[NC-WAS] O'Reilly for Hinkle. 1017173319437684736 is not a valid tweet id Dougherty Howard for Ordega; 4-4-2 for 4-3-3. Here’s how we’ll take the field tonight in Carolina! #WeWill #NCvWAS pic.twitter.com/VxZ4P36H06— Washington Spirit (@WashSpirit) July 11, 2018 North Carolina: Q Erceg S.Mewis; Zerboni (starts) / OUT Eddy Hinkle King Washington: Q Banini (starts) / OUT Farquharson Matthews Ordega Pugh Ship Weimer
12' 1-0 Zerboni receives behind circle right, looks upfield, sees Debinha in a sprint duel with Church toward arc left, with L.Williams leaning past Smith up 6-left lane. Zerboni hoofs long, just too far for Debinha through arc left -- she lets L.Williams chase, and veers toward 6-top center. L.Williams catches up at 6-top left, dinks square right to 5m center. Church overtakes and pokes ball loose to 6-center, Debinha flicks right outstep past Bledsoe diving from left post, into center back low. Up at home. @Debinha7 finishes off the pass from @lynnraenie to put @TheNCCourage up early!#NCvWAS | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/41H2PP2Tan— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 11, 2018 Weird that Washington would commit their backline that far forward with not-fast CBs daring NC's speed demons to run past them.
[HOU-ORL] Identical, but rearranged: 4-3-3-ish. Tonight's groovy XI: Campbell; Comeau, Brooks, Van Wyk, Chapman; Motlhalo, Polkinghorne, Simon, Huerta, Ohai; Daly #HOUvORL| #Dash70s pic.twitter.com/4LE5fBvv3R— Houston Dash (@HoustonDash) July 11, 2018 Morgan for Ubogagu; Camila/Weatherholt for Nairn/Van Egmond; Krieger for Poliana. Tonight's squad taking on Houston on Go90! #HOUvORL | #JoinThePride pic.twitter.com/wvixkayT6t— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) July 11, 2018 Houston: Q none / OUT K.Mewis Orlando: Q Morgan (starting) / OUT none
[NC-WAS] 60' 2-0 Dydasco long backpass to E.Johnson at circle back left touch. E.Johnson one-touch ground pass toward Dougherty Howard coming back past midfield mid-left -- but it's too fast for her, rolls past to Dunn at circle half-front (her) right. Dunn counters past Dougherty Howard, 2-v-3 with huge gaps to arc top right. Dunn passes to McDonald loping through box top right. McDonald cuts inside past E.Johnson to 15m 6-right, shoots left instep toward left post. E.Johnson lunges right foot, ball deflects upward, perfectly mini-lobs Bledsoe's dive, drops between crossbar and Bledsoe's left glove, into back left low. .@J_Mac1422 strikes for @TheNCCourage to give them a 2–0 advantage in the second half!#NCvWAS | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/NTh1zpomtP— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 12, 2018 FT 2-0.
[HOU-ORL] 05' 0-0 Daly sends Ohai to 11m mid-left, ground cross toward Simon(?) flicked back to 12m 1/3 right. Huerta is wide-open trailing from arc top center, one-touch left instep to right post low, Harris dives and pushes it wide. .@schuerta looking for that opening goal, but @Ashlyn_Harris says no thanks.#HOUvORL | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/0HAWXiv0jk— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 12, 2018 13' 0-0 Lightning delay.
[SEA-UTA] Leon for Addo. Available substitutes tonight are Andrews, Betos, Kawasumi, Kleiner, McNabb, Spencer, and Westphal pic.twitter.com/nY6KsfDM5n— Seattle Reign FC (@reignfc) July 12, 2018 Stengel for Matheson; LaBonta for Gorry; Bowen for Sauerbrunn (and S.Johnson => LCB). Laura Harvey is back at her old stomping ground. Here’s how #URFC is lining up against @ReignFC tonight!Audio Breakdown: https://t.co/ONh6nbLi2uNotes: Sauerbrunn is listed on tonight’s injury list & Matheson has been suspended for 1 game by the @NWSL Disciplinary Committee. pic.twitter.com/OXbrfx0rBc— Utah Royals FC (@UtahRoyalsFC) July 12, 2018 Seattle: Q Fishlock (starting); Addo Utsugi / OUT Averbuch Dallstream Utah: Q none / OUT Arlitt Doniak Laddish O’Hara Sauerbrunn / SUSP Matheson
[HOU-ORL] resumes at 22:43 EDT. We have a time! The teams are warming up, and kickoff is scheduled for 10:43 ET.#HOUvORL | #NWSL https://t.co/Pkk6YztJLB— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 12, 2018 17' 1-0 Kennedy hangs a square pass right to circle right, too fast for Camila. Ohai collects at circle left, instantly plays Daly into space past circle top left. Daly outruns everybody to 12m left post, shoots right instep bend around Harris into back right low. Back at it in Houston and @RachelDaly3 was ready to play. Goal, @HoustonDash!#HOUvORL | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/jXw08qo6Aw— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 12, 2018
[SEA-UTA] 11' 0-0 Moros chips from midfield left touch to 25m center, Rodriguez splits Catley and Barnes, perfect 1st touch dumps ball in her own stride. Rodriguez chases to 10m right post, Catley slides and hook-pokes ball off her feet. Rodriguez chases to 5m 6-left, turn-and-shoot goes behind goal. 13' 0-0 J.Taylor spins past S.Johnson through box top mid-left, gets pancaked just outside box. Yellow card on S.Johnson. 17' 0-0 Jónsdóttir caught dribbling, stumbles over ball. As she finally sprawls forward, Nielsen comes through and collects ball, inadvertently plows right hip/torso into Jónsdóttir's head. Jónsdóttir stays on back; brief stoppage. 18' 0-0 Jónsdóttir walks off under own power, goes down the field niche stairs to the locker room. 20' 0-0 Jónsdóttir returns!
Seattle win against Utah, 1-0. FT. A good number of yellow cards in the game as well...a couple of strange ones, at least compared to what was at other times let go. Trying to make up for the lack of red cards this year?
I love watching Rachel Daly play. She hasn't been very good for the last game or two, but she was on tonight. I think the term for her style is that she plays with reckless abandon. Houston harassed Orlando to death. Marta, Morgan got no respect. I do like Rachel Hill for Orlando. A red card for Marta. And a really easy, non-controversial one for the ref to call. Leroux should have gotten a yellow card for shoving Monthalo. Rapinoe scored the winning goal for Seattle. Well, what else is new? And Fishlock is back. She's almost back to being the energizer bunny. Where has Adriana Leon been all season? I thought she was traded to Sky Blue, but now she's with Seattle.
Sauerbrunn is out with a left tibial stress reaction. That's the same injury she had at the beginning of the year except that one was her left foot. Its an injury that demands rest to avoid a stress fracture, and could take a few weeks. Two overuse injuries in one year are a bit concerning. BTW, Sam Johnson was one of those who received a yellow card in the game, her fifth of the season. So she'll be sitting in the next game, which means Utah will be without both Johnson and Sauerbrunn.
I took a nap! Catching up ... [HOU-ORL] 50' 2-0 Ohai receives at arc top wide left, 1-v-1 on Poliana. Ohai backs Poliana down to box top left, with Daly 1-v-1 on Zadorsky at 9m 3-left and Huerta cutting past spot toward left post, dragging Kennedy with her. Ohai shoots hard right instep past Mônica to 9m 6-right, Daly extends right foot and flicks a high pop-up that drops at 4m 1/6 left. Zadorsky leaves Daly and follows the ball, Huerta plants under it but doesn't jump, Kennedy and Harris both jump and bump aloft. Harris punches ball away past the congestion -- hence this distraction prevented an easy catch. Ball bounces out to 9m 2-left, Daly has inside position on Mônica and pounces first, outraces Zadorsky and gets a perfect right foot shin-high volley over Harris's fingertips, just under crossbar 1/4 left, into 1/3 left back high. And @RachelDaly3 finds that brace after all. The @HoustonDash are up 2–0 at home!#HOUvORL | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/o61pHzYthm— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 12, 2018
55' 2-1 Marta left ck, inswings to 2m 4-right, Leroux dives ccw around Chapman but Chapman heads heads away to box top wide right. Krieger collects, while Chapman, Van Wyk, and Motlhalo all vacate 6-box. Leroux peeks right and sees Polkinghorne last-defender at 6-top, so she trots out to 6m right post and resets. Krieger floats a cross to 3m 1/5 right, Campbell comes out to punch but Leroux judges it better, pikes her (ahem) bottom into Campbell's way, dinks a soft header juuuuust inside right post low. The @ORLPride are right back in this one. @sydneyleroux heads in the ball off the CK and it's now 2–1 in Houston.#HOUvORL | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/rw7xcGL0Bp— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 12, 2018 90+5' (of +5') 3-1 Campbell gk to midfield box left, headed back to Houston's 35m -- and a brief knocking of heads, but ref doesn't notice. Chapman steps into a ridiculous one-touch left-foot flat drive over Orlando's entire roster, bouncing at circle top box left into space. Kgatlana (71') accelerates past gassed Krieger, collects at 30m box left, touches to 11m mid-left, and snipes a right-foot toe-poke hard across mouth past Krieger at 6m, into right side netting low. .@KgatlanaJnr11 adds the third for the @HoustonDash to wrap this one up at home!#HOUvORL | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/hhkMfo2NSl— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 12, 2018 90+6' (of +5') 3-1 Red card on Marta. FT 3-1.
I read on the injury report that Utsugi has a left calf strain: I hope it's nothing serious and that Vlatko left just her out in the mid-week game for precautionary reasons: she's been a stalwart regular for most of the season and it would be a real problem to have her out. Also, I wouldn't like if her call to Nadeshiko Japan NT for Tournament of the Nation would be put in danger!
[SEA-UTA] 54' 1-0 Catley right ck. Trick/scripted play, Rapinoe lurks inside the goal at left side netting, backcuts past Moros unaware, backpedals to the target spot at 4m 3-left. Catley delivers ball to 3m 4-left, Rapinoe adjusts and jump-heads back across mouth, easily lobs A.Smith and all of Utah's goalline defenders, into right side netting 1/2 high 1/4 back. .@mPinoe peels off the post and sends the header home. Goal, @ReignFC!#SEAvUTA | #NWSL pic.twitter.com/GKCyq11MVZ— National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 12, 2018 Rodriguez was holding right post, and probably was in the way if she had stayed there, but she shuffled centerward to goalline center as A.Smith went to left post. The shot itself is a canonical ck pattern, which every team should be drilling. Rapinoe's dastardly run reminds me of Klay running around to get free even when you know that's what he does. FT 1-0.
Depends on how you define "underwhelming"... You could say that any team with Marta that's not at the top of the table qualifies, considering her team placed 1st in their respective league in 2005-2012 and 2014-2015 - and her team was runners-up in 2013 and 2016 (Rosengard, not ORL). ORL certainly has some good star power, but TBQH every "star" on the team has been known to have issues being hot-and-cold before; their run up the table during the latter part of 2017 was only because everyone clicked at the same time. Considering that form issue, it's not so surprising - but considering the star power on the team, it does seem somewhat underwhelming, and I'd bet the sagging attendance means the fans probably expect more too.
I don't know how Christina unkel gets to be a FIFA ref. She misses a lots of fouls. You are not good ref because you don't call a lot of fouls, in fact if she simply calls the very obvious fouls then just about anyone can do it. It takes a good ref to recognize the little fouls that deserve getting calls, just watch the men's world cup, a little foul is still a foul.
Typing from Palouse Divide Lodge in Idaho for a star party. Smaller laptop, fewer details. Must fix my scope motors ... [NJ-NC] Tonight's Starting XI presented by @HMHNewJersey.#PushForward | #NJvNC pic.twitter.com/8il6Hni8Zo— NJ/NY Gotham FC (@GothamFC) July 14, 2018 1018258804457312256 is not a valid tweet id New Jersey: Q Stott / OUT Abam Hoy Rodriguez North Carolina: Q Hinkle Zerboni (both starting); S.Mewis / OUT Eddy King McDonald
[UTA-ORL] Tonight's starting XI against @ORLPride.Audio Breakdown: https://t.co/kwo8gWkO8A pic.twitter.com/bKmaNvjD6R— Utah Royals FC (@UtahRoyalsFC) July 14, 2018 Here's the squad balling at the RioT at 7:00 on ESPNews! #UTAvORL | #JoinThePride pic.twitter.com/L5eNGUcbPb— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) July 14, 2018 Utah: Q none / OUT Arlitt Doniak Laddish O’Hara Sauerbrunn Thorsnes Orlando: Q none / OUT none