3 of the width of field, she limps heavily the rest of the way. 72' 0-1 Chicago subs in (3 of 3) #15 María Guadalupe Sánchez Morales for #7 Michele Vasconcelos. 73' 0-1 Sánchez slows down alone to 13m box left, finally bends a cross to Km 1/5 right. K.Johnson stretches and toe-pokes a weak shot down into ground, it pops up to 0.5m 1/4 right and Sheridan catches high.
75' 0-1 K.Johnson fires a ground pass from ~circle top into Nagasato's stride through arc top. Sheridan comes out above box top, tries a calm soft right instep pass rightward past Nagasato -- directly to Sánchez unmarked at 27m center. Sánchez shoots one-touch right instep but rolls it on the ground instead of getting any arc, directly to Sheridan's feet at 16m center, she kicks it away to the right. Chicago's frenetic activity looks much better, but Sheridan is being huge, and Sánchez is not quite ruthless enough. 79' 0-1 Sky Blue subs in (2 of 3) #9 Nahomi Kawasumi for #28 Imani Dorsey. 81' 0-2 Sheridan gk to circle top, Rodríguez(?) heads it upfield. Gorden(?) waves a donkey kick at it and misses, Hoy is in a 1-v-1 footrace with Naughton through box top center to 15m. Hoy shoots up centerline, Boyd sprawls left and blocks ball down to 11m 3-right. Hoy stumbles down to 1hands + knees -- pops back up first, drags right foot pull shot to 5m right post behind Boyd's 2nd dive, she gets a touch but deflects it down into own 1/4 right back low. Never, ever give up: The @Jenhoy2 Story. #CHIvNJ pic.twitter.com/qhG6HiQ88y— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019
83' 1-2 DiBernardo fk at 30m left post, Chicago pile up the scrum at 12m mid-right. DiBernardo drives it to 6m 5-right, Naughton sideheads to 6-top 1/3 left. Flores half-volleys away to 18m arc top right, Colaprico settles into 16m right post, hop left foot half-volley flick mini-lobs Sheridan across mouth, off her fingertips diving, drops into left bottom pipe 1/2 back and bounces up into left side netting. +5'. Hold on to your hats. @chiredstarsPR aren't done yet. #CHIvNJ pic.twitter.com/5WQlhbIinh— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019 84' 1-2 This crazy goalline save by Flores: Hold on to your hats. @chiredstarsPR aren't done yet. #CHIvNJ pic.twitter.com/5WQlhbIinh— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019
Helluva good game between Chicago and Sky Blue. And Sky Blue, which has been unlucky as well as ungood, deserved the victory. I'm looking forward to turning my attention back to the NWSL. So, let's wrap it up with a U.S. WNT victory tomorrow so we can go back to club ball.
90+4' (of +5') 1-2 K.Johnson cuts leftward through arc top mid-right, James hip-checks and trips her flat. Foul, yellow card on James. 90+6' (of +5') 1-2 Wright is gimpy in Sky Blue's 6-box, limps off. Chicago has used all 3 subs, must finish with 10. 90+7' (of +5') 1-2 Chicago left ck, to 2m right post, Sheridan punches away. Chicago dumps it back into 4m right post, Sheridan catches low. FT 1-2. Sky Blue's 1st-ever win vs. Chicago, and 1st win of 2019
[ORL-WAS] 78' 4-2 Zadorsky fk from own 1/3, it drops just past DiBiasi's head and bounces to 27m mid-right. Staab underhits a header backpass toward Bledsoe, right into Marta's stride to arc top mid-right. Bledsoe comes out to 13m 6-right, Marta one-touch left instep half-volley mini-lobs her, bounces just inside right post. Marta madness. #ORLvWAS pic.twitter.com/4ei9iKIf67— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019 90+4' (of +4') 4-3 Dougherty Howard bends a serve from 25m box right to 12m right post, Pressley heads it out to box top 1/3 right. Hatch comes back and heads square left, DiBiasi tightropes between 3 down 6-left and banks ball off Viggiano into own stride, emerges alone at 8m 6-left, shoots left foot between Kopmeyer and left post 1/5 high. .@WashSpirit trying to make a game of it very late. #ORLvWAS pic.twitter.com/xaMRBvdYc9— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 7, 2019 Before the restart ... FT 4-3.
And, yes, if you're curious - that's me in the bottom left of the screen at the start with the camera gear.