39' 0-0 Sky Blue chip to O'Hara behind 2 at 20m wide left -- this is evidently a theme in their system. 39' 0-0 Cameron sweeps at 25m again. Sky Blue to box top mid-left, but O'Hara offside. 40' 0-0 Leroux receives facing away at 33m centerline, lays off to Winters. Chip to box top mid-right, headed away. Backpass to Solo.
41' 0-0 Cox settles at 30m wide left, chips short to Little at 25m mid-left. Nick swarms Little 1-v-1, takes ball. 42' 1-0 Foord passes upfield, Ocampo knocks ball back to Kiryu at 24m arc right. She taps square left to Freels at 24m arc left. Freels pushes left into wheelhouse, blasts left foot across mouth, floats like backspin above Solo's dive, into back right edge 2/3 high. Anything Nairn can do --
43' 1-0 Leroux turn-and-shoots at 12m 6-right, just wide right as Cameron dives to the post. 45' 1-0 Cox misses a forward pass. Foord longball to 40m centerline, O'Hara came back from an offside position but is still offside. +0'. HT 1-0.
[BOS-WAS] 16' 0-0 Boston chip up centerline, #? just misses a lunge-volley clearance at 27m, O'Hara breaks away up centerline. To 15m, chips too late with no angle, Harris sprawled wrong but lifts trailing leg and shin-blocks it away.
Boston: Same ole, same ole 14 Lisa De Vanna 10 Lianne Sanderson, 11 Joanna Lohman, 9© Heather O'Reilly 19 Kristie Mewis, 12 Kathryn Schoepfer 20 Mollie Pathman, 4 Cat Whitehill, 8 Julie King, 26 Nikki Washington 1 Alyssa Naeher Washington: Adams for #17 Perez, Sierra for #5 Gayle. 99 Danesha Adams, 14 Jodie Taylor, 8 Diana Matheson 7 Christine Nairn, 4 Yael Averbuch, 6 Lori Lindsey 22 Bianca Sierra, 23 Victoria Huster, 11© Ali Krieger, 19 Crystal Dunn 1 Ashlyn Harris
24' 0-0 Schoepfer chips from midfield right touch to 25m arc left, Krieger misses a clearance-volley, De Vanna chases the bounce. Hops and one-touch soft volley, trying to lob Harris, but it falls well short at 8m and Harris catches easily. 27' 0-0 Boston left throw-in at 8m. Pbp team explain the empty far-side concrete bleachers: main entrance and everything else are near-side: seating, press box, cameras.
29' 1-0 Mewis dribbles through box top left to 8m mid-left, square pass splits 2 to Sanderson facing away at 10m 6-left, in a 1-v-1 backshield. Sanderson fends off with left forearm as she spins ccw, unleashes a low rocket shot under Harris into back right low.
[SkB-SEA] No subs. 48' 1-0 Fletcher long switch to Cox up left touch, ping disrupted and Leroux dumps it past Fishlock in an offside position. 49' 1-0 Reed poor backpass, right to Ocampo. She goes 1-v-1 down to 10m 6-right, but somebody's offside. [BOS-WAS] 33' 1-1 Washington fk, Nairn drives it into left back edge, past Naeher's dive.
[SkB-SEA] 50' 1-1 Goebel dribbles 1-v-1 down wide left to 6m, nutmegs Foord(?), gets past her. Crosses to Kawasumi at the spot, she stutters, then blasts right instep off Cameron's rising right arm top, into 1/4 left high. 52' 1-1 Goebel fouled at box top arc left. 53' 1-2 Seattle fk, Little snipes it over the wall, past Cameron's dive, into right back edge. [BOS-WAS] 37' 2-1 Sanderson from De Vanna. They're scoring faster than I can type --
56' 1-2 Nick intercepts, dribbles to 22m arc left. Passes wide left for Kiryu, shot from box top left into Solo. 57' 1-2 Leroux alone down box right to 14m. Has Goebel 1-v-2 in the center, instead backpasses toward Little at 18m arc right, but Sky Blue clears.
58' 1-2 Nick chips down box left for LB Levin chasing Reed. Levin catches up at 5m, arm-tugging dumps Reed down -- no call! Levin pounces at 3m mid-left, cross headed away. 59' 1-2 Sky Blue possess across box top. Ocampo blasts from arc top into heavy traffic, blocked out. 59' 1-2 Leroux dribbles through 3-4 1-v-1s, finally turns corner through midfield right touch. Forward pass hits Levin in the chest. 60' 1-2 Fishlock chips from 30m mid-left, Cameron backpedals to the line and catches high.
61' 1-2 Fishlock chips from midfield up centerline, Leroux offside. 61' 1-2 Sky Blue subs in (1 of 3) #16 Jonelle Filigno for #8 Monica Ocampo. 62' 1-2 Seattle to 20m arc right, shot blocked across. Leroux's 2nd shot blocked by Rampone.
63' 1-2 Levin steals at midfield box left, squares to Schmidt. She chips into box left, Kiryu chases but Fletcher comes across and clears. 64' 1-2 Sky Blue cross, long header to center high, Solo catches face-high.
69' 1-2 Reed backpass, Solo foot-stops it at 19m mid-right 70' 1-2 Little chips up wide left, Kawasumi way offside. 70' 1-2 Leroux, on her (um) side, pokes ball to Little, longball to Kawasumi, but Goodson overtakes inside-out, steals and backpass.
72' 1-2 Seattle in box at 6-top right, Sky Blue slide-pokes over. 72' 1-2 Seattle right corner, short, backpass to Little. She short-passes to Winters wide-open at 9m 6-right. Winters shoots for the upper right 90, deflected over. 73' 1-2 Seattle right corner, eventually to Barnes at 20m arc left. She blasts it rising over the scrum, off left post and bounces out and wide.
74' 1-3 Seattle chip over 30m, Little is onside behind 2 at 27m mid-left, with Kawasumi behind the ball in the centerline lane. Little pulls Cameron way over to the left, squares for Kawasumi alone at 9m 1/3 right. Kawasumi clangs ball, decides that it works, does not bother to shoot -- just duck-walks on top of ball and escorts it over the goalline, then foot-stops it less than 2 diameters in. That was cute 74' 1-3 Seattle subs in (1 of 3) #18 Danielle Foxhoven for #9 Nahomi Kawasumi. 75' 1-3 Sky Blue subs in (2 of 3) #18 Lindsi Cutshall for #13 Sophie Schmidt.
78' 1-3 Seattle chip over box top arc right for Little sneaking through -- Cameron is way up at 14m, shins it clear. 79' 1-3 Seattle pass through box top mid-left for Fishlock splitting the line -- Cameron charges way out, dives and gets ball, Fishlock tumbles over the ball. No call, Leroux chases it down at wide left. 79' 1-3 Seattle subs in (2 of 3) #25 Kiersten Dallstream for #17 Beverly Goebel.
81' 1-3 Seattle pass wide left, Leroux is in offside position but lets it go across her front. Dallstream runs on alone at 30m left touch, dribbles through box top left, pulls Cameron way out to 13m mid-left. Too far, closes her own shot window to nil -- shoots into Cameron's arms, Cameron chases rebound and falls on it. 82' 1-3 Sky Blue cross to 6-top center, ball sits in traffic and they just can't get power on any touches. Seattle survives and clears.
83' 1-3 Sky Blue subs in (3 of 3) #11 Maya Hayes for #7 Nanase Kiryu. 83' 1-3 Dallstream turns and shoots from ~20m arc left, rising rocket just high and wide right. 86' 1-3 Freels overhits a switch wide left, O'Hara can't keep it in. [BOS-WAS] 49' 2-2 Matheson chases ball to left touch in support. Nairn holds, loses ball vs. Schoepfer + Washington -- but Matheson picks it up and sails up wide left, alone to 12m. Crosses low to 6-top left post, Jodie Taylor beats Whitehill, flicks one-touch right outstep over Naeher down on her knees, into 1/4 left back high.
87' 1-3 O'Hara shoots long from 25m mid-left, glances off Hayes's arm and wide left. Ref saw a phantom touch on Seattle, awards a ck! 88' 1-3 Sky Blue left corner, inswings to the scrum at 3m. At that instant, camera pans right, causing motion blur and defocus. Cleared across. 89' 1-3 O'Hara down to 6m wide left, floats a cross to 2m center. Solo catches high, Cutshall jumps for the header and bonks Solo backward and down. Foul on Cutshall.
90' 1-3 Seattle subs in (3 of 3) #4 Kate Deines for #10 Jessica Fishlock. 90' 1-3 Sky Blue left throw-in at box top, worked around. Rampone collects at 25m arc right, shoots long, deflected to endline box right. Solo chases and dives, can't palm it into touch. 90+1' (of +3'?) 1-3 Sky Blue right corner, cleared.
90+2' (of +3'?) 1-3 O'Hara down box left, turns corner through box left foot to mid-left. Cross blocked at 6-top, sits at 9m left post. Freels(?) blasts, blocked point-blank. 90+3' (of +3'?) 1-3 Seattle drives up left touch, switches to midfield right touch. Long ball too far, to Cameron. 90+4' (of +3'?) 1-3 Seattle content to gum up midfield. FT 1-3. Leroux still isn't getting shots, but she's part of a many-headed monster in midfield.