WEBVTT - Reign Fall to Royals at Home 3-0: Full Broadcast 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.720 The following is an exclusive presentation of Seattle Rainsucker on 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.240 Sports Radio nine fifty kJ. 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:14.440 Good evenings from lumen Field and hello to rain on 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.919 the radio. You are listening to a broadcast for Seattle 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.600 Rain FC. My name is Jackson Feltz. I'm alongside Stephanie Vrdoya. 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.360 We are taking you all the way through this year's inock. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.360 You old came at Lumenfield. The Seattle rain have of 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.040 course been playing the regular season for quite a few weeks. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.800 Now they enter this match day at three to one 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.520 and one here on the season side for second place 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.440 in all of NWSL, the league that they plan here 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:44.559 in the United States. 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.360 Very very good start to twenty twenty six. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.400 We will welcome you to this first game from lumen 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.120 Field as they have been playing away from lumen for 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.680 a while. Of course, Lumenfield was undergoing a transformation getting 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.520 grass put down for the World Cup here in a 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.120 couple months. So the Rain have been both on the 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.840 road and over in Spokane for a few weeks and 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.480 they have been playing very very well and now return 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.640 home to face the Utah Royals. Welcome into the broadcast booth. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.320 Like I said, Jackson Felt, Stephanie Rduya. We have Kwamea 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.280 Paie as well on the sideline today for our entire broadcast, 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.960 and we are just about twenty minutes away from kickoff 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:23.480 for Seattle Rain and Utah Royals. Stephanie couldn't ask for 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.920 a better night for soccer here as the sun is 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.160 setting on Lumen. We got about just under sixty degrees. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.200 Perfect weather for soccer here in Seattle. 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.120 It's absolutely perfect weather. I mean most of the time 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.040 in April. You know, you can get some showers here, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.360 and we've already seen that that can impact the plane 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.800 service here when it's turf. It definitely can impact it 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.560 when it's grass. But we have the grass. It looks great. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.640 The sun is shining. And we also have a very 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.320 special guest in the house tonight. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.440 You want to introduce her. This is quite an honor 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:53.320 of who we have here. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.160 Next, Yume, I think I can introduce her. It's actually 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:55.840 very stressful. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:56.560 Emma Hayes. 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.920 Everyone, Ema Hayes, the legend. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.440 Coach of the United States women's national team. Emma Hayes, 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.080 it truly is an honor to have you in our 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:06.520 booth here today. Thank you so much. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.720 Well, thank you for having me as always a pleasure 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.240 to come into the booth of those that are commentating 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:13.519 or navigating through a game. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:14.720 I am very. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.639 Impressed with this board that I see in front of me, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.200 with all the key details about the players. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.200 Thank you for that. That is that's a humbling thing 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:22.560 to hear. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.320 Well. Listen, you obviously brought in the United States women's 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.720 national team just very recently in that game against Japan, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.040 and I wanted to first just talk about the atmosphere 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.679 that was here in this building a couple of weeks ago, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.760 record crowd obviously, so many fat, tens of thousands of 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.240 Seattle fans came out to support you to what was 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:43.160 that atmosphere awake? 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.000 It was? It was magnificent, it really was. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.600 This is a part of the country I know the 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.119 team feels very strongly about, and we know that it's 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.400 a massive soccer hotbed up here. I'm just disappointed we 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.400 didn't give him a bit more entertainment. I mean, not 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.560 through a lack of will, I might say, but maybe 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.200 a lack of experience. But the crowd were I think 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.799 on a really cold, wet night, provided a little bit 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.640 of sparkle to quite you know, a very difficult performance. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.519 Well, at least in those three games against Japan, you 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.119 guys did get two wins, so overall in those three 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.840 squad looks very good. As you prepare, of course for 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.160 the World Cup next year, there's a lot of things 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.040 we want to talk to you about and a lot 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.399 of different players, especially on the RIEN. I do want 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.920 to start on the youth angle, because there is a 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.600 number of players, young players with Seattle RENFC here who 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.800 are coming up through the ranks of the U twenty squad. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.000 Like you look right now at a Damas Sa Daniel 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.240 Orstein McCammon, all coming up. How closely are you watching 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.120 their development through the entire United States system. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.320 Well, one of the things we've done since I've come 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.320 into the job is aligned from top to bottom WNT 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.400 all the way through YNT. So our first priority is 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.920 identify the core players that will compete. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:00.920 For the twenty seven World Cups. 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.840 So we have a cluster of about thirty five players 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.440 that will do that. Extended from that will be the 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.680 pool players, and it could involve some of those players, 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.840 but they are also considered the high potential group. So 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.159 we break it down into the twenty seven group, the 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.520 twenty eight group, the thirty one group. So the group 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.920 you've just described, they are the players that could very 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.120 well be on the CUSP for the twenty eight Olympics, 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.159 but more likely to be considered for thirty one. So 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.200 I've always thought of myself as a developer, and of 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.320 course you can't just play for today, you have to 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:33.080 play for tomorrow. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.520 So of course I'm watching everyone. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.400 Yeah, it's incredible for say, to have someone with your 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.440 ability to see players through that process and connecting the 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.240 different age groups. But talk about youth, you have some 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.360 in your COUR core group as well, I mean teenagers. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.160 When I was back in the system, I mean we 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.520 had it was experience. It was players that had been 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.400 in there for years, for decades even, and it is 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.920 so exciting. You are coaching some of the most incredible 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.560 youngest athletes in the world. So speaking to that, what 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.800 are some of the old quality is that you look 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.560 for with your youngest players in that COUR group to 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.159 know that they're ready for the biggest stitch. 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.400 I think one of the things I've been impressed by, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.159 and maybe years of being a club coach too, is 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:16.200 the game has become younger and more professional, and as 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.000 a result of that, the behaviors that these players have, 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.680 whether it's everything around the other twenty two hours they 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.840 seem to have in lockstep. Whether they've got psychologists, whether 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.440 they've got nutritionists, whether they've got recovery strategies, whatever that 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.520 might be. They've figured that out at younger age, and 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.840 half the time it's getting that piece right. I think 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.400 what is probably required from my end is getting them 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.800 to understand the most important things within that, not everything. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.400 Because they want it so much, they think it's about 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:52.120 accumulating lots of different things instead of probably not what's 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.000 the right things we need to take from it, and 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.120 most importantly, what can you learn from the seniors in 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.760 the group. So I think they're better prepared as a 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.200 result of it. I think the old game has got younger. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.839 If you think about the average age of the Olympic 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.960 winning team of the World Cup winning team by Spain, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:08.679 they're much younger ages. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.640 So we have to give them the opportunities. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.840 We mentioned that the seniors there and not that they 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.159 are older players, but there certainly are. We have rain 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.880 players who are part of that senior team. I know 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.440 Stephanie wants to talk about Claudia Dickey, of course, but 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:23.960 I want to talk to you about the other four 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:25.839 who just got debuts with that. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.400 Senior team here recently. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.360 In Bug Mezza d'Alene Menti, what do you like about 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:31.880 each of their games? What have you seen as they 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.840 have made their debuts with your squad. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.279 Yeah, I think in Jordan Bug is a player that 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.440 has the ability to build from the deepest spaces with 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.160 composure that I think is required at the top level. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:49.920 I think she's got the temperament, quiet character, but confident 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.840 in her abilities. I think she will progress to be 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.920 a US woman's national team player on a regular basis. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.120 When that is is again, you know, so just how 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.280 she matures the maturation process is important, so I want 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:09.640 to give her the right exposures. I think for Sally Menti, again, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.400 I've coached her a couple of camps now, I think 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:18.680 she's another huge prospect, very tricky midfielder. I always say 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.880 she reminds me of Toburn Heath, but as a central 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.560 midfield player, I praise Yeah. I told Tobin that she 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.000 reminded me a little bit of her. I think she's 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.600 got an eye for a pass. I think she's one 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.120 player who needs to get all the other twenty two hours, right, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.160 and she needs the experiences and the exposures. I think 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.440 it's I think it's a natural progression. She'll move through 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.720 the ranks of you know, under twenty threes. I think 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.920 she has to solidify her position there. I think Sam 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.280 Maser I always talk about Sam being a player that's 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.160 come from you know, a college system, up to pro bounce, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.400 back down, goes back up again, really tidy midfielder. Her 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:01.560 short passing game is excellent. I think she's somebody who 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.200 can contribute. It's the huge competition for places. I know 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.320 in my conversations with Laura Harvey, we know we're really 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.600 challenging her to play a slightly longer game and her 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:14.680 progressive passing. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.440 But I think she's still a good prospect. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.640 And Maddie Darlene I think can be dynamite on that 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.920 left hand side. I just think she needs to develop experiences, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.160 but I think she's got all the qualities. And me 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.920 officiu are I know from my Chelsea days, I know 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.640 she's working back to top fitness. So I spoke with 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.120 Leslie Gallimore before the game. They're very excited about where 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.520 she's at and hopefully she gets some minutes tonight. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.520 So yeah, continuing on the siaalare and train Claudia Dicky. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.880 So she's been in she's done some great things. What 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:47.840 is the one thing you want to see in her 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.720 development in these next fourteen months before that big World Cup. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.760 She knows, she knows exactly what I wanted from her. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:59.640 I believe in behaviors, and what I know that was 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.560 somebody like Claudia who's got unbelievable composure and calm. The 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:09.040 shadow side to that is sometimes it can be just 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:09.920 a little. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.080 Bit too calm. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.760 So I want her training habits to be on point. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.040 When I compare her to the very, very best goalkeepers 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.880 and their training habits, I think she's got to close 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.520 the gap with that. If she closes that gap, which 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.720 I'm fully confident she will, I think she can challenge 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:27.800 to be the best in the world. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:29.640 But she has to close that gap. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.000 And I've made that very clear to her that I 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.360 want training to become a passion for her. I want 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.440 it to become the most important thing she does, and 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.319 even getting here today, like I want to see a 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.240 warm up, I want to see what those behaviors look like, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.360 and if she's taking on those messages and I very 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:48.000 much hope. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.160 She does well. Head coach Emma Hayes of the United 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.200 States women's national team, we will let you go check 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.280 out warm ups. This has been an honor to have 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.360 you in our booth here for what is it our 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.880 first segment of our first rain broadcast of the entire season. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.679 What a start. Thank you so much for joining us. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.480 Thanks for having me Head coach Emma Hayes of the 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.360 United States women's national team. What a joy to have 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.120 here in her in the booth, Stephanie, How cool was that? 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.760 I mean to be able to hear from a coach 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.920 who also is very clear, very honest. We've talked about 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.520 this with Laura Harvey as well, really shares her perspective. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.800 She's telling us what she tells Claudia Dicky a locker 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.280 and what she wants to see so she can be 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:24.160 on that World Cup team. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:24.920 I was. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:26.920 And you know what's cool about it is normally when 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.040 you talk to a national team coach, there might be 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.640 a player or two from your squad. Hey, you know, like, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:33.720 you know, let's just say that, you know, for the 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.680 for the men's side, right if we're all you know, 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.280 Christian Roldan, the one Sounders player you know, we could 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.280 be talking about on the roster for the World Cup. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.280 Here we listed off almost what is it ten players 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.360 that are in the development to potentially be on the 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.960 team for this coming World Cup next year, for the 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.760 Olympics the following year, and for as she mentioned, years 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.640 and years in the future. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.520 This is a Rain squad. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.360 If you are a fan of the United States women's 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.920 national team as well, you will be seeing these Rain 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.679 players for years on the national team. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.720 Absolutely, and that should be so exciting for fans for 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.479 young kids playing in the area. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:13.640 You're right, we haven't. 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.840 I think Emma is right in that she's maybe one 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.240 of the first coaches in a long time that has 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.559 been able to really tie some of these age groups 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.000 together U eighteen, e twenty three all the way up 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.000 to the full team, and that ability for players to 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.120 learn from other players and train those habits, just like 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:29.880 she was talking about with Dickey and other players in 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.440 this Rain team. They're getting that every day with coach 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.680 Laura Harvey with the seniors on this team, and they're 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.560 able to develop those habits even when they're not in camp, 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.120 and that is just an incredible way to bring the 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.000 best soccer to the Pacific Northwest. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.839 And for those who may have not followed these last 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.880 three games for the women's national team, they faced Japan 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.160 in three friendlies. It was in San Francisco, it was 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:51.800 here in Seattle, then it was in Denver. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:52.800 Three games. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.840 She brought all of the top players for these games, 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.920 and in two of those three games, Claudia Dickey, the 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.400 Seattle ring goalkeeper, was the United States starting goalkeeper. You 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.920 just read the tea leaves and I'm somebody who very 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.720 much tries to look in to you know, what coaches 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.200 are doing, you know, not saying and when I see 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:15.040 two or three games our keeper is their keeper, I'm saying, 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.360 all right, Claudia Dickie is in the driver's seat to 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.160 be the starting goalkeeper for not only probably the World 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.600 Cup next year, but then the Olympics. Theory, I mean, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.880 it's just the sky is the limit for Claudia Dickey. 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.720 It's gonna be very exciting in the years ahead for 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.240 all of the Rain players who are part of the 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.840 national team. Okay, that was such an amazing conversation. But 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.040 there is also a game tonight that we need to 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.800 talk about. Rain are here to face off against the 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.440 Utah Royals here again. The rain have started the season 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.920 three one in one in NWSL. Tonight is the sixth game. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.040 Tonight's the first game here at lumin Field for the 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.320 rain in twenty twenty six. We'll take a break, We'll 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.960 come back and get your set for Rain Royals. That 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.920 comes up next on Sports Radio nine to fifty KJR AM. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.080 It's Mike Congrin. My years of coaching taught me the 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.560 value of smart decisions. If you're looking for a great vehicle, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.640 Toyota of Kirkland makes that choice easy. 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Here as the sun is setting 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.360 on Lumenfield, it's a beautiful night for soccer in Seattle. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.720 Let's get to the starting lineup for your Seattle Rain 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.080 to night. Claudia Dicky goal Madison Curry is going to 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.680 be your right back, so Fia sorry, your left back, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.080 Sophia howertz A, You're right back. Emily Macy, Phoebe mcclernan 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.280 are your center backs. Sam Mesit, jefs Fischlock and Sally. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.480 Menti are your midfielders. And then your forwards. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:18.120 Maddie Mercado, Britney Ratcliffe and Coco Mandasier are those forwards. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.800 Stephanie Verdoya Jackson Feltz coming to you for tonight's game, Stephanie, 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.440 what are your keys to this match tonight's. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.880 Yeah, So it's going to be early success and early 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.280 pressure from the Rain. We heard it from Lara Harvey 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.400 earlier in the week. She talked about the press then 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.880 meaning to really disrupt how the Royals build out of 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.520 the back. To do that, they're going to put some 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.600 pressure on the keeper. They're going to fly numbers forward. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.480 If they're able to do that successfully early because this 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.560 Rain team has scored most of their goals in the 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.560 first half of their games. If they're able to do 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.920 that early, they set the stage. They're able to dictate 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:47.880 the pace of the game, and then they take away 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.840 some of that chaos that the Royals do live on. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.640 The Royals are a very fast paced transitional team. On 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.680 the flip side, if the Royals are able to kind 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.040 of get in behind the Rain as they're pressing high, 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.040 we might see some disruption from the Rain on. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:16:59.440 The other side. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.600 Let's get to our CBS team health report right now. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.119 Four players on the injury report. We have lynbian Dolo, 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.600 she's out on maternity leave, and then Jordan Bug has 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.200 a leg injury. She had a leg injury in February 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.840 and March. She's now out again. Sophia Sadenie out with 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.199 a leg injury, and Ruby Flodick also out with a 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.760 leg injury. We'll take one more break for the national anthem. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.800 We'll be back for kickoff. 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We have kwame Aplia on the sideline for 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.679 our broadcast tonight. Thank you so much for tuning us 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:48.320 in here on Sports Radio nine fifty KJR AM. We 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:53.640 appreciate your doing so as we begin this Rain schedule 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.480 here on radio for this year, we have but ten 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.080 games that are gonna be on radio throughout twenty twenty six, 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.960 this being the first of them, and we look forward 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.359 to taking you through this Rain season and bringing you 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:09.800 all of the hopeful victories for Laura Harvey's squad. Of course, 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:14.200 Laura Harvey one of the absolute legends in NWSL. The 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:18.080 English coach managed Arsenal a while ago. Her first stint 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.200 with the Rain from twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen. Of course, 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.840 had wild success with that NWSL Coach of the Year 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.479 in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen as the team soared 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:32.720 to enormous success, and then when it actually coached with 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.320 the team that Seattle is facing today, the Utah Royals, 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.479 spent a couple of years in Utah twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.280 and then returned to Seattle in twenty twenty one, and 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:47.760 today is Laura Harvey's two hundred and fiftieth game coaching 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:52.359 Seattle Rain. Stephanie, it's a mountain of a day for her. 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:54.960 She definitely kind of played that off in the conversations 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:59.080 before this game, but certainly for everybody to be able 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.000 to acknowledge and on her what a key person she 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.000 has been in all of Seattle soccer. 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:06.800 Yeah, I don't think it's you know, saying too much 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.439 to say that she is the most incredible coach in 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:10.960 the league. 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:12.560 I mean the most, she has, the most wins. 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.520 She now has two hundred and fifty under her belt 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:16.399 for one club. 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.520 I mean every club would kill to have. 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.520 That kind of longevity, that consistency that an amazing coach 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:25.520 can bring to a squad, to player development, to connections 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:29.080 throughout the youth system. I mean, she is it. It's 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.040 really hard to think I'm another coach that comes close 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.960 to her. But she deserves all the records, even though 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:35.760 she doesn't want to talk about it, even though she'll 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:37.880 push it onto the players, and that's what. 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:38.680 A great coach does. 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.160 But she has earned every bit of these two hundred 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:43.240 and fifty games that she's put forward for the Seattle Range. 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:46.800 She certainly does. We are just moments from getting this 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.800 game underway. The Rain entering today are off to a 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:53.600 pretty darn good start here in twenty twenty six. They're 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:57.040 tied coming into this match day with second place in 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.240 NWS Salis, we get this game starred Jeess Fishlock kicks 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.000 it back to Claudia Dicky, who will send this ball 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:08.280 long forward and we get this game underway here from 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:12.240 lumen Field. If you're just joining us here, we welcome 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:16.320 you to our first Seattle Rain broadcast for twenty twenty six. 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:20.159 If you are just turning into a soccer fan, with 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:22.240 of course the World Cup for the men this year 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:23.960 and for the World Cup for the women next year, 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.200 we welcome you to the beautiful game and we will 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:33.080 have this forty five minute first half and then Seattle Rain. 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:36.600 Of course, with a tremendous record here at lumen Field 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:40.200 over recent years, the team that has shifted their home 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:43.080 a few times us to play Memorial Stadium. As a 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.439 ball is a dangerous one into the box for Utah 0:23:46.480 --> 0:23:48.760 and a chance here for them to attack shot and 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:52.000 that is into the back of the net. Fifty one 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:56.520 seconds into this game Utah Royal score. We're just setting 0:23:56.600 --> 0:24:00.560 up the scene and Utah capitalized on a defensive mistake 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:04.280 at the back for Seattle and the Royals jump on 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:04.960 the rain early. 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:07.600 Stephanie, Yeah, and it seems really just like an unfortunate 0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:09.200 pass back there. There was a little bit of miss 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:12.480 miscommunication betweens whether or not Dickie was coming out or 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:15.199 Phoebe at mclernan with there was really winning back in 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:17.560 to get that ball in front of the Royals forward 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:19.520 and she gets on the other side of her and 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:22.040 is able to place a really well placed shot into 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.879 that back corner that backup er b and so for 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:26.600 our post, it's hard to defend there. 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:28.720 You know, Dicky probably couldn't have gone to it. 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:31.159 But really the thing that the Rain's going to come 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:32.640 back to you on that goal is how they gave 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:34.359 it away from their own back line. 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:38.200 Yeah, that is a tough giveaway inside the box, and 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.960 nothing Dicky can do on this shot is just extremely 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:45.520 extremely well placed there for the goal in the first 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:49.440 minute of this game. So here we go. The Rain 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:51.880 will be playing from one down and here's a ball 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:54.399 slipping on through trying to find an attacker here at 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:56.960 the start of this game. But Claudia Dicky in goal 0:24:57.080 --> 0:24:59.199 for the Rain. We'll send that one out and just 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:03.119 roll it out. And now you wonder, Stephanie, how the 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:06.720 Rain will play the first fifteen You we always talk about, 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:09.959 you know, setting themselves up in any soccer game and 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:13.680 taking that first fifteen minutes, you're getting your legs under you, 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:15.920 you know, and now you kind of maybe. 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:17.480 Have to change the strategy a little bit. 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:20.360 In advanced numbers for it is another big mistake here, 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:25.520 Claudia Dicky nearly giving the ball Awaity Utah right in 0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:28.480 front of her goal, but thankfully Seattle. 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:29.199 I would call it this one. 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:32.200 It's one of those things, Stephanie, where you can't make 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:35.200 the mistakes now because to nothing early in the game 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:37.399 puts you in extremely bad spot. 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:39.919 It really does, and especially because we saw that mistake 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:42.399 again just now from a thurn and trying to pass 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:44.639 back to Dickie too soft of a pass that was 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:46.240 easily able to be picked off. 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:47.560 You're looking for that. 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:49.760 Laura Harvey wants her team to respond one zero in 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:51.639 the first couple of minutes. That's nothing. We have a 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:53.480 ninety minute game to come back to. You saw her 0:25:53.520 --> 0:25:55.280 get up out of her chair. She started clapping to 0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:57.920 her team. She said, let's go now. What she doesn't 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:00.320 want to see is that exact same mistake made five 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:03.200 minutes later, which just happened. And the Royals, as people 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:05.439 have mentioned throughout the week, they are a team that 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:07.920 likes to cause chaos. They like to high press. We're 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:11.560 seeing that already. They're putting defenders under pressure. The Rain 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:13.600 need to be able to build through the game. They 0:26:13.600 --> 0:26:15.639 need to keep the ball. Dickey has it at her 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:17.400 feet now, she's able. 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:18.880 To swing it around this back line, and what they're 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:19.400 looking for. 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:20.720 Is to build out of the back and get this 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:23.520 away from their defensive end. Get it up to Fishlock, 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:25.320 get it to the ball to Fishlock, get it up 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:26.640 the field and she found. 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:28.520 Yeah, that's exactly what happened, where they get the ball 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:30.960 to Jeff Fishlock and she is found and she's down 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:34.560 now holding her lower back. And of course we haven't 0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:38.879 even mentioned on the broadcast yet. The major major news 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:42.280 with the Seattle Rain earlier this week the legend Jess Fishlock, 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:45.120 the person who has been here from the very very 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:48.240 start for Seattle Rain, the thirty nine year old from Wales. 0:26:48.760 --> 0:26:52.480 She announced earlier this week that this season will be 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:55.399 her last. Jeff Fishlock announced on Tuesdays she will retire 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:57.439 at the end of the year and there will be 0:26:57.840 --> 0:27:00.320 a Queen's Match on Friday, October second where you will 0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:00.880 be honored. 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:02.760 The announcemental also came. 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:05.879 Thirteen years to the day since her first rain goal 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:10.040 on April twenty first, twenty thirteen, and she is if 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:13.240 anybody can bring that calm, composure in confidence to this 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:16.080 team down one nothing early, it is Jeff Fishlock. 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:17.040 Absolutely and the intensity. 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:19.520 I have actually never practiced with a player more intense 0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:21.720 than Jeff Fishlock and she does it every day, and 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:24.120 so she is absolutely going to lead this team back 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:26.600 into getting into it, having them be on the front 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:27.480 foot of the pressure. 0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:30.800 Here's a giveaway Utah dribbing into the box, a chance 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:34.440 to shoot at goal, and it does take a deflection, 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:37.240 it will be gound for a Utah corner. Here in 0:27:37.280 --> 0:27:40.120 the fifth minutes, as the Royals are leading one to nothing, 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:42.080 let's go down on the sideline with a third member 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:42.800 of our crew today. 0:27:42.840 --> 0:27:48.199 Kwameapaya, Hey everybody. So today it's an energetic start to 0:27:48.240 --> 0:27:50.960 the game. Now it does seem like there's a little 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:53.040 bit of nerves, but that's okay. You know, it's first 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:55.840 game actually playing in movement for the year, and everybody's 0:27:55.880 --> 0:27:57.320 a little bit rouled up. So I think right now 0:27:57.320 --> 0:27:59.600 it's just about settling, getting into the game, getting into 0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:01.480 the tempo as we heard earlier. 0:28:01.520 --> 0:28:03.800 There's a lot of time on this clock. 0:28:03.600 --> 0:28:06.159 So it's just about managing it, getting in behind, shaking 0:28:06.200 --> 0:28:07.840 off the nerves. If we can get one or two 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:10.720 attacks in, I think we'll start really, really really getting 0:28:10.760 --> 0:28:11.200 into the game. 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:16.280 Well, here's Utah setting up for this corner right hand raised, 0:28:18.280 --> 0:28:21.159 and here comes the n swinger going to the towards 0:28:21.160 --> 0:28:25.800 the backpost, headed away by our Rain midfielder and it 0:28:25.840 --> 0:28:28.520 will still go out. But this will be another corner 0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:32.520 here in the southeast corner here of lumen Field and 0:28:32.680 --> 0:28:36.120 nice job there to clear the danger by Brittany Ratcliffe 0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:38.760 Afford for the Rain. As they will hold up play 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:44.600 for just a moment, we will see they were now 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:48.160 going to rule this corner here going to the other side, 0:28:48.680 --> 0:28:54.280 and an opportunity here for the Utah Royals again Rain 0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:57.880 in their search kids today in all blue Utah and 0:28:57.960 --> 0:29:01.920 yellowtops in dark blue bottoms for today's game. As they 0:29:02.000 --> 0:29:04.560 set up here for this inswinging corner, it will go 0:29:04.640 --> 0:29:06.520 towards the top of the box. Chance for the Ring 0:29:06.600 --> 0:29:08.960 to cut that out, but it stays with Utah. Shot 0:29:08.960 --> 0:29:11.480 from distance goes wide and it's into the back of 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:12.040 the net. 0:29:12.240 --> 0:29:14.440 From about twenty two yards out. 0:29:14.960 --> 0:29:20.000 That is an absolute screamer from n Narumi Mira who 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:25.760 gets a long distance goal pass Claudia Dicky. We'll get 0:29:25.800 --> 0:29:29.800 another look at this one. But now the Utah Royals 0:29:30.040 --> 0:29:32.960 have come into Seattle and they now have a two 0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:35.840 nothing lead six and a half minutes into this game. 0:29:36.760 --> 0:29:38.520 And again we talked about the pressure of the press 0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:40.240 from the attacking half, but what we're not seeing right 0:29:40.280 --> 0:29:41.959 now is actually the pressure defensively. 0:29:42.360 --> 0:29:44.960 This is a setback pass off of a corner kick. 0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:47.280 So not only were they unable to clear that first pass, 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:49.280 they missed the second one. They got it back to 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:51.600 a wide open player for the Royals top of the box, 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:54.320 able to just it does deflect. It's a really hard 0:29:54.360 --> 0:29:56.840 shot for Dicky to get to it, but I mean 0:29:56.880 --> 0:29:59.120 that player should not have that much time outside the eighteen. 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:00.920 Yeah, that was a shot that was going to be 0:30:01.000 --> 0:30:03.200 right at Claudia Dickie. But you can see here on 0:30:03.240 --> 0:30:07.640 the replay that Mira shot hits off of Jess Fishlock's 0:30:07.760 --> 0:30:12.920 arm and just goes slightly right and beats Claudia Dickie 0:30:12.960 --> 0:30:15.480 into the top right corner of that goal in the 0:30:15.520 --> 0:30:19.080 south end of lumen Field and Utah have this too 0:30:19.160 --> 0:30:21.680 nothing lead. But here is Fishlock now working into the box. 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:25.440 Utah are able to take this back. You know, we 0:30:25.480 --> 0:30:28.000 all talked about it, We've all mentioned it. One nothing 0:30:28.040 --> 0:30:29.880 early in this game. That's something you can come back from. 0:30:29.920 --> 0:30:32.160 Two nothing Now you might have to play more aggressive. 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:34.120 Utah trying to get up this right side, but it's 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:38.840 cut out well by the Rain. But a takeaway by 0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:41.840 Utah now will give the ball right back to the visitors. 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:46.880 In this series between Seattle and Utah in their history, 0:30:47.040 --> 0:30:49.719 it's the fifteenth all time game. The Reign have been 0:30:49.760 --> 0:30:52.800 dominant against Utah, nine to two and three against the 0:30:52.840 --> 0:30:57.680 Royals and all competitions. The Rain won recently against Utah 0:30:57.720 --> 0:30:59.600 in the final game of last season by a score 0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:03.400 of two to one in Seattle goals by McCammon and Huerta, 0:31:04.040 --> 0:31:05.400 and we were. 0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:07.280 Hoping for a similar result. 0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:09.800 But clearly it will be an uphill battle for the 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:13.280 Rain as two goals scored by Utah early in this one. 0:31:14.440 --> 0:31:16.240 Yeah, we still got a long game, you know, so 0:31:16.240 --> 0:31:17.240 we still have lots of time. 0:31:17.240 --> 0:31:18.600 And I think that's the hard thing is they just 0:31:18.640 --> 0:31:20.280 put themselves in a position that they're going to have 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:21.920 to climb out of it. And like we mentioned, the 0:31:22.000 --> 0:31:25.520 Royals are a team that really like to play transitional football. 0:31:25.560 --> 0:31:27.240 They like to pressure, they like to. 0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:29.560 Make you feel uncomfortable, and they are doing that so 0:31:29.680 --> 0:31:31.920 far and making the Rain feel like they can't just 0:31:31.960 --> 0:31:33.960 play the pace of the game that they want to play. 0:31:34.600 --> 0:31:35.600 They will have a free kick. 0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:38.760 Utah will just inside Seattle's half the field. They are 0:31:38.800 --> 0:31:41.640 setting up for what could be a header on goal. 0:31:41.680 --> 0:31:44.640 This will be a long free kick, so they take 0:31:44.680 --> 0:31:47.000 it short a little bit of a surprise. But now 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:49.360 the long ball into the box headed away and it 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:51.720 will be Coco Monas you're picking up the ball, Seattle 0:31:51.760 --> 0:31:54.760 Rain with numbers, can she advance? No, she can't pass 0:31:54.960 --> 0:31:57.560 and will just get tipped away and Utah will control 0:31:58.080 --> 0:31:59.560 and they will try to get going here on the 0:31:59.640 --> 0:32:04.120 right side I but Utah can't control it and give 0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:06.960 it right back to Seattle for a throw in here 0:32:07.080 --> 0:32:08.320 in Seattle's own half. 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:11.160 That some good work from sam Mezzo there to work 0:32:11.240 --> 0:32:13.440 back and slide tackle that ball away so they can 0:32:13.480 --> 0:32:14.320 maintain possession. 0:32:16.760 --> 0:32:19.400 Utah taking a throwing away, they will have possession and 0:32:19.440 --> 0:32:21.440 send it all the way back to their keeper. Mea 0:32:21.640 --> 0:32:27.880 justice an interesting situation for Utah's goalkeeper situation, as Mea 0:32:28.080 --> 0:32:30.840 Justice has been starting this entire season and she does 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:34.080 get the start today, but for falls called on the 0:32:34.080 --> 0:32:36.080 far side of the field, the Rain will have a 0:32:36.120 --> 0:32:39.720 free kick at that far side. It's interesting because Utah 0:32:39.720 --> 0:32:42.040 has been starting. Me A Justice, a twenty three year 0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:45.280 old goalkeeper from Ohio, was a recent national champion with 0:32:45.320 --> 0:32:48.280 Florida State. She was the backup going end of the year, 0:32:48.760 --> 0:32:52.480 but an injury to Utah's starting goalkeeper Mandy Mattie McGlenn, 0:32:53.120 --> 0:32:55.560 they thought that at some point she was going to 0:32:55.600 --> 0:32:57.800 return and regain that starting spot. She returns on the 0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:00.760 bench today, but they continue to go with me and 0:33:00.960 --> 0:33:03.560 Justice here in their starting lineup today, probably to give 0:33:03.800 --> 0:33:06.560 McGlenn just one more week or so before she regains 0:33:06.560 --> 0:33:08.760 her starting spot. As the Rain are in possession of 0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:11.280 working into Utah's half, trying to find fishlock, but it 0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:16.760 will be cut out and sent back to their goalkeeper Justice. 0:33:18.040 --> 0:33:20.800 Utah a good starts to twenty twenty six for them, 0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:24.440 two to two and one, a club that has not 0:33:24.640 --> 0:33:28.120 seen that much success in NWSL over the years. And 0:33:28.120 --> 0:33:29.880 now here's the Rain working into the box trying to 0:33:29.880 --> 0:33:30.880 find Fishlock again. 0:33:31.120 --> 0:33:32.280 A couple players go down. 0:33:32.320 --> 0:33:35.320 No foul called now a foul called, but called on Seattle, 0:33:35.640 --> 0:33:38.080 Utah will get a free kick from their own half. 0:33:41.440 --> 0:33:42.040 In Utah. 0:33:42.040 --> 0:33:45.360 This season here five games, they've scored six goals. Coming 0:33:45.360 --> 0:33:49.640 into the day, they've given up six goals. They've had 0:33:50.520 --> 0:33:53.960 a little bit of an inconsistent start. But this is 0:33:54.000 --> 0:33:57.760 a club that over the years has definitely struggled to 0:33:57.800 --> 0:34:03.160 get things going in terms of their playoff hopes. It's 0:34:03.160 --> 0:34:07.080 a club that folded and reformed a couple times with 0:34:07.200 --> 0:34:08.000 new ownership. 0:34:08.680 --> 0:34:12.200 Here as Utah, the new iteration of them. 0:34:11.280 --> 0:34:14.359 After their best start leave in club history is here. 0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:17.800 They come again into the Seattle half, chands to attack 0:34:17.840 --> 0:34:22.240 again to the middle of the park, so good pressure 0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:24.480 will force this ball all the way back. Jess Fishlock 0:34:24.800 --> 0:34:29.279 hanging out as the furthest ahead Seattle player. You know 0:34:29.360 --> 0:34:31.920 that she's going to want to be aggressive in this one. 0:34:32.280 --> 0:34:35.120 Down to nothing, early long ball into the box, headed 0:34:35.120 --> 0:34:37.640 away into the arms of Claudia Dickey, the Seattle rain 0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:40.160 goalkeeper will take this one in a moment to breathe. 0:34:40.200 --> 0:34:41.320 Here for the rain. 0:34:42.680 --> 0:34:43.600 And again for the rain. 0:34:43.680 --> 0:34:46.600 Right now, it is about them being able to actually 0:34:46.680 --> 0:34:48.640 take the ball through the thirds of the field. Right now, 0:34:48.680 --> 0:34:51.000 we have not seen them string together any passes in 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:53.000 that final third and that attacking third. They've given the 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:55.600 ball away multiple times from the back. And then even 0:34:55.640 --> 0:34:58.240 when they do get it forward into that attacking third, 0:34:58.440 --> 0:34:59.920 you know, closer to the goal where they want to 0:35:00.000 --> 0:35:02.399 score on, they're not able to fight through the kind 0:35:02.400 --> 0:35:04.399 of low block that the Royals are and the Royals 0:35:04.400 --> 0:35:06.480 are keeping their lines really tight. 0:35:06.320 --> 0:35:07.719 So they have a lot of players in front of 0:35:07.760 --> 0:35:09.640 the goal. Centrally, the rain. 0:35:11.120 --> 0:35:12.000 Give it back again. 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:14.960 Here is Utah in the Seattle half, fall out here 0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:18.319 to the right side, chance for Tanaka and company to 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:22.160 get forward into the box, finding that it tipped away. 0:35:22.800 --> 0:35:24.840 A nice job there by the rain to get in 0:35:24.880 --> 0:35:27.000 the way of that one, and they will earn a 0:35:27.040 --> 0:35:30.399 free kick after a foul. But again, it's it's these 0:35:30.440 --> 0:35:33.439 giveaways on the defensive end, Stephanie, that you just got 0:35:33.440 --> 0:35:35.560 to clean up this play. It's it's almost a little 0:35:35.560 --> 0:35:41.800 bit as a yellow card is given as well. 0:35:39.600 --> 0:35:41.200 To a Utah player. 0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:43.520 I believe that's on Itsahata who gets that yellow card 0:35:43.560 --> 0:35:46.319 for Utah here yet just going right into the back 0:35:46.520 --> 0:35:51.560 of Brittany Ratcliffe for this Rain free kick. It's interesting 0:35:51.560 --> 0:35:54.680 because you know, last night in the Seattle Sounders game 0:35:54.719 --> 0:35:57.959 against Dallas, Dallas started very strong in the first twelve minutes. 0:35:58.000 --> 0:36:01.520 They didn't score, but it was very much a you know, 0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:03.759 momentum was all going one way and you just needed 0:36:03.760 --> 0:36:07.120 that calmness and that confidence and a goal to change 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:07.439 the game. 0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:09.319 And right now the Rain need that goal. 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:11.560 They need that calmness, they need that confidence. As we 0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:14.040 are getting a slight break in the play here and 0:36:14.080 --> 0:36:17.440 it's actually Claudia Dickie getting some work done on her 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:20.600 right ankle. It looks like right foot as a trainer 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:22.279 is out taking care of her. 0:36:22.680 --> 0:36:25.240 Not something you want to see here early in this game. 0:36:26.480 --> 0:36:28.960 Yeah, definitely not. I mean, the keeper is such a 0:36:29.000 --> 0:36:30.680 hard position to switch in and out. We are just 0:36:30.680 --> 0:36:32.640 talking about that on the flip side. For the Royals, 0:36:32.680 --> 0:36:34.840 you want, I mean, especially Dickie. You know, she's played. 0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:37.239 I believe she is the only NWSL keeper that has 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:40.000 played every minute so far this year, and so having 0:36:40.040 --> 0:36:43.120 her in is clearly a source of strength consistency for 0:36:43.280 --> 0:36:45.000 this back line. And in a game right now, when 0:36:45.040 --> 0:36:46.759 you're down to zero, you do not want to lose 0:36:46.760 --> 0:36:48.640 that this early, Yeah, one more. 0:36:48.440 --> 0:36:51.719 Goal would be disastrous, so you need to make sure 0:36:51.760 --> 0:36:54.160 you have your best players available and out there is 0:36:55.080 --> 0:36:57.920 Dicky is now back up from the trainer and she 0:36:58.120 --> 0:37:03.040 is walking forward and looks okay. Interestingly enough, the rain 0:37:03.200 --> 0:37:06.720 backup goalkeeper today available off the bench is Cassie Miller. 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:14.600 Cassie Miller who was just brought off the injury list. 0:37:15.880 --> 0:37:18.239 She is back available for the Rain now for the 0:37:18.239 --> 0:37:20.840 first time in a while. But it is Claudia Dickie 0:37:20.920 --> 0:37:24.680 still available in goal and she will send this one 0:37:24.800 --> 0:37:27.200 a long way forward trying to find Ratcliffe here coming 0:37:27.239 --> 0:37:29.960 in from that left side, but is picked up by 0:37:30.080 --> 0:37:32.720 Utah and they will be able to advance numbers forward 0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:35.440 in this transition game. Trying to get a ball deep 0:37:35.480 --> 0:37:37.759 in here is Pelasios getting on the end of that 0:37:37.760 --> 0:37:40.200 one in the box has some help and Plasio's find 0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:42.880 some help she can, but it's a great job getting 0:37:42.880 --> 0:37:44.880 in the way of that one. I believe it's Emily 0:37:44.920 --> 0:37:47.719 Mason tracking back and getting in the way just enough 0:37:47.960 --> 0:37:51.799 to put it into Claudia Dickie's arms, and that will 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:55.440 have the ball at Claudia Dicky's feet. Here in the 0:37:55.480 --> 0:37:58.520 fifteenth minutes, Utah Royals with the early two to nothing 0:37:58.640 --> 0:38:00.000 lead here over the rain at lumin feet. 0:38:00.800 --> 0:38:03.840 You know, Plasios is really causing some concern for that 0:38:03.880 --> 0:38:06.600 Seattle Ran backline. She's doing a ton of diagonal runs 0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:09.239 through those two center backs, which is really hard for 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:11.520 those two players to track. So McClaren needs to do 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:13.720 a little bit of a better job of making sure 0:38:13.920 --> 0:38:16.399 that she can't get on the end of those long 0:38:16.440 --> 0:38:18.640 balls that the Royals are trying to find her right 0:38:18.680 --> 0:38:20.120 now in behind the back line. 0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:22.319 Right now, the ball is bouncing around in the middle 0:38:22.360 --> 0:38:24.160 of the park. You saw controlling let's go down on 0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:25.400 the sideline with Kwami. 0:38:26.880 --> 0:38:29.719 So it looks like Seattle is definitely getting a bit 0:38:29.719 --> 0:38:32.960 more into the game. As a statistic that's very, very 0:38:33.000 --> 0:38:36.080 commonly overlooked is how often there are off sides in 0:38:36.120 --> 0:38:37.799 the game. When they are off side for a team, 0:38:37.840 --> 0:38:40.480 it means that the team is feeling adventurous, they are attacking, 0:38:40.719 --> 0:38:43.680 they're pressing, and that's actually a good sign. Last year, 0:38:43.719 --> 0:38:46.480 throughout the entire season, Seattle was sitting in about less 0:38:46.760 --> 0:38:49.520 than you know, maybe like one, maybe a little bit 0:38:49.520 --> 0:38:51.799 over one in terms of off side each game. This year, 0:38:51.800 --> 0:38:53.279 they're seeing it about one and a half each game. 0:38:53.320 --> 0:38:55.839 Beich means they're adventures, they're moving, they're pressing forward, and 0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:57.359 that's what we're going to need from them today. And 0:38:57.640 --> 0:38:59.880 just speaking to coach yesterday, her thoughts were, Hey, we 0:39:00.200 --> 0:39:02.959 are able to attack from the flanks. We're bringing every 0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:05.880 player forward, We're moving in unison and that's what we're 0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:07.040 hoping to see from them right now. 0:39:07.120 --> 0:39:09.040 And Kwamei, we're seeing that in the forum right now. 0:39:09.040 --> 0:39:11.120 Whereas the Rain held the ball in their own half, 0:39:11.160 --> 0:39:13.880 you almost saw a formation that was almost looking like 0:39:14.160 --> 0:39:16.680 a four too four Stephanie, where you had your normal 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:18.960 four in the back. You have Sally Menti and Sam Mezzi, 0:39:19.000 --> 0:39:22.400 those midfielders, but the all four of Coco Mondasse or 0:39:22.440 --> 0:39:25.919 Maddie Mercado, Jeff Fishlock and Ritty Radcliffe are all right 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:28.319 there at the top trying to put pressure, trying to 0:39:28.320 --> 0:39:29.279 get that attack going. 0:39:29.480 --> 0:39:31.799 Does the Rain need two goals to equalize? 0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:34.360 Yeah, And Coach Harvey Flagg that for us earlier in 0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:36.400 the week. She said, we want to put them under pressure, 0:39:36.440 --> 0:39:38.239 so she's putting some of the I'm Ritty Radcliffe is 0:39:38.280 --> 0:39:40.839 an incredibly quick player. She's very dynamic, so she wants 0:39:40.840 --> 0:39:43.880 to put Fishlock up there to direct it. But Mondaser 0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:46.080 and Ratcliff, those players up there are going to bring 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:48.399 the energy that they need to stay in this game. 0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:50.720 And again we haven't seen it yet. We haven't seen 0:39:51.080 --> 0:39:53.280 the Royals under pressure much. Right now, they're just swinging 0:39:53.280 --> 0:39:55.920 it behind their back line without too much you know, 0:39:56.280 --> 0:39:57.480 urgency to go forward. 0:39:57.480 --> 0:39:59.160 And so what they need to start doing. 0:39:59.000 --> 0:40:02.120 Is open to give away Coco montas here chance right 0:40:02.160 --> 0:40:04.640 in front of the box to take a shot. She hesitates, 0:40:04.760 --> 0:40:06.840 now passes it off to the right. Huerta crosses it 0:40:06.880 --> 0:40:09.080 in the back post. Oh just over the head of 0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:12.080 Britney Ratcliffe, who is running at the back post, had 0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:14.040 a chance to put it into the back of the net. 0:40:14.160 --> 0:40:16.480 It was a great cross from where to, but just 0:40:16.560 --> 0:40:18.200 about a foot too high for Brittany. 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:20.759 It was fantastic. It's actually exactly what I was saying 0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:22.160 we need to see more of. So maybe I get 0:40:22.200 --> 0:40:24.360 a little credit there now. But Manda here picks this 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:27.399 ball off from the goalkeeper. She's able to look pick 0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:29.120 her head up where to, does a great job to 0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:31.719 get forward and Ratcliffe is actually alone in the back post. 0:40:31.760 --> 0:40:32.880 That just messes that header. 0:40:32.920 --> 0:40:35.360 You'd love to see, you know, Manda Ser pick that 0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:38.080 ball up and understand that me and Justice is way 0:40:38.080 --> 0:40:39.960 out of position and just put it right at the 0:40:39.960 --> 0:40:42.680 goal first time. But she did hesitate for that one 0:40:42.760 --> 0:40:45.840 moment and that hesitation forced her to go out wide. 0:40:45.960 --> 0:40:48.560 But that was a big chance. And here's another pickoff 0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:52.000 Rain with numbers to four on two. Here's Ratcliffe on 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:54.560 the left, has a lot of options crossing it and 0:40:54.560 --> 0:40:58.279 it's a great defensive play by Utah Royal defender. I 0:40:58.320 --> 0:41:01.239 believe that was Kaylee Real tracking back and getting in 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:04.920 the way of that one. Great job by Utah's defense 0:41:05.160 --> 0:41:07.960 on a four on two to not let the Rain 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:09.359 get that opportunity on goal. 0:41:10.080 --> 0:41:12.839 Yeah, and that's the transitional soccer that the Royals are 0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:14.799 quite good at. Like you said, They're able to get 0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:18.480 back into position here with only two players and maybe 0:41:18.560 --> 0:41:21.320 out four players for the Rain flying forward towards the 0:41:21.360 --> 0:41:23.640 goal and able to prevent anything coming on frame. 0:41:24.400 --> 0:41:29.160 That was a great defensive play for Utah and it 0:41:29.200 --> 0:41:33.360 actually was pulled back moments later for off side, So 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:36.600 even if that had ended up being a goal, that 0:41:36.600 --> 0:41:41.719 would not have counted just offside. Was Britney Ratcliffe on 0:41:41.760 --> 0:41:45.080 that initial ball after the giveaway. But that is the 0:41:45.200 --> 0:41:47.440 kind of attack and that is kind of the movement 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:50.120 that you need to see from Seattle down to nothing. 0:41:50.160 --> 0:41:52.680 Here in the nineteenth minute, here's another giveaway. Now the 0:41:52.800 --> 0:41:55.240 rain working on this right side ball towards the middle. 0:41:55.400 --> 0:41:59.080 Mercaddo has options to Ratcliffe into the box Golkie Rata 0:41:59.160 --> 0:42:01.680 position and the Kalki. It makes a great save mea 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:06.480 justice ball right towards her. She ables able to bring 0:42:06.520 --> 0:42:08.719 it down right into her chest out of the air 0:42:09.520 --> 0:42:14.360 and again keep the rain off the score sheet. But again, Stephanie, 0:42:14.440 --> 0:42:16.279 this is what wedn't want to see from the rain, 0:42:16.360 --> 0:42:19.080 these kinds of opportunities, this kind of attack. We're seeing 0:42:19.080 --> 0:42:20.680 it more in the last four or five minutes. 0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:22.960 Absolutely, that's multiple keeper giveaways. 0:42:23.000 --> 0:42:25.359 We picked it off and then flown down the field 0:42:25.400 --> 0:42:26.480 with numbers very quickly. 0:42:26.600 --> 0:42:29.600 Oh no, here comes Utah back. It's a one on one. 0:42:29.840 --> 0:42:31.880 Can mcclernin getting the way of that one shot and 0:42:31.920 --> 0:42:34.719 it's blocked off. Mcclurnin's shoulder is not going to be 0:42:34.719 --> 0:42:36.799 a handball, not even asking for it. It will go 0:42:36.840 --> 0:42:41.000 out for a Utah throw in. But a big opportunity again, 0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:44.440 and it's the person you talked about, Keana Plasio's getting 0:42:44.480 --> 0:42:47.200 that space going one on one, and it takes a 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:50.240 great play for mcclernan to just pressure her a little 0:42:50.280 --> 0:42:53.440 bit enough to cause her to hesitate and block that shot. 0:42:53.560 --> 0:42:56.480 Yeah, Palacios is a very quick, very technical forward. You 0:42:56.480 --> 0:42:58.680 can tell she's getting in behind and has the composure 0:42:58.719 --> 0:43:00.759 to keep them all. So we're pretty lucky there that 0:43:00.840 --> 0:43:02.960 mclariney was able to step in and stop that shot. 0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:05.839 And now we have a corner coming for USA. As 0:43:05.880 --> 0:43:10.359 the throw in was hit out by Maddison Curry who 0:43:10.360 --> 0:43:13.200 got in the way of that throw in. Utah will 0:43:13.200 --> 0:43:15.959 be able to set up again here. It wasn't long 0:43:16.000 --> 0:43:18.799 ago that a corner was taken all the way back 0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:20.919 out at the top of the box, bounced back out 0:43:21.400 --> 0:43:26.120 and from distance it was Mira with a long, long 0:43:26.160 --> 0:43:29.680 distance goal that was redirected off the shoulder of Jess 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:33.400 Fishlock Utah leading this two to nothing here in the 0:43:33.400 --> 0:43:36.680 twenty first minute at Loomin field. And this will be 0:43:36.680 --> 0:43:41.080 an end swinging corner from the southwest corner here, both 0:43:41.120 --> 0:43:46.640 hands raised and it's taken short and back to it. 0:43:46.680 --> 0:43:48.719 Here comes a cross coming in, but it's cleared away 0:43:48.760 --> 0:43:51.600 again and this will go out for another corner here 0:43:51.840 --> 0:43:55.640 for Utah in the. 0:43:55.600 --> 0:43:56.880 Corner taking these kises. 0:43:57.440 --> 0:44:00.640 Maria Rabano, an ankle injury has kept her out for 0:44:00.800 --> 0:44:03.400 the entire twenty twenty six seasons so far. This is 0:44:03.440 --> 0:44:07.440 her first game and she is the regular corner kickticker 0:44:07.640 --> 0:44:08.600 for Utah. 0:44:08.640 --> 0:44:11.160 Both hands raised again. Will she go short again? 0:44:11.160 --> 0:44:13.120 If you know, she will go long towards the middle 0:44:13.120 --> 0:44:17.160 of the gold Claudia Dickie jumps foal called so into 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:20.000 the arms of Dicky and she will be able to 0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:23.320 have though a free kick from right inside of her box. 0:44:24.160 --> 0:44:27.200 And you know Dickie's gray on crosses cornerkicks. She comes 0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:30.200 out with such confidence. We've heard Laura Harvey talk about it, 0:44:30.480 --> 0:44:33.279 and Emma Hayes even mentioned it. Just that confidence and 0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:35.839 that power that she comes out with to grab the ball. 0:44:35.880 --> 0:44:37.839 She's done it on the corner kick, just that moment 0:44:37.880 --> 0:44:40.759 where she actually received contact and still was able to 0:44:40.800 --> 0:44:43.560 gain it game possession for the rain back you mentioned 0:44:43.600 --> 0:44:44.200 Emma Hayes. 0:44:44.200 --> 0:44:46.280 If you're just joining us as listening to the Seattle 0:44:46.400 --> 0:44:49.360 Rain on radio, we are here now on radio for 0:44:49.400 --> 0:44:52.480 about ten games here in twenty twenty six, this being 0:44:52.760 --> 0:44:54.879 the first of those games here from lumen Field. 0:44:55.200 --> 0:44:56.520 We thank you for joining us. 0:44:56.960 --> 0:44:59.479 Earlier in our pregame show we had the United States 0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:02.160 womens now national team coach Emma Hayes in the booth 0:45:02.160 --> 0:45:02.480 with us. 0:45:02.480 --> 0:45:03.959 She is here today. 0:45:03.719 --> 0:45:06.839 Watching many many players who are part of the United 0:45:06.880 --> 0:45:10.400 States women's national team system. This is a team in 0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:14.680 Seattle that has a large, large number of the United 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:18.440 States women's players senior team debuts earlier this year for 0:45:18.600 --> 0:45:22.799 bug Mezza, Dalene Menti. Of course Claudia Dicky is there, 0:45:23.160 --> 0:45:25.279 I would say at this point starting goalkeeper for the 0:45:25.360 --> 0:45:28.080 United States women's national team, and a bunch of players 0:45:28.200 --> 0:45:30.919 coming up for the U system as well on the Rain. 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:35.600 So Ema Hayes here to watch not ten different players 0:45:35.719 --> 0:45:39.719 who feature in the United States women's system and who 0:45:39.719 --> 0:45:43.399 will feature today for the Rain hopefully in what will 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:46.520 be a comeback win as they are down to nothing. 0:45:46.680 --> 0:45:49.000 It's a long ball. Here on the left is Madison 0:45:49.000 --> 0:45:51.040 Curry on side. I believe she is staying on side. 0:45:51.040 --> 0:45:53.440 She gets to it here in this corner, picks the 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:55.680 ball up, has a lot of options to cross it. 0:45:55.719 --> 0:45:57.400 She crosses it. Towards the top of the box, but 0:45:57.480 --> 0:46:00.400 it's headed away by a Utah forward pick up by 0:46:00.440 --> 0:46:02.760 the rain. They will stay with possession here with mclernan 0:46:04.040 --> 0:46:05.759 trying to find some space and she finds it with 0:46:05.800 --> 0:46:10.680 Curry now on the left, here is Ratcliffe tracking back 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:13.439 trying to create some space. But Utah take this ball 0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:15.600 away to the middle of the park here as they 0:46:16.160 --> 0:46:17.680 now have possession of this ball. 0:46:20.440 --> 0:46:22.719 And again when we're looking at the press from the rain, 0:46:23.000 --> 0:46:25.200 they really have to decide when they want to do that. 0:46:25.400 --> 0:46:28.040 So in soccer you look for your line of confrontation, 0:46:28.120 --> 0:46:30.640 which oftentimes means when does the player actually start to 0:46:30.680 --> 0:46:32.719 press the ball? Is it at half line? Is it 0:46:32.719 --> 0:46:34.319 when the keeper has it? And we just saw Jeff 0:46:34.400 --> 0:46:37.960 Fishlock pressing keeper Justice there and it's really important when 0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:39.879 do we go because that is an aggressive press there 0:46:39.920 --> 0:46:40.960 from Fishlock. 0:46:40.600 --> 0:46:42.480 And she did press and she forces a ball that 0:46:42.560 --> 0:46:45.160 goes out for a rain thrown about ten yards from 0:46:45.200 --> 0:46:45.600 the end line. 0:46:45.600 --> 0:46:47.880 It's going to be Curry taking this on the throw in. 0:46:48.640 --> 0:46:52.240 At pressure from Jess Fishlock or the rain. This chance, 0:46:52.239 --> 0:46:54.840 we'll see how long they can execute this throw and 0:46:54.840 --> 0:46:57.440 it goes short to Fishlock. Now cross coming towards the 0:46:57.480 --> 0:46:59.480 top of the box for Cocoa mandasy or pops back 0:46:59.480 --> 0:47:00.719 out at different. 0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:02.760 Distance, create some space on our left foot. 0:47:03.000 --> 0:47:07.680 Utah is able to step in and tip that one away. 0:47:08.440 --> 0:47:10.680 They will be mclernan running that down and earning it 0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:13.879 throwing for seattle here at ten yards from the half 0:47:14.360 --> 0:47:19.280 point of blomen field. They need to keep this pressure 0:47:19.360 --> 0:47:23.600 up here. There's a curry to throw this ball in 0:47:24.600 --> 0:47:29.759 which will go long and it's out for Nope, not 0:47:29.800 --> 0:47:31.560 a throw in. Look like that ball went out, not 0:47:31.680 --> 0:47:33.400 called rain. Will keep this ball. 0:47:33.280 --> 0:47:35.000 Now, sending it for the changing the point of it 0:47:35.080 --> 0:47:35.960 back to this right side. 0:47:35.960 --> 0:47:38.520 You're just aware to working on a defender up the 0:47:38.520 --> 0:47:41.040 field of Monastery and the box chance to cross goes 0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:44.080 in and it's a shot that has quickly tipped away. 0:47:44.200 --> 0:47:46.960 Utah getting in the way of that one. The Cocoa 0:47:47.000 --> 0:47:50.400 monaster stays with it and that shot across right across 0:47:50.400 --> 0:47:52.120 the face of bowl. But a great job by me 0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:55.040 and Justice the goalkeeper from Utah to just take that 0:47:55.080 --> 0:47:57.160 one away and not let that get to Ratcliff at 0:47:57.160 --> 0:47:57.800 the back post. 0:47:58.160 --> 0:47:59.799 Yeah, and that's gonna be something on the rains wan 0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:02.799 On Mack Maddie mccratto actually had a ball right at 0:48:02.840 --> 0:48:04.920 her feet on the six yard line and there the 0:48:04.960 --> 0:48:07.560 ball comes directly across and she is just not able 0:48:07.600 --> 0:48:09.960 to connect with it. It looks like maybe the defender 0:48:10.000 --> 0:48:13.080 brought there as well. But Mercado, in good positioning, really 0:48:13.080 --> 0:48:13.960 should have put that away. 0:48:15.320 --> 0:48:19.520 To opportunities. Need to cash him in. Down to nothing 0:48:19.520 --> 0:48:22.439 here in the twenty sixth minutes, But Seattle has been 0:48:22.440 --> 0:48:25.880 creating these opportunities for the last fifteen minutes or so. 0:48:25.960 --> 0:48:28.720 The tide has turned. The momentum is there for Seattle. 0:48:28.719 --> 0:48:32.560 The pressure is on with that foursome up top of 0:48:32.640 --> 0:48:37.440 four attackers with Manda, Seer, Mircado, Fishlock and Ratcliffe. If 0:48:37.480 --> 0:48:41.240 you saw now having it on their left, now working 0:48:41.280 --> 0:48:43.279 through the middle of the park, changing the point of 0:48:43.280 --> 0:48:46.000 attack to the right, here's Thompson. 0:48:46.560 --> 0:48:47.480 That ball goes. 0:48:47.280 --> 0:48:50.520 Out for a rain throwing right in front. 0:48:50.760 --> 0:48:52.160 Of head coach Laura Harvey. 0:48:52.840 --> 0:48:56.920 In these moments, Laura Harvey, we talked about her one 0:48:56.960 --> 0:49:00.279 of the greatest coaches in this league's history. This will 0:49:00.320 --> 0:49:02.040 certainly be a test for her today in her two 0:49:02.160 --> 0:49:06.080 hundred and fiftieth game coaching Seattle Rain to fight back 0:49:06.120 --> 0:49:07.799 with this one. Yeah. 0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:09.600 One of my favorite things about watching Laura Harvey is 0:49:09.640 --> 0:49:11.439 you can really tell how she feels about the game. 0:49:11.440 --> 0:49:14.080 When she's on the sideline, she's up, she's yelling. If 0:49:14.080 --> 0:49:14.920 her team's doing. 0:49:14.719 --> 0:49:16.400 Well, maybe she's sitting for a little bit. 0:49:16.520 --> 0:49:18.839 But after they scored that second goal, she was up, 0:49:19.000 --> 0:49:21.399 jacket off, she was yelling at her team to get 0:49:21.400 --> 0:49:21.759 back in this. 0:49:21.800 --> 0:49:23.400 And that's one of the best things about her as a. 0:49:23.440 --> 0:49:26.120 Coach is that the energy she brings to her players 0:49:26.160 --> 0:49:28.040 on the field Rain with it. 0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:33.839 Here is Sam Mezza working in this midfield and trying 0:49:33.840 --> 0:49:36.640 to earn some space, but it's Utah pressuring right now, 0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:41.120 really pressing that Seattle Rain back line, trying to find 0:49:41.160 --> 0:49:45.640 some space forward and it's Mezza. We'll see, but it 0:49:45.800 --> 0:49:48.480 will be out for a Utah throw. And you know, 0:49:48.560 --> 0:49:52.600 it's funny you talk about how involved Laura Harvey is 0:49:52.640 --> 0:49:54.120 when it comes to I remember we had a game 0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:56.400 last year we were doing a broadcast for I believe 0:49:56.440 --> 0:49:59.960 it was a in Chicago where the Rain we're leading 0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:02.759 a match two nothing or three nothing. I think it 0:50:02.800 --> 0:50:05.960 was three nothing. Yeah, And even with a three nothing lead, 0:50:06.080 --> 0:50:08.719 she was so involved and she was still yelling What 0:50:09.200 --> 0:50:12.640 ended up happening was Chicago scored three goals in the 0:50:12.719 --> 0:50:16.000 last twenty minutes to force a three to three draw. 0:50:16.400 --> 0:50:20.560 Very demoralizing, but it was interesting to watch Laura Harvey's demeanor. 0:50:20.880 --> 0:50:23.520 It didn't change too much. Yeah, from down three nothing 0:50:23.920 --> 0:50:26.000 to a three to two, from up three nothing to 0:50:26.040 --> 0:50:29.280 a three to two game. She stayed involved in intense 0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:32.920 the entire way through, as Rain trying to find fishlock 0:50:32.960 --> 0:50:36.040 with a long ball and it will be Ratcliffe picking 0:50:36.040 --> 0:50:36.520 this one out. 0:50:36.520 --> 0:50:37.960 Still in possession are the Rain. 0:50:38.840 --> 0:50:40.560 Yeah, it's one of the most fun things about Laura. 0:50:40.600 --> 0:50:43.080 I mean, I remember being so jealous when I played 0:50:43.080 --> 0:50:46.080 with Boston and we were playing Seattle. At anytime Seattle scored, 0:50:46.160 --> 0:50:49.400 the players would rush to Laura on the sidelines, and 0:50:49.480 --> 0:50:51.200 I just what is the better sign that you were 0:50:51.200 --> 0:50:52.879 doing your job as a coach That the players want 0:50:52.920 --> 0:50:55.560 to celebrate with you, not just each other, They want 0:50:55.600 --> 0:50:57.360 to celebrate with you. And I think that speaks to 0:50:57.880 --> 0:51:00.360 you know, her time here at the club, but how 0:51:00.440 --> 0:51:02.319 she cares about these players as people as well. 0:51:03.239 --> 0:51:06.080 Rain with possession now switching off onto this right side 0:51:06.080 --> 0:51:09.400 with bondaser As Squerta has a lot of space Bndess 0:51:09.440 --> 0:51:12.120 is dribbling forward, but a Utah defender comes out of 0:51:12.160 --> 0:51:15.280 nowhere to take that ball away and we'll earn possession 0:51:15.280 --> 0:51:17.440 for the Royals. Now they have a chance to perhaps counter, 0:51:17.800 --> 0:51:18.360 but that's. 0:51:18.160 --> 0:51:19.640 A giveaway into the middle of the park. 0:51:20.280 --> 0:51:23.400 It's mezzen Mente in that middle of the field getting 0:51:23.440 --> 0:51:26.279 in the way of a pass and earning possession back 0:51:26.320 --> 0:51:33.080 for the Rain onto this left side. The pass just 0:51:33.120 --> 0:51:34.399 too far Utah. 0:51:34.440 --> 0:51:35.920 I was able to get in the way of that 0:51:35.960 --> 0:51:36.399 one and just. 0:51:36.360 --> 0:51:38.719 Clear back all the way to Claudia Dickie in goal 0:51:38.800 --> 0:51:44.759 for Seattle. Now it's bond Acre on the right for 0:51:44.840 --> 0:51:50.120 the Rain. Quertza tipped away but off of Florida's foot, 0:51:50.200 --> 0:51:53.040 we'll go for a Utah throwing. And you also wonder 0:51:53.080 --> 0:51:55.520 step how much we're gonna see a little bit of 0:51:55.800 --> 0:51:58.720 time wasting now for a Utah team on the road, 0:51:58.960 --> 0:52:01.200 they're obviously aft to a decent start here in twenty 0:52:01.239 --> 0:52:05.279 twenty six, chance to win a place that they rarely win. 0:52:05.360 --> 0:52:07.880 I mean, you look at again their record against Seattle. 0:52:08.440 --> 0:52:11.520 They're they only have two wins. They have their two 0:52:11.760 --> 0:52:14.600 nine to three against the Rain. This would be a 0:52:15.000 --> 0:52:18.600 massive win for them early in this season and leading 0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:21.439 to nothing here sixty minutes to go in this game, 0:52:22.280 --> 0:52:23.920 you wonder how much they may be able to just 0:52:24.000 --> 0:52:25.399 kind of click keep away a little bit. 0:52:25.600 --> 0:52:26.920 Yeah, I mean time wasting. 0:52:27.000 --> 0:52:29.279 I think it's a little too early for but absolutely 0:52:29.320 --> 0:52:31.759 focusing on just keeping the ball and not giving up 0:52:31.800 --> 0:52:34.480 too much, not sending numbers for it as much as 0:52:34.480 --> 0:52:35.120 they were before. 0:52:35.160 --> 0:52:36.920 Because they have that cushion with the. 0:52:36.920 --> 0:52:40.160 Two zero lead, Thompson crosses it and headed. It's a 0:52:40.200 --> 0:52:44.640 good piece. Oh it's actually a poor header there. It 0:52:44.680 --> 0:52:48.040 was those Kronin getting towards that ball and it looked 0:52:48.200 --> 0:52:50.279 firstly it could have been good defending by mclernan, but 0:52:50.600 --> 0:52:52.360 just a poor header there from Cronin. 0:52:52.520 --> 0:52:54.400 Is out for a goal kick here in the thirtieth 0:52:54.400 --> 0:52:55.000 minute go ahead. 0:52:55.520 --> 0:52:58.200 Yeah no, And I think you know these teams are 0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:00.279 coming off a three week break. We also I haven't 0:53:00.280 --> 0:53:02.840 mentioned that, you know, there's game fitness that you actually 0:53:02.880 --> 0:53:05.360 can lose kind of quickly without having those games in 0:53:05.360 --> 0:53:06.000 those couple times. 0:53:06.040 --> 0:53:06.560 So you're right. 0:53:06.719 --> 0:53:09.839 Utah Royals team traveling playing in Lumen for the first time, 0:53:09.880 --> 0:53:12.600 as as the rain are with the fast grass, they 0:53:12.640 --> 0:53:14.600 got to conserve their energy fall out to. 0:53:14.520 --> 0:53:16.960 The right here here's called Gomantasir chance to cross it in, 0:53:17.200 --> 0:53:19.440 cross it to the back post. Ratcliffe cut out well, 0:53:19.480 --> 0:53:21.960 but to Fishlock. Fishlock cuts on her leg, shut off 0:53:22.000 --> 0:53:25.799 the post, goes off the bar for Jess Fishlock, but 0:53:25.840 --> 0:53:28.080 it stays with the rain. Mandasier still has it on 0:53:28.120 --> 0:53:30.440 the right trying to get into that assist zone and 0:53:30.480 --> 0:53:32.640 it will go out. That is going to be out 0:53:32.680 --> 0:53:36.280 for a goal kick here in the thirty first minute. 0:53:36.320 --> 0:53:39.759 But a big chance there for Jess Fishlock that just 0:53:39.840 --> 0:53:40.919 went off the bar. 0:53:43.080 --> 0:53:45.160 Yeah, and again Mandasire is doing a great job of 0:53:45.200 --> 0:53:47.920 getting high and wide on that right side. She's very 0:53:47.960 --> 0:53:49.640 quick with the ball. This is the second time she's 0:53:49.640 --> 0:53:52.319 sent in a very dangerous cross. It popped back out 0:53:52.320 --> 0:53:55.680 to Fishlock. The composure Jefs Fishlock has in the eighteen 0:53:55.719 --> 0:53:58.680 yard box is probably not comparable in this league. She 0:53:58.760 --> 0:54:01.040 is able to with two defender on her there, take 0:54:01.040 --> 0:54:04.680 a small touch across her body and she's man the crossbar. 0:54:04.840 --> 0:54:08.959 That left foot just off the crossbar. Such a good 0:54:09.040 --> 0:54:11.959 shot and it's, you know, one of those things. There's 0:54:11.960 --> 0:54:14.480 some cheers here in the stands for the United States 0:54:14.520 --> 0:54:17.399 women's national team head coach Emma Hayes. We talked about 0:54:17.400 --> 0:54:20.640 a few minutes ago, some big cheers here coming in 0:54:21.000 --> 0:54:24.360 at loumen Field from the large crowd here in attendance 0:54:24.719 --> 0:54:27.760 on the eastern side of Lewinfield. You know what we've seen, 0:54:27.840 --> 0:54:30.719 I think over these last twenty minutes, Steph, is the 0:54:30.760 --> 0:54:34.800 fact that this is a Rain attack that is producing opportunities. 0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:37.480 You had the back post there, you had Mercado who 0:54:37.480 --> 0:54:39.880 couldn't get that full shot on goal. You have that 0:54:40.040 --> 0:54:42.759 chance right there for Jess Fishlock that goes off the bar, 0:54:43.160 --> 0:54:47.720 and eventually, if you keep producing these opportunities, you will score. 0:54:48.719 --> 0:54:50.759 I think it's impossible to see the Rain getting shut 0:54:50.760 --> 0:54:52.480 out in this game if they continue to do what 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:53.840 they've done in the last twenty minutes. 0:54:53.920 --> 0:54:54.480 Absolutely. 0:54:54.480 --> 0:54:56.320 I think that's what Laura Harvey tells them at halftime, 0:54:56.400 --> 0:54:58.520 and I do think that's why she was so disappointed 0:54:58.560 --> 0:55:01.480 with how it started, because those two quick goals before 0:55:01.520 --> 0:55:04.319 they got into their rhythm have made their fate a 0:55:04.360 --> 0:55:06.799 little bit tougher here when they have the components to 0:55:06.800 --> 0:55:09.200 actually put this Royal team under a ton of pressure, 0:55:09.440 --> 0:55:10.839 and they could have been the ones on a two 0:55:10.880 --> 0:55:11.880 zero lead early. 0:55:11.680 --> 0:55:13.840 On, and here's Seattle to climb to take advantage of 0:55:13.840 --> 0:55:16.120 another giveaway, but they can't do anything with it and 0:55:16.120 --> 0:55:20.120 the ball goes right back and we'll take this moment, 0:55:20.160 --> 0:55:21.840 so go down onto the sideline with Kwame. 0:55:23.080 --> 0:55:26.239 So it looks like Seattle's slowly settling into the attack. Here, 0:55:26.280 --> 0:55:29.200 we've definitely gotten more numbers into the box. Now, Sophia 0:55:29.280 --> 0:55:31.360 wareth that does have to get a bit more involved 0:55:31.360 --> 0:55:33.560 in the attack. I think we're doing really well with 0:55:33.600 --> 0:55:37.000 attacking on the right side. However, you know, Sophia has 0:55:37.400 --> 0:55:40.480 seven career goal contributions against Utah Royals, so she's definitely 0:55:40.520 --> 0:55:43.160 seasoned in getting some points against this team. 0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:45.560 Here is where to coming forward. A chance to cross 0:55:45.600 --> 0:55:47.560 going to the back post, has Ratcliffe head it in 0:55:47.760 --> 0:55:50.759 fish lock and she went up for a bicycle kick, 0:55:50.800 --> 0:55:53.080 but it will go well wide a goal. Sorry to interrupt, 0:55:53.120 --> 0:55:53.920 Kwame go ahead. 0:55:54.760 --> 0:55:56.799 You know it was poetry emotion because as we were 0:55:56.800 --> 0:55:59.120 talking about Sophia Worth, they're being more involved in the attack. 0:55:59.320 --> 0:56:02.480 There she goes almost giving us an assist and an 0:56:02.480 --> 0:56:04.719 opportunity to get a goal in there. So it's looking good. 0:56:04.719 --> 0:56:06.400 We just got to keep going on the right side. 0:56:06.680 --> 0:56:09.600 Like I said, she's got seven goal contributions against the Royals, 0:56:10.080 --> 0:56:13.800 which is tied for the most of the sl history. 0:56:13.880 --> 0:56:15.680 So it's all about making sure that we're going down 0:56:15.719 --> 0:56:18.200 that right side and giving one of our best attacking 0:56:18.560 --> 0:56:20.680 outside wing players an opportunity to get. 0:56:20.600 --> 0:56:20.879 On the ball. 0:56:21.040 --> 0:56:23.640 It's a goal kick here for Utah and Stephanie exactly 0:56:23.680 --> 0:56:26.239 what Klamie was saying. The best attacks have been down 0:56:26.280 --> 0:56:30.839 that right side, Coco and Huerta crossing balls in towards Ratcliffe, 0:56:30.920 --> 0:56:33.359 Mercado in the back post, right in front of goal. 0:56:33.560 --> 0:56:35.560 That's where the best Reign attacks have been over these 0:56:35.600 --> 0:56:37.960 last twenty minutes. And here is Utah. We'll get back 0:56:37.960 --> 0:56:39.520 to that in a moment, trying to slip ball in 0:56:39.560 --> 0:56:42.200 towards the box. It's on a foot now, staying on 0:56:42.239 --> 0:56:45.600 the left shot and it just goes above the bar. 0:56:45.920 --> 0:56:47.920 Did it take a tip? I believe it did take 0:56:47.960 --> 0:56:50.600 a Claudia Dickie tip. This will be a Utah corner 0:56:50.680 --> 0:56:52.480 here in the thirty fourth minutes and. 0:56:52.440 --> 0:56:55.279 An incredible reaction from Dickey there actually because again just 0:56:55.320 --> 0:56:58.040 like the Royal sport and their second goal deflections are 0:56:58.160 --> 0:57:01.000 so hard for keepers to react, and we see it here. 0:57:01.040 --> 0:57:02.880 It's a shot from the outside of the eight and 0:57:02.960 --> 0:57:03.839 the left side, and. 0:57:03.800 --> 0:57:06.600 She's able to just barely get one or two fingertips 0:57:06.600 --> 0:57:07.920 there to make sure it's not a goal and it's 0:57:07.920 --> 0:57:08.640 a corner instead. 0:57:08.760 --> 0:57:11.719 Yeah, long shot there by Mina Tanaka, and it was 0:57:12.120 --> 0:57:15.040 just that little slight tip that causes it to go 0:57:15.120 --> 0:57:19.520 above the bar. Certainly, the Rain have to watch out 0:57:19.520 --> 0:57:21.480 for those kind of counters and those kind of transition 0:57:21.600 --> 0:57:25.040 moments because there have been so many moments offensively for 0:57:25.080 --> 0:57:28.880 the Rain in the last twenty minutes. Utah definitely want 0:57:28.880 --> 0:57:31.640 to set up Seattle this way, two hands raised in 0:57:31.720 --> 0:57:36.640 the corner for their kicktaker the case sends it to Dicky, 0:57:36.800 --> 0:57:38.880 grabs it out of the air with two hands and 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:40.680 your chance maybe for the Rain to go fast. 0:57:40.680 --> 0:57:42.960 Dicky earning some space rolling it out to where. 0:57:42.840 --> 0:57:46.200 To where to get it up the field to mind 0:57:46.200 --> 0:57:47.960 to see your note, you'll have to play it right 0:57:48.000 --> 0:57:51.480 back to Emily Mason next to her, to mcclernan on 0:57:51.600 --> 0:57:54.360 the left side now, because the Rain will take a 0:57:54.400 --> 0:57:56.919 moment to regroup and set up themselves for an attack. 0:57:56.960 --> 0:58:02.360 About ten minutes from the halftime whistle at Lumenfield, Jackson 0:58:02.360 --> 0:58:06.960 felt Stephanie Verdoya Kwama Paya Seattle Rain Utah Royals here 0:58:07.000 --> 0:58:09.920 on Sports Radio nine to fifty k am. Thank you 0:58:09.960 --> 0:58:13.000 for joining us here tonight for our first of ten 0:58:13.080 --> 0:58:15.760 or so Rain matches on the radio here in twenty 0:58:15.760 --> 0:58:20.200 twenty six. Rain with an outstanding start to this season 0:58:21.040 --> 0:58:23.320 so far, three to one in one. They entered match 0:58:23.400 --> 0:58:27.680 day six tied for second place in NWSL. We're down 0:58:27.720 --> 0:58:29.720 to nothing early to Utah in this game. Now here's 0:58:29.760 --> 0:58:33.920 fish luck on this left side has help with Curry 0:58:34.520 --> 0:58:38.840 mcclernan up the field, headed on chance for Mercato. Can 0:58:38.880 --> 0:58:40.680 she get in front of goal? She can, and she's 0:58:40.720 --> 0:58:43.760 tripped up. Is that a penalty? She's tripped up by 0:58:43.760 --> 0:58:47.320 the goalkeeper? Mea justice and Mercado and her teammates are 0:58:47.360 --> 0:58:50.439 asking why that is not a penalty? Which she had 0:58:50.440 --> 0:58:54.280 the ball on her foot, dribbling towards goal, tripped by 0:58:54.400 --> 0:58:56.200 Utah's goalkeeper and no call. 0:58:56.240 --> 0:58:59.120 Stephanie, Yeah, that's shocking. I think they're probably taking a 0:58:59.120 --> 0:59:02.040 look at it right now. But keeper goes down, miass 0:59:02.120 --> 0:59:05.160 goes down to the ground. Mercado is onside. It looks 0:59:05.200 --> 0:59:07.040 like for this ball she's taking a touch forward. She 0:59:07.080 --> 0:59:10.000 gets around behind the defender gets a touch past the 0:59:10.080 --> 0:59:11.480 keeper and she goes to the ground. 0:59:12.680 --> 0:59:13.480 We'll see here. 0:59:14.000 --> 0:59:17.560 I think that what they're saying is that Justice touched 0:59:17.560 --> 0:59:22.200 the ball just enough before she got in the way 0:59:22.800 --> 0:59:26.760 and redirected and tripped up Mercado. With that slight touch 0:59:26.760 --> 0:59:30.600 on the ball was enough. Our referee today Matt Thompson, 0:59:30.720 --> 0:59:34.960 an experienced referee who's actually the fourth official for the 0:59:35.080 --> 0:59:38.320 Sounders FC Dallas game here at Luminfield last night. Our 0:59:38.400 --> 0:59:43.160 VR today, Brad Jensen, are the VR referee, and they 0:59:43.280 --> 0:59:47.080 looked at it and determined that that is no penalty 0:59:47.520 --> 0:59:49.880 and we play on with Utah up to nothing. 0:59:49.960 --> 0:59:50.160 Here. 0:59:50.720 --> 0:59:53.560 You could tell Laura Hardy was not happy about that call, 0:59:53.600 --> 0:59:55.840 and those ones are tricky. But when the keeper goes 0:59:55.840 --> 0:59:58.000 to the ground and the player who she seems like 0:59:58.000 --> 1:00:00.479 she was still in possession of that ball, not able 1:00:00.520 --> 1:00:03.520 to continue going towards goal, you really wonder how that's not. 1:00:03.480 --> 1:00:06.480 A pKa because Justice redirected the ball just slightly with 1:00:06.520 --> 1:00:10.600 her fingertips, but Mercado was still in full possession of 1:00:10.640 --> 1:00:11.040 that ball. 1:00:11.200 --> 1:00:11.439 Yes. 1:00:11.880 --> 1:00:14.919 Long here towards the back post, Fishlock heads it back, 1:00:15.080 --> 1:00:18.200 still in possession with Ratcliffe now back to curry career. 1:00:18.320 --> 1:00:22.080 Ratcliffe chance to cross into the box, tipped away by 1:00:22.080 --> 1:00:25.320 a rain head. Still a Seattle shot deflected out. Long 1:00:25.320 --> 1:00:27.920 shot from Muerta from distance, but it will get to 1:00:28.040 --> 1:00:31.240 Mandasy or you're on this right side montasyre chance to cross. 1:00:31.520 --> 1:00:35.840 It's tipped out. This will be a Seattle rain corner kick. 1:00:36.800 --> 1:00:40.000 Referee ruling if she had the flag up towards a 1:00:40.000 --> 1:00:42.560 goal kick, but that is a corner kicks the wrong 1:00:42.640 --> 1:00:45.360 flag direction. This will be a corner kick in the 1:00:45.400 --> 1:00:48.680 northwest northeast corner of Lumen Field here in the thirty 1:00:48.720 --> 1:00:52.640 eighth minutes, hoping for another opportunity for the Rain Cocoa 1:00:52.720 --> 1:00:53.600 mantasy to take. 1:00:53.440 --> 1:00:54.400 It both hands raised. 1:00:54.560 --> 1:00:58.200 There'll be an outsinging corner as Ratcliffe in the near post, 1:00:58.200 --> 1:01:00.160 wide open. It goes towards the middle of goal. We'll 1:01:00.360 --> 1:01:03.200 tipped and a foul is called and it got to 1:01:03.240 --> 1:01:06.600 the foot of sam Meza who just tapped it off 1:01:06.680 --> 1:01:08.960 a Utah defender right in front of goal. But a 1:01:08.960 --> 1:01:11.880 foul was called and this will be a free kick 1:01:11.880 --> 1:01:15.560 for their goalkeeper Justice here as we hit the thirty 1:01:15.640 --> 1:01:16.520 ninth minute at Lumen. 1:01:19.840 --> 1:01:22.240 Beautiful night for soccer in Seattle. 1:01:22.400 --> 1:01:25.840 The sun setting here on Lumen Field just south of 1:01:25.920 --> 1:01:35.080 downtown Seattle. Justice will send this long headed up by Curry, 1:01:35.480 --> 1:01:38.840 Rain and possession, give it right away to Utah. Off 1:01:38.840 --> 1:01:42.919 the header now down into this right four or three 1:01:42.960 --> 1:01:45.840 defenders working on a Royals player and they able to 1:01:45.840 --> 1:01:47.840 take it away. Here's Mercado and Marnhado. 1:01:47.920 --> 1:01:49.520 Change the point of attack and get things going. 1:01:49.680 --> 1:01:52.960 You shall lay it off to Emily Mason, another defender, 1:01:54.080 --> 1:01:56.280 and now a long ball up the field that will 1:01:56.360 --> 1:01:59.560 be taken back before Utah. Would you suggest fishlock and 1:01:59.680 --> 1:02:03.040 racked with pressure. Lots of pressure here on Utah whenever 1:02:03.080 --> 1:02:06.200 they try to send it back towards their keeper. You know, 1:02:06.480 --> 1:02:10.840 long ball Ford has taken for Seattle taken away by Utah. 1:02:11.120 --> 1:02:13.480 They don't have the numbers and they'll have to retreat back. 1:02:15.200 --> 1:02:17.120 And again we're seeing a little bit of a lack 1:02:17.160 --> 1:02:19.440 of composure in the back line that I know Laura 1:02:19.480 --> 1:02:22.320 Harvey has been wanting to find in this back line 1:02:22.320 --> 1:02:23.960 in these past couple of weeks that they've been training 1:02:23.960 --> 1:02:27.400 on without the games. But mclernan and Murray or Masa 1:02:27.440 --> 1:02:30.040 have both given up balls that they probably should. 1:02:29.800 --> 1:02:31.760 Be able to bring down. Keep it their feet and 1:02:31.800 --> 1:02:33.040 connect passing and going forward. 1:02:33.240 --> 1:02:36.520 Stu mean, we talked with Laura Harvey yesterday out at 1:02:36.560 --> 1:02:40.320 training and she said very very directly to us that 1:02:40.400 --> 1:02:42.880 we want to be better in defending after this recent 1:02:42.880 --> 1:02:46.360 international break. And you know, it's it's those moments in 1:02:46.400 --> 1:02:49.760 the first six minutes of the game where Utah score 1:02:50.160 --> 1:02:52.960 in the first minute with Cronin and then the seventh 1:02:52.960 --> 1:02:56.920 winute with Mira, and it's those two moments early in 1:02:56.960 --> 1:02:57.360 a game, and. 1:02:57.360 --> 1:02:59.560 It's it's a moment of poor defending. 1:02:59.600 --> 1:03:01.920 On the first one, a redirected shot from the distance 1:03:01.920 --> 1:03:03.480 on the second line is the Rain now trying to 1:03:03.480 --> 1:03:05.760 work with numbers Here on the right side, you're square 1:03:05.800 --> 1:03:09.920 to getting forward as Mandasire on her right she uses 1:03:09.960 --> 1:03:13.480 her montasre chanced to cross and it's blocked away a 1:03:13.520 --> 1:03:16.600 good block there by Rabano the left back for Utah 1:03:16.680 --> 1:03:19.920 throw in coming about five yards from the end line. 1:03:21.800 --> 1:03:24.240 And again up that right side Mondessier and where to 1:03:24.320 --> 1:03:25.680 do seem to be the key for Rain. 1:03:25.720 --> 1:03:31.040 Here comes Mondasire just to cross it towards the back post, 1:03:31.400 --> 1:03:33.920 but Ratcliffe's not able to get her foot on that one. 1:03:33.960 --> 1:03:36.840 It will be out for a Utah goalkick. Here in 1:03:36.880 --> 1:03:41.280 the forty first minutes, and as we look at what 1:03:41.320 --> 1:03:46.760 else is happening here in NWSL today, Angel City today 1:03:47.280 --> 1:03:51.080 playing against Portland as well, and that's certainly one to 1:03:51.160 --> 1:03:53.600 watch because as we look at the standings I mentioned 1:03:53.680 --> 1:03:56.920 Rain with a great start here to this season, you know, 1:03:56.960 --> 1:03:59.880 three to one and one, they are looking up at 1:04:00.160 --> 1:04:05.200 Portland thorns. It's never a good thing when a Seattle 1:04:05.240 --> 1:04:06.960 team has to look up in the standings to Portland. 1:04:07.000 --> 1:04:09.440 But it's Portland getting a two to one win over 1:04:09.520 --> 1:04:14.200 Angel City earlier today, and with that win they have 1:04:14.520 --> 1:04:16.520 gone a little bit higher than the standings now second 1:04:16.560 --> 1:04:19.720 place San Diego Wave in first place in NWSL with 1:04:19.800 --> 1:04:22.920 five wins and only one loss. And as this score 1:04:22.960 --> 1:04:27.000 stands right now, Utah and Seattle would be equal at 1:04:27.000 --> 1:04:29.840 ten points with a three to two to one record. 1:04:30.360 --> 1:04:33.320 But that is just as things stand right now, and 1:04:33.400 --> 1:04:36.400 we hope that things do change. As Utah leads to 1:04:36.440 --> 1:04:38.600 nothing here in the forty second minute, where you try 1:04:38.600 --> 1:04:40.720 to get a ball four to Ratcliffe, but it's taken 1:04:40.720 --> 1:04:44.000 out by a Utah defender and send it all the 1:04:44.040 --> 1:04:48.520 way back to justice. The pressure can continues from Seattle. 1:04:49.440 --> 1:04:51.040 And you know you don't want the players to say it, 1:04:51.080 --> 1:04:52.920 but it is early in the season. They're looking to 1:04:52.920 --> 1:04:53.640 who they're gonna be. 1:04:53.760 --> 1:04:55.920 Here's Monasty on the right side, chance to cross it in. 1:04:56.080 --> 1:04:58.760 She does, but again it's cut out well by a 1:04:58.960 --> 1:05:02.600 Utah defender that is Kaylee Real and she will put 1:05:02.600 --> 1:05:04.520 it out for a Rain corner. Go ahead, Stephanie. 1:05:04.720 --> 1:05:06.800 Yeah, now, you know, just saying we don't want to 1:05:06.800 --> 1:05:09.720 look up Portland in the standings. Definitely, not that Cascadia 1:05:09.840 --> 1:05:12.600 rivalry is strong, but it is early. 1:05:12.800 --> 1:05:14.680 It's early. We've had a couple week break. 1:05:14.680 --> 1:05:17.080 The June break will also stretch out and create this 1:05:17.160 --> 1:05:19.440 kind of dysfunction in the early parts of the season. 1:05:19.800 --> 1:05:21.920 But the Rain have time to figure out who they 1:05:21.920 --> 1:05:23.600 are and put their mark on this season. 1:05:24.280 --> 1:05:27.280 Corner coming in from Mandacre goes to Fishlock redirects it 1:05:27.320 --> 1:05:29.480 to the back post. Here is a shot and a 1:05:29.520 --> 1:05:33.640 foul again called I believe that foul cold on Emily 1:05:33.720 --> 1:05:35.920 Mason there at the back post as she raises her 1:05:35.960 --> 1:05:38.720 hands asking where did the foul come from or her 1:05:38.760 --> 1:05:41.280 shot did go right there into the arms of MEA 1:05:41.440 --> 1:05:46.000 justice in goal and another opportunity for the Rain that ends. 1:05:48.160 --> 1:05:49.680 Yeah, and a soft call there. 1:05:49.680 --> 1:05:51.560 I have to say, she's on the back post, the 1:05:51.560 --> 1:05:54.880 ball's coming over. She's trying to let go of her 1:05:54.880 --> 1:05:57.200 defender and get around her, and instead they've called it 1:05:57.200 --> 1:05:57.840 for the Royals. 1:05:57.840 --> 1:06:04.280 There goalkick here onto this in near. 1:06:04.160 --> 1:06:05.360 Side of the right. 1:06:08.160 --> 1:06:08.360 Rain. 1:06:08.480 --> 1:06:10.680 Do you get a foot to it? But Utah takes 1:06:10.720 --> 1:06:14.320 it back. Some bodies on the floor, but Utah pick 1:06:14.360 --> 1:06:16.360 it up now with some space in the middle of 1:06:16.400 --> 1:06:19.080 the park. Shot from distance and it goes off the post. 1:06:19.680 --> 1:06:22.720 What a shot from distance off the post but on 1:06:22.800 --> 1:06:26.640 a Tahata shot from about twenty five yards out. It 1:06:26.760 --> 1:06:30.120 beat Claudia Dicky as she dove to her left and 1:06:30.160 --> 1:06:32.800 it goes right off of that right post. 1:06:33.560 --> 1:06:35.439 And I think Claudia Dicky would say it didn't beat 1:06:35.440 --> 1:06:37.320 her because it hit the post. I think she would 1:06:37.320 --> 1:06:38.240 have thought she covered that. 1:06:38.560 --> 1:06:40.960 But it's a great left footed shot across the body 1:06:41.000 --> 1:06:42.920 and oof. Yeah, I mean there was there was a 1:06:42.960 --> 1:06:45.360 couple of inches. There's still gray athleticism from Vicky to 1:06:45.360 --> 1:06:47.480 get across. But we are lucky that post was there. 1:06:47.600 --> 1:06:50.720 Yeah, that is six inches inside that might have redirected 1:06:50.760 --> 1:06:53.160 off that posted into the back of the nets. Thankful 1:06:53.160 --> 1:06:55.440 that this is still too nothing right here, and that 1:06:55.480 --> 1:06:58.400 would have been the second shot from distance into the 1:06:58.440 --> 1:07:00.439 back of the net if it was just a few 1:07:00.520 --> 1:07:01.920 inches to the left. 1:07:02.480 --> 1:07:04.400 And you know, at times, I think that's the chaos 1:07:04.400 --> 1:07:07.160 that Laura Harvey described this Royals team. They seem to 1:07:07.160 --> 1:07:10.240 be always dangerous and I can't even put maybe my 1:07:10.600 --> 1:07:13.200 name to it or a person specifically, but it is 1:07:13.240 --> 1:07:13.680 just they. 1:07:13.560 --> 1:07:16.920 Are going for it at all times. Shots, early runs 1:07:16.920 --> 1:07:18.440 in behind, I mean they're dangerous. 1:07:18.560 --> 1:07:23.280 Yeah, they certainly have no hesitation taking shots from distance. 1:07:25.000 --> 1:07:27.360 That led, of course to their second goal today that 1:07:27.480 --> 1:07:31.320 was redirected off the shoulder of Jess fischlock Wen. 1:07:31.400 --> 1:07:34.200 We just have a few moments until the halftime whistle. 1:07:33.920 --> 1:07:37.040 Here at liv the field, Laura Harvey will have to 1:07:37.400 --> 1:07:39.640 get her squad together for the last forty five minutes. 1:07:39.640 --> 1:07:42.560 To a ball towards the box will be grabbed with 1:07:42.680 --> 1:07:45.400 one hand by Claudia Dicky. She will easily take that 1:07:45.440 --> 1:07:47.640 one with a little bit of style there in front 1:07:47.680 --> 1:07:50.320 of goal. It was interesting because that takes us back 1:07:50.320 --> 1:07:53.400 to that conversation with Emma Hayes in the pregame about 1:07:53.720 --> 1:07:56.000 just the behavior and the demeanor, right, and it's that 1:07:56.160 --> 1:07:59.480 confidence of I'm just gonna take this long ball with 1:07:59.600 --> 1:08:03.240 one hand and have a composure. But here's the boss 1:08:03.240 --> 1:08:07.120 slipped in Utah chance of Gulgan shot back of the net, 1:08:08.000 --> 1:08:12.240 and right before the halftime, that is a third goal 1:08:12.760 --> 1:08:16.040 for the Utah Royals. It went towards the back post 1:08:16.240 --> 1:08:20.919 for Chloe Lacasse and that is in past Claudia Dickie 1:08:21.240 --> 1:08:26.200 and the visitors now lead here three nothing, Royals over Rain. 1:08:27.000 --> 1:08:29.000 And you can see the Rain looking a little defeated 1:08:29.040 --> 1:08:32.479 there because that was a defensive transition moment in their 1:08:32.600 --> 1:08:36.200 defens defensive halfway they gave the ball away again from 1:08:36.240 --> 1:08:38.439 the back line. They're not able to get win it 1:08:38.479 --> 1:08:41.360 back and then a player just sneaks in on the 1:08:41.439 --> 1:08:43.560 right shoulder of Mason there to make sure that she 1:08:43.600 --> 1:08:44.880 can put a past Dickie in. 1:08:44.880 --> 1:08:45.519 That front post. 1:08:45.600 --> 1:08:47.840 Yeah, Mason just tries to get a foot to that 1:08:47.880 --> 1:08:51.680 one on the slide put it's La Casse getting that 1:08:51.800 --> 1:08:57.120 ball in the box wide open and that shot past Dickie. 1:08:57.120 --> 1:09:00.559 Not a lot that Claudia Dicky could do there. And 1:09:00.640 --> 1:09:04.040 now it is a very uphill battle for the final 1:09:04.080 --> 1:09:05.280 forty five minutes of this game. 1:09:05.320 --> 1:09:06.559 We have had two minutes added. 1:09:06.720 --> 1:09:09.800 We're already through one of those two minutes in what 1:09:09.920 --> 1:09:13.400 is now a Utah Royals three nothing lead, and this 1:09:13.439 --> 1:09:15.360 is a rain team again. This is the first game 1:09:15.360 --> 1:09:18.519 at Lumen Field, on this new grass at Lumen the 1:09:18.680 --> 1:09:22.280 entire year, they've been playing away from home. They've had 1:09:22.320 --> 1:09:25.439 this season so far, where they opened in Orlando with 1:09:25.479 --> 1:09:28.040 a two to one win, they went to Portland with 1:09:28.080 --> 1:09:31.480 a two to nothing loss, and then three games in Spokane, 1:09:31.720 --> 1:09:35.040 a three to nothing win over the reigning Shield winners 1:09:35.120 --> 1:09:37.800 Kansas City, a two to one win over Louisville, and 1:09:37.840 --> 1:09:40.840 then a zero zero draw against Denver on April fourth 1:09:40.880 --> 1:09:43.960 before the international break, where they haven't played since April fourth. 1:09:43.960 --> 1:09:46.280 This is their first game since, and it's their first 1:09:46.320 --> 1:09:49.599 game at Lumen Field, and it has not gone well 1:09:49.640 --> 1:09:51.759 here in the opening forty five. 1:09:51.560 --> 1:09:55.160 Minutes, you know, and you point into a couple things 1:09:55.160 --> 1:09:58.920 that really do cause disruption for players, routines, the travel, 1:09:59.120 --> 1:09:59.960 the change of field. 1:10:00.400 --> 1:10:02.800 Right they're playing in Lumen, this massive stadium. 1:10:03.280 --> 1:10:06.080 They have made it across trip to Orlando, across the 1:10:06.120 --> 1:10:09.160 country trip to Orlando. They've been living out of suitcases 1:10:09.200 --> 1:10:12.320 in Spokane for a few weeks. But you'd think that 1:10:12.360 --> 1:10:14.479 they would be able to come back and establish a rhythm. 1:10:14.479 --> 1:10:17.040 But it is very difficult to come back even if 1:10:17.040 --> 1:10:19.040 this is their home field. This is their first game here, 1:10:19.080 --> 1:10:22.360 it's for their first game on grass here, and that's tough. 1:10:23.320 --> 1:10:25.400 It has been a tough first forty five minutes. Since 1:10:25.400 --> 1:10:28.800 the halftime whistle blows, we are finished with the first 1:10:28.840 --> 1:10:29.479 forty five. 1:10:30.040 --> 1:10:33.640 They score right now of three to nothing. 1:10:33.840 --> 1:10:38.280 Utah and Laura Harvey and company as she walks this 1:10:38.400 --> 1:10:40.960 locker room, we look at the look on her face. 1:10:41.320 --> 1:10:43.400 Stephanie. That is not a happy head coach. 1:10:43.479 --> 1:10:45.240 Right now, that is not a happy head coach. 1:10:45.240 --> 1:10:47.439 And if I know Laura Harvey at all, she is 1:10:47.439 --> 1:10:48.719 going to be saying a couple things. 1:10:49.600 --> 1:10:50.639 Get it together on the. 1:10:50.600 --> 1:10:53.320 Back line, keep the ball, do not give it away, 1:10:54.160 --> 1:10:55.280 and let's get a goal. 1:10:55.640 --> 1:10:57.120 I mean, it's that simple. 1:10:57.160 --> 1:10:59.280 They've had the chances, they need to finish them and 1:10:59.400 --> 1:11:02.639 stop making it having your own mistakes. Be the reason 1:11:03.000 --> 1:11:05.360 why the Royals are up three to zero because two. 1:11:05.160 --> 1:11:07.880 Of their goals are from those giveaways in the back end, 1:11:08.120 --> 1:11:11.439 and one of them is off a deflected shot from distance. 1:11:11.479 --> 1:11:14.320 So all right, now, certainly work to do on that 1:11:14.360 --> 1:11:17.000 defensive end for Laurel Harvey in the rain. We will 1:11:17.000 --> 1:11:19.760 step aside for a commercial break. We will come back 1:11:19.760 --> 1:11:22.519 with the halftime show as the Seattle Rain have work 1:11:22.600 --> 1:11:24.519 to do here in the second half. We're finished with 1:11:24.560 --> 1:11:27.240 forty five minutes. It's a Utah three to nothing lead 1:11:27.600 --> 1:11:30.080 more Next Sports Radio nine fifty KGr AM. 1:11:30.520 --> 1:11:31.320 How is your break? 1:11:31.439 --> 1:11:33.960 It was great until I stopped for gas. 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Seattle 1:13:39.280 --> 1:13:40.840 Free never sounded so good. 1:13:44.760 --> 1:13:48.800 Welcome back to Luminfield. Welcome back to the halftime show 1:13:49.240 --> 1:13:52.439 where Seattle Rain are currently facing an uphill battle in 1:13:52.479 --> 1:13:55.040 the second half. Is We're forty five minutes in and 1:13:55.080 --> 1:14:00.000 it's a three nothing lead for the Utah Royals. Utah 1:14:00.160 --> 1:14:04.679 team that scores in the fifty first second of this game, 1:14:04.720 --> 1:14:08.200 we were fifty one second sin and Paige Cronin picked 1:14:08.320 --> 1:14:11.519 up a loose ball on the back end on a 1:14:11.560 --> 1:14:14.880 giveaway by Seattle's defense and she puts it into the 1:14:14.880 --> 1:14:16.439 back of the net for a one to nothing lead. 1:14:16.920 --> 1:14:19.639 Then in the seventh minute, just a few minutes later, 1:14:20.280 --> 1:14:22.880 it is a corner kick that bounces back out to 1:14:22.960 --> 1:14:26.599 Mira and a long distance shot takes a deflection off 1:14:26.640 --> 1:14:29.880 of the shoulder of Jess Fishlock and ends up in 1:14:29.920 --> 1:14:33.040 the back of the net, beating a diving Claudia Dicky. 1:14:33.280 --> 1:14:36.280 That gave Utah a very quick two to nothing lead 1:14:36.320 --> 1:14:40.160 inside of seven minutes. From there, Seattle looked better. They 1:14:40.200 --> 1:14:43.400 got things going offensively, They got some composure and some 1:14:43.439 --> 1:14:46.240 confidence on the ball in the attack. Things were working 1:14:46.360 --> 1:14:49.160 up and on that right side, with a combination of 1:14:49.520 --> 1:14:53.120 Sophia Huerta and Coco Mandis here working on that left wing. 1:14:53.800 --> 1:14:54.960 Lots and right wing. 1:14:55.000 --> 1:14:58.280 Excuse me, Lots of attacks, lots of crosses, lots of chances. 1:14:58.360 --> 1:15:01.040 At one point Jess Fishlock put a ball off of 1:15:01.080 --> 1:15:04.519 the crossbar, a great play where she turns the ball 1:15:04.560 --> 1:15:07.479 onto her left foot and a left footed shot goes 1:15:07.560 --> 1:15:10.200 off of the bar. But so many chances for the 1:15:10.280 --> 1:15:13.679 rain and unfortunately nothing into the back of the net 1:15:14.080 --> 1:15:18.799 passed Utah's kie keeper Meat Justice. And then right before 1:15:19.240 --> 1:15:25.080 the halftime whistle, just right before La cass gets a 1:15:25.120 --> 1:15:28.559 tremendous pass into the box on a counter attack on 1:15:28.600 --> 1:15:32.320 another turned over ball in Seattle's half of the field, 1:15:32.720 --> 1:15:36.559 they quickly transition. She has a wide open shot against 1:15:36.560 --> 1:15:38.760 Dicky and puts it into the back of the net 1:15:39.240 --> 1:15:42.840 for that third Utah goal, and right now it is 1:15:42.880 --> 1:15:45.800 a large lead for the visitors right now. Seattle Rain, 1:15:45.960 --> 1:15:48.160 entering this match day, they were three to one and 1:15:48.280 --> 1:15:51.599 one tied for second place in NWSL Utah was three 1:15:51.640 --> 1:15:54.479 points behind him, and the Royals are making up all 1:15:54.520 --> 1:15:57.439 of that as they entered this game two in a 1:15:57.479 --> 1:16:01.160 one here in twenty twenty sixth in seventh play. And 1:16:01.200 --> 1:16:03.160 this is a team in Utah that has had a 1:16:03.280 --> 1:16:07.160 terrible history against Seattle. Only two wins for the Royals 1:16:07.160 --> 1:16:09.559 against the Rain and they are looking for this to 1:16:09.600 --> 1:16:13.320 be their third. Right now, a three nothing lead, We'll 1:16:13.320 --> 1:16:14.920 take a break here on the halftime show. We'll come 1:16:14.920 --> 1:16:17.160 back and get you some keys the second half that 1:16:17.240 --> 1:16:20.639 will come up next on Sports Radio nine fifty KJR AM. 1:16:21.640 --> 1:16:27.439 Totally rad and totally snow Homishpud slash energy costs and 1:16:27.640 --> 1:16:32.400 upgrade your crib with rebates on windows, insulation, heat pumps, 1:16:32.439 --> 1:16:37.599 water heaters, smart thermostats, and like so much more. Since 1:16:37.720 --> 1:16:42.040 nineteen eighty, snow Homish Pud has been stoked to help 1:16:42.080 --> 1:16:46.639 customers save energy and money. 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Seattle Rain, 1:19:40.160 --> 1:19:43.679 of course, are women's professional soccer team here in the. 1:19:43.560 --> 1:19:46.719 Emerald City, and right. 1:19:46.560 --> 1:19:50.280 Now they find themselves down by a few goals to Utah. 1:19:50.360 --> 1:19:52.720 Let's take a look at who Laura Harvey has to 1:19:52.720 --> 1:19:54.720 bring off of a bench today, and there is a 1:19:54.760 --> 1:19:58.000 lot of offensive weapons to bring off. Maddie Dollen is 1:19:58.000 --> 1:20:00.559 a left winger, a very very talent to players. 1:20:00.560 --> 1:20:02.880 She's in the United States women's national team system. 1:20:03.200 --> 1:20:07.080 She is available. Emria Damas same case, also in that 1:20:07.200 --> 1:20:09.280 United States youth programing system. 1:20:09.600 --> 1:20:11.920 She's available off the bench. She's a right winger as well. 1:20:12.280 --> 1:20:14.920 You have a midfielder and Haws James Turner, Holly Ward, 1:20:15.200 --> 1:20:18.840 Ainsley mccamnon me official is a big forward and a 1:20:18.880 --> 1:20:21.639 big weapon for the rain Is as we had Emma 1:20:21.680 --> 1:20:25.800 Hayes the women's national team head coach. On she mentioned unprompted, 1:20:26.040 --> 1:20:29.200 how she is very closely monitoring me official and her 1:20:29.439 --> 1:20:33.559 return to full fitness. She's available for Laurel Harvey off 1:20:33.560 --> 1:20:37.200 the bench, also Ryan Brown, Shay Holmes, and a backkeep 1:20:37.200 --> 1:20:40.439 goalkeeper of Cassie Miller. Taking a look at also of 1:20:40.439 --> 1:20:43.400 those first half stats, it really is all Utah. This 1:20:43.560 --> 1:20:46.120 wasn't a game where it looked like it was goals 1:20:46.160 --> 1:20:49.599 against the run of play. Utah did really execute their 1:20:49.640 --> 1:20:53.479 system well and it worked, leading in shots nine to five, 1:20:53.560 --> 1:20:56.519 shots on target, they doubled up Seattle four to two. 1:20:57.000 --> 1:20:58.280 They had four corners. 1:20:58.520 --> 1:21:01.920 Their expected goals though, that's where this is interesting. Expected 1:21:01.920 --> 1:21:04.439 goals is one of those, you know, kind of deeper 1:21:04.520 --> 1:21:07.400 soccer stats that we sometimes look at and say, well, 1:21:07.680 --> 1:21:11.080 what should the score line of this game be? Right now, 1:21:11.520 --> 1:21:14.880 Utah leads and expected goals, but they only lead point 1:21:15.000 --> 1:21:17.840 six y six to point six to two, And that 1:21:17.880 --> 1:21:19.599 really kind of comes off I think of a couple 1:21:19.640 --> 1:21:22.799 of things. It comes off of the opportunities that Seattle created. 1:21:22.960 --> 1:21:25.400 You gotta continue to work off of that right side 1:21:25.479 --> 1:21:29.120 with Manda Sere, with Sofia Huerta. You need to attack 1:21:29.160 --> 1:21:32.599 off that right side. That is where enormous successes come today. 1:21:32.760 --> 1:21:35.839 Crossing balls into the middle of the box for Matti Mercado, 1:21:36.160 --> 1:21:39.320 to the back post for Britney Ratcliffe. More of that 1:21:39.720 --> 1:21:41.840 and you can find a goal and sort of get 1:21:41.840 --> 1:21:44.720 this momentum turn. But Utah has got their goals off 1:21:44.720 --> 1:21:48.280 a deflection, off a couple defensive giveaways. You gotta shore 1:21:48.400 --> 1:21:50.960 up on that back end and if you do those things, 1:21:51.080 --> 1:21:53.760 you can continue to create opportunities and not give the 1:21:53.800 --> 1:21:57.240 bait ball away defensively in your own half of the field. 1:21:57.600 --> 1:22:00.280 Seattle rain could find themselves back in this and you 1:22:00.400 --> 1:22:03.679 just want to get that early goal to instill that belief, 1:22:03.880 --> 1:22:06.200 to get that confidence back, and then get going on 1:22:06.240 --> 1:22:09.120 the offensive end even more and then don't give up 1:22:09.160 --> 1:22:10.120 anything in transition. 1:22:10.479 --> 1:22:12.240 That is where Utah want to be. That is where 1:22:12.240 --> 1:22:13.960 they are very dangerous. We'll take a. 1:22:13.880 --> 1:22:16.120 Break and we will get to the second half. Is 1:22:16.160 --> 1:22:18.400 the Rainer back got onto the field to warm up. 1:22:18.439 --> 1:22:21.599 We'll see if there are any changes by head coach 1:22:21.680 --> 1:22:25.800 Laura Harvey for the second half. Brittany Stephanie Vrdoya will 1:22:26.120 --> 1:22:28.759 rejoin us with Kwamea Paya on the sideline. Min names 1:22:28.840 --> 1:22:31.920 Jackson Goltz. The game continues next on Sports Radio nine 1:22:32.040 --> 1:22:34.479 fifteen KRM. How is your break? 1:22:34.600 --> 1:22:37.120 It was great until I stop for gas. Prices have 1:22:37.160 --> 1:22:39.920 gone up almost a dollar with no end insight. I 1:22:40.000 --> 1:22:41.840 might have to start watching how much I drive. 1:22:42.120 --> 1:22:45.200 That's exactly why I use Upside. 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Visit snowpud dot com Slash Rebates. 1:25:37.600 --> 1:25:40.479 Welcome back to the Roland Field for the second half 1:25:40.800 --> 1:25:44.479 of this game between Seattle Rain and the Utah Royals. 1:25:44.960 --> 1:25:49.040 Utah with a big first half three goals first minute, 1:25:49.120 --> 1:25:54.439 seventh minute, and the forty fifth minutes, and we get 1:25:54.439 --> 1:25:57.960 this second half underway. Goes back to their goalkeeper mea 1:25:58.200 --> 1:26:00.559 justice for Utah. She will send it a long ball forward. 1:26:00.960 --> 1:26:03.320 If we rejoin you here in the booth, Jackson Felt, 1:26:03.320 --> 1:26:06.200 Stephanie Verdoya call me Apaya on the sideline as well 1:26:06.240 --> 1:26:10.160 for this broadcast of Seattle Rain on Sports Radio nine 1:26:10.200 --> 1:26:12.160 to fifty kJ am Stephanie, what are your keys to 1:26:12.240 --> 1:26:13.360 the second half for Seattle? 1:26:13.760 --> 1:26:15.599 So for Seattle, I mean we talked about it as 1:26:15.640 --> 1:26:17.200 a key for them to talk about it at halftime, 1:26:17.240 --> 1:26:19.479 but the defense needs to be composed. 1:26:19.640 --> 1:26:20.920 They need to not give the ball away. 1:26:20.920 --> 1:26:23.280 And that's just step one because if they can do that, 1:26:23.680 --> 1:26:26.040 their attack has already created what they want to see. 1:26:26.120 --> 1:26:30.559 Where to monda Seer, Fishlock, Mercado. They're all getting chances 1:26:30.600 --> 1:26:33.160 in that eighteen yard box. So one, don't give the 1:26:33.160 --> 1:26:34.920 ball away, But that seems a little obvious. 1:26:34.960 --> 1:26:36.280 So I'd say the biggest key. 1:26:36.160 --> 1:26:38.400 For them is obviously, once they don't give the ball away, 1:26:38.640 --> 1:26:41.920 get into the eighteen yard box and create good contact 1:26:42.000 --> 1:26:42.519 on frame. 1:26:42.560 --> 1:26:44.800 I think Justice is a little shaky in moments. I 1:26:44.800 --> 1:26:46.280 think they can put something behind. 1:26:46.000 --> 1:26:49.320 Her Seattle with possession along their back line. I'm also wondering, 1:26:49.320 --> 1:26:52.599 steph how fast does Seattle need to play the first 1:26:52.640 --> 1:26:54.640 ten minutes of this half? How much do they need 1:26:54.680 --> 1:26:57.160 to advance and really go for a quick goal? As 1:26:57.200 --> 1:26:58.920 here is a long ball trying to get the ball 1:26:58.960 --> 1:27:01.000 up the field, cutout well by Utah but picked up 1:27:01.000 --> 1:27:02.240 by Huerta for Seattle. 1:27:02.439 --> 1:27:04.680 But she can't control this one, and you shall have 1:27:04.720 --> 1:27:05.000 it back. 1:27:05.200 --> 1:27:07.920 Like I always asking here, Stephanie, I'm wondering how quickly 1:27:07.960 --> 1:27:09.200 you need to go for a goal in. 1:27:09.120 --> 1:27:11.639 The first ten minutes, So you know, I would say 1:27:12.120 --> 1:27:14.080 you do. It's an obvious you got three goals to 1:27:14.080 --> 1:27:17.120 make up. Except I do think the Royals live on 1:27:17.240 --> 1:27:21.280 that kind of chaotic pressure that's not organized. I think 1:27:21.320 --> 1:27:23.320 Harvey is going to want her team to stick to 1:27:23.360 --> 1:27:26.080 what they know. They are organized, they are structured, They 1:27:26.120 --> 1:27:28.880 keep the ball, they don't just fly forward. Yes, they 1:27:28.880 --> 1:27:32.639 have pressure, but it's organized, it's intentional, it's led by Fishlock. 1:27:32.720 --> 1:27:35.040 They know their positions on the field, and so I 1:27:35.080 --> 1:27:37.320 don't think we're going to see urgency, but I think 1:27:37.320 --> 1:27:39.559 we're going to see more directness in how they play. 1:27:40.280 --> 1:27:43.559 All right. Now, Utah have the ball in possession with 1:27:43.640 --> 1:27:48.959 their goalkeeper Mia Justice, that uses her defense and back line. 1:27:50.200 --> 1:27:51.679 This is where you kind of wonder how. 1:27:51.600 --> 1:27:54.280 Much they will just simply focus on possession as a 1:27:54.320 --> 1:27:56.720 ball will go out for a goalkick. Here in the 1:27:56.800 --> 1:28:01.080 forty eighth minute Loomenfield, sun still set on the stadium tonight, 1:28:01.200 --> 1:28:05.400 beautiful day here in the Northwest, wonderful night for soccer 1:28:05.439 --> 1:28:09.719 here in Seattle. As the sun is setting, just slivers 1:28:09.720 --> 1:28:12.960 of sun coming through the rafters of Lumenfield on the 1:28:13.040 --> 1:28:17.240 east side of this pitch, this new pitch that is 1:28:17.280 --> 1:28:19.640 now grass down there, and Stephanie's also his Rain have 1:28:19.680 --> 1:28:22.719 a thrown here from Utah's side of the field. Thrown 1:28:22.800 --> 1:28:25.320 comes on to talk to you about this grass difference 1:28:25.360 --> 1:28:28.400 where the Rain have been playing here at Luminfield for 1:28:28.439 --> 1:28:34.000 a number of years. But certainly it's a pleasant surprise 1:28:34.120 --> 1:28:39.160 and a very big benefit to be able to play 1:28:39.200 --> 1:28:41.120 on grass as opposed to the turf that we have 1:28:41.240 --> 1:28:43.040 seen for so many years here at Louma. 1:28:43.160 --> 1:28:43.320 Oh. 1:28:43.360 --> 1:28:44.479 Absolutely, it's the best. 1:28:44.560 --> 1:28:46.280 I mean you talk to any player in the world. 1:28:46.360 --> 1:28:49.120 Everyone first grass over turf, you know. We talked to her, 1:28:49.200 --> 1:28:51.800 Laura Harvey, and she said, it looks fast the ground interrupt. 1:28:51.439 --> 1:28:52.720 Here is Utah have a chance here? 1:28:52.760 --> 1:28:54.080 They got a ball on the right, tries to slip 1:28:54.080 --> 1:28:56.360 the ball in, but a great job there to cut 1:28:56.400 --> 1:29:00.759 that one out. And that is our midfield, Sally Menti 1:29:01.120 --> 1:29:03.519 from Roosevelt High School getting in the way of that one. 1:29:03.960 --> 1:29:05.280 Seattle now with possession. 1:29:05.280 --> 1:29:07.479 Sorry to interrupt, go ahead, No, as I was saying, 1:29:07.520 --> 1:29:08.320 it moves fast. 1:29:08.520 --> 1:29:10.599 It moves the pace fast. The grass goes fast. 1:29:10.680 --> 1:29:14.559 Where's fishlock a chance to beat this defense, but can't 1:29:14.560 --> 1:29:16.720 get around that defense. Few years off to the right 1:29:16.760 --> 1:29:20.759 for Juexa, for Moondare montasr. Chance across, takes a deflection 1:29:21.320 --> 1:29:24.559 and it will stay with Seattle, and that should be 1:29:24.600 --> 1:29:28.120 a foul. They're on Mondas here about ten yards from 1:29:28.520 --> 1:29:30.519 the edge of the box. Let's go down onto the 1:29:30.520 --> 1:29:32.400 sideline with a third member of our crew today. Quame 1:29:32.479 --> 1:29:32.920 a pie up. 1:29:33.560 --> 1:29:35.960 All right, looks like we're doing you know we're doing 1:29:36.040 --> 1:29:38.080 we're supposed to do here. We're getting the ball out wide, 1:29:38.080 --> 1:29:39.840 We're getting it out early and off and I think 1:29:40.080 --> 1:29:42.599 the key to the second half is making sure we're 1:29:42.600 --> 1:29:45.200 getting the ball into the box early as we can 1:29:45.280 --> 1:29:48.000 and as often as possible. We've got some great opportunities. 1:29:48.120 --> 1:29:50.599 I think going into the back post, it feels like 1:29:50.920 --> 1:29:54.360 the Utah defensive line is shifting over into the strong side. 1:29:54.439 --> 1:29:56.639 So if that ball gets floated over into the other box, 1:29:56.640 --> 1:29:58.240 you have Rackcliffe on the other end and hopefully we 1:29:58.280 --> 1:30:01.760 can get some loose open opportunities going to the goal. 1:30:02.160 --> 1:30:06.479 There's Montacy with his free kick. Thanks Kwame sends it forward. 1:30:06.479 --> 1:30:09.160 It's an out swinger top of the box, tipped on, 1:30:09.280 --> 1:30:11.639 but a great job by me and Justice to get 1:30:11.680 --> 1:30:14.240 on the end of that one after it popped up. 1:30:14.800 --> 1:30:19.120 Kind of took a inopportune deflection there, I believe. I 1:30:19.160 --> 1:30:21.240 don't know if I was feeding mcclaran making a run 1:30:21.280 --> 1:30:25.600 towards goal there, but ultimately not the exact touch you 1:30:25.640 --> 1:30:29.639 wanted on that ball right off of that free kick, Stephanie. 1:30:29.160 --> 1:30:30.040 No, definitely not. 1:30:30.160 --> 1:30:32.080 And again it's just a little bit of that composure 1:30:32.120 --> 1:30:34.120 maybe on both sides of the ball back line, but 1:30:34.200 --> 1:30:37.240 also in the attacking app As Kwami was saying, great 1:30:37.280 --> 1:30:39.200 balls into the box, whether it's a direct kick there 1:30:39.200 --> 1:30:41.280 from mondas here or we're seeing crosses in from where 1:30:41.360 --> 1:30:44.519 to They're not getting good contact on that ball. 1:30:45.280 --> 1:30:47.479 There is hu saw now picking it up with possession 1:30:47.479 --> 1:30:49.559 now switching the point of attack to the left side. 1:30:49.640 --> 1:30:51.519 Chance to cross it in towards the back of stick, 1:30:51.640 --> 1:30:53.920 had a foot on it, but it's a poor touch 1:30:53.960 --> 1:30:57.479 there at the back post. Massive opportunity for I believe 1:30:57.479 --> 1:31:00.559 there was Page Crona to the back post, but couldn't 1:31:00.600 --> 1:31:02.880 get her full foot on the end of that one. 1:31:03.200 --> 1:31:05.360 That very easily could have been for nothing. 1:31:05.360 --> 1:31:07.880 Stephanie, it absolutely could have been. And again I think 1:31:07.880 --> 1:31:10.240 you're just looking at that back line. Where is the leadership, 1:31:10.240 --> 1:31:12.800 Where is the composure? She was unmarked on that back 1:31:12.840 --> 1:31:15.000 post most dangerous, But on the field when that ball's 1:31:15.000 --> 1:31:16.360 floating and that. 1:31:16.439 --> 1:31:19.639 Is that back post there, Madison, Curry, mcclern and Mason, 1:31:20.439 --> 1:31:22.800 we need to not give the ball away and also 1:31:22.840 --> 1:31:25.720 cover on those chances. As Utah is still working possession 1:31:25.960 --> 1:31:28.840 in Seattle's edge of the field, cross coming in and 1:31:29.400 --> 1:31:33.559 easily handled by a goalkeeper. Claudia Dickey rows it out. 1:31:33.920 --> 1:31:37.000 Chance to potentially counter it back. Here's a Radcliffe and 1:31:37.240 --> 1:31:40.160 Jess Fishlock. But you cannot connect with each other and 1:31:40.200 --> 1:31:43.440 the ball is given right back to Utah. 1:31:43.479 --> 1:31:46.559 And those are the moments I think again where they 1:31:46.680 --> 1:31:49.920 we don't need urgency. The Rain needs to maintain the 1:31:49.960 --> 1:31:53.240 ball in those moments. Again, the Royals are actually just 1:31:53.360 --> 1:31:55.200 charging down the field. We thought they would sit back. 1:31:55.280 --> 1:31:57.599 They don't look like they're sitting back. So the Rain 1:31:57.680 --> 1:31:59.240 need to gain control of the ball. 1:31:59.439 --> 1:32:03.479 Yeah, right now, out the rain. The Rain are on 1:32:03.560 --> 1:32:06.880 the heels from Utah, who are definitely pushing for that 1:32:06.960 --> 1:32:11.479 fourth goal and they want to sweep the leg right now, 1:32:11.600 --> 1:32:13.640 fifty second minute, up three to nothing and they know 1:32:13.720 --> 1:32:19.800 a fourth goal but effectively end this game. They are 1:32:19.840 --> 1:32:23.200 certainly going for it, but they are pushing numbers forward. 1:32:23.200 --> 1:32:27.280 If Seattle can capitalize on that and get them in transition, 1:32:28.160 --> 1:32:30.880 that could change the entire dynamic. Here is if the 1:32:31.000 --> 1:32:34.120 Rain pick it up going switching the point of attack 1:32:34.160 --> 1:32:35.960 to this right side, can Coco get to the end 1:32:36.000 --> 1:32:37.880 of that one. It's a long ball and it will 1:32:37.920 --> 1:32:41.360 go out for a Utah throwing here from the near 1:32:41.439 --> 1:32:43.840 side the left, and. 1:32:43.840 --> 1:32:46.519 Again that's an unfortunate giveaway in the middle of the field. 1:32:46.520 --> 1:32:48.720 They're not making it to the attacking third. I mean, 1:32:48.720 --> 1:32:50.920 I think I've seen just Fishlock put her head up 1:32:51.080 --> 1:32:53.120 a couple of times just in frustration of they're not 1:32:53.200 --> 1:32:56.240 even getting into the spaces right now where they need 1:32:56.280 --> 1:32:58.040 to be to make sure that they can work their 1:32:58.040 --> 1:32:59.040 way back into this game. 1:32:59.400 --> 1:33:00.880 It's all long ball here to the left. 1:33:00.920 --> 1:33:05.280 It's taken away by Huerta or To looking for some help, 1:33:05.320 --> 1:33:07.880 trying to find some help. She has helped within the 1:33:07.880 --> 1:33:11.160 form of Claudia Dicky, but who is pressured immediately. And 1:33:11.280 --> 1:33:14.320 these the tense moments here where Utah has pressured Seattle 1:33:14.360 --> 1:33:17.519 into giveaways, but that will go out after a deflected 1:33:17.600 --> 1:33:20.919 pass for a Seattle throwing. That was a very important 1:33:20.960 --> 1:33:23.800 moment for the Rain in that moment, Stephanie to not 1:33:23.960 --> 1:33:27.200 give that ball away with a lot of pressure there 1:33:27.200 --> 1:33:27.960 in their own end. 1:33:28.160 --> 1:33:30.640 Absolutely, And one thing we should have noted actually is 1:33:30.840 --> 1:33:33.760 those giveaways from the back line. There is something to 1:33:33.760 --> 1:33:36.280 do with the new surface, right this is a new stadium, 1:33:36.400 --> 1:33:37.040 new grass. 1:33:37.160 --> 1:33:37.920 It changes the game. 1:33:38.080 --> 1:33:40.600 Here's Ratcliffe, Ratcliffe with a lot of space, but she 1:33:40.680 --> 1:33:41.920 has some pressure on her. 1:33:42.360 --> 1:33:44.800 Tipped away that will go out for a corner kick. 1:33:45.280 --> 1:33:48.479 Corner coming for Seattle here in the fifty third minute, 1:33:48.840 --> 1:33:52.000 he's the opportunities here down three nothing that you cannot 1:33:52.040 --> 1:33:55.800 waste as Mandasier will take this ball and take it 1:33:56.120 --> 1:33:59.040 to the southeast corner here of Lumen Field for this 1:33:59.160 --> 1:34:03.040 corner kick in front of those fans on the eastern 1:34:03.120 --> 1:34:09.160 side of this stadium. Wandasire has helping the form of Flerta. 1:34:11.280 --> 1:34:15.160 She will go long towards the back post, punched away 1:34:15.640 --> 1:34:18.160 like Justice, bounce us back out still with the rain 1:34:18.479 --> 1:34:22.120 on this left side here square to Mandasre Monnasare's spacing 1:34:22.160 --> 1:34:23.240 the box, crosses. 1:34:22.880 --> 1:34:24.160 It in towards the back post. 1:34:24.400 --> 1:34:27.120 Nobody home there at the back post, and that will 1:34:27.120 --> 1:34:28.160 go out for a goal kick. 1:34:28.200 --> 1:34:30.920 Stephanie, Yeah, and again Mandasire are doing a great job 1:34:30.960 --> 1:34:31.880 of getting crosses in. 1:34:31.960 --> 1:34:32.519 I will see. 1:34:32.560 --> 1:34:34.519 I think there's moments where she can be a little 1:34:34.560 --> 1:34:36.880 bit more intentional with where her cross goes. She is 1:34:36.880 --> 1:34:39.479 whipping it in there, but on balls like that, pick 1:34:39.520 --> 1:34:41.640 someone out now, to be fair to her, there are 1:34:41.680 --> 1:34:44.679 multiple players in that box, and I think Mercado maybe 1:34:44.680 --> 1:34:46.760 if she had a little bit better positioning read that 1:34:46.840 --> 1:34:48.960 Mandasire was gonna send that and she could have floated 1:34:49.040 --> 1:34:51.000 back post and got something on it. But as it 1:34:51.040 --> 1:34:53.720 stood three players there, no one gets anything on it. 1:34:53.760 --> 1:34:56.600 Again, a lot of pressure here is Utah plays with 1:34:56.640 --> 1:34:57.519 the ball in their back line. 1:34:57.520 --> 1:34:59.880 They're playing with fire. The rainer able to take this away. 1:35:00.120 --> 1:35:03.599 Here's Fishlock has a lot of help to be able 1:35:03.680 --> 1:35:07.880 to keep possession for the rain. Now Here is Mesa 1:35:08.520 --> 1:35:12.920 taking it into Utah's area. Tipps out for a throw 1:35:12.960 --> 1:35:15.599 in coming. We look down and we see the first 1:35:15.640 --> 1:35:19.360 sub for Seattle getting ready to Mattie Doleen, the twenty 1:35:19.400 --> 1:35:23.120 one year old from Minnesota who signed with Seattle last January. 1:35:24.280 --> 1:35:27.000 You mentioned earlier as a ball goes right, a sneaky 1:35:27.040 --> 1:35:30.120 little shot quick off the throw in was right to 1:35:30.200 --> 1:35:34.240 the side netting. It'll go out for a goal kick. 1:35:34.280 --> 1:35:38.439 And Laura Harvey is a little bit frustrated that was 1:35:38.439 --> 1:35:41.760 taken so quickly off the throwing. But here comes this 1:35:41.800 --> 1:35:46.160 first change I mentioned Maddie Dollen. She has three appearances 1:35:46.160 --> 1:35:49.400 with the United States women's national senior team here and 1:35:49.560 --> 1:35:52.840 this year made her debut in January, and she comes 1:35:52.840 --> 1:35:56.400 on to the field. This is her fourth game here 1:35:56.439 --> 1:35:59.400 in twenty twenty six. Does not have a goal on 1:35:59.400 --> 1:36:03.000 her assistance season, after scoring four and assisting on four 1:36:03.280 --> 1:36:05.880 in twenty twenty five. She is now going to be 1:36:06.280 --> 1:36:08.880 your left winger here coming on for Britney Ratcliffe. 1:36:09.560 --> 1:36:09.840 Dang In. 1:36:09.960 --> 1:36:12.120 Laura Harvey mentioned this to us earlier in the week 1:36:12.160 --> 1:36:14.439 that the press she is asking of her front four 1:36:14.920 --> 1:36:18.920 Fishlock Mercado, Manda Year, Ratcliffe, now Dollen is a lot 1:36:19.040 --> 1:36:19.519 of work. 1:36:19.600 --> 1:36:20.960 It's a lot of work off the ball. 1:36:21.000 --> 1:36:23.400 It's constantly putting them under pressure, and so she knew 1:36:23.479 --> 1:36:25.280 she was going to rotate those players. 1:36:26.600 --> 1:36:27.519 Here's the Rain. 1:36:27.520 --> 1:36:28.560 Still with possession. 1:36:28.600 --> 1:36:31.880 Here's mint Menti China at the ball that's deflected out 1:36:33.200 --> 1:36:40.439 forlor A Seattle throwing. Harvey, her coaching staff, lots of 1:36:40.680 --> 1:36:45.200 yelling for movement here, ball towards the middle of the park. Utah, 1:36:45.320 --> 1:36:47.559 take it away and now a chance to potentially counter 1:36:47.600 --> 1:36:49.760 here on this left side they have space and they 1:36:49.760 --> 1:36:51.920 get going with La cass on this left side. 1:36:52.120 --> 1:36:53.759 Chance across comes into the middle. 1:36:54.080 --> 1:36:56.000 Mcclernan will deal with that one and send it out 1:36:56.120 --> 1:36:59.920 for a Utah throwing three nothing Utah here at Luminfield. 1:37:00.040 --> 1:37:04.280 You're in the fifty seventh minute. The Rain have thirty 1:37:04.320 --> 1:37:07.799 four minutes in stoppage time and a large uphill battle. 1:37:07.800 --> 1:37:10.639 But we mentioned it in the first half. Stephanie, We're 1:37:10.640 --> 1:37:15.800 doing a broadcast last summer Rain versus Chicago, and this 1:37:16.000 --> 1:37:20.880 was a nothing, three nothing Seattle lead going into the 1:37:20.960 --> 1:37:24.799 seventieth minute, and Chicago scored three goals and twenty minutes 1:37:25.120 --> 1:37:27.040 to come away with a three to three draw. 1:37:27.960 --> 1:37:29.080 Soccer is funny like that. 1:37:29.439 --> 1:37:32.000 You can be in a blowout one second and have 1:37:32.040 --> 1:37:33.160 a tie game the next. 1:37:34.000 --> 1:37:34.400 It is. 1:37:34.600 --> 1:37:37.120 It is funny like that, and it's really important for 1:37:37.160 --> 1:37:40.519 players to remember that this is a game of momentum shifts. 1:37:40.760 --> 1:37:42.679 They scored three goals in the first half, why can't 1:37:42.680 --> 1:37:43.360 we in the second? 1:37:44.000 --> 1:37:46.840 Here is rain getting in the way of what was 1:37:46.880 --> 1:37:52.000 a dangerous series of passes towards Seattle's box. Now back 1:37:52.080 --> 1:37:56.040 with Utah. Another chance here as they're in the middle 1:37:56.040 --> 1:37:59.920 of the park looking towards goal over on the right. Now, 1:38:01.160 --> 1:38:04.040 chance to cross it in. Ball comes in, tipped away 1:38:04.080 --> 1:38:06.240 by mcclernan, and we'll go all the way back out 1:38:07.560 --> 1:38:08.920 for Utah still in possession. 1:38:08.960 --> 1:38:10.479 Let's go down on to the sideline with Kwame. 1:38:11.880 --> 1:38:14.360 So I'm really loving the sub here. I think dialen 1:38:14.439 --> 1:38:17.080 coming in. You get a little bit more size, fresh legs, 1:38:17.200 --> 1:38:19.240 a little bit more pace. What you're hoping here is 1:38:19.240 --> 1:38:21.479 to get the ball into the box overloaded and hopefully 1:38:21.560 --> 1:38:23.120 we can get somebodies on the ball. 1:38:23.160 --> 1:38:23.960 And I think that that's. 1:38:23.840 --> 1:38:26.479 What that's what Harvey's intention is right now, and I think, 1:38:26.960 --> 1:38:28.720 I honestly think it's gonna make a major difference. And 1:38:28.720 --> 1:38:32.160 they're also overloading anytime the ball is on one side. 1:38:32.160 --> 1:38:34.840 You see Dialen come over, be that extra defender in 1:38:34.840 --> 1:38:36.439 that middle part. They're trying to make sure we put 1:38:36.439 --> 1:38:38.879 bodies close to the ball, win the ball in transition. 1:38:39.040 --> 1:38:39.720 So I'm loving it. 1:38:40.720 --> 1:38:43.439 For Seattle, let's say a giveaway on the back line 1:38:43.479 --> 1:38:44.839 and then a foul ride afterwards. 1:38:44.840 --> 1:38:46.280 It was a giveaway and a tough spot. 1:38:46.760 --> 1:38:52.920 And then we see sam Mesa there justging dragging down 1:38:53.200 --> 1:38:56.200 that attacker for Utah so they couldn't get something dangerous. 1:38:56.200 --> 1:38:58.680 But it will be a free kick here just. 1:38:58.640 --> 1:39:05.599 About yards fifteen yards outside of the box, flies in 1:39:05.680 --> 1:39:08.439 towards the back post. Rain get ahead to it. It ends 1:39:08.479 --> 1:39:11.160 up at Fishlock now to Matty Dollen. But Utah take 1:39:11.200 --> 1:39:13.920 it away and just send it into the rafters. Sit 1:39:14.040 --> 1:39:17.880 here at Loman Field a wishing shot. Not sure the 1:39:17.920 --> 1:39:20.600 point of that, but it will go kindly out for 1:39:20.720 --> 1:39:22.959 a goalkick for Claudia Dicky. 1:39:23.040 --> 1:39:25.400 And Thompson had a little smile there. I think she 1:39:25.479 --> 1:39:28.320 knew she was kind of just sending it. But you know, again, 1:39:28.360 --> 1:39:30.600 to the point the Royals are not slowing down. We 1:39:30.760 --> 1:39:32.720 thought maybe they'd sit in a low block and they'd 1:39:32.800 --> 1:39:34.680 keep the ball and they'd kind of could serve their 1:39:34.800 --> 1:39:36.599 energy because of this long road trip. 1:39:36.680 --> 1:39:39.360 No, they want this game to be four five zero. 1:39:40.040 --> 1:39:43.200 Certainly do is Now. Utah will make their first change 1:39:43.240 --> 1:39:48.080 the day. Leaving the field now will be Paige Cronin. 1:39:50.080 --> 1:39:53.719 Cronin had not appeared in a game yet in twenty 1:39:53.760 --> 1:39:57.400 twenty six. She was dealing with an injury. She makes 1:39:57.400 --> 1:40:00.960 her first start, first appearance of the season, and she 1:40:01.160 --> 1:40:05.719 scores in the first minute off the defensive giveaway. Coming 1:40:05.760 --> 1:40:08.760 onto the field is another forward for Utah, so it's 1:40:08.800 --> 1:40:15.000 a like for like change. It's Alex Sponstra forward slash 1:40:15.040 --> 1:40:18.639 midfielder coming on for Utah. Who here who will play 1:40:18.880 --> 1:40:24.120 a similar spot fishlock trying to get something going on 1:40:24.160 --> 1:40:26.920 the right side, but it's given away. Utah tried to clear, 1:40:27.320 --> 1:40:30.880 but it will only clear to sam Mezza. 1:40:31.080 --> 1:40:33.720 Mezza over on this left side, trying to find Curry. 1:40:33.560 --> 1:40:36.519 But Utah pick it out and they will clear it 1:40:36.600 --> 1:40:39.240 back all the way to mcclernan in Seattle's own end. 1:40:42.080 --> 1:40:43.439 And you know, at this point in the game, I 1:40:43.439 --> 1:40:46.120 don't think either coach would describe the style of play 1:40:46.120 --> 1:40:49.719 we're seeing as very clean. Neither team is maintaining really 1:40:49.760 --> 1:40:53.439 long stretches of possession. It's fairly bouncing back and forth. 1:40:53.560 --> 1:40:56.519 Neither team has a clear kind of strategy with how 1:40:56.560 --> 1:40:59.439 they're going forward with the ball. Yes, Utah has been dangerous, 1:40:59.640 --> 1:41:02.760 Yes has been dangerous in moments, but neither team to 1:41:02.800 --> 1:41:04.880 me is saying we know how to handle the ball. 1:41:04.920 --> 1:41:06.800 We're going to maintain it, We're going to possess it 1:41:07.040 --> 1:41:08.480 throughout the thirds. 1:41:08.080 --> 1:41:08.679 Of the field. 1:41:09.560 --> 1:41:13.360 This will be right now, a throw in coming from 1:41:13.479 --> 1:41:19.519 just inside of Utah's half. You will look to pick 1:41:19.600 --> 1:41:21.519 up the pressure. Right now. They're wined up in this 1:41:22.439 --> 1:41:25.639 four two three one set with Maddie Mercado sitting high 1:41:25.960 --> 1:41:29.400 about Mondaseer, Fishlock and Doleen and Monasir takes this ball away. 1:41:29.479 --> 1:41:31.920 There's the pressure we talked about. Montas here working on 1:41:31.960 --> 1:41:34.599 this left side. Chance to cross gets into that assist zone. 1:41:34.760 --> 1:41:36.720 Cross sit back takes a clip and that is going 1:41:36.760 --> 1:41:38.760 to be out for a corner kick here in the 1:41:38.800 --> 1:41:43.080 sixty first minute. A very opportune job by Coco Mandasire 1:41:43.320 --> 1:41:45.800 to take that ball away, make a nice move and 1:41:45.840 --> 1:41:48.080 create a Seattle corner in the sixty first Oh. 1:41:48.120 --> 1:41:49.280 She is so fast. 1:41:49.360 --> 1:41:51.320 She is such a fun player to watch. She has 1:41:51.640 --> 1:41:53.479 loads of space here in front of her. She starts 1:41:53.560 --> 1:41:55.680 driving towards the end line. She's able to bring her 1:41:55.720 --> 1:41:58.719 defender over and really, Justice does a great job blocking 1:41:58.720 --> 1:42:00.879 that from going back across the The goal. 1:42:02.200 --> 1:42:05.439 Be a Justice. Utah's backup last year and has turned 1:42:05.479 --> 1:42:07.719 into their starter this year, and she's done an excellent 1:42:07.800 --> 1:42:10.880 job tonight. Cocoa Mantas here now over. It'll be an 1:42:10.880 --> 1:42:14.760 in swinger. Here she goes short to Huerta. Huerta takes 1:42:14.760 --> 1:42:17.839 a deflection on her cross, headed away by a Utah defender, 1:42:17.920 --> 1:42:20.800 stays with Seattle. Here's mesa chance to keep this ball 1:42:20.800 --> 1:42:23.160 on the right side. She crosses in headed away again, 1:42:23.479 --> 1:42:27.360 stays with Seattle. Now Mandasier on this left side. She 1:42:27.520 --> 1:42:30.360 creates some space to fishlock back out to the rights. 1:42:32.720 --> 1:42:35.479 Here's do Leen now on the left. Chance across cross 1:42:35.560 --> 1:42:38.479 comes in and a great job I'm Mercado to get 1:42:38.479 --> 1:42:41.240 a foot to that one right in front of that 1:42:41.360 --> 1:42:44.479 left post, but she just cannot direct it on frame. 1:42:44.760 --> 1:42:45.960 It goes out for a goal kick. 1:42:46.240 --> 1:42:48.679 Yeah, I'm lucky there. Where's doing a great job again 1:42:48.880 --> 1:42:50.840 of getting service into the box. She's had a couple 1:42:50.840 --> 1:42:52.920 of assists on the year. It continues to be a 1:42:52.920 --> 1:42:55.679 great part of her game. As Bombi mentioned earlier, Dleene's 1:42:55.680 --> 1:42:57.559 actually the one that ends up getting that in. But 1:42:57.760 --> 1:42:59.920 Mercado comes across the frame of the goal at the 1:43:00.120 --> 1:43:01.960 perfect time, tries to kind of do a flick with 1:43:02.000 --> 1:43:02.960 the outside of her foot. 1:43:03.400 --> 1:43:05.800 It just doesn't direct it back the goal the way 1:43:05.840 --> 1:43:06.320 she wanted to. 1:43:06.960 --> 1:43:09.400 Here's the rain taking this one away. Another defensive giveaway 1:43:09.400 --> 1:43:12.080 by Utah. Here's Mezsa on this right side. Chance to 1:43:12.160 --> 1:43:14.439 cross it in, but she has some help. Here's Bondas 1:43:14.479 --> 1:43:18.400 here working with her. There's also Bluertza. Mezza foot on 1:43:18.400 --> 1:43:20.679 the ball. Now crosses it in going towards the back post. 1:43:20.680 --> 1:43:22.840 Would be a justice is able to grab that one 1:43:22.840 --> 1:43:27.000 away for Uzhah her goalkeeper today will roll it out. Now. 1:43:27.040 --> 1:43:29.719 Here's Tahada working through the middle of the park, sending 1:43:29.760 --> 1:43:32.120 this all the way through and will not be able 1:43:32.160 --> 1:43:35.160 to reach any running Utah. A zacher will roll all 1:43:35.200 --> 1:43:38.240 the way into the arms of Claudia. Dickie quickly plays 1:43:38.280 --> 1:43:40.400 us out to the left. Seattle's trying to go fast. 1:43:40.400 --> 1:43:42.679 Now they're up picking up the base. Down three nothing. 1:43:42.720 --> 1:43:46.160 Here's Maddie Dallen rushing off the left, getting into the box, 1:43:46.439 --> 1:43:49.719 cuts in left footed, shot right towards the near post, 1:43:49.960 --> 1:43:52.800 but be a justice does a good job falling on 1:43:52.880 --> 1:43:57.320 that one right there at the post, and he would 1:43:57.320 --> 1:44:01.360 be Seattle attack and shot there from Maddie will go 1:44:01.479 --> 1:44:04.000 for nothing, but definitely again, these are the chances you 1:44:04.000 --> 1:44:05.080 want to see getting created. 1:44:05.120 --> 1:44:07.160 Here you do, and Doleen does a great job to 1:44:07.240 --> 1:44:10.120 really drive into this space. One brilliant thing that you 1:44:10.200 --> 1:44:12.720 can see in this play is actually Jefs Fishlock directing her. 1:44:13.120 --> 1:44:16.880 Jessicealcket's making a diagonal rerunt across Dollen, so she's able 1:44:16.880 --> 1:44:19.559 to keep driving centrally and has that time and space 1:44:19.560 --> 1:44:21.720 and she's telling her go, go, go to goal. 1:44:21.960 --> 1:44:22.400 And that's what. 1:44:22.360 --> 1:44:24.240 Senior leaders like that do. They tell you when to 1:44:24.280 --> 1:44:26.600 take those chances. And now they just need to finish up. 1:44:26.800 --> 1:44:29.240 Here's another Utah giveaway. Here's Doleen in the box. 1:44:29.479 --> 1:44:33.200 Helen crossed it shot and it goes off of Fishlock's footing. 1:44:33.600 --> 1:44:36.640 Jess Fishlock is down and her arm is up and 1:44:36.720 --> 1:44:41.360 she is waving for trainers. Jess Fishlock is down in 1:44:41.400 --> 1:44:46.200 the box. A referee today waving the trainers over. Jess 1:44:46.200 --> 1:44:50.639 Fishlock right now in an enormous amount of pain, holding 1:44:50.680 --> 1:44:54.000 her left ankle down in the middle of the box. 1:44:56.760 --> 1:45:00.559 This comes just five days after the announcement that Jess 1:45:00.560 --> 1:45:03.559 Fishlock will retire at the end of the twenty twenty 1:45:03.600 --> 1:45:08.360 sixth season, the last remaining original member of the. 1:45:08.640 --> 1:45:10.200 Rain team from twenty thirteen. 1:45:11.360 --> 1:45:14.880 The announcement came thirteen years to the day from her 1:45:14.960 --> 1:45:18.759 first Rain goal on April twenty first, twenty thirteen. Forty 1:45:18.880 --> 1:45:23.880 nine goals this season, only two behind Meghan Rapino for 1:45:23.960 --> 1:45:28.240 the most in club history. And right now she is 1:45:28.360 --> 1:45:31.759 down and she is with a trainer holding her left ankle. 1:45:32.160 --> 1:45:34.000 Stephanie in an enormous amount of pain. 1:45:34.240 --> 1:45:36.599 Yeah, And she is not a player that goes down 1:45:36.800 --> 1:45:39.120 or stays down. So when she is down that she's 1:45:39.479 --> 1:45:42.280 she's injured, you know. And at different times players can 1:45:42.320 --> 1:45:45.679 can utilize fousand moments immediately she was asking for the trainer, 1:45:45.960 --> 1:45:48.600 and on that replay you can see it's so unfortunate. 1:45:48.640 --> 1:45:50.840 Marcado is shooting the ball, She's trying to jump to 1:45:50.880 --> 1:45:53.720 get out of the way. It hits her leg and 1:45:53.760 --> 1:45:55.960 she ends up falling awkwardly on her ankle. 1:45:56.280 --> 1:45:58.320 I really hope nothing comes a bit. I hope it's 1:45:58.320 --> 1:45:59.000 a bad twist. 1:45:59.080 --> 1:46:01.400 But she is down. She is in some very clear pain. 1:46:01.920 --> 1:46:03.360 So last thing you want to see. 1:46:03.560 --> 1:46:06.400 We're watching Jess Fishlock right now, laying on her back, 1:46:07.160 --> 1:46:11.240 her hands covering her face, clearly in an enormous amount 1:46:11.280 --> 1:46:14.479 of emotion. Right now is Jefs Fishlock. Where right now 1:46:14.760 --> 1:46:19.000 your fourteen year career, this is year fifteen. Is now 1:46:19.680 --> 1:46:21.840 multiple trainers are running out to her and they are 1:46:21.880 --> 1:46:25.639 bringing out the stretcher. Now for Jess Fishlock, the legend, 1:46:26.560 --> 1:46:32.599 three shields, three berths in NWSL Championships, the twenty twenty 1:46:32.600 --> 1:46:39.240 one NWSL MVP, seven time best eleven member in this league, 1:46:39.479 --> 1:46:45.520 third in NWSL history in minutes played at seventeen thousand, 1:46:46.080 --> 1:46:51.320 seven hundred and eighty five, and again just announced on 1:46:51.360 --> 1:46:53.880 Tuesday that this would be her last year. 1:46:54.560 --> 1:46:58.640 And on that shot, she awkwardly falls. 1:46:58.960 --> 1:47:03.040 And right now She is laying down a stretcher with 1:47:03.240 --> 1:47:06.640 multiple trainers down as everything has kind of come to 1:47:06.640 --> 1:47:09.719 a stop. Emory Adamis is getting ready to sub into 1:47:09.760 --> 1:47:11.040 this game for Jefs. 1:47:10.800 --> 1:47:14.400 Fishlock, and you can feel it in the stadium. I mean, 1:47:14.840 --> 1:47:18.760 these fans love Jeffs Fishlock. We've seen signs for her 1:47:18.800 --> 1:47:22.320 all day. She is the heart and soul of this team, 1:47:22.400 --> 1:47:24.600 and if this sidelines her over a little bit, she 1:47:24.680 --> 1:47:26.760 will continue to be the Jeff Fishlock. I know she 1:47:26.840 --> 1:47:29.599 will be as energetic on that sideline, but it is 1:47:30.080 --> 1:47:33.400 obviously devastating to see her down in any kind of pain, 1:47:33.520 --> 1:47:35.200 especially after the big week she's had. 1:47:35.640 --> 1:47:38.439 Right now, we're just seeing her. She is rolling her hands, 1:47:38.600 --> 1:47:42.519 still covering her face, teammates surrounding her, Claudia Dicky right 1:47:42.600 --> 1:47:45.639 next to her, as trainers are on the side. They're 1:47:45.640 --> 1:47:49.599 bringing the stretcher over and Jeff Fishlock will be put 1:47:49.640 --> 1:47:52.639 on the stretcher. The thirty nine year old from Wales. 1:47:53.479 --> 1:47:57.839 She signed two consecutive one year deals, first in November 1:47:57.840 --> 1:48:01.240 of twenty twenty four to come back for twenty and 1:48:01.280 --> 1:48:04.400 then she signed another one year deal in November of 1:48:04.400 --> 1:48:07.439 twenty twenty five to come back here for her final 1:48:07.479 --> 1:48:13.120 season in twenty twenty six. As the stretcher just leaves 1:48:13.160 --> 1:48:15.880 the field, you can hear the things and you can 1:48:15.920 --> 1:48:19.479 see the cast now on her left leg and left ankle, 1:48:21.400 --> 1:48:27.960 and the emotions on her face. It is. It's an 1:48:27.960 --> 1:48:31.800 emotional moment. I think for every Rain fan and every 1:48:31.880 --> 1:48:36.880 Rain player, everybody in this building watching and listening, this 1:48:37.040 --> 1:48:40.160 is a absolute club legend, one of the greatest to 1:48:40.200 --> 1:48:43.080 ever play this game, one of the greatest athletes I 1:48:43.120 --> 1:48:47.840 think in this city's sports history, as she is an 1:48:47.920 --> 1:48:52.640 MVP and took this team to multiple championship games. She 1:48:52.680 --> 1:48:56.280 has the most appearances in Wales national team history. And 1:48:56.400 --> 1:48:59.799 Jess Fishlock has left this game with a major injury 1:48:59.840 --> 1:49:03.720 on a stretcher, as we know, somehow continue to play. 1:49:03.760 --> 1:49:07.320 Here at Lumen Field, Utah leads three nothing and here 1:49:07.360 --> 1:49:10.679 they are counterattacking. Here in the sixty ninth minutes, ball's 1:49:10.800 --> 1:49:13.240 slipping to the back post. Here another chance at goal. 1:49:13.280 --> 1:49:17.400 Here shot goes into the arms of Claudia Dickie Covelosios 1:49:17.439 --> 1:49:20.160 put that on targets right at Claudia. 1:49:19.800 --> 1:49:21.120 Dickie, I mean, Stephanie. 1:49:21.240 --> 1:49:25.160 I'm wondering after a moment like that, where so much 1:49:25.160 --> 1:49:28.600 emotion for every player, and there's an enormous amount of 1:49:28.640 --> 1:49:29.680 motion in this building. 1:49:29.439 --> 1:49:31.719 Right now in a three nothing game. 1:49:31.840 --> 1:49:35.160 Meanwhile, how do you move forward as a player on 1:49:35.160 --> 1:49:36.120 the field in this moments? 1:49:36.520 --> 1:49:38.640 Yeah, I mean it's devastating. Like we said, you can 1:49:38.720 --> 1:49:41.200 feel the energy. I'm sure the team feels the energy, 1:49:41.240 --> 1:49:42.719 right they feel the energy in the stadium. 1:49:42.720 --> 1:49:43.320 It's deflating. 1:49:43.439 --> 1:49:46.080 She's their leader, she's been their point person for the press. 1:49:46.520 --> 1:49:48.559 What they have to do is they have to go 1:49:48.640 --> 1:49:50.680 back to basics. That's what Laura Harvey's gonna tell them 1:49:50.680 --> 1:49:52.280 at half time in order to get back to this game. 1:49:52.280 --> 1:49:52.840 And it's true. 1:49:52.920 --> 1:49:55.960 Right now, whatever moment in the game you're at, you're 1:49:55.960 --> 1:49:58.920 thinking about connector pass, you're thinking about make your run, 1:49:59.280 --> 1:50:02.320 mark your player, put your shot on target. It is 1:50:02.360 --> 1:50:04.160 the only thing you can do when you feel like 1:50:04.200 --> 1:50:08.320 the emotion of the moment is too overwhelming to actually 1:50:08.400 --> 1:50:10.920 stay present and stay locked in and stay a competitor. 1:50:11.760 --> 1:50:15.040 All right now, it's a ball towards the southwest corner 1:50:15.080 --> 1:50:17.600 of the stadium, Utah already trying to maybe take it 1:50:17.600 --> 1:50:21.559 to their own corner there, but it will be the rain. 1:50:21.479 --> 1:50:24.720 Picking this up with a Dominis trying to earn possession. 1:50:24.800 --> 1:50:27.560 Here, here's a peasants, I'm alarte all the way to 1:50:27.600 --> 1:50:29.639 the back. Let's go down onto the sideline with Kwame. 1:50:31.240 --> 1:50:34.599 So with Emery coming on to the game, I think 1:50:34.640 --> 1:50:36.519 what we're trying to do here is give a lot 1:50:36.600 --> 1:50:39.920 more pace on the wings. Unfortunate that Jeff Fishlock went down, 1:50:39.960 --> 1:50:43.160 but now it gives an opportunity to drop Mindesser into 1:50:43.160 --> 1:50:45.439 the tense spot, who has been great on the ball, 1:50:45.600 --> 1:50:47.840 who has been great in transition and great and moving forward. 1:50:48.040 --> 1:50:50.679 You now have an opportunity to have two really pacy 1:50:50.760 --> 1:50:53.360 wingers and a target forward. And so I can see 1:50:53.400 --> 1:50:55.800 the Rain looking at an opportunity to play the ball 1:50:55.960 --> 1:50:59.479 forward over up and often and even from a deeper line, 1:50:59.680 --> 1:51:01.679 hoping for that flick on so that our two wingers 1:51:01.720 --> 1:51:03.559 can go and run to the ball and hopefully get 1:51:03.600 --> 1:51:04.800 some shots on the goal we had caught me. 1:51:04.840 --> 1:51:06.160 I think that's a really good point there, with a 1:51:06.240 --> 1:51:09.320 Damas and Balleen on those wings. Great years last year 1:51:09.400 --> 1:51:14.280 for both those players, but haven't seen goal contributions yet 1:51:14.280 --> 1:51:17.120 this season, and this would be a time for them 1:51:17.120 --> 1:51:18.840 to get on the scortion. Does the Rain pick up 1:51:19.280 --> 1:51:22.599 a turnover in Utah's in out of this right side 1:51:22.640 --> 1:51:25.479 with a damas domas a little flip over. She still 1:51:25.479 --> 1:51:28.200 has the ball dribbling towards the box. Chance to go 1:51:28.280 --> 1:51:30.719 in which has a football to montas here, but fed 1:51:30.720 --> 1:51:34.760 out by a Utah player and cleared away. Now pot 1:51:34.840 --> 1:51:38.800 by mcclernet, stays with Seattle here a couple of players down. 1:51:38.800 --> 1:51:41.080 When we continue play ball in the box from montas 1:51:41.080 --> 1:51:43.160 here held up no call. 1:51:43.120 --> 1:51:44.880 Into the arms of me and justice in gold. 1:51:45.120 --> 1:51:47.479 You know, it's interesting we talk about the emotions right now, 1:51:47.680 --> 1:51:50.519 not only in this three nothing game, but watching Jess Fishlock, 1:51:50.560 --> 1:51:53.200 the club legend, leave on a stretcher. Then the news 1:51:53.200 --> 1:51:56.320 on Tuesday of her retirement didn't come as a surprise 1:51:56.360 --> 1:51:58.800 to the team. That's something that Laura Harvey said that 1:51:58.840 --> 1:52:01.439 they knew right from the moment that Jess Fishlock walked 1:52:01.439 --> 1:52:03.800 through the doors this year. They knew that this would 1:52:03.800 --> 1:52:06.680 be her last year. So no surprise. But here's a 1:52:06.760 --> 1:52:09.160 chance for the rain. Chance from distance from Ocado and 1:52:09.160 --> 1:52:13.880 that goes off the crossbar again more woodward for the rain, 1:52:14.760 --> 1:52:17.160 but stays with Seattle. And here's NSSA in the middle 1:52:17.200 --> 1:52:18.879 of the park. The repper will hold. 1:52:18.640 --> 1:52:20.840 This up and he will point back as this is 1:52:20.880 --> 1:52:21.439 an injury. 1:52:21.600 --> 1:52:25.840 Here's Mea Justice, the goalkeeper for Utah down and she 1:52:26.080 --> 1:52:29.000 is rolling in a lot of pain. She is holding 1:52:29.040 --> 1:52:31.800 onto her right leg that ball that came off of 1:52:31.840 --> 1:52:32.520 the crossbar. 1:52:32.840 --> 1:52:34.400 Mea Justice for Utah. 1:52:34.240 --> 1:52:36.800 Went up to get to that ball and when she 1:52:36.960 --> 1:52:40.160 came down, Stephanie, she did not land well. And she 1:52:40.320 --> 1:52:43.280 is being treated by two trainers and three teammates right 1:52:43.280 --> 1:52:44.240 now on the side. 1:52:44.320 --> 1:52:48.120 And again another player going down and immediately referencing that 1:52:48.160 --> 1:52:50.080 she was in pain, and we're rewatching it now again. 1:52:50.120 --> 1:52:52.760 And that bar goes off the crossbar and she falls and. 1:52:52.760 --> 1:52:55.120 It doesn't look like she takes too weird of a landing, 1:52:55.479 --> 1:52:58.400 so maybe it was contact with her other knee. 1:52:58.479 --> 1:53:00.640 I mean, it's really hard to tell. She kind of 1:53:00.680 --> 1:53:01.120 comes down. 1:53:01.240 --> 1:53:02.840 It does look like she puts a lot of weight 1:53:02.920 --> 1:53:05.640 on that one leg, but it's really hard to know. 1:53:05.880 --> 1:53:07.280 Again, these are all competitors. 1:53:07.320 --> 1:53:10.240 The second that a player immediately is rolling around asking 1:53:10.280 --> 1:53:12.599 for a trainer, in those moments, you're concerned. 1:53:12.680 --> 1:53:14.720 Yeah, she comes down on that right knee and right 1:53:14.760 --> 1:53:17.360 now two trainers are working with her. A couple of 1:53:17.520 --> 1:53:21.360 Utah players surrounding is well on one side, you know, Stephanie, 1:53:21.360 --> 1:53:23.920 we talk about, you know, trying to find more time 1:53:23.960 --> 1:53:25.920 and find more opportunities and get a ball in the 1:53:25.920 --> 1:53:27.680 back of the net. There is going to be at 1:53:27.800 --> 1:53:30.479 least about eight minutes added to this game, if not 1:53:30.640 --> 1:53:34.880 double digits. We will certainly play far, far past the 1:53:35.000 --> 1:53:37.360 ninety minutes, as we're in the seventy third minute right 1:53:37.360 --> 1:53:41.160 here at Luminfield, Jackson felt Stephanie Vrdouya kwamapaya on Sports 1:53:41.240 --> 1:53:44.000 Radio at nine to fifty kJ am coming at you 1:53:44.120 --> 1:53:48.639 with the first of around ten rain games on radio 1:53:48.760 --> 1:53:51.320 here in twenty twenty six. Thank you so much for 1:53:51.439 --> 1:53:55.240 joining us in this rain return to lumen Field. They've 1:53:55.240 --> 1:53:57.519 been away from home for quite a while, three games 1:53:57.600 --> 1:54:00.920 in Spokane where they played very well a three to 1:54:01.960 --> 1:54:05.080 one and one start to twenty twenty six. But right 1:54:05.120 --> 1:54:08.800 now down three to nothing to this Utah team with 1:54:08.920 --> 1:54:12.280 eighteen minutes to go, plus a lot of stoppage time, 1:54:12.280 --> 1:54:18.400 and still we are seeing multiple trainers continue to work 1:54:18.439 --> 1:54:22.000 with their goalkeeper. Mea Justice and you'd absolutely think that 1:54:22.040 --> 1:54:24.439 mea Justice is coming out of this game. And it's interesting. 1:54:24.439 --> 1:54:28.240 We talked about it earlier. Mea Justice, right now is 1:54:28.280 --> 1:54:33.640 the goalkeeper for Utah only because of a preseason injury 1:54:33.680 --> 1:54:37.440 to their normal starting goalkeeper, Mandy McGlenn. McGlynn has been 1:54:37.480 --> 1:54:40.000 their starting goalkeeper for a long time and then in 1:54:40.040 --> 1:54:45.000 the preseason she had a finger injury that caused her 1:54:45.040 --> 1:54:49.240 to miss all of their first six first five games. 1:54:49.920 --> 1:54:52.800 But this is her first game back of bea available. 1:54:53.080 --> 1:54:54.880 They put her on the bench. That gave me a 1:54:55.080 --> 1:54:58.919 Justice another chance, as Mia had had a successful start 1:54:59.320 --> 1:55:02.160 to this season and as me and we see me 1:55:02.200 --> 1:55:05.040 a Justice. She's right now kind of testing that right knee. 1:55:05.080 --> 1:55:07.880 She's bending it, trying to get some pressure on that, 1:55:07.920 --> 1:55:12.400 trying to get some weight, putting some weight on her trainer, 1:55:13.040 --> 1:55:16.640 seeing if she can actually give it a go. You 1:55:16.680 --> 1:55:19.800 see her jogging, Stephanie. This would be quite a after 1:55:19.840 --> 1:55:21.640 how much time she spent on the ground and in 1:55:21.680 --> 1:55:24.120 so much pain, this would be a little bit surprising 1:55:24.120 --> 1:55:25.440 if she's able to stay in this game. 1:55:25.640 --> 1:55:26.320 Yeah, and it's hard. 1:55:26.360 --> 1:55:28.360 I mean you're looking at multiple things, right, I mean, 1:55:28.440 --> 1:55:32.480 they have a cushiony lead right now, three zero, and 1:55:32.600 --> 1:55:35.560 they don't need to worry about bringing in, you know, 1:55:35.880 --> 1:55:38.640 their normal starter to make sure they see this one out. 1:55:38.880 --> 1:55:40.280 However, you don't want to get the keeper in a 1:55:40.280 --> 1:55:41.080 position where. 1:55:40.840 --> 1:55:43.480 She's not ready to go, and so it looks like 1:55:43.560 --> 1:55:46.400 potentially Justice will stay in, and there's a lot of 1:55:46.400 --> 1:55:48.400 moving parts for them to make that decision. Here. 1:55:48.560 --> 1:55:50.360 It is a little shocking based on how long she 1:55:50.440 --> 1:55:50.920 stayed down. 1:55:51.080 --> 1:55:53.200 Yeah, it is shocking, but you heard it down there 1:55:53.200 --> 1:55:56.440 from the sideline. No changes me and Justice staying in. 1:55:56.480 --> 1:55:58.720 Here's Seattle attacking off to the right. Here's a Damis 1:55:59.040 --> 1:56:01.520 with that speed, perhaps trying to find a chance to 1:56:01.520 --> 1:56:03.480 cross it will be tipped out four a corner kick 1:56:03.680 --> 1:56:07.880 corner for Seattle here in the seventy sixth minute, and 1:56:07.960 --> 1:56:11.360 we see now Seattle getting ready to make three changes 1:56:11.760 --> 1:56:14.720 on the side. We get to those here in just 1:56:14.760 --> 1:56:17.640 a matter of moments. But we do have a corner 1:56:17.720 --> 1:56:26.040 kick coming here. Here will be the corner coming in. 1:56:26.880 --> 1:56:29.480 It's an end swinger going towards the middle of the box, 1:56:29.800 --> 1:56:33.400 tipped by Mason, but can't get a full foot on it. 1:56:33.440 --> 1:56:38.320 In Utah, we'll clear that one away. We're going to 1:56:38.360 --> 1:56:41.160 see three moves from Seattle in the form of Ryan 1:56:41.200 --> 1:56:45.200 Brown me official and has James Turner coming onto the 1:56:45.240 --> 1:56:49.360 park here in just a moment in this three nothing game, 1:56:51.120 --> 1:56:56.360 Seattle in possession in their own side of the field, and. 1:56:56.320 --> 1:56:59.040 You know this half is just all about disruptions, disruptions 1:56:59.040 --> 1:57:02.640 of injuries and disruption of time, multiple subs. I mean, 1:57:02.640 --> 1:57:05.920 this is it's really tough to keep momentum when you 1:57:05.960 --> 1:57:07.000 have all these changes. 1:57:09.760 --> 1:57:14.560 Bond of seriabl foul and Utah midfielder in there on end. 1:57:14.600 --> 1:57:18.040 So it'll be a free kick for the Royals. As 1:57:18.080 --> 1:57:20.120 we look down on the sideline, we see Laurel Harvey 1:57:20.520 --> 1:57:24.280 giving instructions to these players. It'll be a defender in 1:57:24.400 --> 1:57:29.800 Ryan Brown, a left midfielder, and James Turner and then 1:57:29.840 --> 1:57:33.320 be Official, the highly priced forward who was brought in 1:57:33.400 --> 1:57:38.040 last summer, still working back to full fitness from a 1:57:38.120 --> 1:57:42.560 major injuries she's had in recent years. We worked with 1:57:42.640 --> 1:57:45.480 the United States women's national team head coach Emma Hayes 1:57:45.520 --> 1:57:49.760 before the game. She unprompted named me official with somebody 1:57:49.760 --> 1:57:52.680 that she's watching to get back to that full fitness 1:57:52.680 --> 1:57:54.960 as a part of the national team for potentially the 1:57:54.960 --> 1:57:57.880 World Cup next year. In the Olympics in twenty twenty eight, 1:57:58.440 --> 1:58:02.200 Utah in possession goes out for a Royals throw in 1:58:02.880 --> 1:58:04.880 from the far side the right, and here comes that 1:58:04.960 --> 1:58:05.920 those three changes. 1:58:06.680 --> 1:58:08.520 The first change will be the. 1:58:08.600 --> 1:58:13.400 Official coming out of this field for Coco Mantasre Monasre, 1:58:13.400 --> 1:58:15.839 who leads Seattle today. 1:58:16.480 --> 1:58:18.120 At least see how this season. 1:58:18.360 --> 1:58:23.720 In goals full contributions couldn't do anything today. Also leaving 1:58:23.760 --> 1:58:28.200 the field is Sophia Fuertza is sheet of hearts, and 1:58:28.280 --> 1:58:31.760 also leaving the field is Sally Menti in the midfield. 1:58:31.880 --> 1:58:34.600 So what do we make of this, Stephanie, It looks 1:58:34.600 --> 1:58:37.400 like kind of a like for like with Ficial and Mondaseere. 1:58:38.080 --> 1:58:41.000 You have wheer'sa coming out brown coming in. 1:58:41.040 --> 1:58:43.760 That's a little bit like for like, and then as 1:58:43.840 --> 1:58:45.520 James Turner in the midfield, they're. 1:58:45.400 --> 1:58:46.680 Another like for like with Mente. 1:58:47.000 --> 1:58:49.440 Yeah, what I take on this is it's the same strategy. 1:58:49.480 --> 1:58:52.400 They're not changing formation, they're not changing what their tactics 1:58:52.400 --> 1:58:55.280 are here. They are giving some players some chances to 1:58:55.360 --> 1:58:58.280 come in, change the energy, get some experience, bring Fischal 1:58:58.360 --> 1:59:00.600 back right, get her some time in game. 1:59:00.800 --> 1:59:02.800 And really just to see this game out. 1:59:02.840 --> 1:59:05.280 I don't see this as you know, a giving up moment, 1:59:05.440 --> 1:59:07.520 but she's definitely saying, okay. 1:59:07.400 --> 1:59:08.920 Who we've had on hasn't worked. 1:59:09.040 --> 1:59:11.280 We need to get some new names in their new energy, 1:59:11.560 --> 1:59:12.840 and that's what we're seeing right now. 1:59:13.080 --> 1:59:15.240 We are indeed as Utah made a couple of changes 1:59:15.240 --> 1:59:17.040 of their own. We'll get to that here in a 1:59:17.080 --> 1:59:21.200 few minutes. But we now see the official on the 1:59:21.200 --> 1:59:23.600 field trying to create eternal rinch she does. Here's Dalleen 1:59:23.680 --> 1:59:26.560 picking it up on the left side. Has helped advancing 1:59:26.600 --> 1:59:30.880 forward now and the rain finds something here in the 1:59:30.960 --> 1:59:34.120 last twelve minutes and stop it this game. But Utah 1:59:34.160 --> 1:59:36.200 picks up a poor pass and they now have a 1:59:36.280 --> 1:59:41.600 chance to counter. You're on this left side. Here is 1:59:41.640 --> 1:59:44.360 one of the new members on this team coming onto 1:59:44.400 --> 1:59:48.640 the field is Yabbi Maria the park Now for the 1:59:48.680 --> 1:59:51.120 middle for Tanaka, it's knock on to the right side. 1:59:51.640 --> 1:59:53.480 A lot of space for Utah to cross it in 1:59:54.280 --> 1:59:56.280 as they look for this fourth shot and deflect it 1:59:56.280 --> 1:59:59.920 out by Dleen. Pressure on the ball is good if 2:00:00.160 --> 2:00:02.919 staying high for the ring and they can get a turnover, 2:00:03.520 --> 2:00:05.040 you hope to me and might be able to run 2:00:05.080 --> 2:00:09.000 onto something. Utah, now working for the position possession off 2:00:09.000 --> 2:00:12.760 the left, slips the ball in. Here is Tanaka to 2:00:12.920 --> 2:00:19.000 run this left side for Lacasse. We're taking away nicely there. 2:00:19.560 --> 2:00:23.520 I believe that is Ryan Brand, which came onto this 2:00:23.640 --> 2:00:27.520 field with a domis now working in possession, but a 2:00:27.600 --> 2:00:33.160 giveaway Utah, they give it right back then, right now 2:00:33.840 --> 2:00:38.480 in transition, but can't connect their passes. Stephanie, the moments 2:00:38.560 --> 2:00:40.240 right there where you need to be able to take 2:00:40.240 --> 2:00:42.640 a ball away and a work in transition as. 2:00:42.440 --> 2:00:44.200 A foul is called. Utah will have a free kick 2:00:44.240 --> 2:00:45.040 in Seattle's end. 2:00:45.200 --> 2:00:47.120 Those are the moments where you need to pick off 2:00:47.160 --> 2:00:50.200 those passes, move quickly and connect those passes. And that 2:00:50.240 --> 2:00:52.200 connection just hasn't happened. 2:00:51.920 --> 2:00:54.120 Absolutely, and you're seeing the frustration there and them as 2:00:54.160 --> 2:00:57.160 a fowl. I mean, the team looks frustrated. The team 2:00:57.200 --> 2:00:59.800 looks a little stagnant. They are not able to cross 2:00:59.800 --> 2:01:02.040 this half line as a team. And I think when 2:01:02.080 --> 2:01:04.360 you're looking at the Royals attack sometimes you're like, wow, 2:01:04.400 --> 2:01:06.400 each player when you look up, there's a player moving 2:01:06.440 --> 2:01:07.240 to receive the ball. 2:01:07.440 --> 2:01:10.320 We're not seeing that with the rain, and instead they're 2:01:10.360 --> 2:01:11.320 giving away these. 2:01:11.160 --> 2:01:15.120 Small soft passes at midfield that I mean talk about deflating, 2:01:15.480 --> 2:01:18.160 losing Jess being down on this score line. 2:01:18.560 --> 2:01:20.680 That's deflating to finally. 2:01:20.320 --> 2:01:22.040 Win the ball back from a team that feels like 2:01:22.040 --> 2:01:24.360 they're relentless, and then to just give it right back 2:01:24.400 --> 2:01:26.200 to them. That is what makes you feel like you 2:01:26.200 --> 2:01:28.920 don't have any energy left in the tinna zaw. 2:01:29.000 --> 2:01:32.840 We'll have a freak kick here in Seattle's end, the 2:01:32.920 --> 2:01:37.240 ball going towards the back post headed away. That's Brown 2:01:37.320 --> 2:01:38.840 getting in the way of that one. Now here's dall 2:01:38.920 --> 2:01:41.320 Lee working on this left side, but immediately given back 2:01:41.640 --> 2:01:43.600 Utah at the edge of the bucks clipping a ball 2:01:43.600 --> 2:01:46.720 towards the back post. Good job by Seattle defenders to 2:01:46.720 --> 2:01:48.880 get in the way of that one. They are asking, though, 2:01:49.240 --> 2:01:52.360 for a foul. They're asking for a hand ball and 2:01:52.600 --> 2:01:56.400 nothing given initially. Vaar may look at this one again 2:01:56.840 --> 2:02:01.080 because there's lots of animated folks coming off of the 2:02:01.560 --> 2:02:05.040 Utah side and that will be deflected out for a 2:02:05.160 --> 2:02:08.120 corner coming for Utah. They're asking a look here as 2:02:08.120 --> 2:02:12.520 we will get a Utah substitution. And it is well. 2:02:12.520 --> 2:02:14.920 We talked about a few minutes ago that Utah keeper 2:02:14.960 --> 2:02:19.160 mea justice who had that injury and she is limping 2:02:19.200 --> 2:02:21.880 over the side. Is that right knee is not good 2:02:21.960 --> 2:02:24.800 enough to go and it will be Mandy McGlynn, their 2:02:24.880 --> 2:02:27.760 starter from twenty twenty five who's been out this year 2:02:28.120 --> 2:02:31.840 with an injury. She will take over back in goal 2:02:33.600 --> 2:02:35.760 and me A Justice. This may be it for me 2:02:35.800 --> 2:02:38.200 at Justice for a while. Mandy mcglenn's kind of the 2:02:38.200 --> 2:02:40.680 they're locked down starting goalkeeper. 2:02:40.720 --> 2:02:42.480 Mea Justice has done well here. 2:02:42.600 --> 2:02:45.720 Played every minute for the Royals as their keeper while 2:02:45.800 --> 2:02:50.000 Mandy has been hurt and she will sit down with 2:02:50.080 --> 2:02:53.280 that knee injury. This is a corner kick for Utah 2:02:53.280 --> 2:02:56.440 here in the northwest corner of lumen Field goes to 2:02:56.480 --> 2:02:58.960 the middle of the box, headed out by a Rain player. 2:02:59.000 --> 2:03:03.800 Headed again. It looks like it will be Seattle controlling. Yes, 2:03:03.840 --> 2:03:06.040 here's Mercado on this left side, tries to send the 2:03:06.080 --> 2:03:08.600 ball for to Daalen, but it's quickly hit out by 2:03:08.720 --> 2:03:12.200 Utah for a throw In eighty third minute at Lomenfield, 2:03:12.280 --> 2:03:15.680 Jackson Felt Stephanie Verdoya Qualmyampia Sports Radio nine to fifty 2:03:16.240 --> 2:03:19.720 am bringing you this Seattle Rain game as they find 2:03:19.720 --> 2:03:22.960 themselves with a three to nothing deficit to Utah late 2:03:23.000 --> 2:03:25.760 in this game, and the Royals pick it up on 2:03:25.880 --> 2:03:30.920 this right side cross coming in but nobody there for Utah, 2:03:30.960 --> 2:03:35.440 Seattle will happen. They will change the point all the 2:03:35.440 --> 2:03:41.480 way to this right side with Bryant Brown the official 2:03:41.480 --> 2:03:45.200 making a run long ball forward, but Utah will head 2:03:45.200 --> 2:03:47.960 that one away. Official does pick it up though Seattle 2:03:48.040 --> 2:03:51.520 has support coming on this left side. There comes Curry 2:03:51.560 --> 2:03:55.600 now on the left, Dahlen Dalen advancing towards the box, 2:03:55.640 --> 2:03:59.360 cuts in as mercado. If you can find some space 2:04:00.120 --> 2:04:05.400 attack this compact za defense. I think a team that 2:04:05.440 --> 2:04:08.960 works so on transition stays tight defensively. But over on 2:04:09.040 --> 2:04:14.120 this right side now for Brown inside a mezza the box. 2:04:14.160 --> 2:04:16.520 Now is Brown chance to cross, takes a little bit 2:04:16.520 --> 2:04:18.560 of a deflection and will roll all the way to 2:04:18.640 --> 2:04:21.160 Manny McGlynn and she will be able to walk with 2:04:21.200 --> 2:04:24.600 this one. And that's some confident body language by Utah 2:04:24.720 --> 2:04:26.600 right now up three to nothing with seven minutes and 2:04:26.640 --> 2:04:27.400 stoppers to go. 2:04:28.000 --> 2:04:30.320 Yeah, and they should feel confident. In that last run 2:04:30.320 --> 2:04:32.200 of play, the rain had the ball. They were swinging 2:04:32.200 --> 2:04:35.320 it around the eighteen, very calm composed. But that's the 2:04:35.320 --> 2:04:37.240 play you see at the very beginning of the game. 2:04:37.320 --> 2:04:39.000 That's not the play you see when you're down three 2:04:39.120 --> 2:04:41.200 zero and you only have you know, ten or so 2:04:41.320 --> 2:04:44.360 minutes left to finish this game out. I think that 2:04:44.440 --> 2:04:46.400 is where we want to see some urgency. You know, 2:04:46.440 --> 2:04:48.640 there's still the intention, there's still the composure. I want 2:04:48.680 --> 2:04:51.160 to see Marcato just take that shot. She's at the 2:04:51.160 --> 2:04:53.280 top of the eighteen. She has some space, get back 2:04:53.320 --> 2:04:53.840 into this game. 2:04:54.160 --> 2:04:56.280 Yeah, earlier in the game when we saw a Cocoa 2:04:56.320 --> 2:04:59.040 monastery with an opportunity where where she picks up an 2:04:59.040 --> 2:05:00.880 Aaron pass and how a chance to believe it would 2:05:00.880 --> 2:05:03.720 score was to nothing at that point, and she hesitates 2:05:03.760 --> 2:05:05.720 for a moment, has to send the ball out right 2:05:05.760 --> 2:05:09.680 to Wuerta and the cross, unfortunate does not result in anything. 2:05:10.000 --> 2:05:12.960 But it's that moment to hesitation instead of just taking 2:05:12.960 --> 2:05:16.560 the immediately long distance shot after the giveaway, and that 2:05:16.600 --> 2:05:19.760 could have been something for Seattle, but ultimately it stayed 2:05:19.760 --> 2:05:22.960 to nothing. Utah scored again right before the halftime whistled 2:05:22.960 --> 2:05:25.320 to make it three to nothing. It has been three 2:05:25.400 --> 2:05:30.640 nothing since half because they have ball in possession. You're 2:05:30.680 --> 2:05:32.600 Forcado with a little pressure and you're up onto this 2:05:32.680 --> 2:05:36.040 right side d lean with pressure and now we'll go 2:05:36.120 --> 2:05:39.120 out for a Utah thrown about ten yards from the 2:05:39.120 --> 2:05:44.000 corner of stick here in the northeast corner of Lumenfield. 2:05:45.160 --> 2:05:48.920 And also you kind of look ahead, Stephanie, we see rain. 2:05:49.000 --> 2:05:53.240 They'll play again coming up this next Friday on the road, 2:05:53.920 --> 2:05:56.480 and then on May tenth as well. 2:05:57.120 --> 2:06:00.720 I really love the NWSL schedule and what they do 2:06:00.800 --> 2:06:01.040 with that. 2:06:01.160 --> 2:06:03.760 You know, most most of the time you have Major 2:06:03.800 --> 2:06:07.600 League Soccer playing on Saturdays. NWSL plays very heavily on 2:06:07.880 --> 2:06:11.680 Friday nights and Sundays as well. It really does create 2:06:11.800 --> 2:06:14.839 a if you're an American soccer fan, this great weekend 2:06:14.880 --> 2:06:18.560 stretch where you get NWSL on Friday nights, get MLS 2:06:18.600 --> 2:06:22.880 on Saturdays, get NWSL on Sundays. It's especially with the 2:06:22.880 --> 2:06:25.160 World Cup coming up here in just a couple of months. 2:06:25.240 --> 2:06:26.800 It's a good time to be a soccer fan in 2:06:26.840 --> 2:06:29.600 this country. As Utah here into the box they have 2:06:29.720 --> 2:06:31.440 the ball taken away and Seattle real take it. But 2:06:31.480 --> 2:06:33.160 like I was saying, Stephanie, it's a good time to 2:06:33.160 --> 2:06:34.920 be a soccer fan in the United States right now. 2:06:34.960 --> 2:06:35.640 It absolutely is. 2:06:35.680 --> 2:06:37.480 There's a little bit of a soccer frenzy and you 2:06:37.520 --> 2:06:39.320 can find it at any moment. But I will say 2:06:39.560 --> 2:06:41.760 it's a little tough on the players right. So this 2:06:41.840 --> 2:06:44.320 is a quick turnaround. Sunday to Friday is a pretty 2:06:44.400 --> 2:06:47.120 quick turnaround, especially if you add the travel in, especially 2:06:47.200 --> 2:06:50.720 if you have to add a tough loss, potentially some injuries. 2:06:51.040 --> 2:06:53.440 This is a hard turnaround for the ring for sure. 2:06:54.160 --> 2:06:57.880 Fou called sam Mezza not happy with that one, and 2:06:58.000 --> 2:07:01.720 hear the booze here at movement field from the fans. 2:07:03.040 --> 2:07:06.080 Utah will have a free kick from the Rain end. 2:07:07.160 --> 2:07:11.040 I'm impressed by these Seattle Rain fans. Very few have 2:07:11.160 --> 2:07:13.600 left the building here as we are now in the 2:07:13.600 --> 2:07:15.960 eighty seventh minute of a three to nothing game. Fans 2:07:15.960 --> 2:07:19.120 are here. It's an absolutely beautiful night here in Seattle, 2:07:20.120 --> 2:07:23.880 and they are enjoying the remaining minutes of this game 2:07:24.760 --> 2:07:27.520 and love just for the confidence aspect of going into 2:07:27.520 --> 2:07:30.400 the next game on Friday to get something here in 2:07:30.440 --> 2:07:33.120 the dying moments of this game with Utah, with this 2:07:33.240 --> 2:07:36.280 free kick welling towards the back post, here comes Dickey. 2:07:36.320 --> 2:07:38.880 Dickey punches that away. A lot of contact, foul will 2:07:38.920 --> 2:07:43.160 be called, but a nice punch there from Claudia Dickey 2:07:44.080 --> 2:07:46.080 to keep that out of danger. With that foul and 2:07:46.160 --> 2:07:51.280 the contact there from the midfielder Mina Tanaka of Utah. 2:07:51.480 --> 2:07:55.240 That is why she is the United States starting goalkeeper. 2:07:55.880 --> 2:07:58.880 Her ability to take command and make plays. 2:07:58.600 --> 2:08:01.640 Like that, she said, with some casual confidence. 2:08:01.680 --> 2:08:04.120 She comes out, she looks kind of like what people 2:08:04.160 --> 2:08:06.920 are running into me, you know, But she immediately gets up, 2:08:07.200 --> 2:08:08.320 grabs the balls, ready to go. 2:08:08.560 --> 2:08:11.280 Here's Seattle again picking up a giveaway here on the 2:08:11.360 --> 2:08:13.640 left side. Here's Dala le that get tipped away for 2:08:13.760 --> 2:08:16.000 a corner. Let's see nope, d is a goal kick 2:08:16.280 --> 2:08:20.480 for Utah here in the eighty eighth minutes. If you're 2:08:20.600 --> 2:08:23.440 just joining us, you know even more than the three 2:08:23.560 --> 2:08:27.880 nothing score line right now. The big news came just 2:08:27.920 --> 2:08:33.560 about twenty minutes ago when the legend for the Seattle 2:08:33.680 --> 2:08:37.640 Rain over the last fifteen years, Jess Fishlock, went down 2:08:37.640 --> 2:08:42.840 with a major injury to her ankle, looked like her 2:08:42.880 --> 2:08:43.560 lower leg. 2:08:44.480 --> 2:08:45.720 She was stretchered off. 2:08:46.000 --> 2:08:50.920 Lots of emotions for her as she covered her face 2:08:50.960 --> 2:08:53.640 with both hands, clearly in an enormous amount of emotion. 2:08:54.160 --> 2:08:58.760 The tw twenty one NWSLMVP, who's done so many amazing 2:08:58.840 --> 2:09:02.440 things for this club, and it was just announced on 2:09:02.480 --> 2:09:06.600 Tuesday that this is her last year. She is now 2:09:06.680 --> 2:09:10.760 out of this game with that injury, your emotional rain 2:09:10.840 --> 2:09:16.640 team trying to find one last moment of happiness from 2:09:16.640 --> 2:09:20.840 what has been a sad day here at lumen Field 2:09:21.320 --> 2:09:23.320 owned the box, the official trying to get on the 2:09:23.360 --> 2:09:26.600 end of that one. She does you have some help 2:09:26.920 --> 2:09:30.320 now it's taken away by Utah. Some good defending there, 2:09:30.320 --> 2:09:32.839 but quidn't giveaway. We'll give the ball back to Seattle. 2:09:33.080 --> 2:09:34.960 That should be a foul. And yes, it is a 2:09:35.000 --> 2:09:37.640 freakick coming for Seattle in Utah's half. 2:09:37.680 --> 2:09:37.960 Stuff. 2:09:38.560 --> 2:09:40.360 Yeah, and you know, like you said, it has been 2:09:40.360 --> 2:09:40.880 a sad day. 2:09:40.920 --> 2:09:43.280 But there is somewhat of a poetic nature to this 2:09:43.320 --> 2:09:45.400 because we are watching those young players that we talked 2:09:45.440 --> 2:09:47.160 about at the beginning of the game coming up in 2:09:47.360 --> 2:09:49.960 the women's national team system and also developing here under 2:09:50.000 --> 2:09:50.640 Laura Harvey. 2:09:51.240 --> 2:09:52.880 This is what Fishawk is doing. 2:09:52.920 --> 2:09:56.240 Her legacy is these younger players that are now taking 2:09:56.280 --> 2:09:58.440 the field and figuring out how to lead this team 2:09:58.720 --> 2:10:01.040 in the worst of moments, which Fluck has done over 2:10:01.040 --> 2:10:01.480 the years. 2:10:02.320 --> 2:10:04.280 The ball on the free kick comes into the box 2:10:04.280 --> 2:10:06.440 and goes all the way towards the keeper. It's fisial 2:10:06.480 --> 2:10:09.720 actually getting a body to it, but she cannot do 2:10:09.800 --> 2:10:11.440 anything with it. It will go out for a goal kick 2:10:11.560 --> 2:10:11.920 in stuff. 2:10:11.960 --> 2:10:15.040 It's interesting because you look at the Seattle. 2:10:14.760 --> 2:10:19.040 Rain as a franchise, and over these last three four years, 2:10:19.440 --> 2:10:22.800 the transformation of this club almost mirrors. It's kind of 2:10:22.800 --> 2:10:25.320 fitting that m Haes is here today. It mirrors what's 2:10:25.360 --> 2:10:28.080 happened with the United States women's national team, where it 2:10:28.320 --> 2:10:31.640 was very much kind of a the the Elder States 2:10:31.680 --> 2:10:35.160 women who are part of this program, and little by little, 2:10:35.200 --> 2:10:38.320 one player by one player, they have kind of exited 2:10:38.320 --> 2:10:42.000 the United States program, and one by one those lifetime 2:10:42.480 --> 2:10:46.600 legendary players for Seattle have also exited. As Utah will 2:10:46.720 --> 2:10:48.720 control this ball with their own end with McGlenn, who 2:10:48.720 --> 2:10:51.720 will send this forward. You've had the retirement a few 2:10:51.800 --> 2:10:54.920 years ago of Pino Megan Rapino, of course, the legend. 2:10:55.240 --> 2:10:59.080 Then just last year you had Lou Barnes, the player 2:10:59.120 --> 2:11:01.360 with the most appear in club history. As we see, 2:11:01.440 --> 2:11:03.520 nine minutes are out of here, a looming field. We've 2:11:03.600 --> 2:11:06.320 hit the full. Ninety nine more minutes will be played 2:11:06.520 --> 2:11:08.400 here in this three nothing game. I'll get back to 2:11:08.480 --> 2:11:10.400 this in a moment. As Seattle tries to attack up 2:11:10.400 --> 2:11:14.480 this left side, but a foul, he's not called. Here 2:11:14.480 --> 2:11:17.800 comes Seattle still with the ball, they're playing advantage. I'll 2:11:17.800 --> 2:11:19.960 get back to that kind of narrative in that conversation 2:11:20.040 --> 2:11:22.400 in a moment. But Cross comes in, Utah will cut 2:11:22.440 --> 2:11:24.200 it out and Seattle will have to regroup. So you 2:11:24.240 --> 2:11:27.040 had Megan Raupino retire a few years ago, lou Barnes, 2:11:27.480 --> 2:11:31.600 who had appeared in more NWSL games than any player 2:11:31.680 --> 2:11:34.680 in the history of this league. And last year she dealt, 2:11:34.680 --> 2:11:38.280 of course with an injury, and last year she hung 2:11:38.360 --> 2:11:40.760 up the cleats and she is now finished. And then 2:11:40.800 --> 2:11:44.280 this year now it is Jess Fishlock. And one by one, 2:11:44.360 --> 2:11:47.480 these players who have dealt with injuries, they've dealt with 2:11:47.560 --> 2:11:49.920 kind of you know, goodding towards the end of their career, 2:11:50.440 --> 2:11:52.680 and every year it seems to be kind of another 2:11:52.840 --> 2:11:55.200 player hanging them up. And this is the year for 2:11:55.280 --> 2:11:58.960 Jess Fishlock. And you just at this moment really hope 2:11:59.000 --> 2:12:01.040 that that isn't the last time she sees the field. 2:12:01.080 --> 2:12:04.800 It isn't anything horrific, and we do get to see 2:12:05.040 --> 2:12:06.640 a little bit more Jess Fishlock. 2:12:06.720 --> 2:12:08.600 Here in twenty twenty six is here's a. 2:12:08.640 --> 2:12:12.560 Damis on this right side, which she meets three Utah defenders, 2:12:12.600 --> 2:12:15.880 he goes down, no call, couldn't do much with that. 2:12:16.680 --> 2:12:19.960 Some booze in, but just dribbled into the middle of 2:12:20.040 --> 2:12:22.840 three defenders. But Stephanie, it is interesting and you can 2:12:22.920 --> 2:12:25.480 talk about the youth and that kind of element of 2:12:25.720 --> 2:12:28.760 this is the Jet Fishlock legacy is getting these next 2:12:29.080 --> 2:12:32.480 era of players like Emria Damas who just dribbled into 2:12:32.520 --> 2:12:35.840 those defenders and getting quality out of those young and 2:12:35.920 --> 2:12:39.360 up and coming players. It's been interesting to see this 2:12:39.440 --> 2:12:42.560 transition over these last four years where one by one 2:12:42.640 --> 2:12:47.280 we see young players getting more time, stepping up, having 2:12:47.360 --> 2:12:48.440 more responsibilities. 2:12:48.640 --> 2:12:50.880 And you know, some people might say that's what happens 2:12:50.880 --> 2:12:52.840 in every league, that's what happens all the time, but 2:12:52.920 --> 2:12:56.720 this is unique the NWSL. Starting in twenty thirteen, we 2:12:56.800 --> 2:12:59.480 have players that have been here since the beginning, since 2:12:59.480 --> 2:13:01.680 the league did and have a CBA, since we didn't 2:13:01.680 --> 2:13:03.800 have sixteen teams, since we I mean, you can point 2:13:03.800 --> 2:13:05.920 to the number of things that this league has changed 2:13:06.160 --> 2:13:08.920 dramatically for these young players. And maybe they don't want 2:13:08.920 --> 2:13:11.000 to hear, or maybe they do, but a lot is 2:13:11.040 --> 2:13:13.600 to credit those players that have stuck through really tough 2:13:13.680 --> 2:13:17.480 years that probably played in multiple different professional leagues throughout 2:13:17.480 --> 2:13:20.600 the world in off seasons just to keep a living 2:13:21.120 --> 2:13:23.760 and those you know we're talking about, Fishlock, Barnes, you know, 2:13:23.880 --> 2:13:26.880 all of them and plenty across the league have set 2:13:26.920 --> 2:13:30.560 the stage for these players to get obviously what they 2:13:30.600 --> 2:13:32.920 deserve and to have these best moments. And that's why 2:13:33.120 --> 2:13:35.040 I was saying it is kind of this poetic nature 2:13:35.040 --> 2:13:37.320 of of course, we don't hope Fishlock is out for 2:13:37.360 --> 2:13:39.400 the rest of the year for the team's chances and 2:13:39.440 --> 2:13:40.080 for herself. 2:13:40.240 --> 2:13:41.520 She deserves more than that. 2:13:41.880 --> 2:13:44.400 But I guarantee you her attitude will be I'm either 2:13:44.440 --> 2:13:46.760 on the field or I'm on the sideline, and I'm 2:13:46.800 --> 2:13:48.720 carrying this team through because that is. 2:13:48.680 --> 2:13:50.800 What they have done their entire career. 2:13:51.480 --> 2:13:54.120 Right now, Rain had a throw in that they would 2:13:54.120 --> 2:13:55.200 continue to have possession. 2:13:55.280 --> 2:13:58.120 It's taken away by Utah, but a foul called there. 2:13:59.440 --> 2:14:03.400 On Marie, one of the goal scorers tonight, as Utah 2:14:03.440 --> 2:14:06.720 got goals in the first minute by Paige Cronin, who 2:14:06.800 --> 2:14:09.240 was making her first start in first appearance of the 2:14:09.400 --> 2:14:12.000 entire year after dealing with an injury. She scored in 2:14:12.000 --> 2:14:15.080 the first minute after a defensive giveaway had Maria the 2:14:15.080 --> 2:14:17.560 player just mentioned she got a goal in the seventh 2:14:17.560 --> 2:14:20.000 minute on a ball that was deflected off of Jess 2:14:20.040 --> 2:14:24.000 Fishlock's shoulder, and then Lacas scored in the forty fifth 2:14:24.000 --> 2:14:28.120 minute on another defensive giveaway that got the Utah. 2:14:28.000 --> 2:14:29.440 Royals their three goals tonight. 2:14:30.440 --> 2:14:32.200 And it was also we were talking to Laura Harvey 2:14:32.240 --> 2:14:35.040 about you know, Fishlock being you know, kind of this 2:14:35.040 --> 2:14:37.280 this intense player, and you talked about playing with her 2:14:37.320 --> 2:14:40.960 as well, and we're asking her kind of, you know, 2:14:41.000 --> 2:14:44.400 about the leadership angle of where this team goes when 2:14:44.440 --> 2:14:46.840 Fishlock retires, because it is kind of the last of 2:14:46.880 --> 2:14:50.920 those three veteran greats from the start, and she was saying, like, 2:14:50.960 --> 2:14:53.040 listen to you know, Sophia Wertz is already a leader 2:14:53.080 --> 2:14:56.000 on this team. Phoebe mcclernan is already a leader on 2:14:56.040 --> 2:14:58.000 this team from the back line, and they will step 2:14:58.080 --> 2:15:01.920 up and they can be the lead moving forward with 2:15:02.040 --> 2:15:05.360 the departures of these legends. Yeah. 2:15:05.360 --> 2:15:08.240 Absolutely, And how exciting, How exciting that those players have 2:15:08.280 --> 2:15:10.320 been able to work with these players for years and 2:15:10.400 --> 2:15:12.480 kind of learn what it means to step into those 2:15:12.600 --> 2:15:15.840 roles and you know, it's it means great things for 2:15:15.880 --> 2:15:18.360 the reign. Like we talked about the amazing young players 2:15:18.360 --> 2:15:21.120 that they have in this system. It's so exciting to 2:15:21.120 --> 2:15:22.680 see them out on the field, even tonight in the 2:15:22.680 --> 2:15:23.760 worst of circumstances. 2:15:23.800 --> 2:15:27.320 They're creative, they're fast, you know, adamis fisial. I mean, 2:15:27.360 --> 2:15:28.720 they're great on the ball. 2:15:29.040 --> 2:15:30.320 This is really kind of what you want to see 2:15:30.360 --> 2:15:32.400 right now because on the field you have twenty year 2:15:32.400 --> 2:15:34.960 old Emory Adamas, you have twenty four year old me Official, 2:15:35.160 --> 2:15:37.800 twenty one year old Matti Dahali, twenty five year old 2:15:37.800 --> 2:15:40.800 Matty Mercado zam Mez is only twenty four years old. 2:15:41.120 --> 2:15:44.800 I know Sally Meni exited, but Sally Meni a Roosevelt 2:15:44.880 --> 2:15:49.120 High School alum, and she's only twenty four years old. 2:15:49.560 --> 2:15:53.480 It's say a lot of young, freely talented attacking players, 2:15:53.520 --> 2:15:55.560 so many of whom are also part of the United 2:15:55.600 --> 2:15:58.320 States win this national team system, who are going to 2:15:58.400 --> 2:16:01.800 continue to get opportunities under Emma Hayes, who joined us 2:16:01.840 --> 2:16:04.200 earlier during our pregame show and who is here in 2:16:04.240 --> 2:16:07.839 the building tonight, and she is watching these young players 2:16:07.880 --> 2:16:10.960 develop through the United States system. And if the Rain 2:16:11.040 --> 2:16:13.480 can hold on to these young talented players. They will 2:16:13.680 --> 2:16:17.360 develop and be the next era of greats. But is 2:16:17.440 --> 2:16:20.280 this kind of this Rain team that was kind of 2:16:20.320 --> 2:16:22.440 in the midst of this kind of few year transition. 2:16:23.040 --> 2:16:24.760 Because they have possession now in. 2:16:24.880 --> 2:16:26.400 Utah side of the field, they try to change the 2:16:26.400 --> 2:16:29.520 point of attack to Brown here on the right side. 2:16:29.840 --> 2:16:34.760 She will play it back to Emily Mason as mclernan 2:16:34.840 --> 2:16:37.119 on the other side of the field. We're into the 2:16:37.240 --> 2:16:40.600 ninety sixth minute of which should be about ninety nine 2:16:40.640 --> 2:16:43.119 minutes of play here tonight, a three to nothing game 2:16:43.240 --> 2:16:45.720 for Utah. Crossing to the left side of the field, 2:16:46.200 --> 2:16:49.199 Utah with numbers here will they look to add a fourth? 2:16:50.040 --> 2:16:55.119 Here is Lacasse. She has some help, but she will 2:16:55.120 --> 2:16:58.879 simply play it back and now Utah taking more seconds, 2:16:59.000 --> 2:17:01.600 just picking this around with this three nothing lead and 2:17:01.720 --> 2:17:03.920 just a few minutes left on the clock, not too 2:17:04.000 --> 2:17:05.600 much pressure from the Rain. 2:17:06.840 --> 2:17:08.640 You can see in the decision making the. 2:17:08.640 --> 2:17:13.080 Runs for Utah. It almost is sort of looking like 2:17:13.160 --> 2:17:16.040 a little bit of a glorified training session of the moment. 2:17:16.040 --> 2:17:18.720 Here's Steph. I think every player out there knows the 2:17:18.760 --> 2:17:20.200 situation at the moment. 2:17:20.720 --> 2:17:21.560 Yeah, it's really tough. 2:17:21.560 --> 2:17:23.240 There's moments in the game where you know you're still 2:17:23.280 --> 2:17:25.360 in it, and then there's moments where you know the 2:17:25.400 --> 2:17:27.560 reality of coming back slowly starts to fade away. 2:17:27.680 --> 2:17:29.720 Well, and now right now it looks like sam Mez 2:17:29.920 --> 2:17:33.160 is down. She is slow to get up, she is 2:17:33.200 --> 2:17:35.640 in quite a bit of pain. And there she is 2:17:35.680 --> 2:17:39.160 now holding her right thigh, it looks like, and she 2:17:39.360 --> 2:17:43.760 has a hand to her head now, both arms over 2:17:43.800 --> 2:17:44.360 her face. 2:17:45.000 --> 2:17:46.560 There might just be some cramps though. 2:17:46.480 --> 2:17:49.400 Looks like as James Turner is coming over to help 2:17:49.440 --> 2:17:52.360 with those cramps. And you just you know that's in 2:17:52.360 --> 2:17:54.200 the moment in a three nothing game, weight in this 2:17:54.560 --> 2:17:57.360 you just hope steph for no more injuries after what 2:17:57.440 --> 2:17:58.320 happened to fish Slow. 2:17:58.480 --> 2:18:00.440 Absolutely there's a point where you're like, it's it's not 2:18:00.520 --> 2:18:02.640 worth it. Don't go into the crazy tackle in the 2:18:02.720 --> 2:18:05.120 last minute, you know. But I will say Fishlock was 2:18:05.120 --> 2:18:07.400 the player that always would it didn't matter if we 2:18:07.400 --> 2:18:08.320 were down three zero. 2:18:08.440 --> 2:18:09.560 And it's the ninetieth minute. 2:18:09.560 --> 2:18:13.320 She is running straight towards the goal and sam Meza 2:18:13.400 --> 2:18:14.879 jumping up there. It did look like it was a 2:18:14.879 --> 2:18:18.040 little bit of cramping. I mean, one of our teammates 2:18:18.040 --> 2:18:19.560 came over and helped her stretch out. I'm pretty sure 2:18:19.560 --> 2:18:21.480 the trainers on the field would say, do not touch 2:18:21.480 --> 2:18:22.959 her if it's not crampy. 2:18:22.760 --> 2:18:25.680 You know, stay away, don't That is my job. But 2:18:26.040 --> 2:18:27.640 she's up and looks like she's fine. 2:18:28.680 --> 2:18:31.160 Now into the ninety eighth minute, you don't expect that 2:18:31.200 --> 2:18:35.080 our referee today, Matt Thompson, will add too much at 2:18:35.080 --> 2:18:40.920 all to this game. As Utah now work in possession 2:18:41.120 --> 2:18:44.000 a foul by Seattle, we will give a free kick 2:18:44.040 --> 2:18:49.400 to the Royals in Seattle's end. As we get just 2:18:49.440 --> 2:18:51.680 to the final few moments, we will have a postgame 2:18:51.720 --> 2:18:54.800 show tonight. I'm sure postgame show to finish up to 2:18:54.800 --> 2:18:59.440 our broadcast tonight to break down this three nothing game 2:18:59.560 --> 2:19:03.080 so far are likely win here by the Utah Royals 2:19:03.120 --> 2:19:07.120 tonight at Women Field. Utah will just send this ball 2:19:07.120 --> 2:19:11.160 at the corner headed by Ryan Brown that they will 2:19:11.160 --> 2:19:15.480 hold possession. Utah will but Aaron Pass will go out 2:19:15.480 --> 2:19:18.879 for a throw in for Seattle. There's a few seconds 2:19:18.920 --> 2:19:23.560 to go in this game. Throwing comes headed on. 2:19:24.520 --> 2:19:30.440 Utah worked in possession, taken away, he's. 2:19:30.280 --> 2:19:33.960 Official official get something going forward. She's pulled back but 2:19:34.320 --> 2:19:37.000 does a great job to get around a defender. Now 2:19:37.000 --> 2:19:39.600 switches the point of attack to this left side. Ball 2:19:39.760 --> 2:19:43.400 to Doleen in the middle of the park, back to 2:19:43.680 --> 2:19:47.039 James Turner, back to this left side. Now mclernan chance 2:19:47.080 --> 2:19:49.200 to cross it into the box. Four official official get 2:19:49.200 --> 2:19:51.440 ahead to it. She can't. Falley is called as official 2:19:51.480 --> 2:19:53.959 pulled down a defender and it will be a free 2:19:54.040 --> 2:19:57.680 kick for Utah's goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn in her own end. 2:19:57.920 --> 2:20:00.480 And the clock has struck ninety nine. If we look 2:20:00.520 --> 2:20:05.520 to Matt Thompson, he brings the whistle to his mouth, 2:20:07.000 --> 2:20:09.720 has the right hand in the hair, and there is 2:20:10.240 --> 2:20:16.840 the final whistle here tonight at Loomin Field. A disappointing 2:20:16.959 --> 2:20:21.280 night for the Seattle Rain as they fall at home 2:20:21.400 --> 2:20:23.360 to Utah by a score of three to nothing. 2:20:23.879 --> 2:20:28.920 And perhaps more impactful and more important, Jes Fishlock a 2:20:29.000 --> 2:20:32.840 major injury in the second half. We will await word 2:20:32.879 --> 2:20:36.240 from head coach Laura Harvey and she learns what the 2:20:36.280 --> 2:20:38.880 status is of the legend Jess Fishlock. 2:20:39.680 --> 2:20:41.760 We will take a break here, we will come back. 2:20:42.480 --> 2:20:45.160 Get more thoughts here on the post game show Jackson Felt, 2:20:45.200 --> 2:20:49.120 Stephanie Roduit and Wamia Paya. This is Seattle Rain soccer 2:20:49.480 --> 2:20:52.199 on Sports Radio nine fifty km. 2:20:52.600 --> 2:20:54.680 It seems a lot of car dealers are turning down 2:20:54.720 --> 2:20:58.400 inventory from the factory. 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They followed that 2:24:15.840 --> 2:24:18.480 up with a goal in the seventh minute that came 2:24:18.600 --> 2:24:21.080 off of the shoulder of Jeess Fishlock, and then a 2:24:21.080 --> 2:24:26.800 goal in the forty fifth minute as well by Chloe Lacasse, 2:24:27.280 --> 2:24:29.760 and that gave them their three goals in the second half. 2:24:29.800 --> 2:24:32.240 And probably the most important thing to talk about coming 2:24:32.280 --> 2:24:35.400 out of this game, Jess Fishlock a major injury as 2:24:35.440 --> 2:24:38.000 she went down and was then stretchered off a few 2:24:38.000 --> 2:24:40.680 moments later. Let's get some final thoughts on this game, 2:24:40.840 --> 2:24:43.640 Stephanie Vrdoya kwamea paya, Steph. I'll start with you and 2:24:44.000 --> 2:24:45.800 your thoughts coming out of this three nothing loss. 2:24:46.000 --> 2:24:46.240 Yeah. 2:24:46.240 --> 2:24:48.560 I think ultimately this was a little bit a mess 2:24:48.600 --> 2:24:50.680 of their own making from the rain. I think if 2:24:50.720 --> 2:24:52.879 you look back at this game, the bright thing for 2:24:52.959 --> 2:24:56.480 Laura Harvey to see is that they weren't outplayed. They 2:24:56.520 --> 2:24:59.760 made mistakes and the Royals capitalized on that. So going 2:24:59.800 --> 2:25:02.640 for forward, it is all about composure from that back line, 2:25:02.720 --> 2:25:06.640 being able to play out with confidence. Dicky mclernin, They 2:25:06.840 --> 2:25:08.160 just need to be able to figure out a way 2:25:08.200 --> 2:25:11.320 to keep that ball moving forward with some surety. And 2:25:11.360 --> 2:25:13.840 then on the other side they need to get some 2:25:13.879 --> 2:25:15.920 more stuff on frame. I mean in the attack they 2:25:15.959 --> 2:25:18.360 had Montecira, they had some good players that they're creating 2:25:18.360 --> 2:25:21.760 some electric moments, but it wasn't really enough to test 2:25:21.800 --> 2:25:25.320 them too many times, but big asterisks to crossbars, and 2:25:25.400 --> 2:25:28.720 anytime you get two crossbars you just feel a little unlucky. So, 2:25:28.879 --> 2:25:30.960 you know, overall, I think there's things they can work on. 2:25:31.200 --> 2:25:32.560 And it's a quick turnaround to Friday. 2:25:32.680 --> 2:25:34.240 Let's go down on to the field of kwame. What 2:25:34.280 --> 2:25:35.320 did you see out of this game? 2:25:35.800 --> 2:25:38.520 You know, I think this is an inflection point. I 2:25:38.520 --> 2:25:41.120 think it's really important for every team to have an 2:25:41.160 --> 2:25:44.199 experience like this. I think so far in the season, 2:25:44.360 --> 2:25:46.320 the rain have done their job and the things that 2:25:46.360 --> 2:25:49.760 they have done have given them positive results. Right, Ultimately, 2:25:49.800 --> 2:25:51.959 they've had a really good start to the season. I 2:25:51.959 --> 2:25:54.040 think that they've been doing the right things. They've been 2:25:54.120 --> 2:25:57.600 in the right form of play, the right mindset. It's 2:25:57.800 --> 2:25:59.959 time for every team to get one of those moments 2:26:00.160 --> 2:26:03.560 where you do all the right things but nothing pans out. 2:26:03.879 --> 2:26:06.240 I think it's a really really important mental note for 2:26:06.280 --> 2:26:07.920 them to take in and say, hey, you know what, 2:26:07.959 --> 2:26:09.640 at times, we're gonna get beat down and if this 2:26:09.720 --> 2:26:12.280 happens again to start the game, maybe we go down 2:26:12.520 --> 2:26:15.800 one zero early. How do we then change the game? 2:26:15.840 --> 2:26:18.280 How do we reframe the flow of the game, how 2:26:18.280 --> 2:26:19.959 do we get back into it? So I think it 2:26:20.000 --> 2:26:22.039 happens to everybody, and I think, honestly, this was a 2:26:22.040 --> 2:26:24.119 good moment for the Rain to take in. They did 2:26:24.120 --> 2:26:27.280 a great job. They attacked really well overall an even games. 2:26:27.320 --> 2:26:29.640 So how do we take this as a lesson and 2:26:29.720 --> 2:26:30.039 move on? 2:26:30.320 --> 2:26:32.800 Absolutely and call me great stuff on the sideline all 2:26:32.879 --> 2:26:35.240 day and the question of where do we go from here? 2:26:35.320 --> 2:26:36.879 How do the rain move on? 2:26:37.280 --> 2:26:39.000 We will take a break, We'll come back and talk 2:26:39.000 --> 2:26:42.160 about what's next for the Rain. 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We will wait to hear word 2:30:20.000 --> 2:30:22.480 from head coach Laura Harvey on her status as we 2:30:22.520 --> 2:30:23.080 move forward. 2:30:23.080 --> 2:30:25.160 But in terms of what's. 2:30:24.720 --> 2:30:27.600 Next ahead for the Seattle Rain, there will be a 2:30:27.600 --> 2:30:29.680 match coming up this coming Friday. It's gonna be a 2:30:29.800 --> 2:30:32.760 road match in Houston against the Houston Dash. That's a 2:30:32.800 --> 2:30:35.480 five o'clock kickoff Pacific time. That match will be on 2:30:35.560 --> 2:30:39.199 Fox thirteen plus. On the radio side, our next broadcast 2:30:39.400 --> 2:30:42.040 will be on Sunday May tenth, as the Rain are 2:30:42.120 --> 2:30:45.199 right back here at Luminfield to face the Washington Spirit. 2:30:45.640 --> 2:30:48.000 That will be a four o'clock kickoff here on Sports 2:30:48.080 --> 2:30:52.119 Radio nine to fifty km on Sunday, May tenth. We'll 2:30:52.120 --> 2:30:54.600 have a three forty five pregame there on that Sunday 2:30:54.959 --> 2:30:58.680 for Rain versus Washington. But focusing in what's you know 2:30:58.720 --> 2:31:01.160 just coming up very very soon here, Stephanie. 2:31:01.280 --> 2:31:02.560 It is the game on Friday. 2:31:02.600 --> 2:31:05.000 It's a quick turnaround, and it's a team that will 2:31:05.000 --> 2:31:07.680 certainly be motivated coming off of this three nothing loss. 2:31:07.920 --> 2:31:10.920 Absolutely, I think sometimes these losses kind of as Kwame said, 2:31:10.920 --> 2:31:14.320 it's an inflection point. You either you put it behind you, 2:31:14.320 --> 2:31:17.039 you move on. You almost forget it happened, except to 2:31:17.120 --> 2:31:19.400 let it build that fire and to say we can't 2:31:19.400 --> 2:31:21.480 have another one. To know those we're not going out, 2:31:21.520 --> 2:31:24.480 We're not losing three zero, We're not starting slow. So 2:31:24.520 --> 2:31:27.000 the biggest focus for them is how are we going 2:31:27.080 --> 2:31:29.440 to travel and recover this week and make sure that 2:31:29.480 --> 2:31:32.000 we are ready to come out showing Houston we're a 2:31:32.040 --> 2:31:33.640 different team than played on Sunday. 2:31:33.840 --> 2:31:35.879 No defensive giveaways. You want to keep the ball on 2:31:35.920 --> 2:31:38.520 the back end, not give anything easy away. And hopefully 2:31:38.560 --> 2:31:42.039 also no injuries. We definitely don't want to see another injury. 2:31:42.080 --> 2:31:44.480 After that news from Jess tonight, make sure to stay 2:31:44.480 --> 2:31:47.879 tuned to social media and especially rain FC accounts, as 2:31:47.920 --> 2:31:50.680 we will get more information from head coach Laura Harvey 2:31:50.720 --> 2:31:53.480 on the status of Jess Fishlock. We all are sending 2:31:53.560 --> 2:31:56.240 our best to her that she is not too injured 2:31:56.240 --> 2:32:01.840 and we'll be able to return point in twenty twenty six. 2:32:02.600 --> 2:32:04.720 This is, of course, her last season. She announced on 2:32:04.720 --> 2:32:08.840 Tuesday that she's retiring, and last thought Stephanie on her 2:32:08.959 --> 2:32:12.080 that decision and that announcement that came earlier this week 2:32:12.200 --> 2:32:15.520 that this is her final year. Prior to what happened tonight. 2:32:15.720 --> 2:32:18.320 Yeah, it makes it especially devastating. It's her last year. 2:32:18.360 --> 2:32:20.760 You want her to play every single game, every moment 2:32:20.840 --> 2:32:24.480 that she has to see through her legacy. Like we said, though, 2:32:24.480 --> 2:32:26.800 her legacy is more than just the games she's playing 2:32:26.800 --> 2:32:29.800 at this point. She has taught these young players how 2:32:29.840 --> 2:32:31.600 to come up in this system, she has taught them 2:32:31.600 --> 2:32:33.600 how to work with Laura Harvey, and she's leaving an 2:32:33.640 --> 2:32:35.680 amazing legacy. So what we hope for her is that 2:32:35.720 --> 2:32:38.640 she gets to reap the joy, the benefit of what 2:32:38.720 --> 2:32:40.959 she's given this program and she gets to put the 2:32:41.200 --> 2:32:44.000 Seattle Rains best foot forward for all the remaining matches. 2:32:44.200 --> 2:32:46.680 If not that, hopefully she's on the sideline with them. 2:32:46.720 --> 2:32:47.119 Hopefully. 2:32:47.160 --> 2:32:47.240 So. 2:32:47.400 --> 2:32:49.200 We will talk to everybody on May tenth for the 2:32:49.240 --> 2:32:51.840 next Rain game here at home against Washington again three 2:32:51.920 --> 2:32:55.160 forty five pre game, four o'clock kickoff on Sunday, May tenth. 2:32:55.320 --> 2:32:58.000 Rain play again this coming Friday in Houston at five 2:32:58.000 --> 2:33:01.000 o'clock on Fox thirteen Plus. Thanks to every with our broadcast, 2:33:01.040 --> 2:33:03.520 Craig back in the studio, Terry Ryan, our engineer here 2:33:03.520 --> 2:33:06.600 on site, our broadcast producers, Kee Dunning and Jordan Thompson, 2:33:06.879 --> 2:33:09.560 our broadcaster is here. Thank you so much to Qualmea 2:33:09.640 --> 2:33:12.600 Paia on the sideline and Stephanie Burgoya. Welcome to our 2:33:12.680 --> 2:33:15.160 rain broadcast. My name is Jackson Felt. We are excited 2:33:15.160 --> 2:33:17.400 to be bringing you ten or so rain games on 2:33:17.560 --> 2:33:20.800 radio throughout twenty twenty six. And the good news we 2:33:20.840 --> 2:33:23.040 can only go up from here, and this team will 2:33:23.040 --> 2:33:25.640 certainly go up, and we expect many wins ahead in 2:33:25.720 --> 2:33:28.800 the season. So stay tuned all season here sports Radio 2:33:28.879 --> 2:33:31.720 nine to fifty KM for these rain games, the next 2:33:31.720 --> 2:33:34.959 one coming on May tenth. Everybody, have a good rest 2:33:35.000 --> 2:33:37.160 of your evening, a good rest of your weekend, and 2:33:37.200 --> 2:33:38.119 a good week ahead. 2:33:38.320 --> 2:33:41.679 Take care. Westwood one Sports is coming up next. 2:33:42.400 --> 2:33:46.359 You've been listening to Seattle Rain Soccer, an exclusive presentation 2:33:46.480 --> 2:33:49.039 of Sports Radio nine point fifty kJ