Injury report out this week, and Lavelle is off the list! We'll probably never find out, but I'd really like to know a bit more about her injury and why it took almost a year to recover from a hamstring strain. Houston: QUESTIONABLE: Motlhalo (right knee sprain) NC: OUT: D’Angelo (left ankle sprain), Doniak (left knee ACL tear – SEI), Kawamura (right knee ACL repair – D45), King (left ankle repair), Williams (right hamstring strain) QUESTIONABLE: Hamilton (right calf strain) Orlando: OUT: Camila (right knee surgery – D45) QUESTIONABLE: Harris (left knee soreness), Monica (right knee soreness) Seattle: OUT: Averbuch (illness), Johnson (right knee sprain – D45), Oyster (left knee sprain) NJ: QUESTIONABLE: Gibbons (right calf strain), Stott (right groin strain) Washington: OUT: Farquharson (left tibial stress injury – D45), Matthews (pregnancy), Ship (right ACL recovery – D45)
There are different degrees of hamstring injuries, I know from experience. As an example, O'Hara went off a game ago with a hamstring injury recurrence and was crying, which is unusual -- the crying. They can be very frustrating injuries and, for a soccer player, make you useless. For a player who has recurring hamstring issues, it can make her wonder whether it ever will stop and whether she ever will play again at a high level. For Lavelle, given her young age, I am guessing that the coaches are doing everything they can to assure that she is 100% recovered so that she doesn't get into a repetitive hamstring syndrome. For O'Hara, on the other hand, she and the coaches may be taking more risks given that the 2019 World Cup is likely to be her last chance. It's hard to imagine how frustrating a hamstring issue recurrence must be for her.
Holy rotation batman. Also I'll like to point out that I totally recommended that Vlatko rest Fishlock. Good to see he listened to me. I'm also happy to see Addo finally getting some minutes. Her limited showing against NCFC was interesting to me
P.S: I know the official formation is listed as a 4-3-3 but I think the players in there will work better in a 4-4-2 with Utsugi and Kawasumi on each side and Long at the base of the diamond. Yanez and Taylor can be up top.
[ORL-NC] Orlando: scroll up 999422730796720134 is not a valid tweet id Orlando: Q Harris (yet she starts), Mônica / OUT Camila North Carolina: Q Hamilton / OUT D’Angelo Doniak Kawamura King Williams
[WAS-SkB] Check out our Starting XI for tonight's game!#WeWill // #WASvNJ pic.twitter.com/EZtkY1aJrt— Washington Spirit (@WashSpirit) May 23, 2018 Tonight's Starting XI presented by @HMHNewJersey. Catch us at 7:30 p.m. on @go90! #WASvNJ pic.twitter.com/DaUdZ54cTw— NJ/NY Gotham FC (@GothamFC) May 23, 2018 Washington: Q none / OUT Farquharson Matthews Ship Sky Blue: Q Gibbons, Stott / OUT none
Late scratch for Leroux: Lineup Change: Sydney Leroux will be replaced by Chioma Ubogagu in tonight’s starting XI due to illness. #ORLvNC https://t.co/lZSkle8ZMH— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) May 23, 2018
[HOU-SEA] Dash Starting XI: Campbell; Chapman, Van Wyk, Brooks, Keever; Motlhalo, Mewis; Prince, Simon, Ohai; DalyAvailable substitutes: Henninger, Agnew, Latsko, Jordan, Hanson, Kgatlana, Shim#HOUvSEA pic.twitter.com/6v9jBP8fnZ— Houston Dash (@HoustonDash) May 23, 2018 Seattle shown above. Yanez for Rapinoe; Addo for Fishlock (and Long slides over to DM); Betos for L.Williams. Plus Barnes stays in for Oyster still out. Houston: Q Motlhalo / OUT none Seattle: Q none / OUT Averbuch J.Johnson Oyster
[ORL-NC] 07' 0-0 O'Sullivan or S.Mewis turns to 24m arc left, has McDonald running behind her defender just inside box top center -- passes into Dunn's stride through box top mid-left. Dunn follows to 12m 6-left, one-touch right instep roller into right side netting. Offside, no goal. On McDonald?! Dunn looked onside from about three defenders, including her own ... 09' 0-0 Hinkle cuts down wide left, wrong-foots Edmonds(?), gets to 1m wide left. Cross to 5m 6-left, Dunn stabs ball to a stop, opens hips and chips across mouth -- beats Harris again, off right post, bounces away. NC promptly regain control at box right, backpass ... 09' 0-0 ... serve back into 6m 1/4 left, and both Dunn and McDonald break the trap line, alone inside the 6. McDonald lunging flick header, Harris dives and touches ball off left post. Ball rebounds to 2m 1/6 left, McDonald reflex-pokes it wide left. Pressure, no result, no love from the AR. Wednesday's off to a wild start.#ORLvNC | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/U5WxqyCrZY— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 23, 2018
[WAS-SkB] 11' 0-0 Almost immediately thereafter, Ordega shoots across mouth past Sheridan, off left post low, bounces away.
[ORL-NC] 19' 0-0 S.Mewis turns north through circle top, snipes a 30m ground pass through Orlando's high line up arc right lane, perfectly lags it into the stride of Dunn in behind them -- onside. Dunn touches to 14m right post, Harris charges, Dunn snipes right instep across mouth low, past Harris -- off left post low, glances over endline left. Left post is going for Post of the Match 21' 0-0 McDonald scuffs a ground cross from box top right to 10m 2/5 right, Dunn is unmarked down that lane. One-touch right instep shot toward 1/4 right (i.e. not far enough in either direction), Harris saves with left leg. Gee, if NC could convert all these chances, they'd be top of the table, or something ... Harris coming up with a huge stop against North Carolina!#ORLvNC | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/7wAOUPmbSN— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 24, 2018
[HOU-SEA] The stream graphic of Seattle's line-up is perfectly left/right reversed. It showed Kawasumi on the left and Utsugi, Barnes, and Catley on the right. Maybe Vlatko really did that 01' 0-0 ... no, Seattle's own tweet was correct.
[ORL-NC] 31' 0-1 Pinball goal Mathias works 1-v-2 to 2m box right, ground cross outswings to box top arc left -- where NC somehow have two unmarked jerseys. (Flooding the box with their speed?) Hamilton comes back to ball, turn-and-hooks a shot toward 7m 1/3 left. Edmonds half-volleys away -- point-blank into O'Sullivan's back. O'Sullivan spins to ball, crescent-kick pokes it rightward to 6m right post. McDonald is there, lunge-pokes into 1/4 right low, past Harris's dive. Then ... ball lands on ground. McDonald finds the finish to put @TheNCCourage up in Orlando.#ORLvNC | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/IIxkteYjSc— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 24, 2018
[WAS-NJ] 43' 0-0 Pugh dribbles to arc top mid-left, aims a pass toward Ordega through 6m box left. Ball hits a defender instead, but bounces off Pugh(?), into Ordega's stride. Ordega drives briskly to 3m mid-left, blasts a left foot shot across mouth low, beats Sheridan frozen near post -- juuust wide right low. [HOU-SEA] 13' 0-1 Keever passes outside-in from own box top wide left, looking for K.Mewis coming back -- but misses her, ball rolls directly to Addo. One-touch tap square right to Long at 27m mid-right, she threads a ground pass to Taylor at 15m right post. Taylor perfect ball stop pulls Van Wyk up to her -- nobody marks Yanez slipping to 11m left post, held onside by Brooks at 11m 5-right. Taylor mini-chips a short pass over Van Wyk's right shoe to 10m 1/6 left. Yanez swings one-touch right instep across mouth, beats Campbell still swiveling, bounces under her into back right low. Yanez calmly finds the corner to give @ReignFC the lead on the road.#HOUvSEA | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/iLA2M4jQLR— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) May 24, 2018
29' 0-1 Stoppage for a ding to Van Wyk -- her nose? She walks off field, Houston play with 10. K.Mewis drops back to LCB? 31' 0-1 Van Wyk runs back on. 33' 0-1 Ohai drives a high cross from arc top wide right outwsinging to 5m 1/4 left, Betos comes out and catches high.