#NWSL Week 24 Recap, featuring:

⛽ Portland running on fumes
✨ Seattle's offense wakes up
🇧🇷 A big day for Bia
🥊 Claire Hutton vs. Jaelin Howell
🦁 A North Carolina Courage Discussion
🗝️ Angel City tinkering

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#NWSL Week 23 Interlude- The Awards Ballot, featuring:
👑 Chawinga supremacy
👶 The most competitive ROTY competition in years
🎌 We love Manaka in this house
🤹‍♂️ Kenza Dali's historic season
1️⃣ All-NWSL first and second teams

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#NWSL Week 22 Recap, featuring:
🧙‍♀️ Gotham's midfield wizardry
🌹 Portland Thorns losing their grip
🦆 Orlando Pride breaking their duck
👟 Temwa Chawinga's workrate
🏜️ Utah Royals rolling
😈 Seattle Reign's devil magic
🛍️ The rampaging Washington Spirit

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NWSL Week 21 Recap- Orlando's slide continues, a classic in Utah, and the playoff race continues to tighten 1. Washington's fluid shape No team in the NWSL has more attacking depth than the Spirit. Not Kansas City, not nobody. This is a good thing, especially for a team that has suffered more than a few i...

#NWSL Week 21 Recap, featuring:
☔️ The Washington Spirit's tactics
👩‍🎓 Riley Jackson's impact for the Courage
🌶️ The red-hot Utah Royals
🏆 KC Current win the shield
🎠 Has Louisville's press has been solved?
🌤️ Bay FC shows some stuff
🦇 Gotham underwhelms

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#NWSL Week 20 Recap, featuring:

🦇 A Gotham Rennaissance
🌊 SD Wave a'strugglin
🦁 North Carolina Courage's switch-up
👑 Utah Royals' game of the year
😞 Houston Dash disappointment
🥊 A top of the table clash in KC

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#NWSL Week 19 Recap, featuring:
⌛ A Portland Thorns late show
❌ Albertin Montoya canned
⛵ Chicago Stars break through lakeside
🪨 Orlando hits rock bottom
🚀 More Jaelin Howell screamers
🧠 Houston Dash doing cool stuff
💅 NWSL PR in San Diego

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#NWSL Week 18 Recap, featuring:

🟪 Racing Louisville's press exposed
🥕 Houston Dash continuing to improve
🛝 Orlando Pride tumbling
😍 Mandy McGlynn and Tara Mckeown love
🟰 Chicago (Red) Stars draw again
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Thoughts on Alyssa Thompson

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#NWSL Week 17 Recap, featuring:

💋 Angel City get Straus' first
🇧🇷 Ludmila magic for the Stars
⚾ Bay FC's midfield problems
🐶 More Claire Hutton love for the KC Current
🍊 Houston Dash improving
👎 Berman-gate plagues the NWSL

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#NWSL Week 16 Recap, featuring:
👻 Washington Spirit's aggressive 3-5-2
🐎 Racing Louisville bypassing the midfield
👼 Alex Straus: Whatcha doin brother?
🦁 Same old North Carolina Courage
🌹 Portland Thorns run out of gas
🌊 Trinity Armstrong: Good

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#NWSL Week 15 Recap, featuring:
- Thorns reign supreme in Cascadia
- More Sophie Schmidt Magic for Houston
- Orlando Pride falter again
- Angel City's midfield dilemma
- Chicago Stars to play spoiler?
- Bay FC's shape change

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#NWSL Week 14 Recap, featuring:
- How KC Current compare to the 2018 Courage in the NWSL pantheon
- Portland's pace issues
- Thoughts on the Courage (pre-Nahas news)
- Angel City's weird lineups
- Orlando Pride slipping
- Taylor Flint: Octopus
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NWSL Week 13 Recap- Angel City debut new shape, Uh-Oh Orlando, and Houston collapse in North Carolina 1. Alex Straus making his mark in LA The start of the Alex Straus era in LA has not gone particularly smoothly. In the three matches the German has managed, Angel City have lost twice and drawn Chic...

#NWSL Week 13 Recap, featuring:

- Angel City and the Thorns change shape
- Houston's collapse
- The Reign youths
- Orlando's one dimensionality
- San Diego historic xG over-performance
- The 100% correct NWSL midseason awards ballot

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#NWSL Week 12 Recap, featuring:
- San Diego Wave's shape shift
- Houston's structure issues
- Louisville fail the KC Current test
- Portland Thorns put in a complete 90
- North Carolina's shape + Manaka love

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NWSL Week 11 Recap- Utah trip over own feet again, Seattle frustrate San Diego, and Chicago robbed in LA No Week 10 Recap two weeks ago. My apologies. I somehow managed to make it through nine weeks without missing an NWSL match, but all good things come to an end....and I don't like to do recaps for gam...

#NWSL Week 11 Recap, featuring:
- Utah Royals self destruct again
- Chicago Stars robbed in LA
- More Rob Gale nonsense
- Thoughts on the Giraldez/Michelle Kang sitch
- Rose Lavelle back
- An interesting Reign-Wave duel
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#NWSL Week 9 Recap! Featuring:
- Pietra Tordin's post up game for the Thorns
- Worrying trends for Orlando
- Laura Harvey testing the limits
- Racing Louisville's creation problem
- Washington's Rose Kouassi getting Chesky'd
- Bay FC's shape change

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#NWSL Week 8 Recap, featuring:
- Louisville's dominant press
- Gotham struggling to replace Delanie Sheehan
- Chicago flashing + Julia Grosso
- Washington Spirit's porous defense
- Utah's final third woes
- KC Current: BACK

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#NWSL Week 7 Recap, featuring:
- Angel City get the monkey of their back
- Laura Harvey's dream game in Seattle
- Vlatko gets creative without Chawinga for KC
- Thoughts on Chicago's front office
- The failures of zonal marking
- More love for the SD Wave.

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NWSL Week 6 Recap- Portland stun Gotham, Angel City Collapse in Orlando, and North Carolina break their duck 1. The Caiya Hanks Game Remember last week when I wrote about Seattle winger Maddie Dahlien's evisceration of Portland FB Kaitlyn Torpey? Well, Thorns rook Caiya Hanks had an even more dominant perf...

#NWSL Week Six Recap, featuring:
- The Caiya Hanks game
- Ally Sentnor out of position
- Angel City's collapse vs. the Pride
- Gotham wins the battle of the Spaniards
- North Carolina break their duck
- Bay FC's mediocrity

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#NWSL Week 5 Recap, featuring:

- Kaitlyn Torpey's night in hell against Maddie Dahlien
- Jayden Perry's composure for the Portland Thorns
- The case for Delphine Cascarino, NWSL MVP
- Kiki Pickett's bangers-only mantra
- The North Carolina Courage: yuck

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#NWSL Week 4 Recap, featuring:
- Portland Thorns' good creation metrics and awful final third numbers.
- Summer Yates is (was) back
- KC Current continue to absolutely rock everyone
- Seattle's youth movement up front
- Izzy Rodriguez: elite ball crosser
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Me and my legions of very real fans going to random games wearing Unwell-branded NWSL baseball caps Rob Lowe Style because I love Alex Cooper and Women's Soccer just that much

My kingdom for this league to market its excellent product instead of trying to corporatize supporter culture as a girl power thing

Every word Berman says in this video gives me the worst kind of out-of-touch-corporate ick. Good lord this is a terrible idea!

Thanks! The last clip should be changed now, appreciate the heads up.

#NWSL Week 3 Recap! Featuring:
- Bay FC's tale of two halves
- Lilly Reale is real good
- Eidevall's rebuilt Wave
- Current baiting Utah
- Shea Groom is back

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#NWSL Week 2 Recap, featuring:
- A breakdown of the Thorns front line coverage issues
- Giraldez goes 3-4-3 against KC
- The Wave's beautiful attacking sequences
- North Carolina's tactical stubbornness.
- Lily Reale thrown into the fire

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NWSL Week 1 Recap- More of the same at the top In 2025, we're changing up the format of these weekly recaps a tad. Instead of focusing on three games in depth, we'll be giving some attention to the whole league in the form of a Zach Lowe-inspired ...

Week 1 #NWSL Recap, featuring:
- Angelina's positional switch for Orlando
- Rob Gale's failures
- An interesting Angel City midfield choice
- Utah building from the back

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NWSL 2025 Preseason Preview Tier 2: In with a Chance #5 Gotham FCKey additions: Gabi Portilho (AM), Jaelin Howell (DM), Lily Reale (CB), Sofia Cook (CM), Shelby Hogan (GK), Kyah Harper (ST), Stella Nyamekye (AM)Key losses: Lynn Biyendolo (LW), Delanie Sheehan (CM), Yazmeen Ryan (AM/RW), Samantha Hiatt (CB), Maitane Lopez (CB/DM), Crystal Dunn (CM/W)If it feels like the league may be collectively a little too down on the last of 2024's semifinalists, there is, at least, good reason for concern. Gotham's stint as both a collection point for many of

#NWSL Season previews Tier 2 edition, featuring:

- Gotham will be fine, folks
- Utah(???) and their fleet of conquistadores
- Bay's internal development
- Portland's volatility

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2025 NWSL Season Preview: Tier 1- The Top Line Contenders #1 Washington SpiritKey additions: Narumi Miura (CM), Deborah Nabiodun (CM), Tamara Bolt (FW), Sandy McIver (GK), Rebecca Bernal (CB/DM)Key losses: Anaig Butel (CB)The American wing of owner Michelle ...

#NWSL Season Preview, Contenders Edition featuring:
- Why the Spirit will be 2025's best side

- Why Orlando might/might not defend its double

- The importance of a healthy Bia to KC's title chances

- Where will Jaedyn Shaw play?

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