The Chicago Red Stars have been one of the better teams in the NWSL for a little while now. And the 2022 season has treated them no differently. As we approach the near-third month of this year’s campaign, Chicago sits in a healthy third place overall in the league. In other words, they sit from their usual perfect striking distance.
Thanks to Mallory Pugh, everyone got another excellent glimpse of the Red Stars’ ongoing prowess on Saturday afternoon.
With Chicago and the Reign tied near the end of the first half, Pugh made an incredibly deft dribble in the final third of the field. We’ll let her right leg tell the rest of the story:
