Gotham FC win the NWSL championship
Don’t call them underdogs. Call them regular-season underachievers if you’re searching for some reason why they scraped into the playoffs and then won it all. Gotham is a solid team throughout. Sonnett was masterful on defense, and Lavelle was the perfect person to score the goal.
Pity for the Spirit, whose season was defined by injuries. The last crucial one was to Hal Hershfelt, and even after she came back on, the Spirit were effectively playing with 10 players because she simply couldn’t run. And that’s when Lavelle struck.
Thrilling season and a big step forward for the league. Next up: Keeping players away from big-spending Euro clubs.
Thanks for following along tonight.
Not to pile on NWSL refs, but you’re going to blow the whistle there? While the Spirit have just thrown it in toward the penalty area? Who does that? Anywhere? I don’t even do that in U-9 games when we’re supposed to turn over the field to the next game.
Poor. Just no sense of the game.
Anyway …
