An oddity in the schedule: this match is singleton for this week, due to the FIFA window. Shall we call this Week 11a, and next week Week 11b? Or is this Week 10.99? [SkB-WAS] Tonight's Starting XI presented by @HMHNewJersey. #NJvWAS#PushForward pic.twitter.com/PXJTO044ri— NJ/NY Gotham FC (@GothamFC) June 8, 2018 Introducing tonight's Starting XI!#WeWill // #NJvWAS pic.twitter.com/SFoCaKZMTX— Washington Spirit (@WashSpirit) June 8, 2018 Sky Blue: Q Frisbie Rodriguez Skroski^ / OUT Hoy / INTL Beckie Leon Lloyd McCaskill Thaisa Stott (^ = starting) Washington: Q Hatch T.Huster^ Wys / OUT Eubanks Farquharson Matthews Pugh Ship Solaun / INTL Aedo Lavelle Ordega Quinn Somehow, this seems to happen to Washington every year.
FT 0-0. Groom hurt an ankle (but returned), then Banini hurt her ankle tumbling into Freeman(?), Sheridan saved a pk, Groom missed a long chip, and Sky Blue had a few late breakaways called back or shot just wide. And Cuba swept us Banini earns the @WashSpirit the PK, but Sheridan steps up for the save on Sullivan. Still all even in Jersey with less than 10 to go.#NJvWAS | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/knnIgc6AGF— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) June 9, 2018 Estelle Johnson comes up with a big recovery against Shea Groom in stoppage time.#NJvWAS | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/1tsrAtRkLp— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) June 9, 2018
I only watched highlights, but I especially liked Katye Johnson and Shea Groom in Sky Blue. The duo was very dynamic and I guess they would have deserved a goal. It's a shame Sky Blue sadly sit at just two points: ok, they don't have any big star (I don't consider Lloyd a big star), but they don't seem so bad of a team. Ok, their position could also depend on the fact that they've played less matches than most other teams, but let's face it, those they played sucked (not entirely in a game-play perspective, but for sure for what concerns the results). It looked like Washington only had Banini for them in this game, instead. The PK was outrageous : there wasn't even the slightest shade of a foul and it was only karmic justice that it was saved by Sheridan.