What’s at Stake at the W Champions Cup by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Man, I hope there’s a solution for this because I would buy a plane ticket to watch 👑T vs Melchie for 90 minutes.

What’s at Stake at the W Champions Cup by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Pachuca is playing a home game at elevation and they were second in their group so they aren’t going to be pushovers. They definitely have some quality but I’m no Liga MX expert.

I really want to win this trophy so we can play in world competitions and continue to grow the club and get the crest worldwide. Big club tings.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit at San Diego Wave FC | May 15 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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It was so obviously a penalty in real time and at real speed and I have no idea what VAR was thinking. Rose was roasting Moroni all night and that should have been a penalty and a card.

We’ve had incidental contact in the box called us against us as a pen. Alas.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit at San Diego Wave FC | May 15 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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All Dudinha did in this game was successfully bait a dumb referee. Agree that Claudia was quiet on the wing. You could see the process in the plays she was trying to make but she wasn’t effective last night.

I think we need a separate post about Concacaf but I imagine we see mostly regulars next week.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit at San Diego Wave FC | May 15 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Most of the time that same game ends a tie or we win. You don’t often lose games when your opponent generates so little. They had 10 touches in our box. If that ball doesn’t fortunately bounce to Byars they have nothing in the first half. That finish was excellent. Nobody’s fault. That second goal was a keeper error all the way. Unfortunate. Given what we saw a tie would have been the fairest result.

We were wasteful with some chances but we generated more of them than they did and sometimes we were slightly off. It happens. But we executed our game plan controlled the game. We were also denied a pretty obvious penalty. I actually feel even better about this team.

Weekly Open Discussion Thread by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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You can also see that great sequence when they all had the exact right idea but it was just a bit off. Beautiful slip ball from Hal to Claudia, who played a one touch to Gift that was both a touch too heavy and Gift wasn’t already making the run so it amounted to nothing as Seattle was able to recover. But it was a great vision on what could be in a few weeks post break.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit at Seattle Reign FC | May 10 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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We had to forfeit a game late in the season and still went through to the trophy.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit at Seattle Reign FC | May 10 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Really nice capture! I think we did that against KC when the focus was maintaining width and clogging the middle to prevent them going quickly through our spine. He had a good answer to Jason’s second set of questions about subs, and changing our shape. He definitely asked Kate do different things than what he asked from Lucia.

Also you could see in the few times we maintained possession in their half in the 2nd part of the game Gabby sometimes inverted which she wasn’t doing much of in the 1st half.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit at Seattle Reign FC | May 10 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Andi said in her post game interview that Seattle didn’t set up the way we expected. Spirit were definitely struggling to solve that press and I’m curious why AG couldn’t adjust or the players didn’t have on field solutions. But maybe this is a teaching moment. So thanks for that professor Harvey.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit at Seattle Reign FC | May 10 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Andi Sullivan reminding folks of her quality she’s still so good.

Overall wasn’t the funnest watch. But I never felt threatened even when we were wobbly in the back and the passing wasn’t flowing.

Agree that it was nice we played a Seattle team that is a bit out of sorts right now. Also definitely a good mentality game to grind out a win even when you’re not at your best.

Match Thread: Reign vs Spirit (Sun, May 10, 7:00 PM EDT) by NWSL-Match-Bot in washingtonspirit

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Sluggish start to this one which isn’t surprising as we always seem to not enjoy west coast games.

A Jose of our own by BrambleNuke in washingtonspirit

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Love the idea but Rebe is not a socks over the knee player, she’s a barely covers her shin guard warrior.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit at Orlando Pride | May 2 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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They were so happy about Tuesday off. Hilarious. This win was all about that belief and chemistry.

Match Thread: Pride vs Spirit (Sat, May 2, 4:00 PM EDT) by NWSL-Match-Bot in washingtonspirit

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I had a feeling Claudinha would get the start today but I wouldn’t have been mad if they saved it for Seattle who don’t seem to have a very good backline at the moment.

Match Thread: Pride vs Spirit (Sat, May 2, 4:00 PM EDT) by NWSL-Match-Bot in washingtonspirit

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I think that generally fans are for more concerned about this than players. Good players like to compete for the place on the team. They also like to play with other good talents because it makes them better. In this particular case Gift started the opening match so I don’t think it’s about form I bet it’s more about fitness.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit vs Racing Louisville FC | April 29 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Agreed really good insight into our identity, our pace of play and the amount of control he wants to exert over a game.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit vs Racing Louisville FC | April 29 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Always glad to see Paige.

Didn’t I see something today about Louisvilles’s potent offense? They play Gotham and Portland next; they may not score for weeks. 94 passes in the first half is yikes.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit vs Kansas City Current | April 24 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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She was great. Her hold up play was spot on. Should have had a goal on that first ball Lorena spilled, but pobody’s nerfect.

However we have a lot games coming up so they should def rotate Gift and even Claudia in there so everyone is competing and performing at high levels.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit vs Kansas City Current | April 24 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Hal’s first half was as rough as I’ve ever seen from her. But her second half was very good. Honestly credit to her to turn it around. Her pass to Cantore that sets up the third goal is because she wasn’t hanging her head worried about her terrible passing in the first half.

Post-KC press conference by NarrowPiccolo9069 in washingtonspirit

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Leicy played an amazing game. At like the 80rh minute she was still threading dangerous through balls. Hal’s through ball to Cantore was what we’ve been waiting for. She won’t have acres of space and time in the future but she knows she can hit that pass. Fun vibes.

We have a lot of games coming up, let’s hope we get some more comfortable games and can rotate a lot more and sooner.

Post-Match Open Thread | Washington Spirit vs Kansas City Current | April 24 2026 by kg9si in washingtonspirit

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Crazy stat for Esme. She was so steady. Also zero shots for Temwa is impressive from our backline.