Speaker 1: The following is an exclusive presentation of Seattle Rainsucker on
Speaker 1: Sports Radio nine fifty kJ.
Speaker 2: Good evenings from lumen Field and hello to rain on
Speaker 2: the radio. You are listening to a broadcast for Seattle
Speaker 2: Rain FC. My name is Jackson Feltz. I'm alongside Stephanie Vrdoya.
Speaker 2: We are taking you all the way through this year's inock.
Speaker 2: You old came at Lumenfield. The Seattle rain have of
Speaker 2: course been playing the regular season for quite a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Now they enter this match day at three to one
Speaker 2: and one here on the season side for second place
Speaker 2: in all of NWSL, the league that they plan here
Speaker 2: in the United States.
Speaker 3: Very very good start to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: We will welcome you to this first game from lumen
Speaker 2: Field as they have been playing away from lumen for
Speaker 2: a while. Of course, Lumenfield was undergoing a transformation getting
Speaker 2: grass put down for the World Cup here in a
Speaker 2: couple months. So the Rain have been both on the
Speaker 2: road and over in Spokane for a few weeks and
Speaker 2: they have been playing very very well and now return
Speaker 2: home to face the Utah Royals. Welcome into the broadcast booth.
Speaker 2: Like I said, Jackson Felt, Stephanie Rduya. We have Kwamea
Speaker 2: Paie as well on the sideline today for our entire broadcast,
Speaker 2: and we are just about twenty minutes away from kickoff
Speaker 2: for Seattle Rain and Utah Royals. Stephanie couldn't ask for
Speaker 2: a better night for soccer here as the sun is
Speaker 2: setting on Lumen. We got about just under sixty degrees.
Speaker 2: Perfect weather for soccer here in Seattle.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely perfect weather. I mean most of the time
Speaker 4: in April. You know, you can get some showers here,
Speaker 4: and we've already seen that that can impact the plane
Speaker 4: service here when it's turf. It definitely can impact it
Speaker 4: when it's grass. But we have the grass. It looks great.
Speaker 4: The sun is shining. And we also have a very
Speaker 4: special guest in the house tonight.
Speaker 2: You want to introduce her. This is quite an honor
Speaker 2: of who we have here.
Speaker 4: Next, Yume, I think I can introduce her. It's actually
Speaker 4: very stressful.
Speaker 5: Emma Hayes.
Speaker 4: Everyone, Ema Hayes, the legend.
Speaker 2: Coach of the United States women's national team. Emma Hayes,
Speaker 2: it truly is an honor to have you in our
Speaker 2: booth here today. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you for having me as always a pleasure
Speaker 6: to come into the booth of those that are commentating
Speaker 6: or navigating through a game.
Speaker 2: I am very.
Speaker 6: Impressed with this board that I see in front of me,
Speaker 6: with all the key details about the players.
Speaker 3: Thank you for that. That is that's a humbling thing
Speaker 3: to hear.
Speaker 2: Well. Listen, you obviously brought in the United States women's
Speaker 2: national team just very recently in that game against Japan,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to first just talk about the atmosphere
Speaker 2: that was here in this building a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: record crowd obviously, so many fat, tens of thousands of
Speaker 2: Seattle fans came out to support you to what was
Speaker 2: that atmosphere awake?
Speaker 7: It was? It was magnificent, it really was.
Speaker 6: This is a part of the country I know the
Speaker 6: team feels very strongly about, and we know that it's
Speaker 6: a massive soccer hotbed up here. I'm just disappointed we
Speaker 6: didn't give him a bit more entertainment. I mean, not
Speaker 6: through a lack of will, I might say, but maybe
Speaker 6: a lack of experience. But the crowd were I think
Speaker 6: on a really cold, wet night, provided a little bit
Speaker 6: of sparkle to quite you know, a very difficult performance.
Speaker 2: Well, at least in those three games against Japan, you
Speaker 2: guys did get two wins, so overall in those three
Speaker 2: squad looks very good. As you prepare, of course for
Speaker 2: the World Cup next year, there's a lot of things
Speaker 2: we want to talk to you about and a lot
Speaker 2: of different players, especially on the RIEN. I do want
Speaker 2: to start on the youth angle, because there is a
Speaker 2: number of players, young players with Seattle RENFC here who
Speaker 2: are coming up through the ranks of the U twenty squad.
Speaker 2: Like you look right now at a Damas Sa Daniel
Speaker 2: Orstein McCammon, all coming up. How closely are you watching
Speaker 2: their development through the entire United States system.
Speaker 6: Well, one of the things we've done since I've come
Speaker 6: into the job is aligned from top to bottom WNT
Speaker 6: all the way through YNT. So our first priority is
Speaker 6: identify the core players that will compete.
Speaker 7: For the twenty seven World Cups.
Speaker 6: So we have a cluster of about thirty five players
Speaker 6: that will do that. Extended from that will be the
Speaker 6: pool players, and it could involve some of those players,
Speaker 6: but they are also considered the high potential group. So
Speaker 6: we break it down into the twenty seven group, the
Speaker 6: twenty eight group, the thirty one group. So the group
Speaker 6: you've just described, they are the players that could very
Speaker 6: well be on the CUSP for the twenty eight Olympics,
Speaker 6: but more likely to be considered for thirty one. So
Speaker 6: I've always thought of myself as a developer, and of
Speaker 6: course you can't just play for today, you have to
Speaker 6: play for tomorrow.
Speaker 7: So of course I'm watching everyone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's incredible for say, to have someone with your
Speaker 4: ability to see players through that process and connecting the
Speaker 4: different age groups. But talk about youth, you have some
Speaker 4: in your COUR core group as well, I mean teenagers.
Speaker 4: When I was back in the system, I mean we
Speaker 4: had it was experience. It was players that had been
Speaker 4: in there for years, for decades even, and it is
Speaker 4: so exciting. You are coaching some of the most incredible
Speaker 4: youngest athletes in the world. So speaking to that, what
Speaker 4: are some of the old quality is that you look
Speaker 4: for with your youngest players in that COUR group to
Speaker 4: know that they're ready for the biggest stitch.
Speaker 6: I think one of the things I've been impressed by,
Speaker 6: and maybe years of being a club coach too, is
Speaker 6: the game has become younger and more professional, and as
Speaker 6: a result of that, the behaviors that these players have,
Speaker 6: whether it's everything around the other twenty two hours they
Speaker 6: seem to have in lockstep. Whether they've got psychologists, whether
Speaker 6: they've got nutritionists, whether they've got recovery strategies, whatever that
Speaker 6: might be. They've figured that out at younger age, and
Speaker 6: half the time it's getting that piece right. I think
Speaker 6: what is probably required from my end is getting them
Speaker 6: to understand the most important things within that, not everything.
Speaker 6: Because they want it so much, they think it's about
Speaker 6: accumulating lots of different things instead of probably not what's
Speaker 6: the right things we need to take from it, and
Speaker 6: most importantly, what can you learn from the seniors in
Speaker 6: the group. So I think they're better prepared as a
Speaker 6: result of it. I think the old game has got younger.
Speaker 6: If you think about the average age of the Olympic
Speaker 6: winning team of the World Cup winning team by Spain,
Speaker 6: they're much younger ages.
Speaker 7: So we have to give them the opportunities.
Speaker 2: We mentioned that the seniors there and not that they
Speaker 2: are older players, but there certainly are. We have rain
Speaker 2: players who are part of that senior team. I know
Speaker 2: Stephanie wants to talk about Claudia Dickey, of course, but
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about the other four
Speaker 2: who just got debuts with that.
Speaker 3: Senior team here recently.
Speaker 2: In Bug Mezza d'Alene Menti, what do you like about
Speaker 2: each of their games? What have you seen as they
Speaker 2: have made their debuts with your squad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think in Jordan Bug is a player that
Speaker 6: has the ability to build from the deepest spaces with
Speaker 6: composure that I think is required at the top level.
Speaker 6: I think she's got the temperament, quiet character, but confident
Speaker 6: in her abilities. I think she will progress to be
Speaker 6: a US woman's national team player on a regular basis.
Speaker 6: When that is is again, you know, so just how
Speaker 6: she matures the maturation process is important, so I want
Speaker 6: to give her the right exposures. I think for Sally Menti, again,
Speaker 6: I've coached her a couple of camps now, I think
Speaker 6: she's another huge prospect, very tricky midfielder. I always say
Speaker 6: she reminds me of Toburn Heath, but as a central
Speaker 6: midfield player, I praise Yeah. I told Tobin that she
Speaker 6: reminded me a little bit of her. I think she's
Speaker 6: got an eye for a pass. I think she's one
Speaker 6: player who needs to get all the other twenty two hours, right,
Speaker 6: and she needs the experiences and the exposures. I think
Speaker 6: it's I think it's a natural progression. She'll move through
Speaker 6: the ranks of you know, under twenty threes. I think
Speaker 6: she has to solidify her position there. I think Sam
Speaker 6: Maser I always talk about Sam being a player that's
Speaker 6: come from you know, a college system, up to pro bounce,
Speaker 6: back down, goes back up again, really tidy midfielder. Her
Speaker 6: short passing game is excellent. I think she's somebody who
Speaker 6: can contribute. It's the huge competition for places. I know
Speaker 6: in my conversations with Laura Harvey, we know we're really
Speaker 6: challenging her to play a slightly longer game and her
Speaker 6: progressive passing.
Speaker 7: But I think she's still a good prospect.
Speaker 6: And Maddie Darlene I think can be dynamite on that
Speaker 6: left hand side. I just think she needs to develop experiences,
Speaker 6: but I think she's got all the qualities. And me
Speaker 6: officiu are I know from my Chelsea days, I know
Speaker 6: she's working back to top fitness. So I spoke with
Speaker 6: Leslie Gallimore before the game. They're very excited about where
Speaker 6: she's at and hopefully she gets some minutes tonight.
Speaker 4: So yeah, continuing on the siaalare and train Claudia Dicky.
Speaker 4: So she's been in she's done some great things. What
Speaker 4: is the one thing you want to see in her
Speaker 4: development in these next fourteen months before that big World Cup.
Speaker 6: She knows, she knows exactly what I wanted from her.
Speaker 6: I believe in behaviors, and what I know that was
Speaker 6: somebody like Claudia who's got unbelievable composure and calm. The
Speaker 6: shadow side to that is sometimes it can be just
Speaker 6: a little.
Speaker 7: Bit too calm.
Speaker 6: So I want her training habits to be on point.
Speaker 6: When I compare her to the very, very best goalkeepers
Speaker 6: and their training habits, I think she's got to close
Speaker 6: the gap with that. If she closes that gap, which
Speaker 6: I'm fully confident she will, I think she can challenge
Speaker 6: to be the best in the world.
Speaker 7: But she has to close that gap.
Speaker 6: And I've made that very clear to her that I
Speaker 6: want training to become a passion for her. I want
Speaker 6: it to become the most important thing she does, and
Speaker 6: even getting here today, like I want to see a
Speaker 6: warm up, I want to see what those behaviors look like,
Speaker 6: and if she's taking on those messages and I very
Speaker 6: much hope.
Speaker 2: She does well. Head coach Emma Hayes of the United
Speaker 2: States women's national team, we will let you go check
Speaker 2: out warm ups. This has been an honor to have
Speaker 2: you in our booth here for what is it our
Speaker 2: first segment of our first rain broadcast of the entire season.
Speaker 2: What a start. Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me Head coach Emma Hayes of the
Speaker 2: United States women's national team. What a joy to have
Speaker 2: here in her in the booth, Stephanie, How cool was that?
Speaker 4: I mean to be able to hear from a coach
Speaker 4: who also is very clear, very honest. We've talked about
Speaker 4: this with Laura Harvey as well, really shares her perspective.
Speaker 4: She's telling us what she tells Claudia Dicky a locker
Speaker 4: and what she wants to see so she can be
Speaker 4: on that World Cup team.
Speaker 8: I was.
Speaker 2: And you know what's cool about it is normally when
Speaker 2: you talk to a national team coach, there might be
Speaker 2: a player or two from your squad. Hey, you know, like,
Speaker 2: you know, let's just say that, you know, for the
Speaker 2: for the men's side, right if we're all you know,
Speaker 2: Christian Roldan, the one Sounders player you know, we could
Speaker 2: be talking about on the roster for the World Cup.
Speaker 2: Here we listed off almost what is it ten players
Speaker 2: that are in the development to potentially be on the
Speaker 2: team for this coming World Cup next year, for the
Speaker 2: Olympics the following year, and for as she mentioned, years
Speaker 2: and years in the future.
Speaker 3: This is a Rain squad.
Speaker 2: If you are a fan of the United States women's
Speaker 2: national team as well, you will be seeing these Rain
Speaker 2: players for years on the national team.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and that should be so exciting for fans for
Speaker 4: young kids playing in the area.
Speaker 5: You're right, we haven't.
Speaker 4: I think Emma is right in that she's maybe one
Speaker 4: of the first coaches in a long time that has
Speaker 4: been able to really tie some of these age groups
Speaker 4: together U eighteen, e twenty three all the way up
Speaker 4: to the full team, and that ability for players to
Speaker 4: learn from other players and train those habits, just like
Speaker 4: she was talking about with Dickey and other players in
Speaker 4: this Rain team. They're getting that every day with coach
Speaker 4: Laura Harvey with the seniors on this team, and they're
Speaker 4: able to develop those habits even when they're not in camp,
Speaker 4: and that is just an incredible way to bring the
Speaker 4: best soccer to the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2: And for those who may have not followed these last
Speaker 2: three games for the women's national team, they faced Japan
Speaker 2: in three friendlies. It was in San Francisco, it was
Speaker 2: here in Seattle, then it was in Denver.
Speaker 3: Three games.
Speaker 2: She brought all of the top players for these games,
Speaker 2: and in two of those three games, Claudia Dickey, the
Speaker 2: Seattle ring goalkeeper, was the United States starting goalkeeper. You
Speaker 2: just read the tea leaves and I'm somebody who very
Speaker 2: much tries to look in to you know, what coaches
Speaker 2: are doing, you know, not saying and when I see
Speaker 2: two or three games our keeper is their keeper, I'm saying,
Speaker 2: all right, Claudia Dickie is in the driver's seat to
Speaker 2: be the starting goalkeeper for not only probably the World
Speaker 2: Cup next year, but then the Olympics. Theory, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just the sky is the limit for Claudia Dickey.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be very exciting in the years ahead for
Speaker 2: all of the Rain players who are part of the
Speaker 2: national team. Okay, that was such an amazing conversation. But
Speaker 2: there is also a game tonight that we need to
Speaker 2: talk about. Rain are here to face off against the
Speaker 2: Utah Royals here again. The rain have started the season
Speaker 2: three one in one in NWSL. Tonight is the sixth game.
Speaker 2: Tonight's the first game here at lumin Field for the
Speaker 2: rain in twenty twenty six. We'll take a break, We'll
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to lumin Field, Seattle Rain facing off tonight
Speaker 2: against the Utah Royals. Here as the sun is setting
Speaker 2: on Lumenfield, it's a beautiful night for soccer in Seattle.
Speaker 2: Let's get to the starting lineup for your Seattle Rain
Speaker 2: to night. Claudia Dicky goal Madison Curry is going to
Speaker 2: be your right back, so Fia sorry, your left back,
Speaker 2: Sophia howertz A, You're right back. Emily Macy, Phoebe mcclernan
Speaker 2: are your center backs. Sam Mesit, jefs Fischlock and Sally.
Speaker 3: Menti are your midfielders. And then your forwards.
Speaker 2: Maddie Mercado, Britney Ratcliffe and Coco Mandasier are those forwards.
Speaker 2: Stephanie Verdoya Jackson Feltz coming to you for tonight's game, Stephanie,
Speaker 2: what are your keys to this match tonight's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's going to be early success and early
Speaker 4: pressure from the Rain. We heard it from Lara Harvey
Speaker 4: earlier in the week. She talked about the press then
Speaker 4: meaning to really disrupt how the Royals build out of
Speaker 4: the back. To do that, they're going to put some
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Speaker 4: If they're able to do that successfully early because this
Speaker 4: Rain team has scored most of their goals in the
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Speaker 4: The Royals are a very fast paced transitional team. On
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Speaker 5: The other side.
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Speaker 2: a leg injury. She had a leg injury in February
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Speaker 2: a leg injury, and Ruby Flodick also out with a
Speaker 2: leg injury. We'll take one more break for the national anthem.
Speaker 2: We'll be back for kickoff. It's Seattle rain Utah Royals
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to lumen Field and welcome back to our
Speaker 2: first Seattle Rain broadcast of twenty twenty six, Jackson Felt,
Speaker 2: Stephanie Vrdoya. We have kwame Aplia on the sideline for
Speaker 2: our broadcast tonight. Thank you so much for tuning us
Speaker 2: in here on Sports Radio nine fifty KJR AM. We
Speaker 2: appreciate your doing so as we begin this Rain schedule
Speaker 2: here on radio for this year, we have but ten
Speaker 2: games that are gonna be on radio throughout twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: this being the first of them, and we look forward
Speaker 2: to taking you through this Rain season and bringing you
Speaker 2: all of the hopeful victories for Laura Harvey's squad. Of course,
Speaker 2: Laura Harvey one of the absolute legends in NWSL. The
Speaker 2: English coach managed Arsenal a while ago. Her first stint
Speaker 2: with the Rain from twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen. Of course,
Speaker 2: had wild success with that NWSL Coach of the Year
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen as the team soared
Speaker 2: to enormous success, and then when it actually coached with
Speaker 2: the team that Seattle is facing today, the Utah Royals,
Speaker 2: spent a couple of years in Utah twenty eighteen twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: and then returned to Seattle in twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 2: today is Laura Harvey's two hundred and fiftieth game coaching
Speaker 2: Seattle Rain. Stephanie, it's a mountain of a day for her.
Speaker 2: She definitely kind of played that off in the conversations
Speaker 2: before this game, but certainly for everybody to be able
Speaker 2: to acknowledge and on her what a key person she
Speaker 2: has been in all of Seattle soccer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it's you know, saying too much
Speaker 4: to say that she is the most incredible coach in
Speaker 4: the league.
Speaker 5: I mean the most, she has, the most wins.
Speaker 4: She now has two hundred and fifty under her belt
Speaker 4: for one club.
Speaker 5: I mean every club would kill to have.
Speaker 4: That kind of longevity, that consistency that an amazing coach
Speaker 4: can bring to a squad, to player development, to connections
Speaker 4: throughout the youth system. I mean, she is it. It's
Speaker 4: really hard to think I'm another coach that comes close
Speaker 4: to her. But she deserves all the records, even though
Speaker 4: she doesn't want to talk about it, even though she'll
Speaker 4: push it onto the players, and that's what.
Speaker 5: A great coach does.
Speaker 4: But she has earned every bit of these two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty games that she's put forward for the Seattle Range.
Speaker 2: She certainly does. We are just moments from getting this
Speaker 2: game underway. The Rain entering today are off to a
Speaker 2: pretty darn good start here in twenty twenty six. They're
Speaker 2: tied coming into this match day with second place in
Speaker 2: NWS Salis, we get this game starred Jeess Fishlock kicks
Speaker 2: it back to Claudia Dicky, who will send this ball
Speaker 2: long forward and we get this game underway here from
Speaker 2: lumen Field. If you're just joining us here, we welcome
Speaker 2: you to our first Seattle Rain broadcast for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: If you are just turning into a soccer fan, with
Speaker 2: of course the World Cup for the men this year
Speaker 2: and for the World Cup for the women next year,
Speaker 2: we welcome you to the beautiful game and we will
Speaker 2: have this forty five minute first half and then Seattle Rain.
Speaker 2: Of course, with a tremendous record here at lumen Field
Speaker 2: over recent years, the team that has shifted their home
Speaker 2: a few times us to play Memorial Stadium. As a
Speaker 2: ball is a dangerous one into the box for Utah
Speaker 2: and a chance here for them to attack shot and
Speaker 2: that is into the back of the net. Fifty one
Speaker 2: seconds into this game Utah Royal score. We're just setting
Speaker 2: up the scene and Utah capitalized on a defensive mistake
Speaker 2: at the back for Seattle and the Royals jump on
Speaker 2: the rain early.
Speaker 4: Stephanie, Yeah, and it seems really just like an unfortunate
Speaker 4: pass back there. There was a little bit of miss
Speaker 4: miscommunication betweens whether or not Dickie was coming out or
Speaker 4: Phoebe at mclernan with there was really winning back in
Speaker 4: to get that ball in front of the Royals forward
Speaker 4: and she gets on the other side of her and
Speaker 4: is able to place a really well placed shot into
Speaker 4: that back corner that backup er b and so for
Speaker 4: our post, it's hard to defend there.
Speaker 5: You know, Dicky probably couldn't have gone to it.
Speaker 4: But really the thing that the Rain's going to come
Speaker 4: back to you on that goal is how they gave
Speaker 4: it away from their own back line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a tough giveaway inside the box, and
Speaker 2: nothing Dicky can do on this shot is just extremely
Speaker 2: extremely well placed there for the goal in the first
Speaker 2: minute of this game. So here we go. The Rain
Speaker 2: will be playing from one down and here's a ball
Speaker 2: slipping on through trying to find an attacker here at
Speaker 2: the start of this game. But Claudia Dicky in goal
Speaker 2: for the Rain. We'll send that one out and just
Speaker 2: roll it out. And now you wonder, Stephanie, how the
Speaker 2: Rain will play the first fifteen You we always talk about,
Speaker 2: you know, setting themselves up in any soccer game and
Speaker 2: taking that first fifteen minutes, you're getting your legs under you,
Speaker 2: you know, and now you kind of maybe.
Speaker 3: Have to change the strategy a little bit.
Speaker 2: In advanced numbers for it is another big mistake here,
Speaker 2: Claudia Dicky nearly giving the ball Awaity Utah right in
Speaker 2: front of her goal, but thankfully Seattle.
Speaker 3: I would call it this one.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things, Stephanie, where you can't make
Speaker 2: the mistakes now because to nothing early in the game
Speaker 2: puts you in extremely bad spot.
Speaker 4: It really does, and especially because we saw that mistake
Speaker 4: again just now from a thurn and trying to pass
Speaker 4: back to Dickie too soft of a pass that was
Speaker 4: easily able to be picked off.
Speaker 5: You're looking for that.
Speaker 4: Laura Harvey wants her team to respond one zero in
Speaker 4: the first couple of minutes. That's nothing. We have a
Speaker 4: ninety minute game to come back to. You saw her
Speaker 4: get up out of her chair. She started clapping to
Speaker 4: her team. She said, let's go now. What she doesn't
Speaker 4: want to see is that exact same mistake made five
Speaker 4: minutes later, which just happened. And the Royals, as people
Speaker 4: have mentioned throughout the week, they are a team that
Speaker 4: likes to cause chaos. They like to high press. We're
Speaker 4: seeing that already. They're putting defenders under pressure. The Rain
Speaker 4: need to be able to build through the game. They
Speaker 4: need to keep the ball. Dickey has it at her
Speaker 4: feet now, she's able.
Speaker 5: To swing it around this back line, and what they're
Speaker 5: looking for.
Speaker 4: Is to build out of the back and get this
Speaker 4: away from their defensive end. Get it up to Fishlock,
Speaker 4: get it to the ball to Fishlock, get it up
Speaker 4: the field and she found.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly what happened, where they get the ball
Speaker 2: to Jeff Fishlock and she is found and she's down
Speaker 2: now holding her lower back. And of course we haven't
Speaker 2: even mentioned on the broadcast yet. The major major news
Speaker 2: with the Seattle Rain earlier this week the legend Jess Fishlock,
Speaker 2: the person who has been here from the very very
Speaker 2: start for Seattle Rain, the thirty nine year old from Wales.
Speaker 2: She announced earlier this week that this season will be
Speaker 2: her last. Jeff Fishlock announced on Tuesdays she will retire
Speaker 2: at the end of the year and there will be
Speaker 2: a Queen's Match on Friday, October second where you will
Speaker 2: be honored.
Speaker 3: The announcemental also came.
Speaker 2: Thirteen years to the day since her first rain goal
Speaker 2: on April twenty first, twenty thirteen, and she is if
Speaker 2: anybody can bring that calm, composure in confidence to this
Speaker 2: team down one nothing early, it is Jeff Fishlock.
Speaker 5: Absolutely and the intensity.
Speaker 4: I have actually never practiced with a player more intense
Speaker 4: than Jeff Fishlock and she does it every day, and
Speaker 4: so she is absolutely going to lead this team back
Speaker 4: into getting into it, having them be on the front
Speaker 4: foot of the pressure.
Speaker 2: Here's a giveaway Utah dribbing into the box, a chance
Speaker 2: to shoot at goal, and it does take a deflection,
Speaker 2: it will be gound for a Utah corner. Here in
Speaker 2: the fifth minutes, as the Royals are leading one to nothing,
Speaker 2: let's go down on the sideline with a third member
Speaker 2: of our crew today.
Speaker 16: Kwameapaya, Hey everybody. So today it's an energetic start to
Speaker 16: the game. Now it does seem like there's a little
Speaker 16: bit of nerves, but that's okay. You know, it's first
Speaker 16: game actually playing in movement for the year, and everybody's
Speaker 16: a little bit rouled up. So I think right now
Speaker 16: it's just about settling, getting into the game, getting into
Speaker 16: the tempo as we heard earlier.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of time on this clock.
Speaker 16: So it's just about managing it, getting in behind, shaking
Speaker 16: off the nerves. If we can get one or two
Speaker 16: attacks in, I think we'll start really, really really getting
Speaker 16: into the game.
Speaker 2: Well, here's Utah setting up for this corner right hand raised,
Speaker 2: and here comes the n swinger going to the towards
Speaker 2: the backpost, headed away by our Rain midfielder and it
Speaker 2: will still go out. But this will be another corner
Speaker 2: here in the southeast corner here of lumen Field and
Speaker 2: nice job there to clear the danger by Brittany Ratcliffe
Speaker 2: Afford for the Rain. As they will hold up play
Speaker 2: for just a moment, we will see they were now
Speaker 2: going to rule this corner here going to the other side,
Speaker 2: and an opportunity here for the Utah Royals again Rain
Speaker 2: in their search kids today in all blue Utah and
Speaker 2: yellowtops in dark blue bottoms for today's game. As they
Speaker 2: set up here for this inswinging corner, it will go
Speaker 2: towards the top of the box. Chance for the Ring
Speaker 2: to cut that out, but it stays with Utah. Shot
Speaker 2: from distance goes wide and it's into the back of
Speaker 2: the net.
Speaker 3: From about twenty two yards out.
Speaker 2: That is an absolute screamer from n Narumi Mira who
Speaker 2: gets a long distance goal pass Claudia Dicky. We'll get
Speaker 2: another look at this one. But now the Utah Royals
Speaker 2: have come into Seattle and they now have a two
Speaker 2: nothing lead six and a half minutes into this game.
Speaker 4: And again we talked about the pressure of the press
Speaker 4: from the attacking half, but what we're not seeing right
Speaker 4: now is actually the pressure defensively.
Speaker 5: This is a setback pass off of a corner kick.
Speaker 4: So not only were they unable to clear that first pass,
Speaker 4: they missed the second one. They got it back to
Speaker 4: a wide open player for the Royals top of the box,
Speaker 4: able to just it does deflect. It's a really hard
Speaker 4: shot for Dicky to get to it, but I mean
Speaker 4: that player should not have that much time outside the eighteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a shot that was going to be
Speaker 2: right at Claudia Dickie. But you can see here on
Speaker 2: the replay that Mira shot hits off of Jess Fishlock's
Speaker 2: arm and just goes slightly right and beats Claudia Dickie
Speaker 2: into the top right corner of that goal in the
Speaker 2: south end of lumen Field and Utah have this too
Speaker 2: nothing lead. But here is Fishlock now working into the box.
Speaker 2: Utah are able to take this back. You know, we
Speaker 2: all talked about it, We've all mentioned it. One nothing
Speaker 2: early in this game. That's something you can come back from.
Speaker 2: Two nothing Now you might have to play more aggressive.
Speaker 2: Utah trying to get up this right side, but it's
Speaker 2: cut out well by the Rain. But a takeaway by
Speaker 2: Utah now will give the ball right back to the visitors.
Speaker 2: In this series between Seattle and Utah in their history,
Speaker 2: it's the fifteenth all time game. The Reign have been
Speaker 2: dominant against Utah, nine to two and three against the
Speaker 2: Royals and all competitions. The Rain won recently against Utah
Speaker 2: in the final game of last season by a score
Speaker 2: of two to one in Seattle goals by McCammon and Huerta,
Speaker 2: and we were.
Speaker 3: Hoping for a similar result.
Speaker 2: But clearly it will be an uphill battle for the
Speaker 2: Rain as two goals scored by Utah early in this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we still got a long game, you know, so
Speaker 5: we still have lots of time.
Speaker 4: And I think that's the hard thing is they just
Speaker 4: put themselves in a position that they're going to have
Speaker 4: to climb out of it. And like we mentioned, the
Speaker 4: Royals are a team that really like to play transitional football.
Speaker 5: They like to pressure, they like to.
Speaker 4: Make you feel uncomfortable, and they are doing that so
Speaker 4: far and making the Rain feel like they can't just
Speaker 4: play the pace of the game that they want to play.
Speaker 3: They will have a free kick.
Speaker 2: Utah will just inside Seattle's half the field. They are
Speaker 2: setting up for what could be a header on goal.
Speaker 2: This will be a long free kick, so they take
Speaker 2: it short a little bit of a surprise. But now
Speaker 2: the long ball into the box headed away and it
Speaker 2: will be Coco Monas you're picking up the ball, Seattle
Speaker 2: Rain with numbers, can she advance? No, she can't pass
Speaker 2: and will just get tipped away and Utah will control
Speaker 2: and they will try to get going here on the
Speaker 2: right side I but Utah can't control it and give
Speaker 2: it right back to Seattle for a throw in here
Speaker 2: in Seattle's own half.
Speaker 4: That some good work from sam Mezzo there to work
Speaker 4: back and slide tackle that ball away so they can
Speaker 4: maintain possession.
Speaker 2: Utah taking a throwing away, they will have possession and
Speaker 2: send it all the way back to their keeper. Mea
Speaker 2: justice an interesting situation for Utah's goalkeeper situation, as Mea
Speaker 2: Justice has been starting this entire season and she does
Speaker 2: get the start today, but for falls called on the
Speaker 2: far side of the field, the Rain will have a
Speaker 2: free kick at that far side. It's interesting because Utah
Speaker 2: has been starting. Me A Justice, a twenty three year
Speaker 2: old goalkeeper from Ohio, was a recent national champion with
Speaker 2: Florida State. She was the backup going end of the year,
Speaker 2: but an injury to Utah's starting goalkeeper Mandy Mattie McGlenn,
Speaker 2: they thought that at some point she was going to
Speaker 2: return and regain that starting spot. She returns on the
Speaker 2: bench today, but they continue to go with me and
Speaker 2: Justice here in their starting lineup today, probably to give
Speaker 2: McGlenn just one more week or so before she regains
Speaker 2: her starting spot. As the Rain are in possession of
Speaker 2: working into Utah's half, trying to find fishlock, but it
Speaker 2: will be cut out and sent back to their goalkeeper Justice.
Speaker 2: Utah a good starts to twenty twenty six for them,
Speaker 2: two to two and one, a club that has not
Speaker 2: seen that much success in NWSL over the years. And
Speaker 2: now here's the Rain working into the box trying to
Speaker 2: find Fishlock again.
Speaker 3: A couple players go down.
Speaker 2: No foul called now a foul called, but called on Seattle,
Speaker 2: Utah will get a free kick from their own half.
Speaker 3: In Utah.
Speaker 2: This season here five games, they've scored six goals. Coming
Speaker 2: into the day, they've given up six goals. They've had
Speaker 2: a little bit of an inconsistent start. But this is
Speaker 2: a club that over the years has definitely struggled to
Speaker 2: get things going in terms of their playoff hopes. It's
Speaker 2: a club that folded and reformed a couple times with
Speaker 2: new ownership.
Speaker 3: Here as Utah, the new iteration of them.
Speaker 2: After their best start leave in club history is here.
Speaker 2: They come again into the Seattle half, chands to attack
Speaker 2: again to the middle of the park, so good pressure
Speaker 2: will force this ball all the way back. Jess Fishlock
Speaker 2: hanging out as the furthest ahead Seattle player. You know
Speaker 2: that she's going to want to be aggressive in this one.
Speaker 2: Down to nothing, early long ball into the box, headed
Speaker 2: away into the arms of Claudia Dickey, the Seattle rain
Speaker 2: goalkeeper will take this one in a moment to breathe.
Speaker 2: Here for the rain.
Speaker 5: And again for the rain.
Speaker 4: Right now, it is about them being able to actually
Speaker 4: take the ball through the thirds of the field. Right now,
Speaker 4: we have not seen them string together any passes in
Speaker 4: that final third and that attacking third. They've given the
Speaker 4: ball away multiple times from the back. And then even
Speaker 4: when they do get it forward into that attacking third,
Speaker 4: you know, closer to the goal where they want to
Speaker 4: score on, they're not able to fight through the kind
Speaker 4: of low block that the Royals are and the Royals
Speaker 4: are keeping their lines really tight.
Speaker 5: So they have a lot of players in front of
Speaker 5: the goal. Centrally, the rain.
Speaker 3: Give it back again.
Speaker 2: Here is Utah in the Seattle half, fall out here
Speaker 2: to the right side, chance for Tanaka and company to
Speaker 2: get forward into the box, finding that it tipped away.
Speaker 2: A nice job there by the rain to get in
Speaker 2: the way of that one, and they will earn a
Speaker 2: free kick after a foul. But again, it's it's these
Speaker 2: giveaways on the defensive end, Stephanie, that you just got
Speaker 2: to clean up this play. It's it's almost a little
Speaker 2: bit as a yellow card is given as well.
Speaker 3: To a Utah player.
Speaker 2: I believe that's on Itsahata who gets that yellow card
Speaker 2: for Utah here yet just going right into the back
Speaker 2: of Brittany Ratcliffe for this Rain free kick. It's interesting
Speaker 2: because you know, last night in the Seattle Sounders game
Speaker 2: against Dallas, Dallas started very strong in the first twelve minutes.
Speaker 2: They didn't score, but it was very much a you know,
Speaker 2: momentum was all going one way and you just needed
Speaker 2: that calmness and that confidence and a goal to change
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 3: And right now the Rain need that goal.
Speaker 2: They need that calmness, they need that confidence. As we
Speaker 2: are getting a slight break in the play here and
Speaker 2: it's actually Claudia Dickie getting some work done on her
Speaker 2: right ankle. It looks like right foot as a trainer
Speaker 2: is out taking care of her.
Speaker 3: Not something you want to see here early in this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely not. I mean, the keeper is such a
Speaker 4: hard position to switch in and out. We are just
Speaker 4: talking about that on the flip side. For the Royals,
Speaker 4: you want, I mean, especially Dickie. You know, she's played.
Speaker 4: I believe she is the only NWSL keeper that has
Speaker 4: played every minute so far this year, and so having
Speaker 4: her in is clearly a source of strength consistency for
Speaker 4: this back line. And in a game right now, when
Speaker 4: you're down to zero, you do not want to lose
Speaker 4: that this early, Yeah, one more.
Speaker 2: Goal would be disastrous, so you need to make sure
Speaker 2: you have your best players available and out there is
Speaker 2: Dicky is now back up from the trainer and she
Speaker 2: is walking forward and looks okay. Interestingly enough, the rain
Speaker 2: backup goalkeeper today available off the bench is Cassie Miller.
Speaker 2: Cassie Miller who was just brought off the injury list.
Speaker 2: She is back available for the Rain now for the
Speaker 2: first time in a while. But it is Claudia Dickie
Speaker 2: still available in goal and she will send this one
Speaker 2: a long way forward trying to find Ratcliffe here coming
Speaker 2: in from that left side, but is picked up by
Speaker 2: Utah and they will be able to advance numbers forward
Speaker 2: in this transition game. Trying to get a ball deep
Speaker 2: in here is Pelasios getting on the end of that
Speaker 2: one in the box has some help and Plasio's find
Speaker 2: some help she can, but it's a great job getting
Speaker 2: in the way of that one. I believe it's Emily
Speaker 2: Mason tracking back and getting in the way just enough
Speaker 2: to put it into Claudia Dickie's arms, and that will
Speaker 2: have the ball at Claudia Dicky's feet. Here in the
Speaker 2: fifteenth minutes, Utah Royals with the early two to nothing
Speaker 2: lead here over the rain at lumin feet.
Speaker 4: You know, Plasios is really causing some concern for that
Speaker 4: Seattle Ran backline. She's doing a ton of diagonal runs
Speaker 4: through those two center backs, which is really hard for
Speaker 4: those two players to track. So McClaren needs to do
Speaker 4: a little bit of a better job of making sure
Speaker 4: that she can't get on the end of those long
Speaker 4: balls that the Royals are trying to find her right
Speaker 4: now in behind the back line.
Speaker 2: Right now, the ball is bouncing around in the middle
Speaker 2: of the park. You saw controlling let's go down on
Speaker 2: the sideline with Kwami.
Speaker 16: So it looks like Seattle is definitely getting a bit
Speaker 16: more into the game. As a statistic that's very, very
Speaker 16: commonly overlooked is how often there are off sides in
Speaker 16: the game. When they are off side for a team,
Speaker 16: it means that the team is feeling adventurous, they are attacking,
Speaker 16: they're pressing, and that's actually a good sign. Last year,
Speaker 16: throughout the entire season, Seattle was sitting in about less
Speaker 16: than you know, maybe like one, maybe a little bit
Speaker 16: over one in terms of off side each game. This year,
Speaker 16: they're seeing it about one and a half each game.
Speaker 16: Beich means they're adventures, they're moving, they're pressing forward, and
Speaker 16: that's what we're going to need from them today. And
Speaker 16: just speaking to coach yesterday, her thoughts were, Hey, we
Speaker 16: are able to attack from the flanks. We're bringing every
Speaker 16: player forward, We're moving in unison and that's what we're
Speaker 16: hoping to see from them right now.
Speaker 2: And Kwamei, we're seeing that in the forum right now.
Speaker 2: Whereas the Rain held the ball in their own half,
Speaker 2: you almost saw a formation that was almost looking like
Speaker 2: a four too four Stephanie, where you had your normal
Speaker 2: four in the back. You have Sally Menti and Sam Mezzi,
Speaker 2: those midfielders, but the all four of Coco Mondasse or
Speaker 2: Maddie Mercado, Jeff Fishlock and Ritty Radcliffe are all right
Speaker 2: there at the top trying to put pressure, trying to
Speaker 2: get that attack going.
Speaker 3: Does the Rain need two goals to equalize?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And Coach Harvey Flagg that for us earlier in
Speaker 4: the week. She said, we want to put them under pressure,
Speaker 4: so she's putting some of the I'm Ritty Radcliffe is
Speaker 4: an incredibly quick player. She's very dynamic, so she wants
Speaker 4: to put Fishlock up there to direct it. But Mondaser
Speaker 4: and Ratcliff, those players up there are going to bring
Speaker 4: the energy that they need to stay in this game.
Speaker 4: And again we haven't seen it yet. We haven't seen
Speaker 4: the Royals under pressure much. Right now, they're just swinging
Speaker 4: it behind their back line without too much you know,
Speaker 4: urgency to go forward.
Speaker 5: And so what they need to start doing.
Speaker 2: Is open to give away Coco montas here chance right
Speaker 2: in front of the box to take a shot. She hesitates,
Speaker 2: now passes it off to the right. Huerta crosses it
Speaker 2: in the back post. Oh just over the head of
Speaker 2: Britney Ratcliffe, who is running at the back post, had
Speaker 2: a chance to put it into the back of the net.
Speaker 2: It was a great cross from where to, but just
Speaker 2: about a foot too high for Brittany.
Speaker 4: It was fantastic. It's actually exactly what I was saying
Speaker 4: we need to see more of. So maybe I get
Speaker 4: a little credit there now. But Manda here picks this
Speaker 4: ball off from the goalkeeper. She's able to look pick
Speaker 4: her head up where to, does a great job to
Speaker 4: get forward and Ratcliffe is actually alone in the back post.
Speaker 5: That just messes that header.
Speaker 2: You'd love to see, you know, Manda Ser pick that
Speaker 2: ball up and understand that me and Justice is way
Speaker 2: out of position and just put it right at the
Speaker 2: goal first time. But she did hesitate for that one
Speaker 2: moment and that hesitation forced her to go out wide.
Speaker 2: But that was a big chance. And here's another pickoff
Speaker 2: Rain with numbers to four on two. Here's Ratcliffe on
Speaker 2: the left, has a lot of options crossing it and
Speaker 2: it's a great defensive play by Utah Royal defender. I
Speaker 2: believe that was Kaylee Real tracking back and getting in
Speaker 2: the way of that one. Great job by Utah's defense
Speaker 2: on a four on two to not let the Rain
Speaker 2: get that opportunity on goal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the transitional soccer that the Royals are
Speaker 4: quite good at. Like you said, They're able to get
Speaker 4: back into position here with only two players and maybe
Speaker 4: out four players for the Rain flying forward towards the
Speaker 4: goal and able to prevent anything coming on frame.
Speaker 2: That was a great defensive play for Utah and it
Speaker 2: actually was pulled back moments later for off side, So
Speaker 2: even if that had ended up being a goal, that
Speaker 2: would not have counted just offside. Was Britney Ratcliffe on
Speaker 2: that initial ball after the giveaway. But that is the
Speaker 2: kind of attack and that is kind of the movement
Speaker 2: that you need to see from Seattle down to nothing.
Speaker 2: Here in the nineteenth minute, here's another giveaway. Now the
Speaker 2: rain working on this right side ball towards the middle.
Speaker 2: Mercaddo has options to Ratcliffe into the box Golkie Rata
Speaker 2: position and the Kalki. It makes a great save mea
Speaker 2: justice ball right towards her. She ables able to bring
Speaker 2: it down right into her chest out of the air
Speaker 2: and again keep the rain off the score sheet. But again, Stephanie,
Speaker 2: this is what wedn't want to see from the rain,
Speaker 2: these kinds of opportunities, this kind of attack. We're seeing
Speaker 2: it more in the last four or five minutes.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, that's multiple keeper giveaways.
Speaker 4: We picked it off and then flown down the field
Speaker 4: with numbers very quickly.
Speaker 2: Oh no, here comes Utah back. It's a one on one.
Speaker 2: Can mcclernin getting the way of that one shot and
Speaker 2: it's blocked off. Mcclurnin's shoulder is not going to be
Speaker 2: a handball, not even asking for it. It will go
Speaker 2: out for a Utah throw in. But a big opportunity again,
Speaker 2: and it's the person you talked about, Keana Plasio's getting
Speaker 2: that space going one on one, and it takes a
Speaker 2: great play for mcclernan to just pressure her a little
Speaker 2: bit enough to cause her to hesitate and block that shot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Palacios is a very quick, very technical forward. You
Speaker 4: can tell she's getting in behind and has the composure
Speaker 4: to keep them all. So we're pretty lucky there that
Speaker 4: mclariney was able to step in and stop that shot.
Speaker 2: And now we have a corner coming for USA. As
Speaker 2: the throw in was hit out by Maddison Curry who
Speaker 2: got in the way of that throw in. Utah will
Speaker 2: be able to set up again here. It wasn't long
Speaker 2: ago that a corner was taken all the way back
Speaker 2: out at the top of the box, bounced back out
Speaker 2: and from distance it was Mira with a long, long
Speaker 2: distance goal that was redirected off the shoulder of Jess
Speaker 2: Fishlock Utah leading this two to nothing here in the
Speaker 2: twenty first minute at Loomin field. And this will be
Speaker 2: an end swinging corner from the southwest corner here, both
Speaker 2: hands raised and it's taken short and back to it.
Speaker 2: Here comes a cross coming in, but it's cleared away
Speaker 2: again and this will go out for another corner here
Speaker 2: for Utah in the.
Speaker 3: Corner taking these kises.
Speaker 2: Maria Rabano, an ankle injury has kept her out for
Speaker 2: the entire twenty twenty six seasons so far. This is
Speaker 2: her first game and she is the regular corner kickticker
Speaker 2: for Utah.
Speaker 3: Both hands raised again. Will she go short again?
Speaker 2: If you know, she will go long towards the middle
Speaker 2: of the gold Claudia Dickie jumps foal called so into
Speaker 2: the arms of Dicky and she will be able to
Speaker 2: have though a free kick from right inside of her box.
Speaker 4: And you know Dickie's gray on crosses cornerkicks. She comes
Speaker 4: out with such confidence. We've heard Laura Harvey talk about it,
Speaker 4: and Emma Hayes even mentioned it. Just that confidence and
Speaker 4: that power that she comes out with to grab the ball.
Speaker 4: She's done it on the corner kick, just that moment
Speaker 4: where she actually received contact and still was able to
Speaker 4: gain it game possession for the rain back you mentioned
Speaker 4: Emma Hayes.
Speaker 2: If you're just joining us as listening to the Seattle
Speaker 2: Rain on radio, we are here now on radio for
Speaker 2: about ten games here in twenty twenty six, this being
Speaker 2: the first of those games here from lumen Field.
Speaker 3: We thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2: Earlier in our pregame show we had the United States
Speaker 2: womens now national team coach Emma Hayes in the booth
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 3: She is here today.
Speaker 2: Watching many many players who are part of the United
Speaker 2: States women's national team system. This is a team in
Speaker 2: Seattle that has a large, large number of the United
Speaker 2: States women's players senior team debuts earlier this year for
Speaker 2: bug Mezza, Dalene Menti. Of course Claudia Dicky is there,
Speaker 2: I would say at this point starting goalkeeper for the
Speaker 2: United States women's national team, and a bunch of players
Speaker 2: coming up for the U system as well on the Rain.
Speaker 2: So Ema Hayes here to watch not ten different players
Speaker 2: who feature in the United States women's system and who
Speaker 2: will feature today for the Rain hopefully in what will
Speaker 2: be a comeback win as they are down to nothing.
Speaker 2: It's a long ball. Here on the left is Madison
Speaker 2: Curry on side. I believe she is staying on side.
Speaker 2: She gets to it here in this corner, picks the
Speaker 2: ball up, has a lot of options to cross it.
Speaker 2: She crosses it. Towards the top of the box, but
Speaker 2: it's headed away by a Utah forward pick up by
Speaker 2: the rain. They will stay with possession here with mclernan
Speaker 2: trying to find some space and she finds it with
Speaker 2: Curry now on the left, here is Ratcliffe tracking back
Speaker 2: trying to create some space. But Utah take this ball
Speaker 2: away to the middle of the park here as they
Speaker 2: now have possession of this ball.
Speaker 4: And again when we're looking at the press from the rain,
Speaker 4: they really have to decide when they want to do that.
Speaker 4: So in soccer you look for your line of confrontation,
Speaker 4: which oftentimes means when does the player actually start to
Speaker 4: press the ball? Is it at half line? Is it
Speaker 4: when the keeper has it? And we just saw Jeff
Speaker 4: Fishlock pressing keeper Justice there and it's really important when
Speaker 4: do we go because that is an aggressive press there
Speaker 4: from Fishlock.
Speaker 2: And she did press and she forces a ball that
Speaker 2: goes out for a rain thrown about ten yards from
Speaker 2: the end line.
Speaker 3: It's going to be Curry taking this on the throw in.
Speaker 2: At pressure from Jess Fishlock or the rain. This chance,
Speaker 2: we'll see how long they can execute this throw and
Speaker 2: it goes short to Fishlock. Now cross coming towards the
Speaker 2: top of the box for Cocoa mandasy or pops back
Speaker 2: out at different.
Speaker 3: Distance, create some space on our left foot.
Speaker 2: Utah is able to step in and tip that one away.
Speaker 2: They will be mclernan running that down and earning it
Speaker 2: throwing for seattle here at ten yards from the half
Speaker 2: point of blomen field. They need to keep this pressure
Speaker 2: up here. There's a curry to throw this ball in
Speaker 2: which will go long and it's out for Nope, not
Speaker 2: a throw in. Look like that ball went out, not
Speaker 2: called rain. Will keep this ball.
Speaker 3: Now, sending it for the changing the point of it
Speaker 3: back to this right side.
Speaker 2: You're just aware to working on a defender up the
Speaker 2: field of Monastery and the box chance to cross goes
Speaker 2: in and it's a shot that has quickly tipped away.
Speaker 2: Utah getting in the way of that one. The Cocoa
Speaker 2: monaster stays with it and that shot across right across
Speaker 2: the face of bowl. But a great job by me
Speaker 2: and Justice the goalkeeper from Utah to just take that
Speaker 2: one away and not let that get to Ratcliff at
Speaker 2: the back post.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's gonna be something on the rains wan
Speaker 4: On Mack Maddie mccratto actually had a ball right at
Speaker 4: her feet on the six yard line and there the
Speaker 4: ball comes directly across and she is just not able
Speaker 4: to connect with it. It looks like maybe the defender
Speaker 4: brought there as well. But Mercado, in good positioning, really
Speaker 4: should have put that away.
Speaker 2: To opportunities. Need to cash him in. Down to nothing
Speaker 2: here in the twenty sixth minutes, But Seattle has been
Speaker 2: creating these opportunities for the last fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 2: The tide has turned. The momentum is there for Seattle.
Speaker 2: The pressure is on with that foursome up top of
Speaker 2: four attackers with Manda, Seer, Mircado, Fishlock and Ratcliffe. If
Speaker 2: you saw now having it on their left, now working
Speaker 2: through the middle of the park, changing the point of
Speaker 2: attack to the right, here's Thompson.
Speaker 3: That ball goes.
Speaker 2: Out for a rain throwing right in front.
Speaker 3: Of head coach Laura Harvey.
Speaker 2: In these moments, Laura Harvey, we talked about her one
Speaker 2: of the greatest coaches in this league's history. This will
Speaker 2: certainly be a test for her today in her two
Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth game coaching Seattle Rain to fight back
Speaker 2: with this one. Yeah.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite things about watching Laura Harvey is
Speaker 4: you can really tell how she feels about the game.
Speaker 4: When she's on the sideline, she's up, she's yelling. If
Speaker 4: her team's doing.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe she's sitting for a little bit.
Speaker 4: But after they scored that second goal, she was up,
Speaker 4: jacket off, she was yelling at her team to get
Speaker 4: back in this.
Speaker 5: And that's one of the best things about her as a.
Speaker 4: Coach is that the energy she brings to her players
Speaker 4: on the field Rain with it.
Speaker 2: Here is Sam Mezza working in this midfield and trying
Speaker 2: to earn some space, but it's Utah pressuring right now,
Speaker 2: really pressing that Seattle Rain back line, trying to find
Speaker 2: some space forward and it's Mezza. We'll see, but it
Speaker 2: will be out for a Utah throw. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's funny you talk about how involved Laura Harvey is
Speaker 2: when it comes to I remember we had a game
Speaker 2: last year we were doing a broadcast for I believe
Speaker 2: it was a in Chicago where the Rain we're leading
Speaker 2: a match two nothing or three nothing. I think it
Speaker 2: was three nothing. Yeah, And even with a three nothing lead,
Speaker 2: she was so involved and she was still yelling What
Speaker 2: ended up happening was Chicago scored three goals in the
Speaker 2: last twenty minutes to force a three to three draw.
Speaker 2: Very demoralizing, but it was interesting to watch Laura Harvey's demeanor.
Speaker 2: It didn't change too much. Yeah, from down three nothing
Speaker 2: to a three to two, from up three nothing to
Speaker 2: a three to two game. She stayed involved in intense
Speaker 2: the entire way through, as Rain trying to find fishlock
Speaker 2: with a long ball and it will be Ratcliffe picking
Speaker 2: this one out.
Speaker 3: Still in possession are the Rain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's one of the most fun things about Laura.
Speaker 4: I mean, I remember being so jealous when I played
Speaker 4: with Boston and we were playing Seattle. At anytime Seattle scored,
Speaker 4: the players would rush to Laura on the sidelines, and
Speaker 4: I just what is the better sign that you were
Speaker 4: doing your job as a coach That the players want
Speaker 4: to celebrate with you, not just each other, They want
Speaker 4: to celebrate with you. And I think that speaks to
Speaker 4: you know, her time here at the club, but how
Speaker 4: she cares about these players as people as well.
Speaker 2: Rain with possession now switching off onto this right side
Speaker 2: with bondaser As Squerta has a lot of space Bndess
Speaker 2: is dribbling forward, but a Utah defender comes out of
Speaker 2: nowhere to take that ball away and we'll earn possession
Speaker 2: for the Royals. Now they have a chance to perhaps counter,
Speaker 2: but that's.
Speaker 3: A giveaway into the middle of the park.
Speaker 2: It's mezzen Mente in that middle of the field getting
Speaker 2: in the way of a pass and earning possession back
Speaker 2: for the Rain onto this left side. The pass just
Speaker 2: too far Utah.
Speaker 3: I was able to get in the way of that
Speaker 3: one and just.
Speaker 2: Clear back all the way to Claudia Dickie in goal
Speaker 2: for Seattle. Now it's bond Acre on the right for
Speaker 2: the Rain. Quertza tipped away but off of Florida's foot,
Speaker 2: we'll go for a Utah throwing. And you also wonder
Speaker 2: step how much we're gonna see a little bit of
Speaker 2: time wasting now for a Utah team on the road,
Speaker 2: they're obviously aft to a decent start here in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six, chance to win a place that they rarely win.
Speaker 2: I mean, you look at again their record against Seattle.
Speaker 2: They're they only have two wins. They have their two
Speaker 2: nine to three against the Rain. This would be a
Speaker 2: massive win for them early in this season and leading
Speaker 2: to nothing here sixty minutes to go in this game,
Speaker 2: you wonder how much they may be able to just
Speaker 2: kind of click keep away a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean time wasting.
Speaker 4: I think it's a little too early for but absolutely
Speaker 4: focusing on just keeping the ball and not giving up
Speaker 4: too much, not sending numbers for it as much as
Speaker 4: they were before.
Speaker 5: Because they have that cushion with the.
Speaker 2: Two zero lead, Thompson crosses it and headed. It's a
Speaker 2: good piece. Oh it's actually a poor header there. It
Speaker 2: was those Kronin getting towards that ball and it looked
Speaker 2: firstly it could have been good defending by mclernan, but
Speaker 2: just a poor header there from Cronin.
Speaker 3: Is out for a goal kick here in the thirtieth
Speaker 3: minute go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, And I think you know these teams are
Speaker 4: coming off a three week break. We also I haven't
Speaker 4: mentioned that, you know, there's game fitness that you actually
Speaker 4: can lose kind of quickly without having those games in
Speaker 4: those couple times.
Speaker 5: So you're right.
Speaker 4: Utah Royals team traveling playing in Lumen for the first time,
Speaker 4: as as the rain are with the fast grass, they
Speaker 4: got to conserve their energy fall out to.
Speaker 2: The right here here's called Gomantasir chance to cross it in,
Speaker 2: cross it to the back post. Ratcliffe cut out well,
Speaker 2: but to Fishlock. Fishlock cuts on her leg, shut off
Speaker 2: the post, goes off the bar for Jess Fishlock, but
Speaker 2: it stays with the rain. Mandasier still has it on
Speaker 2: the right trying to get into that assist zone and
Speaker 2: it will go out. That is going to be out
Speaker 2: for a goal kick here in the thirty first minute.
Speaker 2: But a big chance there for Jess Fishlock that just
Speaker 2: went off the bar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again Mandasire is doing a great job of
Speaker 4: getting high and wide on that right side. She's very
Speaker 4: quick with the ball. This is the second time she's
Speaker 4: sent in a very dangerous cross. It popped back out
Speaker 4: to Fishlock. The composure Jefs Fishlock has in the eighteen
Speaker 4: yard box is probably not comparable in this league. She
Speaker 4: is able to with two defender on her there, take
Speaker 4: a small touch across her body and she's man the crossbar.
Speaker 2: That left foot just off the crossbar. Such a good
Speaker 2: shot and it's, you know, one of those things. There's
Speaker 2: some cheers here in the stands for the United States
Speaker 2: women's national team head coach Emma Hayes. We talked about
Speaker 2: a few minutes ago, some big cheers here coming in
Speaker 2: at loumen Field from the large crowd here in attendance
Speaker 2: on the eastern side of Lewinfield. You know what we've seen,
Speaker 2: I think over these last twenty minutes, Steph, is the
Speaker 2: fact that this is a Rain attack that is producing opportunities.
Speaker 2: You had the back post there, you had Mercado who
Speaker 2: couldn't get that full shot on goal. You have that
Speaker 2: chance right there for Jess Fishlock that goes off the bar,
Speaker 2: and eventually, if you keep producing these opportunities, you will score.
Speaker 2: I think it's impossible to see the Rain getting shut
Speaker 2: out in this game if they continue to do what
Speaker 2: they've done in the last twenty minutes.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I think that's what Laura Harvey tells them at halftime,
Speaker 4: and I do think that's why she was so disappointed
Speaker 4: with how it started, because those two quick goals before
Speaker 4: they got into their rhythm have made their fate a
Speaker 4: little bit tougher here when they have the components to
Speaker 4: actually put this Royal team under a ton of pressure,
Speaker 4: and they could have been the ones on a two
Speaker 4: zero lead early.
Speaker 2: On, and here's Seattle to climb to take advantage of
Speaker 2: another giveaway, but they can't do anything with it and
Speaker 2: the ball goes right back and we'll take this moment,
Speaker 2: so go down onto the sideline with Kwame.
Speaker 16: So it looks like Seattle's slowly settling into the attack. Here,
Speaker 16: we've definitely gotten more numbers into the box. Now, Sophia
Speaker 16: wareth that does have to get a bit more involved
Speaker 16: in the attack. I think we're doing really well with
Speaker 16: attacking on the right side. However, you know, Sophia has
Speaker 16: seven career goal contributions against Utah Royals, so she's definitely
Speaker 16: seasoned in getting some points against this team.
Speaker 2: Here is where to coming forward. A chance to cross
Speaker 2: going to the back post, has Ratcliffe head it in
Speaker 2: fish lock and she went up for a bicycle kick,
Speaker 2: but it will go well wide a goal. Sorry to interrupt,
Speaker 2: Kwame go ahead.
Speaker 16: You know it was poetry emotion because as we were
Speaker 16: talking about Sophia Worth, they're being more involved in the attack.
Speaker 16: There she goes almost giving us an assist and an
Speaker 16: opportunity to get a goal in there. So it's looking good.
Speaker 16: We just got to keep going on the right side.
Speaker 16: Like I said, she's got seven goal contributions against the Royals,
Speaker 16: which is tied for the most of the sl history.
Speaker 16: So it's all about making sure that we're going down
Speaker 16: that right side and giving one of our best attacking
Speaker 16: outside wing players an opportunity to get.
Speaker 12: On the ball.
Speaker 2: It's a goal kick here for Utah and Stephanie exactly
Speaker 2: what Klamie was saying. The best attacks have been down
Speaker 2: that right side, Coco and Huerta crossing balls in towards Ratcliffe,
Speaker 2: Mercado in the back post, right in front of goal.
Speaker 2: That's where the best Reign attacks have been over these
Speaker 2: last twenty minutes. And here is Utah. We'll get back
Speaker 2: to that in a moment, trying to slip ball in
Speaker 2: towards the box. It's on a foot now, staying on
Speaker 2: the left shot and it just goes above the bar.
Speaker 2: Did it take a tip? I believe it did take
Speaker 2: a Claudia Dickie tip. This will be a Utah corner
Speaker 2: here in the thirty fourth minutes and.
Speaker 4: An incredible reaction from Dickey there actually because again just
Speaker 4: like the Royal sport and their second goal deflections are
Speaker 4: so hard for keepers to react, and we see it here.
Speaker 5: It's a shot from the outside of the eight and
Speaker 5: the left side, and.
Speaker 4: She's able to just barely get one or two fingertips
Speaker 4: there to make sure it's not a goal and it's
Speaker 4: a corner instead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, long shot there by Mina Tanaka, and it was
Speaker 2: just that little slight tip that causes it to go
Speaker 2: above the bar. Certainly, the Rain have to watch out
Speaker 2: for those kind of counters and those kind of transition
Speaker 2: moments because there have been so many moments offensively for
Speaker 2: the Rain in the last twenty minutes. Utah definitely want
Speaker 2: to set up Seattle this way, two hands raised in
Speaker 2: the corner for their kicktaker the case sends it to Dicky,
Speaker 2: grabs it out of the air with two hands and
Speaker 2: your chance maybe for the Rain to go fast.
Speaker 3: Dicky earning some space rolling it out to where.
Speaker 2: To where to get it up the field to mind
Speaker 2: to see your note, you'll have to play it right
Speaker 2: back to Emily Mason next to her, to mcclernan on
Speaker 2: the left side now, because the Rain will take a
Speaker 2: moment to regroup and set up themselves for an attack.
Speaker 2: About ten minutes from the halftime whistle at Lumenfield, Jackson
Speaker 2: felt Stephanie Verdoya Kwama Paya Seattle Rain Utah Royals here
Speaker 2: on Sports Radio nine to fifty k am. Thank you
Speaker 2: for joining us here tonight for our first of ten
Speaker 2: or so Rain matches on the radio here in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six. Rain with an outstanding start to this season
Speaker 2: so far, three to one in one. They entered match
Speaker 2: day six tied for second place in NWSL. We're down
Speaker 2: to nothing early to Utah in this game. Now here's
Speaker 2: fish luck on this left side has help with Curry
Speaker 2: mcclernan up the field, headed on chance for Mercato. Can
Speaker 2: she get in front of goal? She can, and she's
Speaker 2: tripped up. Is that a penalty? She's tripped up by
Speaker 2: the goalkeeper? Mea justice and Mercado and her teammates are
Speaker 2: asking why that is not a penalty? Which she had
Speaker 2: the ball on her foot, dribbling towards goal, tripped by
Speaker 2: Utah's goalkeeper and no call.
Speaker 4: Stephanie, Yeah, that's shocking. I think they're probably taking a
Speaker 4: look at it right now. But keeper goes down, miass
Speaker 4: goes down to the ground. Mercado is onside. It looks
Speaker 4: like for this ball she's taking a touch forward. She
Speaker 4: gets around behind the defender gets a touch past the
Speaker 4: keeper and she goes to the ground.
Speaker 3: We'll see here.
Speaker 2: I think that what they're saying is that Justice touched
Speaker 2: the ball just enough before she got in the way
Speaker 2: and redirected and tripped up Mercado. With that slight touch
Speaker 2: on the ball was enough. Our referee today Matt Thompson,
Speaker 2: an experienced referee who's actually the fourth official for the
Speaker 2: Sounders FC Dallas game here at Luminfield last night. Our
Speaker 2: VR today, Brad Jensen, are the VR referee, and they
Speaker 2: looked at it and determined that that is no penalty
Speaker 2: and we play on with Utah up to nothing.
Speaker 17: Here.
Speaker 4: You could tell Laura Hardy was not happy about that call,
Speaker 4: and those ones are tricky. But when the keeper goes
Speaker 4: to the ground and the player who she seems like
Speaker 4: she was still in possession of that ball, not able
Speaker 4: to continue going towards goal, you really wonder how that's not.
Speaker 2: A pKa because Justice redirected the ball just slightly with
Speaker 2: her fingertips, but Mercado was still in full possession of
Speaker 2: that ball.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 2: Long here towards the back post, Fishlock heads it back,
Speaker 2: still in possession with Ratcliffe now back to curry career.
Speaker 2: Ratcliffe chance to cross into the box, tipped away by
Speaker 2: a rain head. Still a Seattle shot deflected out. Long
Speaker 2: shot from Muerta from distance, but it will get to
Speaker 2: Mandasy or you're on this right side montasyre chance to cross.
Speaker 2: It's tipped out. This will be a Seattle rain corner kick.
Speaker 2: Referee ruling if she had the flag up towards a
Speaker 2: goal kick, but that is a corner kicks the wrong
Speaker 2: flag direction. This will be a corner kick in the
Speaker 2: northwest northeast corner of Lumen Field here in the thirty
Speaker 2: eighth minutes, hoping for another opportunity for the Rain Cocoa
Speaker 2: mantasy to take.
Speaker 3: It both hands raised.
Speaker 2: There'll be an outsinging corner as Ratcliffe in the near post,
Speaker 2: wide open. It goes towards the middle of goal. We'll
Speaker 2: tipped and a foul is called and it got to
Speaker 2: the foot of sam Meza who just tapped it off
Speaker 2: a Utah defender right in front of goal. But a
Speaker 2: foul was called and this will be a free kick
Speaker 2: for their goalkeeper Justice here as we hit the thirty
Speaker 2: ninth minute at Lumen.
Speaker 3: Beautiful night for soccer in Seattle.
Speaker 2: The sun setting here on Lumen Field just south of
Speaker 2: downtown Seattle. Justice will send this long headed up by Curry,
Speaker 2: Rain and possession, give it right away to Utah. Off
Speaker 2: the header now down into this right four or three
Speaker 2: defenders working on a Royals player and they able to
Speaker 2: take it away. Here's Mercado and Marnhado.
Speaker 3: Change the point of attack and get things going.
Speaker 2: You shall lay it off to Emily Mason, another defender,
Speaker 2: and now a long ball up the field that will
Speaker 2: be taken back before Utah. Would you suggest fishlock and
Speaker 2: racked with pressure. Lots of pressure here on Utah whenever
Speaker 2: they try to send it back towards their keeper. You know,
Speaker 2: long ball Ford has taken for Seattle taken away by Utah.
Speaker 2: They don't have the numbers and they'll have to retreat back.
Speaker 4: And again we're seeing a little bit of a lack
Speaker 4: of composure in the back line that I know Laura
Speaker 4: Harvey has been wanting to find in this back line
Speaker 4: in these past couple of weeks that they've been training
Speaker 4: on without the games. But mclernan and Murray or Masa
Speaker 4: have both given up balls that they probably should.
Speaker 5: Be able to bring down. Keep it their feet and
Speaker 5: connect passing and going forward.
Speaker 2: Stu mean, we talked with Laura Harvey yesterday out at
Speaker 2: training and she said very very directly to us that
Speaker 2: we want to be better in defending after this recent
Speaker 2: international break. And you know, it's it's those moments in
Speaker 2: the first six minutes of the game where Utah score
Speaker 2: in the first minute with Cronin and then the seventh
Speaker 2: winute with Mira, and it's those two moments early in
Speaker 2: a game, and.
Speaker 3: It's it's a moment of poor defending.
Speaker 2: On the first one, a redirected shot from the distance
Speaker 2: on the second line is the Rain now trying to
Speaker 2: work with numbers Here on the right side, you're square
Speaker 2: to getting forward as Mandasire on her right she uses
Speaker 2: her montasre chanced to cross and it's blocked away a
Speaker 2: good block there by Rabano the left back for Utah
Speaker 2: throw in coming about five yards from the end line.
Speaker 4: And again up that right side Mondessier and where to
Speaker 4: do seem to be the key for Rain.
Speaker 2: Here comes Mondasire just to cross it towards the back post,
Speaker 2: but Ratcliffe's not able to get her foot on that one.
Speaker 2: It will be out for a Utah goalkick. Here in
Speaker 2: the forty first minutes, and as we look at what
Speaker 2: else is happening here in NWSL today, Angel City today
Speaker 2: playing against Portland as well, and that's certainly one to
Speaker 2: watch because as we look at the standings I mentioned
Speaker 2: Rain with a great start here to this season, you know,
Speaker 2: three to one and one, they are looking up at
Speaker 2: Portland thorns. It's never a good thing when a Seattle
Speaker 2: team has to look up in the standings to Portland.
Speaker 2: But it's Portland getting a two to one win over
Speaker 2: Angel City earlier today, and with that win they have
Speaker 2: gone a little bit higher than the standings now second
Speaker 2: place San Diego Wave in first place in NWSL with
Speaker 2: five wins and only one loss. And as this score
Speaker 2: stands right now, Utah and Seattle would be equal at
Speaker 2: ten points with a three to two to one record.
Speaker 2: But that is just as things stand right now, and
Speaker 2: we hope that things do change. As Utah leads to
Speaker 2: nothing here in the forty second minute, where you try
Speaker 2: to get a ball four to Ratcliffe, but it's taken
Speaker 2: out by a Utah defender and send it all the
Speaker 2: way back to justice. The pressure can continues from Seattle.
Speaker 4: And you know you don't want the players to say it,
Speaker 4: but it is early in the season. They're looking to
Speaker 4: who they're gonna be.
Speaker 2: Here's Monasty on the right side, chance to cross it in.
Speaker 2: She does, but again it's cut out well by a
Speaker 2: Utah defender that is Kaylee Real and she will put
Speaker 2: it out for a Rain corner. Go ahead, Stephanie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now, you know, just saying we don't want to
Speaker 4: look up Portland in the standings. Definitely, not that Cascadia
Speaker 4: rivalry is strong, but it is early.
Speaker 5: It's early. We've had a couple week break.
Speaker 4: The June break will also stretch out and create this
Speaker 4: kind of dysfunction in the early parts of the season.
Speaker 4: But the Rain have time to figure out who they
Speaker 4: are and put their mark on this season.
Speaker 2: Corner coming in from Mandacre goes to Fishlock redirects it
Speaker 2: to the back post. Here is a shot and a
Speaker 2: foul again called I believe that foul cold on Emily
Speaker 2: Mason there at the back post as she raises her
Speaker 2: hands asking where did the foul come from or her
Speaker 2: shot did go right there into the arms of MEA
Speaker 2: justice in goal and another opportunity for the Rain that ends.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and a soft call there.
Speaker 4: I have to say, she's on the back post, the
Speaker 4: ball's coming over. She's trying to let go of her
Speaker 4: defender and get around her, and instead they've called it
Speaker 4: for the Royals.
Speaker 3: There goalkick here onto this in near.
Speaker 2: Side of the right.
Speaker 15: Rain.
Speaker 2: Do you get a foot to it? But Utah takes
Speaker 2: it back. Some bodies on the floor, but Utah pick
Speaker 2: it up now with some space in the middle of
Speaker 2: the park. Shot from distance and it goes off the post.
Speaker 2: What a shot from distance off the post but on
Speaker 2: a Tahata shot from about twenty five yards out. It
Speaker 2: beat Claudia Dicky as she dove to her left and
Speaker 2: it goes right off of that right post.
Speaker 5: And I think Claudia Dicky would say it didn't beat
Speaker 5: her because it hit the post. I think she would
Speaker 5: have thought she covered that.
Speaker 4: But it's a great left footed shot across the body
Speaker 4: and oof. Yeah, I mean there was there was a
Speaker 4: couple of inches. There's still gray athleticism from Vicky to
Speaker 4: get across. But we are lucky that post was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is six inches inside that might have redirected
Speaker 2: off that posted into the back of the nets. Thankful
Speaker 2: that this is still too nothing right here, and that
Speaker 2: would have been the second shot from distance into the
Speaker 2: back of the net if it was just a few
Speaker 2: inches to the left.
Speaker 4: And you know, at times, I think that's the chaos
Speaker 4: that Laura Harvey described this Royals team. They seem to
Speaker 4: be always dangerous and I can't even put maybe my
Speaker 4: name to it or a person specifically, but it is
Speaker 4: just they.
Speaker 5: Are going for it at all times. Shots, early runs
Speaker 5: in behind, I mean they're dangerous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they certainly have no hesitation taking shots from distance.
Speaker 2: That led, of course to their second goal today that
Speaker 2: was redirected off the shoulder of Jess fischlock Wen.
Speaker 3: We just have a few moments until the halftime whistle.
Speaker 2: Here at liv the field, Laura Harvey will have to
Speaker 2: get her squad together for the last forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: To a ball towards the box will be grabbed with
Speaker 2: one hand by Claudia Dicky. She will easily take that
Speaker 2: one with a little bit of style there in front
Speaker 2: of goal. It was interesting because that takes us back
Speaker 2: to that conversation with Emma Hayes in the pregame about
Speaker 2: just the behavior and the demeanor, right, and it's that
Speaker 2: confidence of I'm just gonna take this long ball with
Speaker 2: one hand and have a composure. But here's the boss
Speaker 2: slipped in Utah chance of Gulgan shot back of the net,
Speaker 2: and right before the halftime, that is a third goal
Speaker 2: for the Utah Royals. It went towards the back post
Speaker 2: for Chloe Lacasse and that is in past Claudia Dickie
Speaker 2: and the visitors now lead here three nothing, Royals over Rain.
Speaker 4: And you can see the Rain looking a little defeated
Speaker 4: there because that was a defensive transition moment in their
Speaker 4: defens defensive halfway they gave the ball away again from
Speaker 4: the back line. They're not able to get win it
Speaker 4: back and then a player just sneaks in on the
Speaker 4: right shoulder of Mason there to make sure that she
Speaker 4: can put a past Dickie in.
Speaker 5: That front post.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mason just tries to get a foot to that
Speaker 2: one on the slide put it's La Casse getting that
Speaker 2: ball in the box wide open and that shot past Dickie.
Speaker 2: Not a lot that Claudia Dicky could do there. And
Speaker 2: now it is a very uphill battle for the final
Speaker 2: forty five minutes of this game.
Speaker 3: We have had two minutes added.
Speaker 2: We're already through one of those two minutes in what
Speaker 2: is now a Utah Royals three nothing lead, and this
Speaker 2: is a rain team again. This is the first game
Speaker 2: at Lumen Field, on this new grass at Lumen the
Speaker 2: entire year, they've been playing away from home. They've had
Speaker 2: this season so far, where they opened in Orlando with
Speaker 2: a two to one win, they went to Portland with
Speaker 2: a two to nothing loss, and then three games in Spokane,
Speaker 2: a three to nothing win over the reigning Shield winners
Speaker 2: Kansas City, a two to one win over Louisville, and
Speaker 2: then a zero zero draw against Denver on April fourth
Speaker 2: before the international break, where they haven't played since April fourth.
Speaker 2: This is their first game since, and it's their first
Speaker 2: game at Lumen Field, and it has not gone well
Speaker 2: here in the opening forty five.
Speaker 4: Minutes, you know, and you point into a couple things
Speaker 4: that really do cause disruption for players, routines, the travel,
Speaker 4: the change of field.
Speaker 5: Right they're playing in Lumen, this massive stadium.
Speaker 4: They have made it across trip to Orlando, across the
Speaker 4: country trip to Orlando. They've been living out of suitcases
Speaker 4: in Spokane for a few weeks. But you'd think that
Speaker 4: they would be able to come back and establish a rhythm.
Speaker 4: But it is very difficult to come back even if
Speaker 4: this is their home field. This is their first game here,
Speaker 4: it's for their first game on grass here, and that's tough.
Speaker 2: It has been a tough first forty five minutes. Since
Speaker 2: the halftime whistle blows, we are finished with the first
Speaker 2: forty five.
Speaker 3: They score right now of three to nothing.
Speaker 2: Utah and Laura Harvey and company as she walks this
Speaker 2: locker room, we look at the look on her face.
Speaker 3: Stephanie. That is not a happy head coach.
Speaker 5: Right now, that is not a happy head coach.
Speaker 4: And if I know Laura Harvey at all, she is
Speaker 4: going to be saying a couple things.
Speaker 5: Get it together on the.
Speaker 4: Back line, keep the ball, do not give it away,
Speaker 4: and let's get a goal.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's that simple.
Speaker 4: They've had the chances, they need to finish them and
Speaker 4: stop making it having your own mistakes. Be the reason
Speaker 4: why the Royals are up three to zero because two.
Speaker 2: Of their goals are from those giveaways in the back end,
Speaker 2: and one of them is off a deflected shot from distance.
Speaker 2: So all right, now, certainly work to do on that
Speaker 2: defensive end for Laurel Harvey in the rain. We will
Speaker 2: step aside for a commercial break. We will come back
Speaker 2: with the halftime show as the Seattle Rain have work
Speaker 2: to do here in the second half. We're finished with
Speaker 2: forty five minutes. It's a Utah three to nothing lead
Speaker 2: more Next Sports Radio nine fifty KGr AM.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Luminfield. Welcome back to the halftime show
Speaker 2: where Seattle Rain are currently facing an uphill battle in
Speaker 2: the second half. Is We're forty five minutes in and
Speaker 2: it's a three nothing lead for the Utah Royals. Utah
Speaker 2: team that scores in the fifty first second of this game,
Speaker 2: we were fifty one second sin and Paige Cronin picked
Speaker 2: up a loose ball on the back end on a
Speaker 2: giveaway by Seattle's defense and she puts it into the
Speaker 2: back of the net for a one to nothing lead.
Speaker 2: Then in the seventh minute, just a few minutes later,
Speaker 2: it is a corner kick that bounces back out to
Speaker 2: Mira and a long distance shot takes a deflection off
Speaker 2: of the shoulder of Jess Fishlock and ends up in
Speaker 2: the back of the net, beating a diving Claudia Dicky.
Speaker 2: That gave Utah a very quick two to nothing lead
Speaker 2: inside of seven minutes. From there, Seattle looked better. They
Speaker 2: got things going offensively, They got some composure and some
Speaker 2: confidence on the ball in the attack. Things were working
Speaker 2: up and on that right side, with a combination of
Speaker 2: Sophia Huerta and Coco Mandis here working on that left wing.
Speaker 3: Lots and right wing.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Lots of attacks, lots of crosses, lots of chances.
Speaker 2: At one point Jess Fishlock put a ball off of
Speaker 2: the crossbar, a great play where she turns the ball
Speaker 2: onto her left foot and a left footed shot goes
Speaker 2: off of the bar. But so many chances for the
Speaker 2: rain and unfortunately nothing into the back of the net
Speaker 2: passed Utah's kie keeper Meat Justice. And then right before
Speaker 2: the halftime whistle, just right before La cass gets a
Speaker 2: tremendous pass into the box on a counter attack on
Speaker 2: another turned over ball in Seattle's half of the field,
Speaker 2: they quickly transition. She has a wide open shot against
Speaker 2: Dicky and puts it into the back of the net
Speaker 2: for that third Utah goal, and right now it is
Speaker 2: a large lead for the visitors right now. Seattle Rain,
Speaker 2: entering this match day, they were three to one and
Speaker 2: one tied for second place in NWSL Utah was three
Speaker 2: points behind him, and the Royals are making up all
Speaker 2: of that as they entered this game two in a
Speaker 2: one here in twenty twenty sixth in seventh play. And
Speaker 2: this is a team in Utah that has had a
Speaker 2: terrible history against Seattle. Only two wins for the Royals
Speaker 2: against the Rain and they are looking for this to
Speaker 2: be their third. Right now, a three nothing lead, We'll
Speaker 2: take a break here on the halftime show. We'll come
Speaker 2: back and get you some keys the second half that
Speaker 2: will come up next on Sports Radio nine fifty KJR AM.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Loomanfield and we welcome you back to
Speaker 2: the halftime show. Currently, Seattle Rain down to the Utah
Speaker 2: Rails by a score of three to zering if you're
Speaker 2: just joining us, this is our first of many Seattle
Speaker 2: Rain matches here on radio in twenty twenty six. Seattle Rain,
Speaker 2: of course, are women's professional soccer team here in the.
Speaker 3: Emerald City, and right.
Speaker 2: Now they find themselves down by a few goals to Utah.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at who Laura Harvey has to
Speaker 2: bring off of a bench today, and there is a
Speaker 2: lot of offensive weapons to bring off. Maddie Dollen is
Speaker 2: a left winger, a very very talent to players.
Speaker 3: She's in the United States women's national team system.
Speaker 2: She is available. Emria Damas same case, also in that
Speaker 2: United States youth programing system.
Speaker 3: She's available off the bench. She's a right winger as well.
Speaker 2: You have a midfielder and Haws James Turner, Holly Ward,
Speaker 2: Ainsley mccamnon me official is a big forward and a
Speaker 2: big weapon for the rain Is as we had Emma
Speaker 2: Hayes the women's national team head coach. On she mentioned unprompted,
Speaker 2: how she is very closely monitoring me official and her
Speaker 2: return to full fitness. She's available for Laurel Harvey off
Speaker 2: the bench, also Ryan Brown, Shay Holmes, and a backkeep
Speaker 2: goalkeeper of Cassie Miller. Taking a look at also of
Speaker 2: those first half stats, it really is all Utah. This
Speaker 2: wasn't a game where it looked like it was goals
Speaker 2: against the run of play. Utah did really execute their
Speaker 2: system well and it worked, leading in shots nine to five,
Speaker 2: shots on target, they doubled up Seattle four to two.
Speaker 3: They had four corners.
Speaker 2: Their expected goals though, that's where this is interesting. Expected
Speaker 2: goals is one of those, you know, kind of deeper
Speaker 2: soccer stats that we sometimes look at and say, well,
Speaker 2: what should the score line of this game be? Right now,
Speaker 2: Utah leads and expected goals, but they only lead point
Speaker 2: six y six to point six to two, And that
Speaker 2: really kind of comes off I think of a couple
Speaker 2: of things. It comes off of the opportunities that Seattle created.
Speaker 2: You gotta continue to work off of that right side
Speaker 2: with Manda Sere, with Sofia Huerta. You need to attack
Speaker 2: off that right side. That is where enormous successes come today.
Speaker 2: Crossing balls into the middle of the box for Matti Mercado,
Speaker 2: to the back post for Britney Ratcliffe. More of that
Speaker 2: and you can find a goal and sort of get
Speaker 2: this momentum turn. But Utah has got their goals off
Speaker 2: a deflection, off a couple defensive giveaways. You gotta shore
Speaker 2: up on that back end and if you do those things,
Speaker 2: you can continue to create opportunities and not give the
Speaker 2: bait ball away defensively in your own half of the field.
Speaker 2: Seattle rain could find themselves back in this and you
Speaker 2: just want to get that early goal to instill that belief,
Speaker 2: to get that confidence back, and then get going on
Speaker 2: the offensive end even more and then don't give up
Speaker 2: anything in transition.
Speaker 3: That is where Utah want to be. That is where
Speaker 3: they are very dangerous. We'll take a.
Speaker 2: Break and we will get to the second half. Is
Speaker 2: the Rainer back got onto the field to warm up.
Speaker 2: We'll see if there are any changes by head coach
Speaker 2: Laura Harvey for the second half. Brittany Stephanie Vrdoya will
Speaker 2: rejoin us with Kwamea Paya on the sideline. Min names
Speaker 2: Jackson Goltz. The game continues next on Sports Radio nine
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Roland Field for the second half
Speaker 2: of this game between Seattle Rain and the Utah Royals.
Speaker 2: Utah with a big first half three goals first minute,
Speaker 2: seventh minute, and the forty fifth minutes, and we get
Speaker 2: this second half underway. Goes back to their goalkeeper mea
Speaker 2: justice for Utah. She will send it a long ball forward.
Speaker 2: If we rejoin you here in the booth, Jackson Felt,
Speaker 2: Stephanie Verdoya call me Apaya on the sideline as well
Speaker 2: for this broadcast of Seattle Rain on Sports Radio nine
Speaker 2: to fifty kJ am Stephanie, what are your keys to
Speaker 2: the second half for Seattle?
Speaker 4: So for Seattle, I mean we talked about it as
Speaker 4: a key for them to talk about it at halftime,
Speaker 4: but the defense needs to be composed.
Speaker 5: They need to not give the ball away.
Speaker 4: And that's just step one because if they can do that,
Speaker 4: their attack has already created what they want to see.
Speaker 4: Where to monda Seer, Fishlock, Mercado. They're all getting chances
Speaker 4: in that eighteen yard box. So one, don't give the
Speaker 4: ball away, But that seems a little obvious.
Speaker 5: So I'd say the biggest key.
Speaker 4: For them is obviously, once they don't give the ball away,
Speaker 4: get into the eighteen yard box and create good contact
Speaker 4: on frame.
Speaker 5: I think Justice is a little shaky in moments. I
Speaker 5: think they can put something behind.
Speaker 2: Her Seattle with possession along their back line. I'm also wondering,
Speaker 2: steph how fast does Seattle need to play the first
Speaker 2: ten minutes of this half? How much do they need
Speaker 2: to advance and really go for a quick goal? As
Speaker 2: here is a long ball trying to get the ball
Speaker 2: up the field, cutout well by Utah but picked up
Speaker 2: by Huerta for Seattle.
Speaker 3: But she can't control this one, and you shall have
Speaker 3: it back.
Speaker 2: Like I always asking here, Stephanie, I'm wondering how quickly
Speaker 2: you need to go for a goal in.
Speaker 4: The first ten minutes, So you know, I would say
Speaker 4: you do. It's an obvious you got three goals to
Speaker 4: make up. Except I do think the Royals live on
Speaker 4: that kind of chaotic pressure that's not organized. I think
Speaker 4: Harvey is going to want her team to stick to
Speaker 4: what they know. They are organized, they are structured, They
Speaker 4: keep the ball, they don't just fly forward. Yes, they
Speaker 4: have pressure, but it's organized, it's intentional, it's led by Fishlock.
Speaker 4: They know their positions on the field, and so I
Speaker 4: don't think we're going to see urgency, but I think
Speaker 4: we're going to see more directness in how they play.
Speaker 2: All right. Now, Utah have the ball in possession with
Speaker 2: their goalkeeper Mia Justice, that uses her defense and back line.
Speaker 3: This is where you kind of wonder how.
Speaker 2: Much they will just simply focus on possession as a
Speaker 2: ball will go out for a goalkick. Here in the
Speaker 2: forty eighth minute Loomenfield, sun still set on the stadium tonight,
Speaker 2: beautiful day here in the Northwest, wonderful night for soccer
Speaker 2: here in Seattle. As the sun is setting, just slivers
Speaker 2: of sun coming through the rafters of Lumenfield on the
Speaker 2: east side of this pitch, this new pitch that is
Speaker 2: now grass down there, and Stephanie's also his Rain have
Speaker 2: a thrown here from Utah's side of the field. Thrown
Speaker 2: comes on to talk to you about this grass difference
Speaker 2: where the Rain have been playing here at Luminfield for
Speaker 2: a number of years. But certainly it's a pleasant surprise
Speaker 2: and a very big benefit to be able to play
Speaker 2: on grass as opposed to the turf that we have
Speaker 2: seen for so many years here at Louma.
Speaker 15: Oh.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's the best.
Speaker 4: I mean you talk to any player in the world.
Speaker 4: Everyone first grass over turf, you know. We talked to her,
Speaker 4: Laura Harvey, and she said, it looks fast the ground interrupt.
Speaker 3: Here is Utah have a chance here?
Speaker 2: They got a ball on the right, tries to slip
Speaker 2: the ball in, but a great job there to cut
Speaker 2: that one out. And that is our midfield, Sally Menti
Speaker 2: from Roosevelt High School getting in the way of that one.
Speaker 2: Seattle now with possession.
Speaker 4: Sorry to interrupt, go ahead, No, as I was saying,
Speaker 4: it moves fast.
Speaker 5: It moves the pace fast. The grass goes fast.
Speaker 2: Where's fishlock a chance to beat this defense, but can't
Speaker 2: get around that defense. Few years off to the right
Speaker 2: for Juexa, for Moondare montasr. Chance across, takes a deflection
Speaker 2: and it will stay with Seattle, and that should be
Speaker 2: a foul. They're on Mondas here about ten yards from
Speaker 2: the edge of the box. Let's go down onto the
Speaker 2: sideline with a third member of our crew today. Quame
Speaker 2: a pie up.
Speaker 16: All right, looks like we're doing you know we're doing
Speaker 16: we're supposed to do here. We're getting the ball out wide,
Speaker 16: We're getting it out early and off and I think
Speaker 16: the key to the second half is making sure we're
Speaker 16: getting the ball into the box early as we can
Speaker 16: and as often as possible. We've got some great opportunities.
Speaker 16: I think going into the back post, it feels like
Speaker 16: the Utah defensive line is shifting over into the strong side.
Speaker 16: So if that ball gets floated over into the other box,
Speaker 16: you have Rackcliffe on the other end and hopefully we
Speaker 16: can get some loose open opportunities going to the goal.
Speaker 3: There's Montacy with his free kick. Thanks Kwame sends it forward.
Speaker 2: It's an out swinger top of the box, tipped on,
Speaker 2: but a great job by me and Justice to get
Speaker 2: on the end of that one after it popped up.
Speaker 2: Kind of took a inopportune deflection there, I believe. I
Speaker 2: don't know if I was feeding mcclaran making a run
Speaker 2: towards goal there, but ultimately not the exact touch you
Speaker 2: wanted on that ball right off of that free kick, Stephanie.
Speaker 5: No, definitely not.
Speaker 4: And again it's just a little bit of that composure
Speaker 4: maybe on both sides of the ball back line, but
Speaker 4: also in the attacking app As Kwami was saying, great
Speaker 4: balls into the box, whether it's a direct kick there
Speaker 4: from mondas here or we're seeing crosses in from where
Speaker 4: to They're not getting good contact on that ball.
Speaker 2: There is hu saw now picking it up with possession
Speaker 2: now switching the point of attack to the left side.
Speaker 2: Chance to cross it in towards the back of stick,
Speaker 2: had a foot on it, but it's a poor touch
Speaker 2: there at the back post. Massive opportunity for I believe
Speaker 2: there was Page Crona to the back post, but couldn't
Speaker 2: get her full foot on the end of that one.
Speaker 2: That very easily could have been for nothing.
Speaker 4: Stephanie, it absolutely could have been. And again I think
Speaker 4: you're just looking at that back line. Where is the leadership,
Speaker 4: Where is the composure? She was unmarked on that back
Speaker 4: post most dangerous, But on the field when that ball's
Speaker 4: floating and that.
Speaker 2: Is that back post there, Madison, Curry, mcclern and Mason,
Speaker 2: we need to not give the ball away and also
Speaker 2: cover on those chances. As Utah is still working possession
Speaker 2: in Seattle's edge of the field, cross coming in and
Speaker 2: easily handled by a goalkeeper. Claudia Dickey rows it out.
Speaker 2: Chance to potentially counter it back. Here's a Radcliffe and
Speaker 2: Jess Fishlock. But you cannot connect with each other and
Speaker 2: the ball is given right back to Utah.
Speaker 4: And those are the moments I think again where they
Speaker 4: we don't need urgency. The Rain needs to maintain the
Speaker 4: ball in those moments. Again, the Royals are actually just
Speaker 4: charging down the field. We thought they would sit back.
Speaker 4: They don't look like they're sitting back. So the Rain
Speaker 4: need to gain control of the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right now, out the rain. The Rain are on
Speaker 2: the heels from Utah, who are definitely pushing for that
Speaker 2: fourth goal and they want to sweep the leg right now,
Speaker 2: fifty second minute, up three to nothing and they know
Speaker 2: a fourth goal but effectively end this game. They are
Speaker 2: certainly going for it, but they are pushing numbers forward.
Speaker 2: If Seattle can capitalize on that and get them in transition,
Speaker 2: that could change the entire dynamic. Here is if the
Speaker 2: Rain pick it up going switching the point of attack
Speaker 2: to this right side, can Coco get to the end
Speaker 2: of that one. It's a long ball and it will
Speaker 2: go out for a Utah throwing here from the near
Speaker 2: side the left, and.
Speaker 4: Again that's an unfortunate giveaway in the middle of the field.
Speaker 4: They're not making it to the attacking third. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think I've seen just Fishlock put her head up
Speaker 4: a couple of times just in frustration of they're not
Speaker 4: even getting into the spaces right now where they need
Speaker 4: to be to make sure that they can work their
Speaker 4: way back into this game.
Speaker 3: It's all long ball here to the left.
Speaker 2: It's taken away by Huerta or To looking for some help,
Speaker 2: trying to find some help. She has helped within the
Speaker 2: form of Claudia Dicky, but who is pressured immediately. And
Speaker 2: these the tense moments here where Utah has pressured Seattle
Speaker 2: into giveaways, but that will go out after a deflected
Speaker 2: pass for a Seattle throwing. That was a very important
Speaker 2: moment for the Rain in that moment, Stephanie to not
Speaker 2: give that ball away with a lot of pressure there
Speaker 2: in their own end.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And one thing we should have noted actually is
Speaker 4: those giveaways from the back line. There is something to
Speaker 4: do with the new surface, right this is a new stadium,
Speaker 4: new grass.
Speaker 5: It changes the game.
Speaker 2: Here's Ratcliffe, Ratcliffe with a lot of space, but she
Speaker 2: has some pressure on her.
Speaker 3: Tipped away that will go out for a corner kick.
Speaker 2: Corner coming for Seattle here in the fifty third minute,
Speaker 2: he's the opportunities here down three nothing that you cannot
Speaker 2: waste as Mandasier will take this ball and take it
Speaker 2: to the southeast corner here of Lumen Field for this
Speaker 2: corner kick in front of those fans on the eastern
Speaker 2: side of this stadium. Wandasire has helping the form of Flerta.
Speaker 2: She will go long towards the back post, punched away
Speaker 2: like Justice, bounce us back out still with the rain
Speaker 2: on this left side here square to Mandasre Monnasare's spacing
Speaker 2: the box, crosses.
Speaker 3: It in towards the back post.
Speaker 2: Nobody home there at the back post, and that will
Speaker 2: go out for a goal kick.
Speaker 4: Stephanie, Yeah, and again Mandasire are doing a great job
Speaker 4: of getting crosses in.
Speaker 17: I will see.
Speaker 4: I think there's moments where she can be a little
Speaker 4: bit more intentional with where her cross goes. She is
Speaker 4: whipping it in there, but on balls like that, pick
Speaker 4: someone out now, to be fair to her, there are
Speaker 4: multiple players in that box, and I think Mercado maybe
Speaker 4: if she had a little bit better positioning read that
Speaker 4: Mandasire was gonna send that and she could have floated
Speaker 4: back post and got something on it. But as it
Speaker 4: stood three players there, no one gets anything on it.
Speaker 2: Again, a lot of pressure here is Utah plays with
Speaker 2: the ball in their back line.
Speaker 3: They're playing with fire. The rainer able to take this away.
Speaker 2: Here's Fishlock has a lot of help to be able
Speaker 2: to keep possession for the rain. Now Here is Mesa
Speaker 2: taking it into Utah's area. Tipps out for a throw
Speaker 2: in coming. We look down and we see the first
Speaker 2: sub for Seattle getting ready to Mattie Doleen, the twenty
Speaker 2: one year old from Minnesota who signed with Seattle last January.
Speaker 2: You mentioned earlier as a ball goes right, a sneaky
Speaker 2: little shot quick off the throw in was right to
Speaker 2: the side netting. It'll go out for a goal kick.
Speaker 2: And Laura Harvey is a little bit frustrated that was
Speaker 2: taken so quickly off the throwing. But here comes this
Speaker 2: first change I mentioned Maddie Dollen. She has three appearances
Speaker 2: with the United States women's national senior team here and
Speaker 2: this year made her debut in January, and she comes
Speaker 2: on to the field. This is her fourth game here
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. Does not have a goal on
Speaker 2: her assistance season, after scoring four and assisting on four
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. She is now going to be
Speaker 2: your left winger here coming on for Britney Ratcliffe.
Speaker 5: Dang In.
Speaker 4: Laura Harvey mentioned this to us earlier in the week
Speaker 4: that the press she is asking of her front four
Speaker 4: Fishlock Mercado, Manda Year, Ratcliffe, now Dollen is a lot
Speaker 4: of work.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of work off the ball.
Speaker 4: It's constantly putting them under pressure, and so she knew
Speaker 4: she was going to rotate those players.
Speaker 2: Here's the Rain.
Speaker 3: Still with possession.
Speaker 2: Here's mint Menti China at the ball that's deflected out
Speaker 2: forlor A Seattle throwing. Harvey, her coaching staff, lots of
Speaker 2: yelling for movement here, ball towards the middle of the park. Utah,
Speaker 2: take it away and now a chance to potentially counter
Speaker 2: here on this left side they have space and they
Speaker 2: get going with La cass on this left side.
Speaker 3: Chance across comes into the middle.
Speaker 2: Mcclernan will deal with that one and send it out
Speaker 2: for a Utah throwing three nothing Utah here at Luminfield.
Speaker 2: You're in the fifty seventh minute. The Rain have thirty
Speaker 2: four minutes in stoppage time and a large uphill battle.
Speaker 2: But we mentioned it in the first half. Stephanie, We're
Speaker 2: doing a broadcast last summer Rain versus Chicago, and this
Speaker 2: was a nothing, three nothing Seattle lead going into the
Speaker 2: seventieth minute, and Chicago scored three goals and twenty minutes
Speaker 2: to come away with a three to three draw.
Speaker 3: Soccer is funny like that.
Speaker 2: You can be in a blowout one second and have
Speaker 2: a tie game the next.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 4: It is funny like that, and it's really important for
Speaker 4: players to remember that this is a game of momentum shifts.
Speaker 4: They scored three goals in the first half, why can't
Speaker 4: we in the second?
Speaker 2: Here is rain getting in the way of what was
Speaker 2: a dangerous series of passes towards Seattle's box. Now back
Speaker 2: with Utah. Another chance here as they're in the middle
Speaker 2: of the park looking towards goal over on the right. Now,
Speaker 2: chance to cross it in. Ball comes in, tipped away
Speaker 2: by mcclernan, and we'll go all the way back out
Speaker 2: for Utah still in possession.
Speaker 3: Let's go down on to the sideline with Kwame.
Speaker 16: So I'm really loving the sub here. I think dialen
Speaker 16: coming in. You get a little bit more size, fresh legs,
Speaker 16: a little bit more pace. What you're hoping here is
Speaker 16: to get the ball into the box overloaded and hopefully
Speaker 16: we can get somebodies on the ball.
Speaker 2: And I think that that's.
Speaker 16: What that's what Harvey's intention is right now, and I think,
Speaker 16: I honestly think it's gonna make a major difference. And
Speaker 16: they're also overloading anytime the ball is on one side.
Speaker 16: You see Dialen come over, be that extra defender in
Speaker 16: that middle part. They're trying to make sure we put
Speaker 16: bodies close to the ball, win the ball in transition.
Speaker 21: So I'm loving it.
Speaker 2: For Seattle, let's say a giveaway on the back line
Speaker 2: and then a foul ride afterwards.
Speaker 3: It was a giveaway and a tough spot.
Speaker 2: And then we see sam Mesa there justging dragging down
Speaker 2: that attacker for Utah so they couldn't get something dangerous.
Speaker 3: But it will be a free kick here just.
Speaker 2: About yards fifteen yards outside of the box, flies in
Speaker 2: towards the back post. Rain get ahead to it. It ends
Speaker 2: up at Fishlock now to Matty Dollen. But Utah take
Speaker 2: it away and just send it into the rafters. Sit
Speaker 2: here at Loman Field a wishing shot. Not sure the
Speaker 2: point of that, but it will go kindly out for
Speaker 2: a goalkick for Claudia Dicky.
Speaker 4: And Thompson had a little smile there. I think she
Speaker 4: knew she was kind of just sending it. But you know, again,
Speaker 4: to the point the Royals are not slowing down. We
Speaker 4: thought maybe they'd sit in a low block and they'd
Speaker 4: keep the ball and they'd kind of could serve their
Speaker 4: energy because of this long road trip.
Speaker 5: No, they want this game to be four five zero.
Speaker 2: Certainly do is Now. Utah will make their first change
Speaker 2: the day. Leaving the field now will be Paige Cronin.
Speaker 2: Cronin had not appeared in a game yet in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six. She was dealing with an injury. She makes
Speaker 2: her first start, first appearance of the season, and she
Speaker 2: scores in the first minute off the defensive giveaway. Coming
Speaker 2: onto the field is another forward for Utah, so it's
Speaker 2: a like for like change. It's Alex Sponstra forward slash
Speaker 2: midfielder coming on for Utah. Who here who will play
Speaker 2: a similar spot fishlock trying to get something going on
Speaker 2: the right side, but it's given away. Utah tried to clear,
Speaker 2: but it will only clear to sam Mezza.
Speaker 3: Mezza over on this left side, trying to find Curry.
Speaker 2: But Utah pick it out and they will clear it
Speaker 2: back all the way to mcclernan in Seattle's own end.
Speaker 4: And you know, at this point in the game, I
Speaker 4: don't think either coach would describe the style of play
Speaker 4: we're seeing as very clean. Neither team is maintaining really
Speaker 4: long stretches of possession. It's fairly bouncing back and forth.
Speaker 4: Neither team has a clear kind of strategy with how
Speaker 4: they're going forward with the ball. Yes, Utah has been dangerous,
Speaker 4: Yes has been dangerous in moments, but neither team to
Speaker 4: me is saying we know how to handle the ball.
Speaker 4: We're going to maintain it, We're going to possess it
Speaker 4: throughout the thirds.
Speaker 5: Of the field.
Speaker 2: This will be right now, a throw in coming from
Speaker 2: just inside of Utah's half. You will look to pick
Speaker 2: up the pressure. Right now. They're wined up in this
Speaker 2: four two three one set with Maddie Mercado sitting high
Speaker 2: about Mondaseer, Fishlock and Doleen and Monasir takes this ball away.
Speaker 2: There's the pressure we talked about. Montas here working on
Speaker 2: this left side. Chance to cross gets into that assist zone.
Speaker 2: Cross sit back takes a clip and that is going
Speaker 2: to be out for a corner kick here in the
Speaker 2: sixty first minute. A very opportune job by Coco Mandasire
Speaker 2: to take that ball away, make a nice move and
Speaker 2: create a Seattle corner in the sixty first Oh.
Speaker 5: She is so fast.
Speaker 4: She is such a fun player to watch. She has
Speaker 4: loads of space here in front of her. She starts
Speaker 4: driving towards the end line. She's able to bring her
Speaker 4: defender over and really, Justice does a great job blocking
Speaker 4: that from going back across the The goal.
Speaker 2: Be a Justice. Utah's backup last year and has turned
Speaker 2: into their starter this year, and she's done an excellent
Speaker 2: job tonight. Cocoa Mantas here now over. It'll be an
Speaker 2: in swinger. Here she goes short to Huerta. Huerta takes
Speaker 2: a deflection on her cross, headed away by a Utah defender,
Speaker 2: stays with Seattle. Here's mesa chance to keep this ball
Speaker 2: on the right side. She crosses in headed away again,
Speaker 2: stays with Seattle. Now Mandasier on this left side. She
Speaker 2: creates some space to fishlock back out to the rights.
Speaker 2: Here's do Leen now on the left. Chance across cross
Speaker 2: comes in and a great job I'm Mercado to get
Speaker 2: a foot to that one right in front of that
Speaker 2: left post, but she just cannot direct it on frame.
Speaker 2: It goes out for a goal kick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm lucky there. Where's doing a great job again
Speaker 4: of getting service into the box. She's had a couple
Speaker 4: of assists on the year. It continues to be a
Speaker 4: great part of her game. As Bombi mentioned earlier, Dleene's
Speaker 4: actually the one that ends up getting that in. But
Speaker 4: Mercado comes across the frame of the goal at the
Speaker 4: perfect time, tries to kind of do a flick with
Speaker 4: the outside of her foot.
Speaker 5: It just doesn't direct it back the goal the way
Speaker 5: she wanted to.
Speaker 2: Here's the rain taking this one away. Another defensive giveaway
Speaker 2: by Utah. Here's Mezsa on this right side. Chance to
Speaker 2: cross it in, but she has some help. Here's Bondas
Speaker 2: here working with her. There's also Bluertza. Mezza foot on
Speaker 2: the ball. Now crosses it in going towards the back post.
Speaker 2: Would be a justice is able to grab that one
Speaker 2: away for Uzhah her goalkeeper today will roll it out. Now.
Speaker 2: Here's Tahada working through the middle of the park, sending
Speaker 2: this all the way through and will not be able
Speaker 2: to reach any running Utah. A zacher will roll all
Speaker 2: the way into the arms of Claudia. Dickie quickly plays
Speaker 2: us out to the left. Seattle's trying to go fast.
Speaker 2: Now they're up picking up the base. Down three nothing.
Speaker 2: Here's Maddie Dallen rushing off the left, getting into the box,
Speaker 2: cuts in left footed, shot right towards the near post,
Speaker 2: but be a justice does a good job falling on
Speaker 2: that one right there at the post, and he would
Speaker 2: be Seattle attack and shot there from Maddie will go
Speaker 2: for nothing, but definitely again, these are the chances you
Speaker 2: want to see getting created.
Speaker 4: Here you do, and Doleen does a great job to
Speaker 4: really drive into this space. One brilliant thing that you
Speaker 4: can see in this play is actually Jefs Fishlock directing her.
Speaker 4: Jessicealcket's making a diagonal rerunt across Dollen, so she's able
Speaker 4: to keep driving centrally and has that time and space
Speaker 4: and she's telling her go, go, go to goal.
Speaker 5: And that's what.
Speaker 4: Senior leaders like that do. They tell you when to
Speaker 4: take those chances. And now they just need to finish up.
Speaker 3: Here's another Utah giveaway. Here's Doleen in the box.
Speaker 2: Helen crossed it shot and it goes off of Fishlock's footing.
Speaker 2: Jess Fishlock is down and her arm is up and
Speaker 2: she is waving for trainers. Jess Fishlock is down in
Speaker 2: the box. A referee today waving the trainers over. Jess
Speaker 2: Fishlock right now in an enormous amount of pain, holding
Speaker 2: her left ankle down in the middle of the box.
Speaker 2: This comes just five days after the announcement that Jess
Speaker 2: Fishlock will retire at the end of the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: sixth season, the last remaining original member of the.
Speaker 3: Rain team from twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: The announcement came thirteen years to the day from her
Speaker 2: first Rain goal on April twenty first, twenty thirteen. Forty
Speaker 2: nine goals this season, only two behind Meghan Rapino for
Speaker 2: the most in club history. And right now she is
Speaker 2: down and she is with a trainer holding her left ankle.
Speaker 2: Stephanie in an enormous amount of pain.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And she is not a player that goes down
Speaker 4: or stays down. So when she is down that she's
Speaker 4: she's injured, you know. And at different times players can
Speaker 4: can utilize fousand moments immediately she was asking for the trainer,
Speaker 4: and on that replay you can see it's so unfortunate.
Speaker 4: Marcado is shooting the ball, She's trying to jump to
Speaker 4: get out of the way. It hits her leg and
Speaker 4: she ends up falling awkwardly on her ankle.
Speaker 5: I really hope nothing comes a bit. I hope it's
Speaker 5: a bad twist.
Speaker 4: But she is down. She is in some very clear pain.
Speaker 4: So last thing you want to see.
Speaker 2: We're watching Jess Fishlock right now, laying on her back,
Speaker 2: her hands covering her face, clearly in an enormous amount
Speaker 2: of emotion. Right now is Jefs Fishlock. Where right now
Speaker 2: your fourteen year career, this is year fifteen. Is now
Speaker 2: multiple trainers are running out to her and they are
Speaker 2: bringing out the stretcher. Now for Jess Fishlock, the legend,
Speaker 2: three shields, three berths in NWSL Championships, the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one NWSL MVP, seven time best eleven member in this league,
Speaker 2: third in NWSL history in minutes played at seventeen thousand,
Speaker 2: seven hundred and eighty five, and again just announced on
Speaker 2: Tuesday that this would be her last year.
Speaker 3: And on that shot, she awkwardly falls.
Speaker 2: And right now She is laying down a stretcher with
Speaker 2: multiple trainers down as everything has kind of come to
Speaker 2: a stop. Emory Adamis is getting ready to sub into
Speaker 2: this game for Jefs.
Speaker 4: Fishlock, and you can feel it in the stadium. I mean,
Speaker 4: these fans love Jeffs Fishlock. We've seen signs for her
Speaker 4: all day. She is the heart and soul of this team,
Speaker 4: and if this sidelines her over a little bit, she
Speaker 4: will continue to be the Jeff Fishlock. I know she
Speaker 4: will be as energetic on that sideline, but it is
Speaker 4: obviously devastating to see her down in any kind of pain,
Speaker 4: especially after the big week she's had.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're just seeing her. She is rolling her hands,
Speaker 2: still covering her face, teammates surrounding her, Claudia Dicky right
Speaker 2: next to her, as trainers are on the side. They're
Speaker 2: bringing the stretcher over and Jeff Fishlock will be put
Speaker 2: on the stretcher. The thirty nine year old from Wales.
Speaker 2: She signed two consecutive one year deals, first in November
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four to come back for twenty and
Speaker 2: then she signed another one year deal in November of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five to come back here for her final
Speaker 2: season in twenty twenty six. As the stretcher just leaves
Speaker 2: the field, you can hear the things and you can
Speaker 2: see the cast now on her left leg and left ankle,
Speaker 2: and the emotions on her face. It is. It's an
Speaker 2: emotional moment. I think for every Rain fan and every
Speaker 2: Rain player, everybody in this building watching and listening, this
Speaker 2: is a absolute club legend, one of the greatest to
Speaker 2: ever play this game, one of the greatest athletes I
Speaker 2: think in this city's sports history, as she is an
Speaker 2: MVP and took this team to multiple championship games. She
Speaker 2: has the most appearances in Wales national team history. And
Speaker 2: Jess Fishlock has left this game with a major injury
Speaker 2: on a stretcher, as we know, somehow continue to play.
Speaker 2: Here at Lumen Field, Utah leads three nothing and here
Speaker 2: they are counterattacking. Here in the sixty ninth minutes, ball's
Speaker 2: slipping to the back post. Here another chance at goal.
Speaker 2: Here shot goes into the arms of Claudia Dickie Covelosios
Speaker 2: put that on targets right at Claudia.
Speaker 3: Dickie, I mean, Stephanie.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering after a moment like that, where so much
Speaker 2: emotion for every player, and there's an enormous amount of
Speaker 2: motion in this building.
Speaker 3: Right now in a three nothing game.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, how do you move forward as a player on
Speaker 2: the field in this moments?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's devastating. Like we said, you can
Speaker 4: feel the energy. I'm sure the team feels the energy,
Speaker 4: right they feel the energy in the stadium.
Speaker 5: It's deflating.
Speaker 4: She's their leader, she's been their point person for the press.
Speaker 4: What they have to do is they have to go
Speaker 4: back to basics. That's what Laura Harvey's gonna tell them
Speaker 4: at half time in order to get back to this game.
Speaker 5: And it's true.
Speaker 4: Right now, whatever moment in the game you're at, you're
Speaker 4: thinking about connector pass, you're thinking about make your run,
Speaker 4: mark your player, put your shot on target. It is
Speaker 4: the only thing you can do when you feel like
Speaker 4: the emotion of the moment is too overwhelming to actually
Speaker 4: stay present and stay locked in and stay a competitor.
Speaker 2: All right now, it's a ball towards the southwest corner
Speaker 2: of the stadium, Utah already trying to maybe take it
Speaker 2: to their own corner there, but it will be the rain.
Speaker 3: Picking this up with a Dominis trying to earn possession.
Speaker 2: Here, here's a peasants, I'm alarte all the way to
Speaker 2: the back. Let's go down onto the sideline with Kwame.
Speaker 16: So with Emery coming on to the game, I think
Speaker 16: what we're trying to do here is give a lot
Speaker 16: more pace on the wings. Unfortunate that Jeff Fishlock went down,
Speaker 16: but now it gives an opportunity to drop Mindesser into
Speaker 16: the tense spot, who has been great on the ball,
Speaker 16: who has been great in transition and great and moving forward.
Speaker 16: You now have an opportunity to have two really pacy
Speaker 16: wingers and a target forward. And so I can see
Speaker 16: the Rain looking at an opportunity to play the ball
Speaker 16: forward over up and often and even from a deeper line,
Speaker 16: hoping for that flick on so that our two wingers
Speaker 16: can go and run to the ball and hopefully get
Speaker 16: some shots on the goal we had caught me.
Speaker 2: I think that's a really good point there, with a
Speaker 2: Damas and Balleen on those wings. Great years last year
Speaker 2: for both those players, but haven't seen goal contributions yet
Speaker 2: this season, and this would be a time for them
Speaker 2: to get on the scortion. Does the Rain pick up
Speaker 2: a turnover in Utah's in out of this right side
Speaker 2: with a damas domas a little flip over. She still
Speaker 2: has the ball dribbling towards the box. Chance to go
Speaker 2: in which has a football to montas here, but fed
Speaker 2: out by a Utah player and cleared away. Now pot
Speaker 2: by mcclernet, stays with Seattle here a couple of players down.
Speaker 2: When we continue play ball in the box from montas
Speaker 2: here held up no call.
Speaker 3: Into the arms of me and justice in gold.
Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting we talk about the emotions right now,
Speaker 2: not only in this three nothing game, but watching Jess Fishlock,
Speaker 2: the club legend, leave on a stretcher. Then the news
Speaker 2: on Tuesday of her retirement didn't come as a surprise
Speaker 2: to the team. That's something that Laura Harvey said that
Speaker 2: they knew right from the moment that Jess Fishlock walked
Speaker 2: through the doors this year. They knew that this would
Speaker 2: be her last year. So no surprise. But here's a
Speaker 2: chance for the rain. Chance from distance from Ocado and
Speaker 2: that goes off the crossbar again more woodward for the rain,
Speaker 2: but stays with Seattle. And here's NSSA in the middle
Speaker 2: of the park. The repper will hold.
Speaker 3: This up and he will point back as this is
Speaker 3: an injury.
Speaker 2: Here's Mea Justice, the goalkeeper for Utah down and she
Speaker 2: is rolling in a lot of pain. She is holding
Speaker 2: onto her right leg that ball that came off of
Speaker 2: the crossbar.
Speaker 3: Mea Justice for Utah.
Speaker 2: Went up to get to that ball and when she
Speaker 2: came down, Stephanie, she did not land well. And she
Speaker 2: is being treated by two trainers and three teammates right
Speaker 2: now on the side.
Speaker 4: And again another player going down and immediately referencing that
Speaker 4: she was in pain, and we're rewatching it now again.
Speaker 5: And that bar goes off the crossbar and she falls and.
Speaker 4: It doesn't look like she takes too weird of a landing,
Speaker 4: so maybe it was contact with her other knee.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's really hard to tell. She kind of
Speaker 5: comes down.
Speaker 4: It does look like she puts a lot of weight
Speaker 4: on that one leg, but it's really hard to know.
Speaker 5: Again, these are all competitors.
Speaker 4: The second that a player immediately is rolling around asking
Speaker 4: for a trainer, in those moments, you're concerned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she comes down on that right knee and right
Speaker 2: now two trainers are working with her. A couple of
Speaker 2: Utah players surrounding is well on one side, you know, Stephanie,
Speaker 2: we talk about, you know, trying to find more time
Speaker 2: and find more opportunities and get a ball in the
Speaker 2: back of the net. There is going to be at
Speaker 2: least about eight minutes added to this game, if not
Speaker 2: double digits. We will certainly play far, far past the
Speaker 2: ninety minutes, as we're in the seventy third minute right
Speaker 2: here at Luminfield, Jackson felt Stephanie Vrdouya kwamapaya on Sports
Speaker 2: Radio at nine to fifty kJ am coming at you
Speaker 2: with the first of around ten rain games on radio
Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty six. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: joining us in this rain return to lumen Field. They've
Speaker 2: been away from home for quite a while, three games
Speaker 2: in Spokane where they played very well a three to
Speaker 2: one and one start to twenty twenty six. But right
Speaker 2: now down three to nothing to this Utah team with
Speaker 2: eighteen minutes to go, plus a lot of stoppage time,
Speaker 2: and still we are seeing multiple trainers continue to work
Speaker 2: with their goalkeeper. Mea Justice and you'd absolutely think that
Speaker 2: mea Justice is coming out of this game. And it's interesting.
Speaker 2: We talked about it earlier. Mea Justice, right now is
Speaker 2: the goalkeeper for Utah only because of a preseason injury
Speaker 2: to their normal starting goalkeeper, Mandy McGlenn. McGlynn has been
Speaker 2: their starting goalkeeper for a long time and then in
Speaker 2: the preseason she had a finger injury that caused her
Speaker 2: to miss all of their first six first five games.
Speaker 2: But this is her first game back of bea available.
Speaker 2: They put her on the bench. That gave me a
Speaker 2: Justice another chance, as Mia had had a successful start
Speaker 2: to this season and as me and we see me
Speaker 2: a Justice. She's right now kind of testing that right knee.
Speaker 2: She's bending it, trying to get some pressure on that,
Speaker 2: trying to get some weight, putting some weight on her trainer,
Speaker 2: seeing if she can actually give it a go. You
Speaker 2: see her jogging, Stephanie. This would be quite a after
Speaker 2: how much time she spent on the ground and in
Speaker 2: so much pain, this would be a little bit surprising
Speaker 2: if she's able to stay in this game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's hard.
Speaker 4: I mean you're looking at multiple things, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: they have a cushiony lead right now, three zero, and
Speaker 4: they don't need to worry about bringing in, you know,
Speaker 4: their normal starter to make sure they see this one out.
Speaker 5: However, you don't want to get the keeper in a
Speaker 5: position where.
Speaker 4: She's not ready to go, and so it looks like
Speaker 4: potentially Justice will stay in, and there's a lot of
Speaker 4: moving parts for them to make that decision. Here.
Speaker 5: It is a little shocking based on how long she
Speaker 5: stayed down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is shocking, but you heard it down there
Speaker 2: from the sideline. No changes me and Justice staying in.
Speaker 2: Here's Seattle attacking off to the right. Here's a Damis
Speaker 2: with that speed, perhaps trying to find a chance to
Speaker 2: cross it will be tipped out four a corner kick
Speaker 2: corner for Seattle here in the seventy sixth minute, and
Speaker 2: we see now Seattle getting ready to make three changes
Speaker 2: on the side. We get to those here in just
Speaker 2: a matter of moments. But we do have a corner
Speaker 2: kick coming here. Here will be the corner coming in.
Speaker 2: It's an end swinger going towards the middle of the box,
Speaker 2: tipped by Mason, but can't get a full foot on it.
Speaker 2: In Utah, we'll clear that one away. We're going to
Speaker 2: see three moves from Seattle in the form of Ryan
Speaker 2: Brown me official and has James Turner coming onto the
Speaker 2: park here in just a moment in this three nothing game,
Speaker 2: Seattle in possession in their own side of the field, and.
Speaker 4: You know this half is just all about disruptions, disruptions
Speaker 4: of injuries and disruption of time, multiple subs. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is it's really tough to keep momentum when you
Speaker 4: have all these changes.
Speaker 2: Bond of seriabl foul and Utah midfielder in there on end.
Speaker 2: So it'll be a free kick for the Royals. As
Speaker 2: we look down on the sideline, we see Laurel Harvey
Speaker 2: giving instructions to these players. It'll be a defender in
Speaker 2: Ryan Brown, a left midfielder, and James Turner and then
Speaker 2: be Official, the highly priced forward who was brought in
Speaker 2: last summer, still working back to full fitness from a
Speaker 2: major injuries she's had in recent years. We worked with
Speaker 2: the United States women's national team head coach Emma Hayes
Speaker 2: before the game. She unprompted named me official with somebody
Speaker 2: that she's watching to get back to that full fitness
Speaker 2: as a part of the national team for potentially the
Speaker 2: World Cup next year. In the Olympics in twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 2: Utah in possession goes out for a Royals throw in
Speaker 2: from the far side the right, and here comes that
Speaker 2: those three changes.
Speaker 3: The first change will be the.
Speaker 2: Official coming out of this field for Coco Mantasre Monasre,
Speaker 2: who leads Seattle today.
Speaker 3: At least see how this season.
Speaker 2: In goals full contributions couldn't do anything today. Also leaving
Speaker 2: the field is Sophia Fuertza is sheet of hearts, and
Speaker 2: also leaving the field is Sally Menti in the midfield.
Speaker 2: So what do we make of this, Stephanie, It looks
Speaker 2: like kind of a like for like with Ficial and Mondaseere.
Speaker 3: You have wheer'sa coming out brown coming in.
Speaker 2: That's a little bit like for like, and then as
Speaker 2: James Turner in the midfield, they're.
Speaker 3: Another like for like with Mente.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what I take on this is it's the same strategy.
Speaker 4: They're not changing formation, they're not changing what their tactics
Speaker 4: are here. They are giving some players some chances to
Speaker 4: come in, change the energy, get some experience, bring Fischal
Speaker 4: back right, get her some time in game.
Speaker 5: And really just to see this game out.
Speaker 4: I don't see this as you know, a giving up moment,
Speaker 4: but she's definitely saying, okay.
Speaker 5: Who we've had on hasn't worked.
Speaker 4: We need to get some new names in their new energy,
Speaker 4: and that's what we're seeing right now.
Speaker 2: We are indeed as Utah made a couple of changes
Speaker 2: of their own. We'll get to that here in a
Speaker 2: few minutes. But we now see the official on the
Speaker 2: field trying to create eternal rinch she does. Here's Dalleen
Speaker 2: picking it up on the left side. Has helped advancing
Speaker 2: forward now and the rain finds something here in the
Speaker 2: last twelve minutes and stop it this game. But Utah
Speaker 2: picks up a poor pass and they now have a
Speaker 2: chance to counter. You're on this left side. Here is
Speaker 2: one of the new members on this team coming onto
Speaker 2: the field is Yabbi Maria the park Now for the
Speaker 2: middle for Tanaka, it's knock on to the right side.
Speaker 2: A lot of space for Utah to cross it in
Speaker 2: as they look for this fourth shot and deflect it
Speaker 2: out by Dleen. Pressure on the ball is good if
Speaker 2: staying high for the ring and they can get a turnover,
Speaker 2: you hope to me and might be able to run
Speaker 2: onto something. Utah, now working for the position possession off
Speaker 2: the left, slips the ball in. Here is Tanaka to
Speaker 2: run this left side for Lacasse. We're taking away nicely there.
Speaker 2: I believe that is Ryan Brand, which came onto this
Speaker 2: field with a domis now working in possession, but a
Speaker 2: giveaway Utah, they give it right back then, right now
Speaker 2: in transition, but can't connect their passes. Stephanie, the moments
Speaker 2: right there where you need to be able to take
Speaker 2: a ball away and a work in transition as.
Speaker 3: A foul is called. Utah will have a free kick
Speaker 3: in Seattle's end.
Speaker 2: Those are the moments where you need to pick off
Speaker 2: those passes, move quickly and connect those passes. And that
Speaker 2: connection just hasn't happened.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and you're seeing the frustration there and them as
Speaker 4: a fowl. I mean, the team looks frustrated. The team
Speaker 4: looks a little stagnant. They are not able to cross
Speaker 4: this half line as a team. And I think when
Speaker 4: you're looking at the Royals attack sometimes you're like, wow,
Speaker 4: each player when you look up, there's a player moving
Speaker 4: to receive the ball.
Speaker 5: We're not seeing that with the rain, and instead they're
Speaker 5: giving away these.
Speaker 4: Small soft passes at midfield that I mean talk about deflating,
Speaker 4: losing Jess being down on this score line.
Speaker 5: That's deflating to finally.
Speaker 4: Win the ball back from a team that feels like
Speaker 4: they're relentless, and then to just give it right back
Speaker 4: to them. That is what makes you feel like you
Speaker 4: don't have any energy left in the tinna zaw.
Speaker 2: We'll have a freak kick here in Seattle's end, the
Speaker 2: ball going towards the back post headed away. That's Brown
Speaker 2: getting in the way of that one. Now here's dall
Speaker 2: Lee working on this left side, but immediately given back
Speaker 2: Utah at the edge of the bucks clipping a ball
Speaker 2: towards the back post. Good job by Seattle defenders to
Speaker 2: get in the way of that one. They are asking, though,
Speaker 2: for a foul. They're asking for a hand ball and
Speaker 2: nothing given initially. Vaar may look at this one again
Speaker 2: because there's lots of animated folks coming off of the
Speaker 2: Utah side and that will be deflected out for a
Speaker 2: corner coming for Utah. They're asking a look here as
Speaker 2: we will get a Utah substitution. And it is well.
Speaker 2: We talked about a few minutes ago that Utah keeper
Speaker 2: mea justice who had that injury and she is limping
Speaker 2: over the side. Is that right knee is not good
Speaker 2: enough to go and it will be Mandy McGlynn, their
Speaker 2: starter from twenty twenty five who's been out this year
Speaker 2: with an injury. She will take over back in goal
Speaker 2: and me A Justice. This may be it for me
Speaker 2: at Justice for a while. Mandy mcglenn's kind of the
Speaker 2: they're locked down starting goalkeeper.
Speaker 3: Mea Justice has done well here.
Speaker 2: Played every minute for the Royals as their keeper while
Speaker 2: Mandy has been hurt and she will sit down with
Speaker 2: that knee injury. This is a corner kick for Utah
Speaker 2: here in the northwest corner of lumen Field goes to
Speaker 2: the middle of the box, headed out by a Rain player.
Speaker 2: Headed again. It looks like it will be Seattle controlling. Yes,
Speaker 2: here's Mercado on this left side, tries to send the
Speaker 2: ball for to Daalen, but it's quickly hit out by
Speaker 2: Utah for a throw In eighty third minute at Lomenfield,
Speaker 2: Jackson Felt Stephanie Verdoya Qualmyampia Sports Radio nine to fifty
Speaker 2: am bringing you this Seattle Rain game as they find
Speaker 2: themselves with a three to nothing deficit to Utah late
Speaker 2: in this game, and the Royals pick it up on
Speaker 2: this right side cross coming in but nobody there for Utah,
Speaker 2: Seattle will happen. They will change the point all the
Speaker 2: way to this right side with Bryant Brown the official
Speaker 2: making a run long ball forward, but Utah will head
Speaker 2: that one away. Official does pick it up though Seattle
Speaker 2: has support coming on this left side. There comes Curry
Speaker 2: now on the left, Dahlen Dalen advancing towards the box,
Speaker 2: cuts in as mercado. If you can find some space
Speaker 2: attack this compact za defense. I think a team that
Speaker 2: works so on transition stays tight defensively. But over on
Speaker 2: this right side now for Brown inside a mezza the box.
Speaker 2: Now is Brown chance to cross, takes a little bit
Speaker 2: of a deflection and will roll all the way to
Speaker 2: Manny McGlynn and she will be able to walk with
Speaker 2: this one. And that's some confident body language by Utah
Speaker 2: right now up three to nothing with seven minutes and
Speaker 2: stoppers to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they should feel confident. In that last run
Speaker 4: of play, the rain had the ball. They were swinging
Speaker 4: it around the eighteen, very calm composed. But that's the
Speaker 4: play you see at the very beginning of the game.
Speaker 4: That's not the play you see when you're down three
Speaker 4: zero and you only have you know, ten or so
Speaker 4: minutes left to finish this game out. I think that
Speaker 4: is where we want to see some urgency. You know,
Speaker 4: there's still the intention, there's still the composure. I want
Speaker 4: to see Marcato just take that shot. She's at the
Speaker 4: top of the eighteen. She has some space, get back
Speaker 4: into this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, earlier in the game when we saw a Cocoa
Speaker 2: monastery with an opportunity where where she picks up an
Speaker 2: Aaron pass and how a chance to believe it would
Speaker 2: score was to nothing at that point, and she hesitates
Speaker 2: for a moment, has to send the ball out right
Speaker 2: to Wuerta and the cross, unfortunate does not result in anything.
Speaker 2: But it's that moment to hesitation instead of just taking
Speaker 2: the immediately long distance shot after the giveaway, and that
Speaker 2: could have been something for Seattle, but ultimately it stayed
Speaker 2: to nothing. Utah scored again right before the halftime whistled
Speaker 2: to make it three to nothing. It has been three
Speaker 2: nothing since half because they have ball in possession. You're
Speaker 2: Forcado with a little pressure and you're up onto this
Speaker 2: right side d lean with pressure and now we'll go
Speaker 2: out for a Utah thrown about ten yards from the
Speaker 2: corner of stick here in the northeast corner of Lumenfield.
Speaker 2: And also you kind of look ahead, Stephanie, we see rain.
Speaker 2: They'll play again coming up this next Friday on the road,
Speaker 2: and then on May tenth as well.
Speaker 3: I really love the NWSL schedule and what they do
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 2: You know, most most of the time you have Major
Speaker 2: League Soccer playing on Saturdays. NWSL plays very heavily on
Speaker 2: Friday nights and Sundays as well. It really does create
Speaker 2: a if you're an American soccer fan, this great weekend
Speaker 2: stretch where you get NWSL on Friday nights, get MLS
Speaker 2: on Saturdays, get NWSL on Sundays. It's especially with the
Speaker 2: World Cup coming up here in just a couple of months.
Speaker 2: It's a good time to be a soccer fan in
Speaker 2: this country. As Utah here into the box they have
Speaker 2: the ball taken away and Seattle real take it. But
Speaker 2: like I was saying, Stephanie, it's a good time to
Speaker 2: be a soccer fan in the United States right now.
Speaker 5: It absolutely is.
Speaker 4: There's a little bit of a soccer frenzy and you
Speaker 4: can find it at any moment. But I will say
Speaker 4: it's a little tough on the players right. So this
Speaker 4: is a quick turnaround. Sunday to Friday is a pretty
Speaker 4: quick turnaround, especially if you add the travel in, especially
Speaker 4: if you have to add a tough loss, potentially some injuries.
Speaker 4: This is a hard turnaround for the ring for sure.
Speaker 2: Fou called sam Mezza not happy with that one, and
Speaker 2: hear the booze here at movement field from the fans.
Speaker 2: Utah will have a free kick from the Rain end.
Speaker 2: I'm impressed by these Seattle Rain fans. Very few have
Speaker 2: left the building here as we are now in the
Speaker 2: eighty seventh minute of a three to nothing game. Fans
Speaker 2: are here. It's an absolutely beautiful night here in Seattle,
Speaker 2: and they are enjoying the remaining minutes of this game
Speaker 2: and love just for the confidence aspect of going into
Speaker 2: the next game on Friday to get something here in
Speaker 2: the dying moments of this game with Utah, with this
Speaker 2: free kick welling towards the back post, here comes Dickey.
Speaker 2: Dickey punches that away. A lot of contact, foul will
Speaker 2: be called, but a nice punch there from Claudia Dickey
Speaker 2: to keep that out of danger. With that foul and
Speaker 2: the contact there from the midfielder Mina Tanaka of Utah.
Speaker 2: That is why she is the United States starting goalkeeper.
Speaker 2: Her ability to take command and make plays.
Speaker 5: Like that, she said, with some casual confidence.
Speaker 4: She comes out, she looks kind of like what people
Speaker 4: are running into me, you know, But she immediately gets up,
Speaker 4: grabs the balls, ready to go.
Speaker 2: Here's Seattle again picking up a giveaway here on the
Speaker 2: left side. Here's Dala le that get tipped away for
Speaker 2: a corner. Let's see nope, d is a goal kick
Speaker 2: for Utah here in the eighty eighth minutes. If you're
Speaker 2: just joining us, you know even more than the three
Speaker 2: nothing score line right now. The big news came just
Speaker 2: about twenty minutes ago when the legend for the Seattle
Speaker 2: Rain over the last fifteen years, Jess Fishlock, went down
Speaker 2: with a major injury to her ankle, looked like her
Speaker 2: lower leg.
Speaker 3: She was stretchered off.
Speaker 2: Lots of emotions for her as she covered her face
Speaker 2: with both hands, clearly in an enormous amount of emotion.
Speaker 2: The tw twenty one NWSLMVP, who's done so many amazing
Speaker 2: things for this club, and it was just announced on
Speaker 2: Tuesday that this is her last year. She is now
Speaker 2: out of this game with that injury, your emotional rain
Speaker 2: team trying to find one last moment of happiness from
Speaker 2: what has been a sad day here at lumen Field
Speaker 2: owned the box, the official trying to get on the
Speaker 2: end of that one. She does you have some help
Speaker 2: now it's taken away by Utah. Some good defending there,
Speaker 2: but quidn't giveaway. We'll give the ball back to Seattle.
Speaker 2: That should be a foul. And yes, it is a
Speaker 2: freakick coming for Seattle in Utah's half.
Speaker 21: Stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, like you said, it has been
Speaker 5: a sad day.
Speaker 4: But there is somewhat of a poetic nature to this
Speaker 4: because we are watching those young players that we talked
Speaker 4: about at the beginning of the game coming up in
Speaker 4: the women's national team system and also developing here under
Speaker 4: Laura Harvey.
Speaker 5: This is what Fishawk is doing.
Speaker 4: Her legacy is these younger players that are now taking
Speaker 4: the field and figuring out how to lead this team
Speaker 4: in the worst of moments, which Fluck has done over
Speaker 4: the years.
Speaker 2: The ball on the free kick comes into the box
Speaker 2: and goes all the way towards the keeper. It's fisial
Speaker 2: actually getting a body to it, but she cannot do
Speaker 2: anything with it. It will go out for a goal kick
Speaker 2: in stuff.
Speaker 3: It's interesting because you look at the Seattle.
Speaker 2: Rain as a franchise, and over these last three four years,
Speaker 2: the transformation of this club almost mirrors. It's kind of
Speaker 2: fitting that m Haes is here today. It mirrors what's
Speaker 2: happened with the United States women's national team, where it
Speaker 2: was very much kind of a the the Elder States
Speaker 2: women who are part of this program, and little by little,
Speaker 2: one player by one player, they have kind of exited
Speaker 2: the United States program, and one by one those lifetime
Speaker 2: legendary players for Seattle have also exited. As Utah will
Speaker 2: control this ball with their own end with McGlenn, who
Speaker 2: will send this forward. You've had the retirement a few
Speaker 2: years ago of Pino Megan Rapino, of course, the legend.
Speaker 2: Then just last year you had Lou Barnes, the player
Speaker 2: with the most appear in club history. As we see,
Speaker 2: nine minutes are out of here, a looming field. We've
Speaker 2: hit the full. Ninety nine more minutes will be played
Speaker 2: here in this three nothing game. I'll get back to
Speaker 2: this in a moment. As Seattle tries to attack up
Speaker 2: this left side, but a foul, he's not called. Here
Speaker 2: comes Seattle still with the ball, they're playing advantage. I'll
Speaker 2: get back to that kind of narrative in that conversation
Speaker 2: in a moment. But Cross comes in, Utah will cut
Speaker 2: it out and Seattle will have to regroup. So you
Speaker 2: had Megan Raupino retire a few years ago, lou Barnes,
Speaker 2: who had appeared in more NWSL games than any player
Speaker 2: in the history of this league. And last year she dealt,
Speaker 2: of course with an injury, and last year she hung
Speaker 2: up the cleats and she is now finished. And then
Speaker 2: this year now it is Jess Fishlock. And one by one,
Speaker 2: these players who have dealt with injuries, they've dealt with
Speaker 2: kind of you know, goodding towards the end of their career,
Speaker 2: and every year it seems to be kind of another
Speaker 2: player hanging them up. And this is the year for
Speaker 2: Jess Fishlock. And you just at this moment really hope
Speaker 2: that that isn't the last time she sees the field.
Speaker 2: It isn't anything horrific, and we do get to see
Speaker 2: a little bit more Jess Fishlock.
Speaker 3: Here in twenty twenty six is here's a.
Speaker 2: Damis on this right side, which she meets three Utah defenders,
Speaker 2: he goes down, no call, couldn't do much with that.
Speaker 2: Some booze in, but just dribbled into the middle of
Speaker 2: three defenders. But Stephanie, it is interesting and you can
Speaker 2: talk about the youth and that kind of element of
Speaker 2: this is the Jet Fishlock legacy is getting these next
Speaker 2: era of players like Emria Damas who just dribbled into
Speaker 2: those defenders and getting quality out of those young and
Speaker 2: up and coming players. It's been interesting to see this
Speaker 2: transition over these last four years where one by one
Speaker 2: we see young players getting more time, stepping up, having
Speaker 2: more responsibilities.
Speaker 4: And you know, some people might say that's what happens
Speaker 4: in every league, that's what happens all the time, but
Speaker 4: this is unique the NWSL. Starting in twenty thirteen, we
Speaker 4: have players that have been here since the beginning, since
Speaker 4: the league did and have a CBA, since we didn't
Speaker 4: have sixteen teams, since we I mean, you can point
Speaker 4: to the number of things that this league has changed
Speaker 4: dramatically for these young players. And maybe they don't want
Speaker 4: to hear, or maybe they do, but a lot is
Speaker 4: to credit those players that have stuck through really tough
Speaker 4: years that probably played in multiple different professional leagues throughout
Speaker 4: the world in off seasons just to keep a living
Speaker 4: and those you know we're talking about, Fishlock, Barnes, you know,
Speaker 4: all of them and plenty across the league have set
Speaker 4: the stage for these players to get obviously what they
Speaker 4: deserve and to have these best moments. And that's why
Speaker 4: I was saying it is kind of this poetic nature
Speaker 4: of of course, we don't hope Fishlock is out for
Speaker 4: the rest of the year for the team's chances and
Speaker 4: for herself.
Speaker 5: She deserves more than that.
Speaker 4: But I guarantee you her attitude will be I'm either
Speaker 4: on the field or I'm on the sideline, and I'm
Speaker 4: carrying this team through because that is.
Speaker 5: What they have done their entire career.
Speaker 2: Right now, Rain had a throw in that they would
Speaker 2: continue to have possession.
Speaker 3: It's taken away by Utah, but a foul called there.
Speaker 2: On Marie, one of the goal scorers tonight, as Utah
Speaker 2: got goals in the first minute by Paige Cronin, who
Speaker 2: was making her first start in first appearance of the
Speaker 2: entire year after dealing with an injury. She scored in
Speaker 2: the first minute after a defensive giveaway had Maria the
Speaker 2: player just mentioned she got a goal in the seventh
Speaker 2: minute on a ball that was deflected off of Jess
Speaker 2: Fishlock's shoulder, and then Lacas scored in the forty fifth
Speaker 2: minute on another defensive giveaway that got the Utah.
Speaker 3: Royals their three goals tonight.
Speaker 2: And it was also we were talking to Laura Harvey
Speaker 2: about you know, Fishlock being you know, kind of this
Speaker 2: this intense player, and you talked about playing with her
Speaker 2: as well, and we're asking her kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: about the leadership angle of where this team goes when
Speaker 2: Fishlock retires, because it is kind of the last of
Speaker 2: those three veteran greats from the start, and she was saying, like,
Speaker 2: listen to you know, Sophia Wertz is already a leader
Speaker 2: on this team. Phoebe mcclernan is already a leader on
Speaker 2: this team from the back line, and they will step
Speaker 2: up and they can be the lead moving forward with
Speaker 2: the departures of these legends. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And how exciting, How exciting that those players have
Speaker 4: been able to work with these players for years and
Speaker 4: kind of learn what it means to step into those
Speaker 4: roles and you know, it's it means great things for
Speaker 4: the reign. Like we talked about the amazing young players
Speaker 4: that they have in this system. It's so exciting to
Speaker 4: see them out on the field, even tonight in the
Speaker 4: worst of circumstances.
Speaker 5: They're creative, they're fast, you know, adamis fisial. I mean,
Speaker 5: they're great on the ball.
Speaker 2: This is really kind of what you want to see
Speaker 2: right now because on the field you have twenty year
Speaker 2: old Emory Adamas, you have twenty four year old me Official,
Speaker 2: twenty one year old Matti Dahali, twenty five year old
Speaker 2: Matty Mercado zam Mez is only twenty four years old.
Speaker 2: I know Sally Meni exited, but Sally Meni a Roosevelt
Speaker 2: High School alum, and she's only twenty four years old.
Speaker 2: It's say a lot of young, freely talented attacking players,
Speaker 2: so many of whom are also part of the United
Speaker 2: States win this national team system, who are going to
Speaker 2: continue to get opportunities under Emma Hayes, who joined us
Speaker 2: earlier during our pregame show and who is here in
Speaker 2: the building tonight, and she is watching these young players
Speaker 2: develop through the United States system. And if the Rain
Speaker 2: can hold on to these young talented players. They will
Speaker 2: develop and be the next era of greats. But is
Speaker 2: this kind of this Rain team that was kind of
Speaker 2: in the midst of this kind of few year transition.
Speaker 3: Because they have possession now in.
Speaker 2: Utah side of the field, they try to change the
Speaker 2: point of attack to Brown here on the right side.
Speaker 2: She will play it back to Emily Mason as mclernan
Speaker 2: on the other side of the field. We're into the
Speaker 2: ninety sixth minute of which should be about ninety nine
Speaker 2: minutes of play here tonight, a three to nothing game
Speaker 2: for Utah. Crossing to the left side of the field,
Speaker 2: Utah with numbers here will they look to add a fourth?
Speaker 2: Here is Lacasse. She has some help, but she will
Speaker 2: simply play it back and now Utah taking more seconds,
Speaker 2: just picking this around with this three nothing lead and
Speaker 2: just a few minutes left on the clock, not too
Speaker 2: much pressure from the Rain.
Speaker 3: You can see in the decision making the.
Speaker 2: Runs for Utah. It almost is sort of looking like
Speaker 2: a little bit of a glorified training session of the moment.
Speaker 2: Here's Steph. I think every player out there knows the
Speaker 2: situation at the moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really tough.
Speaker 4: There's moments in the game where you know you're still
Speaker 4: in it, and then there's moments where you know the
Speaker 4: reality of coming back slowly starts to fade away.
Speaker 2: Well, and now right now it looks like sam Mez
Speaker 2: is down. She is slow to get up, she is
Speaker 2: in quite a bit of pain. And there she is
Speaker 2: now holding her right thigh, it looks like, and she
Speaker 2: has a hand to her head now, both arms over
Speaker 2: her face.
Speaker 3: There might just be some cramps though.
Speaker 2: Looks like as James Turner is coming over to help
Speaker 2: with those cramps. And you just you know that's in
Speaker 2: the moment in a three nothing game, weight in this
Speaker 2: you just hope steph for no more injuries after what
Speaker 2: happened to fish Slow.
Speaker 4: Absolutely there's a point where you're like, it's it's not
Speaker 4: worth it. Don't go into the crazy tackle in the
Speaker 4: last minute, you know. But I will say Fishlock was
Speaker 4: the player that always would it didn't matter if we
Speaker 4: were down three zero.
Speaker 5: And it's the ninetieth minute.
Speaker 4: She is running straight towards the goal and sam Meza
Speaker 4: jumping up there. It did look like it was a
Speaker 4: little bit of cramping. I mean, one of our teammates
Speaker 4: came over and helped her stretch out. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: the trainers on the field would say, do not touch
Speaker 4: her if it's not crampy.
Speaker 5: You know, stay away, don't That is my job. But
Speaker 5: she's up and looks like she's fine.
Speaker 2: Now into the ninety eighth minute, you don't expect that
Speaker 2: our referee today, Matt Thompson, will add too much at
Speaker 2: all to this game. As Utah now work in possession
Speaker 2: a foul by Seattle, we will give a free kick
Speaker 2: to the Royals in Seattle's end. As we get just
Speaker 2: to the final few moments, we will have a postgame
Speaker 2: show tonight. I'm sure postgame show to finish up to
Speaker 2: our broadcast tonight to break down this three nothing game
Speaker 2: so far are likely win here by the Utah Royals
Speaker 2: tonight at Women Field. Utah will just send this ball
Speaker 2: at the corner headed by Ryan Brown that they will
Speaker 2: hold possession. Utah will but Aaron Pass will go out
Speaker 2: for a throw in for Seattle. There's a few seconds
Speaker 2: to go in this game. Throwing comes headed on.
Speaker 3: Utah worked in possession, taken away, he's.
Speaker 2: Official official get something going forward. She's pulled back but
Speaker 2: does a great job to get around a defender. Now
Speaker 2: switches the point of attack to this left side. Ball
Speaker 2: to Doleen in the middle of the park, back to
Speaker 2: James Turner, back to this left side. Now mclernan chance
Speaker 2: to cross it into the box. Four official official get
Speaker 2: ahead to it. She can't. Falley is called as official
Speaker 2: pulled down a defender and it will be a free
Speaker 2: kick for Utah's goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn in her own end.
Speaker 2: And the clock has struck ninety nine. If we look
Speaker 2: to Matt Thompson, he brings the whistle to his mouth,
Speaker 2: has the right hand in the hair, and there is
Speaker 2: the final whistle here tonight at Loomin Field. A disappointing
Speaker 2: night for the Seattle Rain as they fall at home
Speaker 2: to Utah by a score of three to nothing.
Speaker 28: And perhaps more impactful and more important, Jes Fishlock a
Speaker 28: major injury in the second half. We will await word
Speaker 28: from head coach Laura Harvey and she learns what the
Speaker 28: status is of the legend Jess Fishlock.
Speaker 3: We will take a break here, we will come back.
Speaker 2: Get more thoughts here on the post game show Jackson Felt,
Speaker 2: Stephanie Roduit and Wamia Paya. This is Seattle Rain soccer
Speaker 2: on Sports Radio nine fifty km.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the field, Welcome into the postgame show.
Speaker 2: Seattle rain falling tonight at home by a score of
Speaker 2: three to nothing to the Utah Royals. Utah got out
Speaker 2: to a very quick start a first minute goal of
Speaker 2: fifty first second goal by Paige Cronin. They followed that
Speaker 2: up with a goal in the seventh minute that came
Speaker 2: off of the shoulder of Jeess Fishlock, and then a
Speaker 2: goal in the forty fifth minute as well by Chloe Lacasse,
Speaker 2: and that gave them their three goals in the second half.
Speaker 2: And probably the most important thing to talk about coming
Speaker 2: out of this game, Jess Fishlock a major injury as
Speaker 2: she went down and was then stretchered off a few
Speaker 2: moments later. Let's get some final thoughts on this game,
Speaker 2: Stephanie Vrdoya kwamea paya, Steph. I'll start with you and
Speaker 2: your thoughts coming out of this three nothing loss.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think ultimately this was a little bit a mess
Speaker 4: of their own making from the rain. I think if
Speaker 4: you look back at this game, the bright thing for
Speaker 4: Laura Harvey to see is that they weren't outplayed. They
Speaker 4: made mistakes and the Royals capitalized on that. So going
Speaker 4: for forward, it is all about composure from that back line,
Speaker 4: being able to play out with confidence. Dicky mclernin, They
Speaker 4: just need to be able to figure out a way
Speaker 4: to keep that ball moving forward with some surety. And
Speaker 4: then on the other side they need to get some
Speaker 4: more stuff on frame. I mean in the attack they
Speaker 4: had Montecira, they had some good players that they're creating
Speaker 4: some electric moments, but it wasn't really enough to test
Speaker 4: them too many times, but big asterisks to crossbars, and
Speaker 4: anytime you get two crossbars you just feel a little unlucky. So,
Speaker 4: you know, overall, I think there's things they can work on.
Speaker 4: And it's a quick turnaround to Friday.
Speaker 2: Let's go down on to the field of kwame. What
Speaker 2: did you see out of this game?
Speaker 16: You know, I think this is an inflection point. I
Speaker 16: think it's really important for every team to have an
Speaker 16: experience like this. I think so far in the season,
Speaker 16: the rain have done their job and the things that
Speaker 16: they have done have given them positive results. Right, Ultimately,
Speaker 16: they've had a really good start to the season. I
Speaker 16: think that they've been doing the right things. They've been
Speaker 16: in the right form of play, the right mindset. It's
Speaker 16: time for every team to get one of those moments
Speaker 16: where you do all the right things but nothing pans out.
Speaker 16: I think it's a really really important mental note for
Speaker 16: them to take in and say, hey, you know what,
Speaker 16: at times, we're gonna get beat down and if this
Speaker 16: happens again to start the game, maybe we go down
Speaker 16: one zero early. How do we then change the game?
Speaker 16: How do we reframe the flow of the game, how
Speaker 16: do we get back into it? So I think it
Speaker 16: happens to everybody, and I think, honestly, this was a
Speaker 16: good moment for the Rain to take in. They did
Speaker 16: a great job. They attacked really well overall an even games.
Speaker 16: So how do we take this as a lesson and
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Speaker 2: day and the question of where do we go from here?
Speaker 3: How do the rain move on?
Speaker 2: We will take a break, We'll come back and talk
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Lomanfield. Welcome back to the postgame show
Speaker 2: Seattle Rain following tonight to the Utah Royalist by a
Speaker 2: score of three to nothing. Here at Luman Field. In
Speaker 2: this game, Jess Fishlock went out with a major injury
Speaker 2: in the second half. We will wait to hear word
Speaker 2: from head coach Laura Harvey on her status as we
Speaker 2: move forward.
Speaker 3: But in terms of what's.
Speaker 2: Next ahead for the Seattle Rain, there will be a
Speaker 2: match coming up this coming Friday. It's gonna be a
Speaker 2: road match in Houston against the Houston Dash. That's a
Speaker 2: five o'clock kickoff Pacific time. That match will be on
Speaker 2: Fox thirteen plus. On the radio side, our next broadcast
Speaker 2: will be on Sunday May tenth, as the Rain are
Speaker 2: right back here at Luminfield to face the Washington Spirit.
Speaker 2: That will be a four o'clock kickoff here on Sports
Speaker 2: Radio nine to fifty km on Sunday, May tenth. We'll
Speaker 2: have a three forty five pregame there on that Sunday
Speaker 2: for Rain versus Washington. But focusing in what's you know
Speaker 2: just coming up very very soon here, Stephanie.
Speaker 3: It is the game on Friday.
Speaker 2: It's a quick turnaround, and it's a team that will
Speaker 2: certainly be motivated coming off of this three nothing loss.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think sometimes these losses kind of as Kwame said,
Speaker 4: it's an inflection point. You either you put it behind you,
Speaker 4: you move on. You almost forget it happened, except to
Speaker 4: let it build that fire and to say we can't
Speaker 4: have another one. To know those we're not going out,
Speaker 4: We're not losing three zero, We're not starting slow. So
Speaker 4: the biggest focus for them is how are we going
Speaker 4: to travel and recover this week and make sure that
Speaker 4: we are ready to come out showing Houston we're a
Speaker 4: different team than played on Sunday.
Speaker 2: No defensive giveaways. You want to keep the ball on
Speaker 2: the back end, not give anything easy away. And hopefully
Speaker 2: also no injuries. We definitely don't want to see another injury.
Speaker 2: After that news from Jess tonight, make sure to stay
Speaker 2: tuned to social media and especially rain FC accounts, as
Speaker 2: we will get more information from head coach Laura Harvey
Speaker 2: on the status of Jess Fishlock. We all are sending
Speaker 2: our best to her that she is not too injured
Speaker 2: and we'll be able to return point in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: This is, of course, her last season. She announced on
Speaker 2: Tuesday that she's retiring, and last thought Stephanie on her
Speaker 2: that decision and that announcement that came earlier this week
Speaker 2: that this is her final year. Prior to what happened tonight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it makes it especially devastating. It's her last year.
Speaker 4: You want her to play every single game, every moment
Speaker 4: that she has to see through her legacy. Like we said, though,
Speaker 4: her legacy is more than just the games she's playing
Speaker 4: at this point. She has taught these young players how
Speaker 4: to come up in this system, she has taught them
Speaker 4: how to work with Laura Harvey, and she's leaving an
Speaker 4: amazing legacy. So what we hope for her is that
Speaker 4: she gets to reap the joy, the benefit of what
Speaker 4: she's given this program and she gets to put the
Speaker 4: Seattle Rains best foot forward for all the remaining matches.
Speaker 4: If not that, hopefully she's on the sideline with them.
Speaker 3: Hopefully.
Speaker 22: So.
Speaker 2: We will talk to everybody on May tenth for the
Speaker 2: next Rain game here at home against Washington again three
Speaker 2: forty five pre game, four o'clock kickoff on Sunday, May tenth.
Speaker 2: Rain play again this coming Friday in Houston at five
Speaker 2: o'clock on Fox thirteen Plus. Thanks to every with our broadcast,
Speaker 2: Craig back in the studio, Terry Ryan, our engineer here
Speaker 2: on site, our broadcast producers, Kee Dunning and Jordan Thompson,
Speaker 2: our broadcaster is here. Thank you so much to Qualmea
Speaker 2: Paia on the sideline and Stephanie Burgoya. Welcome to our
Speaker 2: rain broadcast. My name is Jackson Felt. We are excited
Speaker 2: to be bringing you ten or so rain games on
Speaker 2: radio throughout twenty twenty six. And the good news we
Speaker 2: can only go up from here, and this team will
Speaker 2: certainly go up, and we expect many wins ahead in
Speaker 2: the season. So stay tuned all season here sports Radio
Speaker 2: nine to fifty KM for these rain games, the next
Speaker 2: one coming on May tenth. Everybody, have a good rest
Speaker 2: of your evening, a good rest of your weekend, and
Speaker 2: a good week ahead.
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