Speaker 1: The following is an exclusive presentation of Seattle Rain Soccer
Speaker 1: on Sports Radio nine fifty kJ.
Speaker 2: Happy Friday, Everybody, Welcome back to Rain on the radio.
Speaker 3: Sports Radio nine am. This is Seattle Rain FC Soccer
Speaker 3: Jackson Felts alongside Stephanie Virjoya and Kwame Apia. We are
Speaker 3: going to take you through Tonight's Rain versus Boston Legacy match.
Speaker 3: It's the first ever match between these clubs. Boston Legacy
Speaker 3: is one of the newest NWSL teams alongside of Denver
Speaker 3: and Tonight they are hosting Seattle Rain FC. They're hosting
Speaker 3: them actually in Rhode Island. It's the first ever women's
Speaker 3: professional soccer match in Rhode Island in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,
Speaker 3: at the home of Rhode Island FC. And Stephanie, you
Speaker 3: have a noah history playing in Boston, the old Boston team,
Speaker 3: the Boston Breakers, and there is a legacy of soccer
Speaker 3: in Boston even before this new Legacy team there is.
Speaker 4: I mean, Boston was one of the best teams in
Speaker 4: kind of all the three previous professional leagues. They were
Speaker 4: one of the kind of tried and true, the team
Speaker 4: that they people could rely on. So every time a
Speaker 4: new league was formed, they were actually one of the
Speaker 4: first ones in and so you know, it was devastating
Speaker 4: when the Boston break was folded. I loved playing there.
Speaker 4: I love the city. There's such an energy there for
Speaker 4: sports fans, and I'm so grateful I had the opportunity
Speaker 4: to be there. Now it's new, it's this whole new break,
Speaker 4: this new Boston legacy. We were just talking about it
Speaker 4: that uniforms are bright, they're just they're here.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a new phase I think for Boston soccer.
Speaker 3: Green and pink. It's an interesting combination that we'll certainly
Speaker 3: see well on our monitors today and on this field
Speaker 3: here in Rhode Island. And the real story of this
Speaker 3: game for the Rain side is can Seattle score quickly?
Speaker 3: We'll give you the starting lineup from head coach Laura Harvey.
Speaker 3: Laura was not happy what happened last Friday. They lost
Speaker 3: to nothing to Gotham. It was her birthday and she
Speaker 3: had a bad birthday considering the team lost to nothing.
Speaker 3: She was so angry that she said she didn't get
Speaker 3: dressed on Saturday. It was just pajamas and a grump
Speaker 3: all day. Then they digged into film. Then they digged
Speaker 3: into some fixes and they have a new lineup. This
Speaker 3: is the tenth new starting lineup for the rain in
Speaker 3: their tenth game. They're three four and two. Today is
Speaker 3: their tenth game as they sit right now in ninth
Speaker 3: place with eleven points, and this new lineup has Claudia
Speaker 3: Dicky in goal. Madison Curry will be your left back,
Speaker 3: Jordan Bug finally getting a start. She's one of your
Speaker 3: center backs on the left side. Phebe mcclernan is your
Speaker 3: right sided center back. Sophia Huerta as your right back,
Speaker 3: has James Turner and Ainsley McCammon will hold. In the midfield.
Speaker 3: Maddie Dollen, Sally Menti Hollyward are your attacking midfielders with
Speaker 3: Maddie Mercado up top and Kwame. This attack for the
Speaker 3: rain we've seen some different elements in some games, but
Speaker 3: the big question is will this be the that can
Speaker 3: get the team's first goal in five plus games? Yeah?
Speaker 6: You know, having Jordan Bug back is actually an interesting,
Speaker 6: you know, kind of opportunity as well, because from someone
Speaker 6: who had the rain FC goal of the year last season, right,
Speaker 6: you're now introducing another defender into the mix who can
Speaker 6: actually transition and join the attack. And so obviously we're
Speaker 6: looking at the attack to create the goals and opportunities.
Speaker 6: But we have added another element now which gives us
Speaker 6: a little bit of an extra boost.
Speaker 3: Stephanie, I think the question really is is this going
Speaker 3: to be the group? When you look at Holly Ward,
Speaker 3: who's getting her second start of the year today, When
Speaker 3: you look at Sally Menti, the Roosevelt High School lum,
Speaker 3: Maddie Donneen, her speed on the left side, Mercado up top,
Speaker 3: you don't have a me official. You don't have a
Speaker 3: few players Cocoamandaci or Brady Ratcliff who've scored a lot
Speaker 3: of goals this year as as a trio. You don't
Speaker 3: have that. But can this group produce?
Speaker 4: I think the answer is always yes. And I hate
Speaker 4: to use the term rebuilding, and I feel like that
Speaker 4: everyone hates that word, right, but this is a rebuilding year.
Speaker 4: I mean, losing she was just a stall war in
Speaker 4: that midfield for them, and so not having her not
Speaker 4: se me having some big player names in there.
Speaker 5: We have really young kids.
Speaker 4: I mean, we've talked about it over and over again
Speaker 4: on these broadcasts. Seventeen year old's, twenty year old's, twenty
Speaker 4: four year olds. Some of the players that we're asking
Speaker 4: to do the most. I mean Madame Mercado twenty five
Speaker 4: years old, right, And I think the answer is they
Speaker 4: have energy. They're here, they're going to try and figure
Speaker 4: it out. And it makes sense that Laura keeps trying
Speaker 4: new things because they are trying to figure out.
Speaker 5: Who they are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it's a good point. And this is a
Speaker 3: defensive first team and we certainly need to see the
Speaker 3: offense come forward. The great stat that I heard on
Speaker 3: the one of the broadcast calls was the fact that
Speaker 3: over the last four years in the NWSL West Coast
Speaker 3: teams have won only twenty six of their games on
Speaker 3: the East coast. Seattle is ten percent above that line
Speaker 3: at thirty six percent, and the Reign have gotten at
Speaker 3: least a point in sixty percent of those East Coast
Speaker 3: games and Kwame, that's a number that's certainly encouraging to
Speaker 3: Laura Harvey. But it's gonna take a lot more than
Speaker 3: just the travel to the East coast. They went out
Speaker 3: on Wednesday and you've had a couple of days, but
Speaker 3: this is gonna be a long road trip for this team.
Speaker 3: They play at Washington next Saturday. This is the first
Speaker 3: of the bunch, and they're gonna need quality in addition
Speaker 3: to that great road trip. Legacy, if I want to
Speaker 3: use that word again.
Speaker 6: For sure, you know, I think the Rain is a
Speaker 6: regardless off. I think the streak that's currently going on,
Speaker 6: the Rain is a team that has a great identity.
Speaker 6: They know exactly how they play them and they know
Speaker 6: exactly how they want to transition, how to defend. I
Speaker 6: think the missing piece has been how to attack, and
Speaker 6: so that's what we're going to try to see today.
Speaker 6: I think ultimately it comes down to taking all of
Speaker 6: those core tools that are already there and then transitioning
Speaker 6: it into that Ford and I feel like the Legacy
Speaker 6: are still building an identity. So it gives us an opportunity.
Speaker 6: Right with the structure of the Rain, do we have
Speaker 6: ways to step into the pockets where there might be
Speaker 6: a bit of a misalignment on the Legacy side, where
Speaker 6: they don't know exactly where to be at the right time.
Speaker 6: Can we take advantage of that experience?
Speaker 3: Well, that conversation about the Legacy perfectly trans Zis and
Speaker 3: us to talk about them. We will take a break,
Speaker 3: and we'll do that really quickly. Though. We'll dive intoto
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Speaker 3: wellness partner of Seattle Rain. F see for the rain
Speaker 3: two players out, Just two players, Lynn Biandolo she's still
Speaker 3: on maternity leave, and Jess Fishlock with that lower leg injury.
Speaker 3: Nobody else on the injury report for Seattle. Meanwhile, for Boston,
Speaker 3: there is quite a few. One of their defenders Kaka
Speaker 3: has an ankle injury. She's out, Fazia Najema she has
Speaker 3: a thigh injury. Chloe Ricketts she has an ankle injury.
Speaker 3: All of them are out. Les Aarujo is questionable. She
Speaker 3: is available for Boston. Let's take a break and let's
Speaker 3: talk about this Boston Legacy team. It is an interesting one, Kwame,
Speaker 3: you said it. They're trying to figure out who they are,
Speaker 3: and more than just simply the players building out of
Speaker 3: an expansion side, They're trying to figure out how the
Speaker 3: heck they play. We're here right now, try talking about
Speaker 3: how the heck they play? We'll tell you and bring
Speaker 3: you into our conversation ongoing here about the legacy. As
Speaker 3: we count you down to kickoff, it's Seattle RAINFC versus
Speaker 3: Boston Legacy or kickoff in about ten minutes Here on
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Speaker 1: The following is an exclusive presentation of Seattle Rainsucker on
Speaker 1: Sports Radio nine fifty KJU.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to rain on the Radio, Jackson Felt, Stephanie Verdoya,
Speaker 3: kwamea Pia. We are broadcasting for Seattle Rain FC versus
Speaker 3: Boston Legacy kicking off here in just over ten minutes
Speaker 3: here on Sports Radio nine to fifty KJR AM Rain
Speaker 3: coming to this match right now ninth place at eleven
Speaker 3: points in NWSL three four and two record. Beneath them
Speaker 3: in the table is Boston Legacy. They are two five
Speaker 3: and three, two points back of Seattle in fourth point
Speaker 3: fourteenth place. They opened their season with five straight losses.
Speaker 3: They are an expansion team, so that's not unheard of,
Speaker 3: but in those five losses they were shut out four times.
Speaker 3: But since then they've been unbeaten, two to zero to
Speaker 3: three run wins against Denver and Orlando and draws against
Speaker 3: North Carolina, Gotham, who Seattle lost to to nothing last week,
Speaker 3: and BAFC, where they got a one to one draw
Speaker 3: last week. In that game against Bay By the way,
Speaker 3: their captain leader, center back Beyonca Saint George's she got
Speaker 3: a red card, her second red card of the year
Speaker 3: that leads the league in red cards. She is out.
Speaker 3: So they have a new center back, Laurel Asbro starting
Speaker 3: today in the middle of that kind of strange back three.
Speaker 3: And let's let's kind of open the discussion as Stephanie
Speaker 3: kwame to talk about how this Boston team is going
Speaker 3: to play, because I've watched a couple games of theirs,
Speaker 3: and they have what's called a three to one buildout.
Speaker 3: And now, you know, inten soccer fans might actually hear like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I've heard of, you know, four to two, Bill, I've
Speaker 3: heard of, you know, various kind of things, a three
Speaker 3: one where you have three center backs and then one
Speaker 3: defensive midfielder in front of them. It's an unusual set up, Stephanie.
Speaker 4: It can be. Yeah, So three at the back, you know,
Speaker 4: four defenders at the back is what we consider kind
Speaker 4: of standard normal, if you will. And so three at
Speaker 4: the back, you're doing a lot of things there. Either
Speaker 4: you're hoping you have maybe some two wing backs come
Speaker 4: back and help out, which Boston might do at certain points.
Speaker 4: But what they really like to do is with three
Speaker 4: at the back, and with that one holding mid carriage
Speaker 4: who kind of anchors in there in front of them,
Speaker 4: she can drop into their line like another center back.
Speaker 4: She doesn't always do that, not consistently. She can also
Speaker 4: stay a little higher, allow those wide players to get
Speaker 4: even higher. And then the whole idea is that you're
Speaker 4: putting more numbers higher up the pitch to create more spacing,
Speaker 4: more combination play.
Speaker 5: The risk is you only have three at the back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, which it's interesting seeing a team that's still forming
Speaker 6: an identity to have three at the back, because typically
Speaker 6: you want things to feel a bit more consistent, and
Speaker 6: when you want consistency, you go with a standard line.
Speaker 6: You go with two center backs. You can move left,
Speaker 6: move right, talking, unison, communicate. I think the communication is
Speaker 6: a big part of it. When you go with three
Speaker 6: at the back, you are definitely you're trying to set
Speaker 6: a certain standard of I don't want anything coming through
Speaker 6: the middle, and so they're okay with things going out wide.
Speaker 6: You have the two wing backs which are pushing box
Speaker 6: the box. So the interesting conversation today is going to
Speaker 6: be does Seattle take advantage of that? Because Seattle is
Speaker 6: significantly strong at attacking from the wings, So can we
Speaker 6: do that well?
Speaker 3: Laurel Harvey talked about how this team, obviously we mentioned
Speaker 3: it has not scored in five plus games. She said,
Speaker 3: we need to change it up because quote why not
Speaker 3: that it hasn't been working. We need to try some
Speaker 3: new things. In that sense, She also said when you're
Speaker 3: in a rut. You don't care how you score. You
Speaker 3: just need to score. Quote, we just need that one.
Speaker 3: It can come off of a piece of hair or
Speaker 3: an eyebrow. And you know, Stephanie, when we look at
Speaker 3: the Seattle system, you said it that when you're working
Speaker 3: with three center backs and one defensive midfielder, it's going
Speaker 3: to leave you open at the back. If Seattle is
Speaker 3: going to finally get off the schneid and score today,
Speaker 3: no matter who their personnel is, this is the team
Speaker 3: to do it against.
Speaker 5: I think that's true.
Speaker 4: I mean, like Kwame said, there's not a lot of
Speaker 4: consistency there and who this Boston team is when they're defending,
Speaker 4: and so it kind of gives us great opening for
Speaker 4: Seattle to be like, hey, you don't have to go
Speaker 4: up the line every time to sof we are sofioherta
Speaker 4: to get a cross in. You know, maybe we do
Speaker 4: something up the middle, maybe we try shots farther outside
Speaker 4: the box, which which we haven't seen too much this year.
Speaker 4: And so it does create a good opening to a
Speaker 4: little bit more freedom, little bit more creativity. I mean,
Speaker 4: Laura Harvey is an incredible coach at creating a system
Speaker 4: and getting players to develop in that system. And I
Speaker 4: think you could hear it in her voice this week
Speaker 4: when she talked about it.
Speaker 5: What this team needs is just something. It can be
Speaker 5: a piece of.
Speaker 4: Hair, you know, it can be a defender scoring, it
Speaker 4: can be something unexpected. And teams go through these these moments.
Speaker 4: In long seasons, you are going to have times where
Speaker 4: you don't score. This is an especially long one, and
Speaker 4: so there's a desperation there.
Speaker 3: Desperation is interesting, Kwame because when you talk about a
Speaker 3: Seattle team that's obviously does not have a win in
Speaker 3: their last five because they haven't scored. We need this
Speaker 3: team to continue to get results because we've slipped. I mean,
Speaker 3: at one point, I think our first broadcast for Rain,
Speaker 3: at one point they were tied for second place in NWSL.
Speaker 3: They've slipped all the way to ninth right now. And
Speaker 3: when we talk about how they're attacking, it's such an
Speaker 3: interesting and important part because it has been different personnel
Speaker 3: of all these games, and we were talking before the
Speaker 3: show about how different types of wingers and different types
Speaker 3: of attacking midfielders can get this team in better scoring positions.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it is interesting. I feel like Seattle
Speaker 6: has a certain dynamic play which actually accomplishes what you
Speaker 6: want your team to do, which is get into the
Speaker 6: attack and get balls in the box. But we just
Speaker 6: haven't had the numbers in the box to convert. And
Speaker 6: so where do we go from here? And I think
Speaker 6: obviously football is a game of inches, so it comes
Speaker 6: down to those one little moment, one little game opportunity.
Speaker 6: You just have to make sure you get that opportunity
Speaker 6: into the box if you can convert. When we spoke
Speaker 6: to Maddy over you know, over the week, the major
Speaker 6: thing was we just want to open the floodgates, right.
Speaker 6: I think sometimes it becomes a confidence thing. You know,
Speaker 6: a lot of stress on your shoulders. It's just a
Speaker 6: matter of converting that one goal that they just give
Speaker 6: you that big exhale. Once that exhale is accomplished, Dan
Speaker 6: Kes right, right, once that's done, then it just feels
Speaker 6: like we can really start unloading. So today we just
Speaker 6: got to make sure we put one in the box
Speaker 6: where this team is giving us opportunities to Once we
Speaker 6: get that exhale, it's it's, you know, full speed ahead.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the matchup that that Laura Harvey, head coach,
Speaker 3: wants today, and that is going up against the physicality
Speaker 3: of Boston and they are a very very physical team
Speaker 3: from everything that I've seen, from everything that we've heard. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: Laura Harvey says, we can go physical for physical and
Speaker 3: we can play Cocoa Mondasy, or we can play me official,
Speaker 3: or we can counter that. And Stephanie they are countering
Speaker 3: that with her picks in the attack today.
Speaker 4: I think that's definitely true. Like you said, Coco Mondasy
Speaker 4: player Sam Mesa as well. Those are players that you
Speaker 4: just see them in tackles. They're very physical, They're great
Speaker 4: at putting their body kind of on the line and
Speaker 4: creating some disruption there for other teams. And so I
Speaker 4: actually do really like what Harvey's going with here, which
Speaker 4: is let's almost dance around them. They're going to do
Speaker 4: emergency defending. They're going to drop their three, they're going
Speaker 4: to come in hard. I mean, you know, if you
Speaker 4: have a team that's leading the league in red cards,
Speaker 4: I know it's just one player, but you know they're
Speaker 4: doing some type of defending there, and so it's it's
Speaker 4: dance around them. Be quick, play, move the ball, and
Speaker 4: create a lot of chances because that's what they need most.
Speaker 3: Kwamee, what do you want to see from the wingers
Speaker 3: today specifically and how they move and how they attack.
Speaker 3: As she's talking about that emergency defending that they'll see.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to see our wingers get into the
Speaker 6: middle just a little bit more right. I want to
Speaker 6: see service coming from our outside backs. We have one,
Speaker 6: you know, an incredible assist leader and THENWSL when we
Speaker 6: think about Sophia. So it's all about making sure we
Speaker 6: get bodies in the box. And if we have our
Speaker 6: wingers drifting wide and our outside backs drifting wide as well,
Speaker 6: we're just creating a redundancy to people who are creating
Speaker 6: the same role to just the same thing, which takes
Speaker 6: one extra attacker away from the box. And we want
Speaker 6: to make sure we get in that box for the opportunities.
Speaker 3: Yes, Sophia Hortz has thirty seven career assists off of
Speaker 3: that right back position, so you'll see her for sure
Speaker 3: get up into that top attack. Holly Ward. Will be
Speaker 3: interesting to see our right winger today, see how she
Speaker 3: plays and if she indeed cuts in like we're talking about.
Speaker 3: This is Boston Legacy FC versus Seattle Rain FC, the
Speaker 3: first ever professional women's soccer match in Patucket, Rhode Island,
Speaker 3: and the whole state of Rhode Island that's never seen
Speaker 3: a game like this. We will take a break for
Speaker 3: the national anthem. We will come back and then we
Speaker 3: will have kickoff. It's Seattle versus Boston for the first
Speaker 3: time ever. With this Boston team will get you. The
Speaker 3: call is Kickoff his next on sports radio at nine
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Speaker 1: The following is an exclusive presentation of Seattle Rainsucker on
Speaker 1: Sports Radio nine fifty KJU.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Rain on the Radio. Seattle Rain FC
Speaker 3: in their tenth game of the NWSL season tonight, facing
Speaker 3: the Boston Legacy, who are in their eleventh game so far.
Speaker 3: Boston right now two five and three going up against
Speaker 3: Seattle at three four and two, Seattle at a ninth
Speaker 3: place with eleven points, Boston at fourteenth place with nine points.
Speaker 3: So certainly do not want to see three points for
Speaker 3: Boston swing them above Seattle. But it's a rain team
Speaker 3: that has not scored in their last five games. Let's
Speaker 3: get into this matchup a little bit more before we
Speaker 3: get to kickoff, which is just a few seconds away.
Speaker 3: The return today of nineteen year old center back. She
Speaker 3: is a young phenom, Jordan Bug. She's been out with
Speaker 3: two different lower leg injuries so far this season. Jordan
Speaker 3: Bug is back. She's back starting at center back on
Speaker 3: that left side, Stephanie. That is a huge addition for
Speaker 3: Laura Harvey.
Speaker 4: It is especially like we said before, defense is a
Speaker 4: main focus in this team and in this structure of
Speaker 4: play that she likes to run through. And Phoebe mclarnan
Speaker 4: is great and she's really held down the fort there,
Speaker 4: but Phoebe can be a little a little unpredictable I
Speaker 4: think at times for Laura Harvey and so adding in
Speaker 4: someone like Bug who can be very consistent, very composed,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's incredible. She's so composed for how young
Speaker 4: she is. She has a great balance to mclernan.
Speaker 3: Kwame. This is a team that you have leaders on
Speaker 3: this team, but the absence of Jeff Fishlock, and I
Speaker 3: think casual soccer fans in Seattle all know the name
Speaker 3: Jef Fishlock. Casual sports fans in the city definitely named
Speaker 3: Jeff Fishlock legend from the beginning. The news came out
Speaker 3: last month that she will retire at the end of
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty sixth season. She was the last remaining
Speaker 3: club original from twenty thirteen. She'll be celebrated later this
Speaker 3: year on October second against North Carolina during the Queen's Match.
Speaker 3: Then right after her announcement on April twenty six she
Speaker 3: had a major lower leg injury. The air cast the
Speaker 3: stretcher good news. X rays were negative. She will be
Speaker 3: back this summer, but making up for her impact not
Speaker 3: only in the attack Kwame, but her impact as a
Speaker 3: leader on this team is something that Jordan Bug can
Speaker 3: certainly help with. That is major, and that is true.
Speaker 6: We are definitely missing her a lot, And I think
Speaker 6: a major thing to think about there is the identity
Speaker 6: of a team. When you take such a key piece
Speaker 6: away from the team, it definitely removes some identity. But
Speaker 6: when we think about Jordan coming back, I compare it
Speaker 6: to a one of the biggest, most important soccer drills
Speaker 6: that you will ever do.
Speaker 3: It's called power and finesse.
Speaker 6: So we have Phoebe as that power, that dominant player,
Speaker 6: and we have Jordan as a really finesse player, some
Speaker 6: who can actually touch the ball, pass the ball off,
Speaker 6: get it back and is really great at giving deep
Speaker 6: balls here. So hopefully we get some opportunities to go
Speaker 6: longer with that.
Speaker 3: Seattle Rain in their blue surge kits tonight Boston Legacy
Speaker 3: and they're all green jerseys. It's the first ever women's
Speaker 3: professional soccer match in Rhode Island, Boston, Seattle. Of course
Speaker 3: Boston had it the Boston Breakers of the NWSL they
Speaker 3: folded a while back. This is a new expansion team
Speaker 3: new to twenty twenty six in this season. Soccer was
Speaker 3: gone in Boston for nearly a decade, but it is
Speaker 3: back and it is in Rhode Island tonight. And after
Speaker 3: a little false start, we are now underway in Rhode Island,
Speaker 3: and it's a second false start. The referee really wants
Speaker 3: to be exact exactly when he wants to kick this
Speaker 3: thing off, and our referee tonight is John Motto, and
Speaker 3: he kicks things off. Is now it goes back to
Speaker 3: Claudia Dickie and she will send it all the way
Speaker 3: forward as this game is underway from Centralville Bank Stadium
Speaker 3: in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Welcome in everybody, Jackson Felt, Stephanie Verdoya,
Speaker 3: Kwamea Pia it is Rain on the radio, Seattle Rain
Speaker 3: EFC versus Boston Legacy. Good to have you with us,
Speaker 3: as Boston will have a throw in on the far
Speaker 3: side the right to start this game off. After that
Speaker 3: long kick from Claudia Dickie. It's a very sounder Seahawk
Speaker 3: like colors here with the green of Boston and the
Speaker 3: blue of Seattle all night contrasting colors on the field
Speaker 3: here in Rhode Island as Seattle Rain now ball into
Speaker 3: the box trying to find Maddy Mercado, but is headed
Speaker 3: away by a Boston defender. Still with the rain here
Speaker 3: on this left side, it's Maddy Dollen cutting in, trying
Speaker 3: to cross takes a tip that will be out. It
Speaker 3: appears for a Rain corner here in the first minute
Speaker 3: of this game.
Speaker 4: And I really hope to see a lot of that
Speaker 4: from Mattie Dolly and she kind of drives toward the
Speaker 4: end line there and tries to get around to her defender.
Speaker 4: It's exactly what Kwalmi was talking about pregame of just
Speaker 4: not staying wide. Can we drag those defenders inside? Can
Speaker 4: we cut across them, send crosses in or gets shots off.
Speaker 4: She did that great a few weeks ago, so hopefully
Speaker 4: she keeps bringing that energy and it forces them to
Speaker 4: defend in multiple ways.
Speaker 3: Roosevelt High School lum Sally Menti will be taking this
Speaker 3: corner kick from the far side. It'll be an inswinger
Speaker 3: and it's going far to the top of the box.
Speaker 3: She has a couple players headed back still with the
Speaker 3: Rain Jordan Bugs shot will go into the stands and
Speaker 3: it'll be a goalkick for Austin's goalkeeper Casey Murphy, who
Speaker 3: has some history with Seattle. Actually, she was part of
Speaker 3: the Rain in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, made twenty
Speaker 3: appearances and it was cut short in twenty twenty because
Speaker 3: of the COVID shortened year, but started the majority of
Speaker 3: games in goal for Seattle Rain back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: And here she is now in Boston and she sends
Speaker 3: it off to the right, long ball forward, but a
Speaker 3: good job getting in the way of that one. It's
Speaker 3: Madison Curry Curry to Dalen out for a throw in
Speaker 3: for Seattle two minutes into this one.
Speaker 4: And Casey Murphy also has some women's national team experience.
Speaker 4: She's a really solid keeper, so it's not going to
Speaker 4: be an easy night where they're going to hope to
Speaker 4: get something. You know, Flukey, she's solid in the back.
Speaker 3: Seattle here on the left. Here's Mattie Doleen chanced to
Speaker 3: cross it in has Mercado. It is tipped away still
Speaker 3: with the rain. Now on this right side for Huerta
Speaker 3: Blerta with some space, she will cross it with her
Speaker 3: left foot, takes a deflection. Now here's Boston with it.
Speaker 3: They will try to get going fast. It's a team
Speaker 3: in the Boston Legacy who are have an interesting structure
Speaker 3: and right now they are pinned back by Seattle, who's
Speaker 3: been on the front foot since the opening seconds of
Speaker 3: this game. Now here is where it's on the right side,
Speaker 3: working with some midfielders. Has to play it all the
Speaker 3: way back to mcclernan and to Bug on this left side.
Speaker 3: As Seattle resets to the left and it's cut out
Speaker 3: a good shot there Mi Michelle Prince to take it
Speaker 3: away from Boston coming up this right wing. Prince working
Speaker 3: on two rain players, cuts in, get some space, crossing
Speaker 3: it over to the little park and now over to
Speaker 3: the left side. Boston with more space on this counter attack,
Speaker 3: cross gonna come in and it will go just above
Speaker 3: that crossbar and we'll land on the top of that net.
Speaker 3: As Seattle did well to not let anything too dangerous
Speaker 3: in the middle of the box on that counter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that's just a really good example.
Speaker 4: The play we saw there of how open this game
Speaker 4: is going to be was very transitional soccer. So Boston
Speaker 4: crossed into the attacking half in Seattle's defensive half and
Speaker 4: only two or three passes, big long passes that broke
Speaker 4: down Seattle's defense even though they were set and organized.
Speaker 4: So that's gonna have to be something they watch out for,
Speaker 4: because if Boston can break that down that quickly, they're
Speaker 4: going to create some issues.
Speaker 3: I saw the concerned look of Boston head coach Philip
Speaker 3: Patel a moment ago, as Seattle right now getting the
Speaker 3: way of that one. They will be trying to break
Speaker 3: on this left side, but not able to gather that one,
Speaker 3: and Boston will take it away in their own end. Kwame.
Speaker 3: We're now four and a half minutes into this game,
Speaker 3: and you saw the concerned look on Boston head coach's face,
Speaker 3: and we kind of wondered how these first few minutes
Speaker 3: would run with this buildout. We are seeing it with
Speaker 3: a very wide open defense for Boston.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it looks like transition is going to be a
Speaker 6: really big part of this game, like stuff.
Speaker 3: He was saying.
Speaker 6: I think right now it's going to feel a bit
Speaker 6: pig ping pongy right for a little bit of time.
Speaker 3: I'm it's gonna go back and forth a lot.
Speaker 6: I think maybe the concern look was because of the
Speaker 6: speed of transition, because once that ball was won almost
Speaker 6: in the rains half, it took quite a while for
Speaker 6: them to transition. So yeah, maybe a little bit of
Speaker 6: a speed of transition issue right now.
Speaker 3: And here is Boston now coming up on the right
Speaker 3: side with Prince Prince up to Triore working on Madison.
Speaker 3: Curry gets some space now, crossing it into Princes Princesson's
Speaker 3: space in the box, crossing it to the top, back
Speaker 3: out to another players. Shot takes those slight deflection and
Speaker 3: it's going to be out for a corner kick. Here
Speaker 3: in the sixth minute, a long distance shot from Olaveri
Speaker 3: who was able to get that ball back from Triori
Speaker 3: in the top of the box, and nothing for Claudia
Speaker 3: Dicky to do there as it took it to flunction
Speaker 3: and went well wide but now the ragin defense will
Speaker 3: have to deal with this corner kick coming early in Puttucket,
Speaker 3: Rhode Island, where Boston is playing seven matches this year.
Speaker 3: They played a few others at Gillette Stadium, the home
Speaker 3: of the New England Patriots and New England Revolution, and
Speaker 3: then next year they will transfer to their new home
Speaker 3: home in actual Boston proper. Here comes the corner. They
Speaker 3: go short, now very going long, headed away, and the
Speaker 3: rain got a couple bodies on that one. It will
Speaker 3: go out for another corner kit coming from the same
Speaker 3: spot for I believe this will be now Canoe taking
Speaker 3: this one. Alba Cana, the Spaniard, will be taking this one.
Speaker 3: This will not go short this time. She has somebody
Speaker 3: running into help, but she will take a long end
Speaker 3: swinger going into the box headed away. Boston's still with
Speaker 3: it now, but it's taken away from the rain, cleared
Speaker 3: up the field, anybody there, No Boston will take this one,
Speaker 3: but give away right back rain chance to transition going
Speaker 3: away up the field. Can mat E Murcatta get to
Speaker 3: the end of that one. She cannot. Casey Murphy just
Speaker 3: have to dump it over to her left. Boston gonna
Speaker 3: try to transition come away with it, but they cannot
Speaker 3: control it. Will go out for a Rain throwing here
Speaker 3: in the seventh minute.
Speaker 4: And you know, I don't think Rain actually wants to
Speaker 4: play the transition game with Boston.
Speaker 5: I think there's strong at it.
Speaker 4: I think you put three players at the backs that
Speaker 4: you have a ton of numbers flying forward, and they
Speaker 4: seem pretty comfortable when they're doing that. The Rain don't
Speaker 4: seem comfortable when they're playing transition soccer. And it's because
Speaker 4: Laura Harvey has coached them time and time again to
Speaker 4: keep the ball, to stay in their structure, to be creative,
Speaker 4: but to really know where they're playing and how to
Speaker 4: play together. And I think they look slightly lost right
Speaker 4: now because of that speed and the transition that Boston's pushing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sort of you know we talked about in
Speaker 3: the pregame and is true that kind of lack of
Speaker 3: a true functional, normal starting lineup for Boston. You know
Speaker 3: there's an expansion team is the Rain will get to
Speaker 3: that in a moment. Here's the transition on the right side.
Speaker 3: Chance to cross it in here is Holly Ward on
Speaker 3: this right, uses Wheer to her right back. Now to
Speaker 3: the middle of the park cross coming in towards the
Speaker 3: far side. For Dollen heads it up looking for a handball.
Speaker 3: It is a handball penalty kick coming for Seattle. Doleen
Speaker 3: went up, headed it down. Came off of a Boston
Speaker 3: arm that was I believe Emerson Elgin. It hits her
Speaker 3: arm and the Rain will have a penalty here in
Speaker 3: the eighth minute of this game. That comes off just
Speaker 3: the upper on there. Stephanie Way, do you think of
Speaker 3: those ones are brutal?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's true. Her arm is moving right,
Speaker 5: it kind of blocks the balls.
Speaker 4: It changes the ball's trajectory, even though it's up close
Speaker 4: to her shoulder.
Speaker 5: I do think it's a fair call, but you know, I'm.
Speaker 3: A Rain fan, so the letter of the law, it
Speaker 3: was not going anywhere too dangerous, but it comes off
Speaker 3: of an arm and the Rain will have their chance
Speaker 3: to score their first goal in five games right here,
Speaker 3: earned by Mattie Doleen, and now a chance to go
Speaker 3: up one nothing early. It is, of course Sophia A. Hoerta,
Speaker 3: the captain of this Seattle team, stepping up to the spot.
Speaker 3: She has not scored this year, has two assists forty
Speaker 3: four career NWSL goals for Sophia Hoerta, and it seems
Speaker 3: like they are taking a moment for this one. VR
Speaker 3: will look at this and we'll see if that is
Speaker 3: a true handball. We have a moment, Kwame, what do
Speaker 3: you think on that letter of the law or impact
Speaker 3: of the play refereeing.
Speaker 6: As much as we want to say that there's a
Speaker 6: strict rule of regulation that you know, it is a
Speaker 6: bit subjective at times, and I think ultimately you have
Speaker 6: to call it. If you see the ball hitting the
Speaker 6: arm which is outside a position in affecting play, that
Speaker 6: is a PK. You know, if it doesn't affect playing anyway,
Speaker 6: maybe there's a little bit more, you know, a room
Speaker 6: for interpretation, but it right here, I think it definitely
Speaker 6: affects the play in a major way.
Speaker 3: Our referee today, John Motto of var Laura Rodriguez, taking
Speaker 3: another look at this one as Maddie heads it down.
Speaker 3: It hits off of the left arm of Jorlin Carabali,
Speaker 3: Boston's right back tonight, as they are taking a extra
Speaker 3: long look at this one, Sofia Haerta, who's been with
Speaker 3: the Rain since the February of twenty twenty and going
Speaker 3: up right now against Casey Murphy, who was the Rain
Speaker 3: goalkeeper until twenty So these two have a history playing
Speaker 3: in Seattle together. As Laurel Harvey sits on her YETI
Speaker 3: cooler and takes a moment.
Speaker 4: And we're seeing a little bit of gamesmanship here. You'll
Speaker 4: see this in games now. The player who's taking the
Speaker 4: kick actually won't hold the ball. A different player will
Speaker 4: stand there because the keeper loves to come up, stand
Speaker 4: right at that player, stare him down, you know, make
Speaker 4: him feel a little intimidated. So the player who ends
Speaker 4: up taking the kick sometimes we'll kind of walk away,
Speaker 4: take some space. But it can't be understated how hard
Speaker 4: it is for this much amount of time to elapse
Speaker 4: before taking the kick. Pks are already a little stressful,
Speaker 4: and you got to wait for it now.
Speaker 5: So that's tough for Huerta.
Speaker 3: All right, here comes the call from our referee motto
Speaker 3: as Sophia Juerta. It was funny she handed the ball
Speaker 3: off to has James Turner. Then James Turner hand the
Speaker 3: ball back to Huerta. So it is the Rain twenty
Speaker 3: twenty teammates Huerta against Casey Murphy penalty kick Here in
Speaker 3: the eleventh minutes looking for the Rains first goal in
Speaker 3: five matches. Where To stands five yards from the ball,
Speaker 3: whistle blows Murphy jumping around where to her left forward
Speaker 3: shot in the back of the nets.
Speaker 2: Raine score and they have their first goal in too
Speaker 2: long and they have a lead at Boston Legacy.
Speaker 3: It's one nothing in the eleventh minutes.
Speaker 4: Just a huge, huge relief, relief, relief relief. I think
Speaker 4: that's what Kalme said before, and it really is for
Speaker 4: this team to be able to see it does not
Speaker 4: matter how it comes. Laura Harvey said that herself, where
Speaker 4: toa does a great job to step up, compose. It
Speaker 4: puts us in the corner right low on the ground,
Speaker 4: away from Murphy, and it's just it's exactly what they needed.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter how it comes. But now they feel
Speaker 4: like they don't have to be building to that goal
Speaker 4: over and over it they have it.
Speaker 5: Now they can control the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's it's a big composure goal.
Speaker 6: If I'm being honest with you, that much time in
Speaker 6: between the penalty being called and it being taken, the
Speaker 6: amount of rattling it does for the person who's taking
Speaker 6: that it really has to be appreciated there. So I
Speaker 6: think that no matter how that ball gets in that goal,
Speaker 6: we really have to give credit to Sophia putting that
Speaker 6: in the net. And I think ultimately now we got
Speaker 6: to build off of that. I do think set pieces
Speaker 6: are going to be a big thing for today. So
Speaker 6: how do we go from here?
Speaker 3: Boston trying to work quickly on this right side rein
Speaker 3: up now early in this game, exactly what they wanted
Speaker 3: here after five winless and if foul called over there
Speaker 3: on Prince free kick coming for Boston in Rain's own end.
Speaker 3: As this is a team in Boston that likes to
Speaker 3: throw numbers forward. They likes to transition, they like to
Speaker 3: be physical, they like to be fast. It's a team
Speaker 3: that has been unbeaten in their last five games two
Speaker 3: to zero to three, after not having a single point
Speaker 3: in their first five games of this season. Here's a
Speaker 3: ball towards the box. Here's Prince chance to cross. Did
Speaker 3: it go out first? It did go out first. A
Speaker 3: tricky quick freekick there, see, but just missed on their side.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love a trick play like that.
Speaker 4: Actually, they had the wall set up and they just
Speaker 4: played it around the outside of the wall. To a
Speaker 4: diagonal runner who kind of tries to whip the ball
Speaker 4: in a little bit too hard on the pass, so
Speaker 4: they weren't able to actually get it into the box.
Speaker 4: But you know, I love to see different set pieces
Speaker 4: like that. They're not just whipping it in. I expect
Speaker 4: them to though, because like you said, Boston's a little
Speaker 4: They can be a little chaotic in those moments. It
Speaker 4: also makes them strong and hard to defend.
Speaker 3: Speaking of chaotic, a goalkick there for our goalkeeper, Claudia
Speaker 3: Dicky went short and some high press from Boston, nearly
Speaker 3: causing a turnover. Rayne working out of that turnover. Now
Speaker 3: playing it long here on the right side, headed out
Speaker 3: it will be a rain throwing Laura Harvey and her
Speaker 3: coaching staff Scott Parkinson William want to go fast here
Speaker 3: on this right side. Where to looking for someone to
Speaker 3: throw it into. Finds Mercado now up to the left side.
Speaker 3: Can't get to don lean it can she brings it down,
Speaker 3: Defender drags her down.
Speaker 4: No call.
Speaker 3: Boston comes away with that one after a questionable note call.
Speaker 3: Boston Legacy in their bright green kits tonight Seattle and
Speaker 3: all Seattle's working left to right on your radio dial.
Speaker 3: Boston working the other way. It's on the far side
Speaker 3: after that throw in, but Boston quickly turned it over
Speaker 3: and Seattle will have a moment to breathe with Curry
Speaker 3: sending it all the way back to Claudia Dicky. Claudia
Speaker 3: Dickey who is in line to be the United States
Speaker 3: women's national team starter for a long time, only twenty
Speaker 3: six years old, and she kind of took over that
Speaker 3: starting spot last year. She was recently part of the
Speaker 3: United States women's national team games against Japan where she
Speaker 3: started two of their three games in exhibitions against Japan
Speaker 3: and on April eleventh and April seventeenth, and she is
Speaker 3: established right now to be the United States starter. As
Speaker 3: balls popping around here, but Boston trying to clear it
Speaker 3: away now still going off of multiple legs. Boston will
Speaker 3: control on this right side. A couple players go down,
Speaker 3: cannot control that one, and it'll go out for a rain.
Speaker 3: Throwing a bit back and forth, play Kwame, and you
Speaker 3: expect Boston is going to that that kind of discohesion.
Speaker 3: I suppose that we've seen from them so far this
Speaker 3: season in terms of their formations, in terms of how
Speaker 3: they build out. This is where you can exploit it
Speaker 3: even further.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think ultimately their current goal is to get
Speaker 6: as many bodies forward as possible, which can be dangerous
Speaker 6: for them defensively, but as you are still trying to
Speaker 6: freely figure out your identity, it's like, Hey, if we're
Speaker 6: gonna get anything to happen, we got to put as
Speaker 6: many numbers behind it as possible and hope that it
Speaker 6: works out.
Speaker 3: Here's Seattle working in transition. Now up the left side.
Speaker 3: Da Leen chances to cross it in, cuts it in.
Speaker 3: Da Leen chance to shoot cuts it a little further
Speaker 3: now all the way to the right side. For Wheer,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of space to cross. She will cut
Speaker 3: it in. And now here comes across a lot of
Speaker 3: blue shirts there in the box, and they come down
Speaker 3: with it working against his curry, but she is not
Speaker 3: able to corral that away from a Boston defender. It's
Speaker 3: still with the rain after a Boston clearance, and it's
Speaker 3: now out for a Seattle throwing a bit back and
Speaker 3: forth there, but a good attack for Seattle. And it's
Speaker 3: sort of callt me what you said in the pregame.
Speaker 3: You want he's in the box and there were about
Speaker 3: five Blue shirts there in the box on that attack. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean you're seeing it.
Speaker 6: Look right now, even though the ball is not in
Speaker 6: a crossing position, there are already two bodies in the box.
Speaker 6: So we are starting to see that effort, that real
Speaker 6: effort to get in the box and see if you
Speaker 6: can get some opportunities with that cross.
Speaker 3: Boston taking away that throw and they will be controlling
Speaker 3: here on the far side the right. Now along that
Speaker 3: back three that certainly transforms in transitions with help. They
Speaker 3: deal with a three center back, one defensive midfield of
Speaker 3: structure and send a lot of numbers forward. And here
Speaker 3: comes Boston working against some space against Seattle into the box,
Speaker 3: cuts on over to the left side, and the Rain
Speaker 3: do great to transition to fend and hold Boston up.
Speaker 3: They have it about ten yards outside of the box.
Speaker 3: Now over to this left side, chance to cross it
Speaker 3: in here here is Smith working into the box. Smith
Speaker 3: chance to shoot and it will go well wide of goal.
Speaker 3: Boston with a momentary chance there. But it's good transition
Speaker 3: defending Stephanie.
Speaker 5: It is it is.
Speaker 4: It's one thing that the Rain is very good at
Speaker 4: is getting their players behind the ball.
Speaker 5: Get we call it getting into your line.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of like the whole midfield line is
Speaker 4: back behind the ball, the defensive line is back behind
Speaker 4: the ball. So it's preventing that transition soccer where Boston
Speaker 4: can be numbers up, it can be three v two
Speaker 4: down a wing. You know that they really get back
Speaker 4: and get organized very well. It's one of their strengths.
Speaker 3: And we know Seattle likes to play out of the back,
Speaker 3: and with a high press of Boston, they will certainly
Speaker 3: be going forward.
Speaker 23: Here.
Speaker 3: Here is our goalkeeper Dickey who sends it to the
Speaker 3: middle of the park. A foul called one of our
Speaker 3: first fouls today is am'sbro one of their center backs
Speaker 3: got way up the field fouls and the rain will
Speaker 3: have another moment to breathe here against that press of Boston,
Speaker 3: and it.
Speaker 4: Is a very intense press, just so people can picture it.
Speaker 4: I mean they have five players at the top of
Speaker 4: the eighteen yard box. That is a very very aggressive
Speaker 4: press because it means they're giving up so much space behind.
Speaker 4: But if the rain can't out of it, it's obviously
Speaker 4: very dangerous amber.
Speaker 3: The rain trying to hold it here on this right side.
Speaker 3: Working with Huerta, working with Holly ward Ward who's getting
Speaker 3: her second start of the year alongside Sally Menty, who's
Speaker 3: at the number ten position, the central attacking midfielder. She's
Speaker 3: also getting her second start of the year. As the
Speaker 3: Rain try to break that press and they will still
Speaker 3: be in possession in their own end of the field,
Speaker 3: working against multiple Boston defenders. A long ball forward is
Speaker 3: deflected out and it will be deflecting and so they're
Speaker 3: gonna say it's a Boston throwing. Looked like that took
Speaker 3: a deflection off of another Boston midfielder. But they will
Speaker 3: get the throw where trying to get in the middle
Speaker 3: of that one to take it away, but it stays
Speaker 3: with Boston in Seattle's end out of some space in
Speaker 3: the middle of the park over this right side. They
Speaker 3: have prints on that right wing. One of their talented
Speaker 3: wingers on this Boston team, working on Curry, cuts in
Speaker 3: and a good job there by Maddie Doll Lean to
Speaker 3: track back and get in the way of that one.
Speaker 3: Boston will have to reset near the midpoint line of
Speaker 3: this field here in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The first ever
Speaker 3: women's professional match in Rhode Island cuts in and in
Speaker 3: another good deflection Maddie Doleen again getting in the way
Speaker 3: that pass, sending it all the way over to this
Speaker 3: right side. Foul called Hollywood brought down free kick coming
Speaker 3: for Seattle in the nineteenth minutes, and.
Speaker 4: You know, we're seeing some struggle from the rain being
Speaker 4: able to really get out. But like we said, we
Speaker 4: don't want them to play the transition chess match with
Speaker 4: Boston because I actually think Boston might win that. But
Speaker 4: they need to get more numbers higher up the field
Speaker 4: a little quicker once they are trying to build. Once
Speaker 4: Boston loses it in their defensive hap maybe they can
Speaker 4: get war Like we were just seeing Mercado people higher
Speaker 4: up the field on the ball right now, Wh're does
Speaker 4: on it a lot, trying to build out and she's
Speaker 4: having a very hard time getting anywhere past the eighteen
Speaker 4: year old box.
Speaker 3: There's a long ball up on the left side for
Speaker 3: Doleen with Kyl Bally takes it away for Boston on
Speaker 3: that back end, just trying to shuffle that ball out
Speaker 3: but it does not get there. Seattle with it in
Speaker 3: Boston's own end working on that left side as Sally Menti,
Speaker 3: and that is going to be out for a Boston
Speaker 3: goalkick here in the twentieth minute. It is interesting because
Speaker 3: breaking Boston's press is challenging. They haven't been as many
Speaker 3: turnovers as maybe three games ago you would expect. Where
Speaker 3: three games ago the conversation was we got to stop
Speaker 3: turning it over and iron and we got to stop
Speaker 3: turning it over and it kept happening, it kept leading
Speaker 3: to goals. You think of the Utah game. That hasn't
Speaker 3: happened as much today. You just got to make sure
Speaker 3: you stay on that approach and don't turn it all over.
Speaker 3: As Boston's now working in possession on this near side
Speaker 3: the left.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's absolutely important. I do think not to give
Speaker 4: her too much Gretor we're early in the game, but
Speaker 4: Bug coming back and having that presence in the back
Speaker 4: line can give a lot of people confidence of how.
Speaker 12: They can keep the ball.
Speaker 3: It's olavary now to prints on the right side, chance
Speaker 3: to cross it in, but the cross goes far too
Speaker 3: long and it will be a goalkick here for Claudia Dickey.
Speaker 3: There have been, you know, a lot of if you
Speaker 3: look at the heat map of this game, it will
Speaker 3: probably be very much in Seattle is on the end
Speaker 3: of the field, kualme, but there haven't been anything too
Speaker 3: dangerous yet for Boston. You can see the builds that
Speaker 3: you can see the as we saw the trick play
Speaker 3: on that free kick, but there hasn't been anything really
Speaker 3: great chances. Why so far in twenty minutes of this
Speaker 3: game that has the Rain leading won nothing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's when it comes down to, I know
Speaker 6: you can hear this world a million times, but the
Speaker 6: team's identity as of right now, Boston seems to really
Speaker 6: want to build on a one player identity system where
Speaker 6: it almost feels like it takes a lot of high
Speaker 6: level individual talent to really get in behind Seattle, whereas
Speaker 6: Seattle plays very team back and forth, very structural, and
Speaker 6: so you see an opportunity occasionally where Boston actually does
Speaker 6: break in with some incredible talent, but it's not gonna
Speaker 6: be consistent.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be very consistent. So Boston break here
Speaker 3: and they if their press works as the Rain turn
Speaker 3: it over, Boston into the box trying to get it
Speaker 3: to a player, but it's clicked away. A nice job
Speaker 3: there by Vimy mcclerniny clearing that one for Seattle towards
Speaker 3: the middle of the field to Mercado working against two defenders.
Speaker 3: Unces back out and it cleared all the way to
Speaker 3: this right side. Here's Holly Ward, but the ball bounces
Speaker 3: up and hits Holly's arm. It will be a handball.
Speaker 3: Boston get the free kick Mercado quickly to get in
Speaker 3: the way of that one interception here for Seattle coming
Speaker 3: the other way quickly, and here is the middle of
Speaker 3: the park. Now to Ward on this right side Ward
Speaker 3: chance to cross it in to the middle of the
Speaker 3: park Dleen, and it's a great save there right in
Speaker 3: the arms of Casey Murphy, but a good cross there
Speaker 3: by Holly Ward. Dahleen gets to the end of it
Speaker 3: and she redirects it, unfortunately directly at the goalkeeper.
Speaker 4: And it's kind of wild how differently it feels when
Speaker 4: you're up one zero, because that would have been across that.
Speaker 4: You know, if we were zero zero, we'd be saying
Speaker 4: these are the ones they have to finish.
Speaker 5: That is still true.
Speaker 4: Dolene still needs to get some better contact on that ball.
Speaker 4: Direct that across the goalkeeper, across Murphy, and she gets contact,
Speaker 4: but she's just not there. The finishing element still isn't
Speaker 4: there for them, but it feels differently. They're up one zero,
Speaker 4: they're creating chances. This looks like good progress for the
Speaker 4: Seattle Range.
Speaker 3: And how does it come that comes over from a
Speaker 3: turnover in the middle of the field that Boston just
Speaker 3: has too many numbers forward. And once again, as we've
Speaker 3: seen for Boston a number of times this season, again
Speaker 3: they lost their first five games of the season. They
Speaker 3: were shut out four times, and that is a big
Speaker 3: reason why they send a lot of numbers forward. And
Speaker 3: when they turn it over in the middle of the park,
Speaker 3: it is easy for them to give up goals. They
Speaker 3: nearly did there to Maddie Dollen, who got a foot
Speaker 3: to the end of Hollyward's cross, but it went right
Speaker 3: at Boston's goalkeeper. And now here is Boston working in possession.
Speaker 3: A couple of players go down. They have in the
Speaker 3: middle of park. Here's Olaveri now to the right side,
Speaker 3: chance for Canota cross it in Conote to the middle
Speaker 3: of the box. Prince can't gather that one still with Boston,
Speaker 3: it will go into the arms of our goalkeeper, Claudia Dickey.
Speaker 3: But that was one of the first true dangerous moments there.
Speaker 3: Stephanie is we saw a great chance for Nachelle Prince
Speaker 3: in the middle of the box on that cross. She
Speaker 3: couldn't do anything with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's any same thing we're talking about with
Speaker 4: the Rain, those crosses, if they're in a good position
Speaker 4: and they're able to to get something, it's one. It's
Speaker 4: obviously one of the most dangerous areas of the field.
Speaker 4: It's where most of the goals are scored, right top
Speaker 4: of the eighteen, kind of in that penalty area box.
Speaker 5: And they are going to keep creating these chances.
Speaker 4: I think Boston is that team that we're seeing where
Speaker 4: they're getting numbers forward. They have a lot of numbers
Speaker 4: forward and so they weren't able to capitalize that. But
Speaker 4: that's something the Rain has to pay attention to, is
Speaker 4: how often they're trying to lump those balls. And it's
Speaker 4: it's kind of like the same it's a mirror on
Speaker 4: each side.
Speaker 3: Actually, here's Boston now working towards this left side as
Speaker 3: they cross it over, but Prince can't get it taken
Speaker 3: away and McClernand clears it out for a throw in
Speaker 3: for Seattle as it hits off a sad at Triore's foot.
Speaker 3: You know, it'll be a Seattle throwing here in the
Speaker 3: twenty fifth minute, Seattle Rain leading one nothing, Jackson felt,
Speaker 3: Stephanie Verduya, Kwamia pia here on Sports Radio nine to
Speaker 3: fifty am. This is Rain on the radio, Seattle Rain
Speaker 3: FC versus Boston Legacy FC in the first ever professional
Speaker 3: women's soccer match in Rhode Island, as Boston is playing
Speaker 3: in Rhode Island tonight. A throw and will now come
Speaker 3: for Boston. They're playing at Central Bank Stadium in Pawtucket.
Speaker 3: They will change between here and Jillette Stadium for the
Speaker 3: rest of twenty twenty six and then moved to White
Speaker 3: Stadium in twenty twenty seven for this expansion team here,
Speaker 3: and they were the Boston Breakers. This team wasn't There
Speaker 3: was another NWSL team called the Boston Breakers that folded
Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen, and our own Stephanie, you played for
Speaker 3: Boston there for a few years twenty fifteen through twenty seventeen,
Speaker 3: and so they the new team is called the Boston Legacy.
Speaker 3: There is a legacy of soccer in Boston and you
Speaker 3: were a part of it for a number of years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4: Great soccer city. I mean Seattle is a great soccer city.
Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a better one, to be honest,
Speaker 4: but Boston has Boston sports fans are let me tell you,
Speaker 4: those are some intense fans. I remember the first time
Speaker 4: I was there and one of my friends was a
Speaker 4: big Seahawks man, tried to come and, you know, jokingly
Speaker 4: make some go Seahawks cheers.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was not funny. People did not think
Speaker 5: it was funny.
Speaker 4: So this is a city that loves its sports, especially
Speaker 4: it's women's sports, and they've had great support for all
Speaker 4: the versions of the teams.
Speaker 3: They've had Ray now working in possession in their own
Speaker 3: end of the field, doing well against this Boston press
Speaker 3: now on the right side with where it to, trying
Speaker 3: to send a bolong ball Ford. She does get to Mercado,
Speaker 3: Mercado throwing a ball on on the right for Holly Ward.
Speaker 3: Ward can keep it in working one on one. Ward
Speaker 3: cuts in, goes towards the top of the box, still
Speaker 3: with Seattle, but a good job by one of their midfielders.
Speaker 3: I believe that's Hasbo to track back and get in
Speaker 3: the way of that one and Boston take it away
Speaker 3: in their own end and one thing we've seen, Kwame
Speaker 3: is is the Rain are sending a lot of balls forward,
Speaker 3: long balls towards the top because that Boston back line
Speaker 3: is really stepping up really high when they're in possession,
Speaker 3: and that is something that clearly Laura Harvey has seen
Speaker 3: is trying to exploit today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think the Boston you know, entire
Speaker 6: strugu is bet against bet on our defense to make
Speaker 6: sure that we can stop the ball. It seems like
Speaker 6: Seattle has a bit of a disconnect from midfield to forward.
Speaker 6: It's coming boss, coming straight from deep line or goalie
Speaker 6: right into forward's feet and they're hoping to then lay
Speaker 6: it off and then play. But it seems like Boston
Speaker 6: has done a great job winning it once we get
Speaker 6: to that forward, because it's really just becomes a one
Speaker 6: on three.
Speaker 3: Well, here's another one of those long balls and exactly
Speaker 3: what you were just saying, trying to reach Holly Ward
Speaker 3: from the back line, but another Boston defender gets in
Speaker 3: the way of that one, and it's exactly what both
Speaker 3: teams right now are trying to do. Seattle's trying to
Speaker 3: exploit those big open gaps in the high back line
Speaker 3: and Boston's defenders are just doing just well enough. But
Speaker 3: Boston is down one nothing as they work into Seattle's end.
Speaker 3: A given away back and forth foul called Rain will
Speaker 3: have a free kick now from there on end of
Speaker 3: the field. We're into the twenty eighth minute, Seattle Rain
Speaker 3: leading one to nothing on a penalty kick from Sophia
Speaker 3: Huerta in the eleventh minute of this game. An eleventh
Speaker 3: minute penalty for number eleven, the captain today who gets
Speaker 3: her first goal of the year. She has started all
Speaker 3: ten games for the Rain and gets her forty fifth
Speaker 3: career goal in NWSL and one of those players we
Speaker 3: talked about it in pregame. With the loss of Jeff Fishlock,
Speaker 3: you needed the leadership, we needed the captain, You needed
Speaker 3: the attack to step up with the loss of Jess Fishlock.
Speaker 3: And it's fitting that Sophia Houerto's the one to break
Speaker 3: the goal streak.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 4: It's such a well deserved goal for a great player,
Speaker 4: a great leader. She's clearly a great teammate. I mean
Speaker 4: people talk about her just with blowing terms. You know,
Speaker 4: she's fantastic. And I remember I was a midfielder, you know,
Speaker 4: I played in the middle of the field. So when
Speaker 4: you see a player like where To have that much
Speaker 4: success when she's trapped against a sideline, it just, oh,
Speaker 4: I don't like the feeling. You know, she has such
Speaker 4: a little space over there, and she's incredible.
Speaker 5: She does so much with it.
Speaker 3: Boston now working into the attack on this left side,
Speaker 3: chance for Sammy Smith to cross. She can't hold out one.
Speaker 3: She has to play it all the way back, but
Speaker 3: it's taken away quickly from Seattle. The Hollywood cannot control
Speaker 3: that one. It will go out forty Boston throwing will
Speaker 3: they look to go quick here? No, Sammy Smith taking
Speaker 3: a moment to throw this one in, but there is
Speaker 3: a lot of blue shirts for Seattle getting the way
Speaker 3: of that one. The ball still gets towards the top
Speaker 3: of the box, still with space for Boston. Now on
Speaker 3: the right side, here's Carra Bali and Cano tries to
Speaker 3: cut a ball over, but it's taken well there by Madison.
Speaker 3: Curry to get in the way of that one and
Speaker 3: send it all the way forward again trying to find Mercado,
Speaker 3: but just to a Boston defender. Now Boston again working
Speaker 3: in transition back again on this right side, here's Prince
Speaker 3: Prince chanced to cross it in towards the middle of
Speaker 3: the box, getting the way that one is Jordan bug
Speaker 3: but it's out for a corner kick here for Boston
Speaker 3: the thirtieth minute.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're seeing a lot again and a lot
Speaker 4: of numbers forward for Boston. That's what happens when you
Speaker 4: have a three back, especially a high three back. So
Speaker 4: they're connecting through their midfield very well at times, and
Speaker 4: they've almost outnumbered Seattle throughout the pitch if you think
Speaker 4: about it, a four to three three versus a three
Speaker 4: five two. Essentially they really are out numbered. So the
Speaker 4: ring need to get the ball higher up the field
Speaker 4: where there could be a good matchup in that three
Speaker 4: B three up top.
Speaker 3: Here's albut Cano for this corner kick here. It'll be
Speaker 3: an out swinger here in the thirtieth minute. Here it
Speaker 3: comes with the middle of a box, redirected and redirected
Speaker 3: right at the goalkeeper for Claudia. Dicky took off a
Speaker 3: couple awkward bounces, but the United States Women's national team
Speaker 3: goalkeeper Dicky is right there to grab that one. Another
Speaker 3: one of those dangerous plays where it just hits off
Speaker 3: a couple bodies takes an odd deflection there. Leave McCammon
Speaker 3: was part of that deflection and Dicky was right there
Speaker 3: for the safe as it looks like there is a
Speaker 3: Boston player down that is Iasa Triore who's down in
Speaker 3: a lot of pain holding that left leg. And this
Speaker 3: is not good for Triore, who has three goal contributions
Speaker 3: and her ten games he's played in every game for
Speaker 3: Boston so far has Triary. She is down in a
Speaker 3: lot of pain. But let's go back quickly as we
Speaker 3: see this play, we see that where to I don't
Speaker 3: know if she's stepped on her, but certainly got in
Speaker 3: the way and kind of twisted that knee there of Triory. Stephanie,
Speaker 3: what do you see As we saw that replay.
Speaker 5: They collided a little there.
Speaker 4: It looked like Sophia hurt might have stepped down while
Speaker 4: Priory was and her knee went out slightly. I you know,
Speaker 4: don't know exactly what she's going through down there right now.
Speaker 4: I would be surprised if it was a really bad injury.
Speaker 4: It looked like she was able to at least move
Speaker 4: on it afterwards, and that's always what you're looking for
Speaker 4: with knee injury, is you know, are they down?
Speaker 5: Are they able to extend it? Can they put pressure
Speaker 5: on it?
Speaker 4: So waiting to see how it looks like for her,
Speaker 4: But I don't think there was anything malicious, and I
Speaker 4: would be surprised if.
Speaker 3: She was out qualman. Let's go back to that corner
Speaker 3: kick there from Cano that took the couple deflections, comes
Speaker 3: off of McCammon, and a good save there from Claudia Dickey.
Speaker 3: What did you see on that play? You know, it
Speaker 3: was a nice floated ball right into the box.
Speaker 6: I think right now Boston is betting on winning or
Speaker 6: getting an opportunity or scoring off of set pieces right
Speaker 6: as you can see when the ball went back off
Speaker 6: to Prince, Prince basically just ducked it and said, hey,
Speaker 6: I'm not going to take this player on one v one.
Speaker 6: We have opportunity, we have a great corner kick taker
Speaker 6: and Kanye, so what can we do here? So it
Speaker 6: was a bit bobbly, a bit scary, but you know
Speaker 6: we've got safe hands in the.
Speaker 3: Goal and Trioria will enter this field again down and
Speaker 3: was in a lot of pain. She is back up
Speaker 3: and she is back on the field. That is Boston
Speaker 3: striker good to go is Seattle's thrown. They will control here,
Speaker 3: but dealing again with this very quick Boston press and
Speaker 3: Triori very quickly joining that press as if no injury
Speaker 3: happened two minutes ago. Good to go, and here's Seattle
Speaker 3: with where it's on the right side. Cuts in uses McCammon.
Speaker 3: Now mcclernan to Dicky. Press backs off and Dickie can
Speaker 3: have a moment to breathe. Here up the field to
Speaker 3: Sally Menty. Menti gives the ball away, but it's given
Speaker 3: right back. Mclernan on it. Press is right back for Boston.
Speaker 3: Is they have four green shirts all around Seattle. Can
Speaker 3: Seattle break that press? Ball field takes a deflection off
Speaker 3: of an arm and it'll be a free kick for Seattle.
Speaker 3: And there on the end of the field here thirty
Speaker 3: third minute, Seattle leading one to nothing here tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the rain are just swarmed when they're trying
Speaker 4: to build out of the back.
Speaker 5: They really are. I mean, there are green jerseys everywhere.
Speaker 4: This is a soccer that you're watching as a parent
Speaker 4: and your kids the one with the ball and you're like,
Speaker 4: just kick it, just kick it as far away as possible,
Speaker 4: because they are swarmed right now. I mean again, they
Speaker 4: have five players up at the top of the eighteen
Speaker 4: yard box, and so Dicky's looking around and where can
Speaker 4: she play.
Speaker 3: She can only send it forward, and she sends it
Speaker 3: forward to the middle of the park, trying to get
Speaker 3: it as Menty or Mercado and stays with Seattle. Is
Speaker 3: where it helps her out. Mercado goes down, they'll call
Speaker 3: back to the foot of Dickie, and here comes that
Speaker 3: Boston press, not in this moment, but they have five
Speaker 3: green shirts kind of just all around the edge of
Speaker 3: the box waiting to pounce. The moment it gets to
Speaker 3: a Seattle defender and Dickie just cap't keeping the ball
Speaker 3: at her foot where there is no press. Now a
Speaker 3: long ball forward to Mercado, headed to no one but Boston,
Speaker 3: taken away up the field of Triore, giving away to
Speaker 3: back to Seattle. Now back to Boston legacy working with
Speaker 3: it in their own end of the field. Haven't seen
Speaker 3: this much today? Is the ball is at foot of
Speaker 3: a Boston center back holding it with this back three.
Speaker 3: Now up to this left side for Sammy Smith who
Speaker 3: cuts in a lot of pressure now from Puerta, and
Speaker 3: this is where Seattle right now, leading one nothing, forcing
Speaker 3: Boston to play a little bit patiently. This is where
Speaker 3: Seattle wants to play right now, and this you don't
Speaker 3: have to play his transition, Stephanie. You can sit back,
Speaker 3: set up your defense in that setup at laural Harvey
Speaker 3: wants in the fourth three and let Boston work a
Speaker 3: little bit slower. This is much more to the liking
Speaker 3: of Harvey.
Speaker 4: Yep, definitely, this is a pace they like. They like
Speaker 4: to get in their positions. They like to have the
Speaker 4: ball in front of them so they can be organized
Speaker 4: and move as a unit, and they're doing a great
Speaker 4: job of that. I would not be shocked if Harvey
Speaker 4: completely changes their billd out plan when they come out
Speaker 4: in the second half.
Speaker 3: It is interesting. On the bench today for the team
Speaker 3: is sam Mezza. She is a dominant midfielder, a young
Speaker 3: dominant midfielder for this Seattle team. You know she didn't
Speaker 3: have as much practice this week, but she is available
Speaker 3: off the bench for Seattle and that is a major piece.
Speaker 3: If Boston wants to play this high press and a
Speaker 3: lot of pressure system, a second half substitute for sam
Speaker 3: Mezza would be a big boost for the Rain as
Speaker 3: Boston have it now on this left side all the
Speaker 3: way back to one of their center backs, and they'll
Speaker 3: have to send it now all the way back to
Speaker 3: their goalkeeper, Casey Murphy. One of the few times we've
Speaker 3: seen that today where Boston center backs are pressured all
Speaker 3: the way back to their keeper. And it's in interesting
Speaker 3: because the way they play, the high press, the run, run, run,
Speaker 3: the go, go go Plumbia, you can only do that
Speaker 3: for so long, and I think we may have seen
Speaker 3: that that number is about thirty three. Once thirty three
Speaker 3: minutes hits, they really had to slow down a fair
Speaker 3: bit in their play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like Stephanie was saying earlier, I'm very curious to
Speaker 6: see how the second half goes in terms of actually
Speaker 6: building out a plan and going back against this. Right now,
Speaker 6: it feels like Seattle's playing a little bit into the
Speaker 6: hands of Boston's you know, plan and strategy, and it's
Speaker 6: actually giving Boston a really interesting attacking and defensive edge.
Speaker 6: And here, you know, it could be paying.
Speaker 3: Off right crossing it in the box, headed away from
Speaker 3: Madison Curry, Seattle controlling into the middle of the park
Speaker 3: now and they find some space they can a good
Speaker 3: job there by menty to earn that space and now
Speaker 3: Bom goes along to the left side. Here is McCammon
Speaker 3: working all the way up to the field. Some mercado
Speaker 3: still with Seattle. Africa is cleared back and it will
Speaker 3: now be with Seattle's back line and that pressure from
Speaker 3: Boston and not as fervent as it was ten minutes ago.
Speaker 3: As we're now just about eight minutes away from the
Speaker 3: full forty five here in this first half where Seattle
Speaker 3: is leading one nothing and a kick out of bounds
Speaker 3: there bye, that was mcammon goes for a Boston throwing
Speaker 3: here on this left side, they throw it in quick
Speaker 3: and now working a long distance shot as well, wide
Speaker 3: goes about ten yards. Why did that write post for
Speaker 3: a goalkick from Claudia.
Speaker 4: Dickey And again I think that just a little bit
Speaker 4: more composure from these midfielders. You know they're under a
Speaker 4: ton of pressure. We saw mcammon come in there. She's
Speaker 4: a huge she's really important. If sam Mes is not
Speaker 4: going to be on the field breaking up some of
Speaker 4: this play and able to move the ball forward, then mcammon.
Speaker 5: Does need to fill that role.
Speaker 4: She needs to step up, and I think she's trying
Speaker 4: to be the connector, but under this pressure, she has
Speaker 4: to be.
Speaker 5: A little bit more of like the dictator, right.
Speaker 4: She has to decide where the ball goes, she has
Speaker 4: to turn when she can. He has to move the
Speaker 4: ball higher up the field quicker.
Speaker 3: For how much Boston is pressing, it's it's definitely a
Speaker 3: testament to Seattle's defense that Boston right now has such
Speaker 3: few expected goals. I last time I saw it, it
Speaker 3: was about point one point seven on the board here,
Speaker 3: and they have not had a lot of great chances
Speaker 3: at goal after another shot goes long and wide. But
Speaker 3: Boston's press maintaining that they have not been able to
Speaker 3: create anything against the Seattle defense that has been very,
Speaker 3: very good so far this year. It's a Seattle team
Speaker 3: that so far in twenty twenty six in ninth place
Speaker 3: with eleven points, winless in their last five, looking to
Speaker 3: be on the road for a three game road stretch,
Speaker 3: this game in Boston or in Rhode Island playing against Boston,
Speaker 3: and then they'll stay on the East Coast and then
Speaker 3: go straight to play the Washington Spirit a week from to.
Speaker 3: We will have that match as well for you right
Speaker 3: here on Sports Radio nine to fifty k am foul
Speaker 3: called in the middle of the park. Boston will have
Speaker 3: a free kick from their own end here in the
Speaker 3: thirty ninth minute. And it's an interesting situation here, Stephanie,
Speaker 3: where you do have these road games on the East Coast,
Speaker 3: so staying out there you can get acclimated. It was
Speaker 3: interesting too, Laura Harvey Seddon in the trip to Boston.
Speaker 3: They went out on Wednesday and they're staying on West
Speaker 3: Coast time. They haven't transitioned at all to East Coast
Speaker 3: time yet right now for them, they are actually working
Speaker 3: where it's about five fifty pm. Their body clocks are
Speaker 3: working in the sense of we are on West Coast
Speaker 3: time right now and we aren't going to transition our
Speaker 3: bodies to East Coast time until after this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a really interesting It's a whole new development
Speaker 4: in sports, know wellness, recovery, preparation cultures, truly. I mean
Speaker 4: it's wild. It's like how much has changed even from
Speaker 4: when I played. There's so much studies now done around
Speaker 4: sleep and how it impacts you, and so actually just
Speaker 4: trying to stick with your time, even if that means
Speaker 4: you're playing later in the day.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, it's not too much later.
Speaker 4: This would have been an eight pm game for them,
Speaker 4: so there's a lot of benefit there.
Speaker 5: And it's just you told you if you would have
Speaker 5: told people this ten years ago, that chanced across on
Speaker 5: the left side.
Speaker 3: Sorry for Seattle, here is to Hollywood on the right
Speaker 3: Hollywood has where queer. It's a ball is intercepted from Boston.
Speaker 3: Sorry interrupt step there. That's a cross into the box
Speaker 3: and one of those big chances for Seattle on a
Speaker 3: takeaway that built very very quickly for Seattle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Ward and wheart are do. We had a
Speaker 4: pretty good job of staying connected. There's been a few
Speaker 4: times where I you know, they're super dangerous when they're
Speaker 4: together and on the same page, And on that last
Speaker 4: one they both kind of missed it and weren't on
Speaker 4: the same page.
Speaker 3: Rain still have it. Foul is going to be right
Speaker 3: outside of this box. That is a clear foul about
Speaker 3: six yards outside the box. Free kick coming for the
Speaker 3: Rain here in the forty first minute, dangerous spot kuwame
Speaker 3: for this free kick. We will see if it is
Speaker 3: where to who's going to be standing over this one?
Speaker 3: In just a moment after Sally MENTI was taken down there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's just going back to what we
Speaker 6: said earlier. I think this game is going to be
Speaker 6: one or lost off of set pieces. It feels like
Speaker 6: a game that's gradually being played right in that middle area.
Speaker 6: A lot of pressing, a lot of counterattack. But right
Speaker 6: now it seems like it's just back and forth. And
Speaker 6: so I do feel like some opportunities to really stop,
Speaker 6: pause and see the game in front of you could
Speaker 6: be really what wins this game?
Speaker 3: Seattle leading one to nothing on an eleventh minute penalty
Speaker 3: kick from Sofia Horta, and she will be standing over
Speaker 3: this one here in the forty second minute, just about
Speaker 3: twenty four yards from goal where former rain goalkeeper Casey
Speaker 3: Murphy sits in goal right now for Boston. The question
Speaker 3: is will she put this one on frame or will
Speaker 3: she try to cross it?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 3: You see Jordan bug there on that right side, maybe
Speaker 3: looking towards that back post. Here is Squerreza stepping up.
Speaker 3: She will put it right at the wall, stays with
Speaker 3: the rain minty long distance shot. We'll go into the
Speaker 3: crowd there for a goalkick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right into the wall there.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, you never know what you're going to go for
Speaker 4: in those moments, how you're going to kind of curve
Speaker 4: it up and high end the upper V or sneak.
Speaker 5: One under the wall.
Speaker 4: That one didn't pan out, and then the kind of
Speaker 4: rebound shot. I mean, you get so excited when those
Speaker 4: come out.
Speaker 5: You know, you just really shoot for the moon.
Speaker 4: And that one was way over the Crossbard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it was you swear to trying to go
Speaker 3: under that wall. That didn't jump, but it bounced right
Speaker 3: back out and the goalkick for Boston will come in,
Speaker 3: but Boston quickly gives it away to the Rain three
Speaker 3: minutes before the break here, want both of your thoughts,
Speaker 3: Kwame and Stephanie on what the Rain need to do
Speaker 3: here in these final few minutes before the halftime whistle.
Speaker 6: I think the the wingers need to become a bit
Speaker 6: more connected to the to the you know, to the
Speaker 6: full backs. I think that's a bit of the disconnect
Speaker 6: right now. It seems like we're playing very very dominantly
Speaker 6: in the middle, trying to make sure we're finding our
Speaker 6: target nine target forward, play the ball over, get it
Speaker 6: to her feet and then hopefully she can find someone
Speaker 6: you know below her who can then send it up wide.
Speaker 6: But what we need to do is I feel like,
Speaker 6: find ways to get the ball out wide, get it
Speaker 6: out early so that they can then bring the ball
Speaker 6: in transition. But yeah, it feels like a bit of
Speaker 6: a fifty to fifty game right now, and we need
Speaker 6: to change that to, you know, something that's more consistent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. In these last three minutes, I'm like,
Speaker 4: just just keep it out of the defensive end. You know,
Speaker 4: Boston's just coming with so much presser and so much energy,
Speaker 4: and they don't seem dangerous when they're on the ball,
Speaker 4: but they seem very.
Speaker 5: Dangerous when we are trying to build out.
Speaker 4: And so if I'm Laura Harvey, I'm like, get it
Speaker 4: out of the back and let's let us free group
Speaker 4: at halftime.
Speaker 3: I think that's what she literally just said. There actually
Speaker 3: was here yelling on her Yettie Core. That might be
Speaker 3: a word for word. Actually, what just happened is we're
Speaker 3: now into the forty fourth minute here. Yeah, Laura might
Speaker 3: be listening to the stream. I mean, I wouldn't blame her.
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Speaker 3: RAINFC leading Boston LEGACYFC. One enough here as we near
Speaker 3: the half, you know, going to that time zone conversation
Speaker 3: as Boston is in possession in their own end. Calme,
Speaker 3: you played in Sweden. Imagine if you tried to stay
Speaker 3: on West Coast time while playing in Sweden. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: would be that would be something else. Boston. Now here
Speaker 3: is Prince here on this right side. Prince chance to
Speaker 3: shoot goes just over the crossbar. Prince did a good
Speaker 3: job to quickly open up a little bit of space.
Speaker 3: She says it took a deflection. She wants a corner kick,
Speaker 3: Referee John Motto saying no it did not. But a
Speaker 3: quick build there from Boston nearly results in a shot
Speaker 3: on frame.
Speaker 22: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And they're just really sneaky passes that Boston's getting in
Speaker 4: this final third. They're finding players a lot of horizontal passes,
Speaker 4: so kind of going directly across the field, finding players
Speaker 4: in that middle. And that's where Prince was. And she's
Speaker 4: a dangerous player. She's fast, she got a very good foot.
Speaker 4: You know, she could put some power on that shot.
Speaker 4: And we're lucky that didn't go in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Prince is one of their better attacking players. Has
Speaker 3: a goal to assist this year, as to nine out
Speaker 3: of their ten games so far this year. It still
Speaker 3: is Boston after a giveaway long distance shot and Dicky's
Speaker 3: able to grab that one at that near post, Claudia
Speaker 3: Dickie goes right into her diving chest, both arms around it.
Speaker 3: As the clock will strike forty five, we will see
Speaker 3: how much added time we have as a quick turnover
Speaker 3: nearly led to something for Boston. I believe that's their
Speaker 3: first legitimate shot on frame. There was a cornerkick that
Speaker 3: was kind of redirected towards Claudia Dicky, but that was
Speaker 3: a long distance shot put right at that left post.
Speaker 3: And now here's the rain trying to transition on this
Speaker 3: right side. Can it get to ward? No defender takes
Speaker 3: it away back to their goalkeeper, Casey Murphy, and Murphy
Speaker 3: has nowhere to go with it. She'll just have to
Speaker 3: send it out of bounds for a rain thrown about
Speaker 3: five yards from the end line. We are getting five
Speaker 3: minutes of added time. By the way we're into the
Speaker 3: forty fifth plus one. Five minutes will be added to
Speaker 3: this first half. Probably you'd imagine a lot of that
Speaker 3: due to the var review on what was the penalty
Speaker 3: kick for Seattle in the eleventh minute. But here is
Speaker 3: Seattle with this throw in Puerta and Ward and now
Speaker 3: Turner on this right side, trying to earn some space
Speaker 3: for a cross, but they'll have to send it all
Speaker 3: the way back out to mcclerny. Now mcclernan sending all
Speaker 3: the way into the box headed on, but all at
Speaker 3: green jerseys. They will clear it away. Seattle still with
Speaker 3: it in possession right on the middle part of this park,
Speaker 3: long ball towards the box, headed away for Boston. Mercado
Speaker 3: trying to come down with it. Now here's McCammon. Mccalmon
Speaker 3: can't get it. Boston working quickly in transition, but one
Speaker 3: misspass will hold them up just slightly. Seattle getting a
Speaker 3: lot of blue jerseys back quickly. Boston now with prints
Speaker 3: on the right side, working on Curry crossing it into
Speaker 3: the back post person there and it goes just wide.
Speaker 3: It went towards with the triory there on that back
Speaker 3: post from that cross, and as we actually headed out
Speaker 3: for a corner kick here in the forty fifth plus
Speaker 3: two as we see Trior that cross a prince and
Speaker 3: a good job by Huerta to just send it out
Speaker 3: as that was an open prince at the back post,
Speaker 3: and a good recovery there from Sophia Hortza.
Speaker 4: Yeah, excellent recovery from Sophia Fluorta.
Speaker 3: Quick corner here from Cano going short to Hasbo Hasba
Speaker 3: middle of the park to Ola Vari crossing it in
Speaker 3: towards Gold, goes up for it and not able to
Speaker 3: redirect it as Krabally one of their center backs. She
Speaker 3: sends it about twenty yards right left of the left
Speaker 3: post of Gold and that will be out for a
Speaker 3: goalkick for Claudia Dicky here with two and a half
Speaker 3: minutes to go before that halftime whistle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and just back to that defense by Huerta. I
Speaker 4: mean it's really understated sometimes how dangerous those moments are.
Speaker 4: And she did a quick check of her shoulder and
Speaker 4: really put this last final dish effort to get there
Speaker 4: right before the cross got to that back post.
Speaker 5: Player.
Speaker 4: It's what you teach young players in the game all
Speaker 4: the time. You have to follow your runner all the
Speaker 4: way through, no matter where the ball is. You got
Speaker 4: to finish out that play, and you know it's those
Speaker 4: kinds of things as the leader of this team that
Speaker 4: she's doing consistently and is keeping her team in the game.
Speaker 4: You really got to give a shout out to her.
Speaker 3: Now Boston has gotten their best few chances here of
Speaker 3: the game. In the last fifteen to twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 3: Their high press has started the work of late. But
Speaker 3: the question is how long can they go with this
Speaker 3: high press deep into the night here in Rhode Island,
Speaker 3: Seattle leading one nothing here a couple minutes coming as
Speaker 3: Seattle will earn a throw in about ten yards from
Speaker 3: the end line, Maddie Dleen balls in her hands. She
Speaker 3: has Madison Curry and Maddie Mercado to throw it into
Speaker 3: the entire left side right now for Seattle, made up
Speaker 3: of Madison's and Maddie's handing it off now to Curry,
Speaker 3: who will throw it in very short. Here in the
Speaker 3: corner is Doleen and Free says that is out for
Speaker 3: a goalkick here. You know Murphy worked quickly with it,
Speaker 3: not too quickly right here, just about seventy seconds from
Speaker 3: the halftime whistle. Seattle will love to go in with
Speaker 3: this lead and then Laurel Harvey can reset because Murphy
Speaker 3: plays it short, and then a miscommunication with Laurel ansbro
Speaker 3: her center back and she dumps it actually out of
Speaker 3: her own end for a corner kick for Seattle. Inexplicable
Speaker 3: what happened there.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think this could be a big opportunity.
Speaker 6: It seems Boston plays a very zonal defense when it
Speaker 6: comes to corners, so this actually could be an opportunity
Speaker 6: to put an extra one in the net before the half.
Speaker 6: Obviously a bit of a sloppy play, you know, And
Speaker 6: I think once again that comes down to a lot
Speaker 6: of pressing, a little bit of tired legs ready to
Speaker 6: get into the half.
Speaker 3: So let's see what this provides. Here's MENTI in swinger
Speaker 3: from the our side, going towards the far post. Here
Speaker 3: is Jordan Bug brings it down but can't get a
Speaker 3: shot off. It's redirected and still with Seattle. Believe that
Speaker 3: is still with mclernan, but it's out for a Boston
Speaker 3: throwing reach Jordan Bug at the back post. Stephanie, that
Speaker 3: was a heck of an opportunity.
Speaker 4: It was, and it's actually the second time so she
Speaker 4: got one very early on in the half as well.
Speaker 4: She kind of hangs out high, so kind of towards
Speaker 4: the top of the box and on that back post.
Speaker 5: Two times it has popped out to her.
Speaker 4: They are very difficult shots to hit, the ones that
Speaker 4: people think look easy, but now she kind of skies
Speaker 4: it there.
Speaker 3: All right. Well, that is the halftime whistle from our
Speaker 3: referee and Seattle will go into the break leading one nothing,
Speaker 3: Rain up with an eleventh minute penalty kip from Sophia Hortza.
Speaker 3: We'll take a break and we'll get to the halftime show.
Speaker 3: Seattle rained up looking for their first win in five matches.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that first half next on Sports Radio
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Speaker 3: The books in Rhode Island. It's Seattle one, Boston zero
Speaker 3: in the first ever professional women's soccer match in Rhode Island.
Speaker 3: This match taking place at Centralville Banks Stadium in Pawtucket,
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about that first half. Stephanie Kwame, what do
Speaker 3: you think there from the first forty five minutes from Seattle?
Speaker 4: I think it was good, not great, to be honest,
Speaker 4: so that you know, they got a goal on the board,
Speaker 4: which basically we all talked about was like the main
Speaker 4: thing for this game. So don't want to take that
Speaker 4: away from them. It came from a PK. It came
Speaker 4: from good team effort. You have some good movement up top.
Speaker 4: But I think they're struggling still to really put their
Speaker 4: stamp on this game. And that is because Boston's press
Speaker 4: is so aggressive, and so what I would say is
Speaker 4: they need to figure out a way to be more aggressive,
Speaker 4: not just physically, but be more aggressive by moving the
Speaker 4: ball higher up the field.
Speaker 5: Otherwise I very much see Boston coming back in this game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna plus one on that one. I think
Speaker 6: it's good. I think that we've done really good job
Speaker 6: building out. I think despite all the pressure, we've found
Speaker 6: a way to find our target nine. You know, I
Speaker 6: feel like Maddie's been getting the ball to her feet.
Speaker 6: I think it now comes down to how do we
Speaker 6: connect Maddie with our midfielders and then to our wingers.
Speaker 6: And I feel like it's a game changer. And now
Speaker 6: I am starting to really see, you know, the decisions
Speaker 6: behind starting you know, highly on the wing. I think
Speaker 6: there's been a big part of tracking all the way
Speaker 6: from box to box. Boston is very much in Seattle's half, right,
Speaker 6: So you need a winger who's willing to come all
Speaker 6: the way back, put in the effort when the ball
Speaker 6: go back up the floor and hopefully you know, receive
Speaker 6: a pass.
Speaker 3: You know, moments before the first half started, we talked
Speaker 3: just for a briefly about Jordan Bug and the fact
Speaker 3: that she is back. She was out with two different
Speaker 3: lower leg injuries so far in twenty twenty six. She
Speaker 3: had come off the bench, hadn't gotten a start. But Stephanie,
Speaker 3: we look at the connection between Bug and mclernan. I
Speaker 3: mean when we talk about Lou Barnes, the Seattle rain legend,
Speaker 3: and there was the transition year last year where you
Speaker 3: know it was her last season, but last year Bug
Speaker 3: started twenty four of twenty six games. Mclernan started twenty
Speaker 3: four of twenty six games. That duo together, that camaraderie,
Speaker 3: I think we're seeing that payoff with them together again.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, there's some good continuity there. They trust each other.
Speaker 4: It's when you the back line, if players have played
Speaker 4: together before, it's it's really hard to overstate how much
Speaker 4: that helps that trust when when certain players are having
Speaker 4: to either you know, cover for one another or go
Speaker 4: up the field. And actually what we're seeing in the
Speaker 4: build up, probably because of Boston's press, but mclernan's actually
Speaker 4: cheating a little bit into the midfield at times, leaving
Speaker 4: Bug kind of to be lower on that line with
Speaker 4: the keeper. And so with Claudia Dicky back there, and
Speaker 4: you know, players feel more comfortable doing things that are
Speaker 4: slightly to their strengths but out of their comfort zone
Speaker 4: when they have players like Jordan Bugg in the back line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I should mention as well Madison Curry who
Speaker 3: also started twenty four of twenty six games as well.
Speaker 3: So you have the entire left side of that back line.
Speaker 3: And Sophia ware To she is your regular right back.
Speaker 3: She was on loan, she came back. She started the
Speaker 3: final thirteen games of the season for Seattle as well.
Speaker 3: But right now, the rain who have not won their
Speaker 3: last five, they've not scored, they got the goal, can
Speaker 3: they get the win? We'll tell you the Keith the
Speaker 3: second half next on the halftime show with Seattle leading
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Speaker 1: The following is an exclusive presentation of Seattle Rain Soccer
Speaker 1: on Sports Radio nine fifty kJ.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the halftime show. Seattle Rain leading Boston
Speaker 3: Legacy by a score of one. And now I think
Speaker 3: this is Rain on the radio. Seattle's professional women's soccer team,
Speaker 3: Seattle RAINFC in Rhode Island to face Boston Legacy tonight.
Speaker 3: Let's get to some keys to the second half. Stephanie kwalme,
Speaker 3: what are the keys to the Seattle Rain getting this
Speaker 3: victory tonight?
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So for me, I'm gonna start with a player that's
Speaker 4: on the field. I think mcammon and I mentioned this
Speaker 4: stuff for this in the first half, she needs to
Speaker 4: do a little bit of a better job kind of
Speaker 4: dictating the game. So we keep talking about Seattle's having
Speaker 4: a hard time building out. They're having a hard time
Speaker 4: building out. They get it to where too, they don't
Speaker 4: know where to go. You know, Dicky kind of floats
Speaker 4: this ball up to Mercado, but we're not holding on
Speaker 4: to it. And I think what it takes is a
Speaker 4: very very composed, strong midfielder like McCammon to demand the
Speaker 4: ball to turn when she can, to drag her defender
Speaker 4: out of space to create actually more of a pathway
Speaker 4: to Mercado and then supporting Mercado underneath Menti as well.
Speaker 4: But those players especially, I'm looking to if you're going
Speaker 4: to continue to try to build out, use them, if
Speaker 4: you're going to switch up how you build out, then
Speaker 4: we're looking at bringing on some players maybe with some energy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I honestly don't think I could have said it
Speaker 6: any better myself. You're hitting the nail on the head.
Speaker 6: I feel like we're not really having any turn and
Speaker 6: play action from mars center mids. We're just having, you know,
Speaker 6: play back. It feels like just let's keep the ball,
Speaker 6: let's play it back to our keeper. Keeper plays it
Speaker 6: over and then we go from there. We're not actually
Speaker 6: playing through the middle at all. We're playing hopeful, guessing
Speaker 6: soccer at the moment. At the end of the day,
Speaker 6: we are playing really tight as a unit, which has
Speaker 6: saved us, and I think defensively, Seattle always picks up
Speaker 6: slack and so it's been something that looks steady enough.
Speaker 6: But we want attacking play building from our midfield, so
Speaker 6: we need our midfielders to take that ball turn and
Speaker 6: actually play it forward.
Speaker 3: Let's go over who Laura Harvey has available off her
Speaker 3: bench today. Cassie Miller is the backup goalkeeper. Also has
Speaker 3: Cocoamanda ser Shay Holmes, Ryan Brown, sam Meza, me Official,
Speaker 3: Emily Mason, Brittany Ratcliffe, and Emria Domas Stephanie. That is
Speaker 3: a strong bench with offensive weapons, defensive players like the
Speaker 3: return at Shay Holmes. That's certainly somebody you can get
Speaker 3: in with Jordan Bugg perhaps on a minute limit coming
Speaker 3: back from injury. A lot of players for Laura Harvey
Speaker 3: to work with here leading.
Speaker 4: One nothing definitely, you know who I want to see
Speaker 4: me official. I just think she would come in and
Speaker 4: hold the ball up so well against the team that
Speaker 4: clearly we're going to have to play more direct and
Speaker 4: maybe quicker up the field. She's really good at that
Speaker 4: turn and play, kind of like what Kalme was saying,
Speaker 4: and I think she would change the game. I think
Speaker 4: there's others as well, like Mesa and Folks, but I
Speaker 4: would love to see the official in the next ten
Speaker 4: to fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 6: As why I think you're basically reading my mind. I
Speaker 6: think we need a player who's going to hold that
Speaker 6: ball up. Give us an opportunity to turn play to
Speaker 6: the wingers and then let's transition and go into the attack.
Speaker 6: Right now, I think Maddy's done a fantastic job, but
Speaker 6: it's been tough. I feel like it's a lot of
Speaker 6: wasted energy because it's ball consistently to Maddie. Matty's having
Speaker 6: to fight it off, and then it becomes one v
Speaker 6: four defenders and at a certain point, you know, you
Speaker 6: get a little bit of tired legs, and so right now,
Speaker 6: fresh legs in that nine position, in that forward position
Speaker 6: to play somebody in who can hold the ball turn
Speaker 6: in the play.
Speaker 3: Its Seattle leading, Boston won nothing. We'll get to the
Speaker 3: second half next. On sports Radio nine to fifty km. Okay.
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Speaker 1: The following is an exclusive presentation of Seattle Rainsucker on
Speaker 1: Sports Radio nine p fifty KJU.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Rain on the Radio. Seattle Rain FC
Speaker 3: getting ready to kick off the second half against Boston
Speaker 3: Legacy Rain leading one nothing on an eleventh minute penalty
Speaker 3: kick by their captain Sophia Huerta in Rhode Island's first
Speaker 3: ever women's professional game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where Boston
Speaker 3: is playing seven of their games this year, this being
Speaker 3: the first in our referee John Model will whistle this
Speaker 3: one away as Boston in Rhode Island. We'll get this
Speaker 3: thing set off. It is funny. For Laura Harvey, head
Speaker 3: coach of Seattle Ran, her first ever win was all
Speaker 3: the way back in twenty thirteen in Boston against the
Speaker 3: old Boston Breakers that then folded in twenty seventeen. So
Speaker 3: Laura Harvey sertling with a good history in this region.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't even say. It's not the city, it's not
Speaker 3: the state. They're not even in Massachusetts. In this region
Speaker 3: of the country. Laura Harvey as good connection. And this
Speaker 3: is a Boston expansion team that was founded in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three. This is their first season playing in NWSL.
Speaker 3: They were originally named Boss Nation FC bos Nation FC.
Speaker 3: Within minutes of that announcement, fans in Boston said, no,
Speaker 3: you don't, We are not supporting you if Boston Nation
Speaker 3: is your name. Within hours of the announcement, they put
Speaker 3: out a message saying, actually, no, we're not gonna go
Speaker 3: with that name. Six months later they became Boston Legacy FC,
Speaker 3: and they are down one. Nothing to Seattle here. As
Speaker 3: we get underway here in the second half, Boston working
Speaker 3: quickly on this right side. Now we will get to
Speaker 3: any potential changes as well in a little bit. As
Speaker 3: Boston works on that right side here with OLIVERI trying
Speaker 3: to cross it in, it will go well far of goal.
Speaker 3: And with this one that thing lead Kwalme. We talked
Speaker 3: about potential people to come off the bench. We talked
Speaker 3: about the official Coco Montas here with a lot of speed.
Speaker 3: Is another player who can really make a difference off
Speaker 3: of Laura Harvey's bench.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Coco Mantas one of the best players on the
Speaker 6: range at having the ball at her feet, and so
Speaker 6: that's gonna be a big game changer, right. I think
Speaker 6: Hollywood's in a great job tracking back and forth, but
Speaker 6: ultimately you're looking for some who you can give the
Speaker 6: ball to up there, who's going to make sure they
Speaker 6: can take that ball straight at feet down the line
Speaker 6: and provide us some service into the box.
Speaker 3: McClernand going along there. It is Boston controlling. Now they're
Speaker 3: trying to work quick here to the middle of the park.
Speaker 3: Now here's Cane on the left side cross coming in
Speaker 3: towards the far post, and no need for Claudia Dicky
Speaker 3: to jump up in that one. It's out for a
Speaker 3: goalkick here in the forty eighth minute, Stephanie. The system
Speaker 3: that we spent so much time talking about ver Boston.
Speaker 3: Their head coach, Felipa Patel, the thirty seven year old
Speaker 3: from Portugal, is an interesting system.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it definitely is.
Speaker 4: And we were just talking about how different coaches can
Speaker 4: come in with a very specific idea of what you
Speaker 4: want to get out of your players. And so when
Speaker 4: you play in a system like she is with a
Speaker 4: three five two, you can tell she's a coach that
Speaker 4: really wants her players to feel creative and free up
Speaker 4: top and a little bit more focus on goal scoring
Speaker 4: than defense, which is a classic criticism or positive you know,
Speaker 4: feedback of different types of cultures in the way they
Speaker 4: play soccer. And it's it's so fun to see her
Speaker 4: mark on the game because you can see she actually
Speaker 4: actively is forming these players in this new franchise, and
Speaker 4: you know, I expect her to be here for years
Speaker 4: to come in I think she's doing a great job
Speaker 4: with the players.
Speaker 3: Here's Seattle in possession. Now in Boston's own end. Curry
Speaker 3: will use her center backs. Boston pressed so much of
Speaker 3: that first half. Now Seattle trying to work against that press.
Speaker 3: Foul called right fifteen yards outside of the box, and
Speaker 3: Seattle will have a free kick, a chance to potentially
Speaker 3: cross this ball into the box. They will work quickly
Speaker 3: though on this left side. Here's Natty Dallen Natty Dollan
Speaker 3: in the box working against three defenders. Now back out
Speaker 3: to Curry. Curry trying to cross it in but takes
Speaker 3: it aflection, gets to a Boston boot and it will
Speaker 3: stay with the Green Shirts. But it will stay with
Speaker 3: Boston here on this near side the right and they
Speaker 3: love to transition very very quickly, and they will do
Speaker 3: again here on this right side towards the middle of
Speaker 3: the park. But mcclurin's stepping in the way of that one.
Speaker 3: Miss Jordan Bug actually great job to take that one.
Speaker 6: Away right there. You can actually see what we've been
Speaker 6: talking about at the half. We've had two opportunities now
Speaker 6: that have gone through the middle, has gone to a
Speaker 6: sixer and eight who has then turned and then played
Speaker 6: to either someone else in the midfield or someone out wide.
Speaker 6: And so we are starting to see that distribution through
Speaker 6: to midfield and that means that Laura is definitely you
Speaker 6: caught onto that and has definitely transition the game.
Speaker 3: That was the question is how exactly Laurel Harvey changes
Speaker 3: this game as it goes on and what subs may happen.
Speaker 3: Don't believe any subs made as a throw in comes
Speaker 3: for the Rain here on that right side, quickly turning
Speaker 3: his Ward, putting it under foot the shot and it
Speaker 3: takes an immediate deflection. Seattle's still with it in possession
Speaker 3: in Boston's half. Bug over to this right side working
Speaker 3: with Ward. Now here's chance for Mercado. Perhaps can't get
Speaker 3: to it, though, Boston doing a great job to grab
Speaker 3: that ball and send it out for a corner. Here
Speaker 3: in the fiftieth minute, Seattle leading won nothing.
Speaker 4: I'm just right there, aren't they? The blocked shots, the
Speaker 4: almost crosses, and again you know you want the waterfall
Speaker 4: of goals after you get that first goal of so
Speaker 4: many games not having it, and I really want them
Speaker 4: to get another one here because I think they will
Speaker 4: actually believe it that more are coming.
Speaker 3: Well, here is Minty, You'll be an outswinger here from
Speaker 3: the far side the right here in the fifty first minute,
Speaker 3: working against goalkeeper Casey Murphy former Rain goalkeeper. Now with Boston,
Speaker 3: here comes the corner going to the top of the box,
Speaker 3: does not reach Jordan Bug. I think that was the
Speaker 3: idea again, but it will stay with the Rain. That's
Speaker 3: Curry long ball towards the back post. Hast Dahlen Maddie
Speaker 3: in the back of the net. Maddie Daalen second gold
Speaker 3: for the Rain.
Speaker 2: It's two nothing Seattle, a corner kick, pop back out.
Speaker 2: The cross came in from the left side from Madison Curry.
Speaker 2: Madison to Maddie Daleen makes.
Speaker 3: It too nothing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the magic of the Maddies apparently tonight. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 4: that was a fantastic goal. Just like we were saying,
Speaker 4: they need it to believe it. You can see it
Speaker 4: on their faces. You can see it when they're celebrating
Speaker 4: and this ball comes in and it's just a perfect
Speaker 4: chipped pass and she just in the back post, just easy,
Speaker 4: nice inside of the foot volley to go across the keeper.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's very composed, a good finished, great team goal,
Speaker 4: and you can tell they believe in themselves.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the Maddie magic, we'll call it. That was incredible.
Speaker 6: I mean, one of the best crosses we've seen at
Speaker 6: the night. And you know, we haven't really seen Madison
Speaker 6: Curry too many opportunities to put the ball in the box,
Speaker 6: and I think that was floated just the perfect length,
Speaker 6: a ball that teases the keeper enough for them to
Speaker 6: come out, but not enough for them to come out
Speaker 6: and actually get.
Speaker 3: The ball from Maddie Doleen. That is her first goal
Speaker 3: of the year. She had four goals four assists in
Speaker 3: twenty six games last year, and this in her eighth
Speaker 3: game of twenty twenty six, gets her first goal and
Speaker 3: her sixth start. And it was, as you both accurately said,
Speaker 3: the magic of the Maddies. There is Seattle's entire left
Speaker 3: side today is Madison Curry, Mattie Doleen, and Mattie Mercado,
Speaker 3: and has Seattle right now leading to nothing against Boston
Speaker 3: Legacy on the road, and this would be Seattle's first
Speaker 3: win in quite a while. This would put them back
Speaker 3: into the playoff field. By the way, if they're able
Speaker 3: to wrap up these three points, and there is still
Speaker 3: thirty eight minutes to go. If they're a wrap up
Speaker 3: with these three points, they are back in that playoff picture.
Speaker 3: Throw in comes towards the box. Here is a long
Speaker 3: distant shot, takes a great save from Casey Murphy jumping
Speaker 3: to that one. I believe that was Matty Mercado, this
Speaker 3: time putting it onto her left foot and a great
Speaker 3: shot the holly ward excuse me on her left foot,
Speaker 3: great shot, forcing a big time save there from Murphy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she did a great job to receive a throw in. Actually,
Speaker 4: how often do you get a shot off after a
Speaker 4: throw in? But she receives that ball, turns her defender,
Speaker 4: kind of does a little touch around another one, and
Speaker 4: then just a great volley and yeah, really pushes Murphy
Speaker 4: to tip.
Speaker 5: It over the edge.
Speaker 3: Here's Minty. You're gonna be another outswinger here. Last time
Speaker 3: she did this it led to a goal for Seattle.
Speaker 3: Will she go long to the top of the box again.
Speaker 3: There is Jordan Bug there she will go long. There
Speaker 3: is Mercado, There is Jordan Bug, There is mcclarnin, and
Speaker 3: another deflection there is across the face of goal from
Speaker 3: mclernan is out for another corner, this time from the
Speaker 3: near side the left for Seattle. Minty will be over
Speaker 3: it again here in the fifty fourth minute rain on
Speaker 3: top of Boston. They want this third goal. They want
Speaker 3: to put this away here early in the second half,
Speaker 3: and it will be Menty again on it. The Roosevelt
Speaker 3: High School alum. We'll see if she gets a secondary
Speaker 3: assist on that goal that came just a couple of
Speaker 3: minutes ago. This will be an in swinger here in
Speaker 3: the fifty fourth minute, steps back, comes forward, going along
Speaker 3: again headed away. That is a good header there from
Speaker 3: Carra Bally of Boston. But we'll stay with Seattle now
Speaker 3: throwing about five yards from the end line. Bug will
Speaker 3: let it go.
Speaker 4: You can feel the confidence. There's some indescribable things about soccer.
Speaker 4: It's one of my favorite things. And if you're watching
Speaker 4: this game, or if you're listening, maybe just the smiles
Speaker 4: on our faces that you can hear as we're talking,
Speaker 4: you can tell the team looks more confident and just
Speaker 4: within a minute, this is what a goal does. This
Speaker 4: is what a team who hasn't scored for games, just
Speaker 4: getting those few.
Speaker 5: It's what it does for them, and it will go
Speaker 5: out for I.
Speaker 3: Believe it's another Seattle corner here. The throwing came long,
Speaker 3: did well with it. I believe that was when the
Speaker 3: cammon did well with it in the box, forcing a
Speaker 3: Seattle corner. And Laurel Harvey likes what she is seeing.
Speaker 3: Have not seen her this. I think content with the
Speaker 3: situation is probably a good word for her facial expression
Speaker 3: right now. In quite a long time with Seattle leading
Speaker 3: to nothing, here's MENTI another outswinger from that far side,
Speaker 3: going long all the way too. But it's a good
Speaker 3: the foul called in the box. But it was a
Speaker 3: good read on a Boston defender to understand that. Now
Speaker 3: it's three times that mentis wanted to go along to
Speaker 3: Jordan Bug and this time a Boston defender will get
Speaker 3: in the way of that one. But a foul is
Speaker 3: called here. It's Seattle to nothing here in the fifty
Speaker 3: fifth minutes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure Laura Harvey would ever want you
Speaker 4: to call her content at the fifty fifty fifth minute.
Speaker 3: You know, she just doesn't look angry.
Speaker 4: I know, I totally agree with you, but she's gonna
Speaker 4: say I'm not content until this game is over.
Speaker 3: But I agree with you.
Speaker 4: I think she is is absolutely content with what she's
Speaker 4: seen because this is what she hoped for. It's exactly
Speaker 4: what she hoped for. When we talked about the game,
Speaker 4: there wasn't even a huge strategy.
Speaker 5: It was like, we just need something.
Speaker 3: Seattle is called for off side there a Tollyward on
Speaker 3: that right wing. She is offside on the pass there
Speaker 3: from Matti Dollen and Boston will have a free kick.
Speaker 3: As we get another look here of Matti Dollen's goal
Speaker 3: that came just a few minutes ago, and there's Laura Harvey.
Speaker 3: It is funny because you know, we've seen over these
Speaker 3: last five games where Seattle hasn't scored, we've seen a
Speaker 3: very angry and frustrated Laura Harvey. And to not see
Speaker 3: an angry and frustrated Laura Harvey is a nice Is
Speaker 3: a nice change of pace from the last few games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. And you know, actually talking to her
Speaker 4: this week, one of my favorite things that she said,
Speaker 4: and we should mention, is that their mantra for the
Speaker 4: team is that we are the ones we are waiting for.
Speaker 4: And I think we're in that moment. She said this
Speaker 4: because the team is young. We've said it over and
Speaker 4: over again. You have young players in the squad. That's
Speaker 4: kind of like looking for someone else to lead them,
Speaker 4: and instead she's saying, no, it's it's right here, like
Speaker 4: you are what you're waiting for. And I think it's
Speaker 4: too early in the season to say that they're doing
Speaker 4: that consistently, but it's moments like this that she's going
Speaker 4: to point to and say, you guys dealt with game
Speaker 4: after game of not scoring and you figured it out
Speaker 4: and you can hold on to that and keep moving forward.
Speaker 3: Boston in possession. But it's now with Seattle with this
Speaker 3: press as Mercado and Dollen giving a little pressure to
Speaker 3: those Boston defenders here who have thirty four minutes down
Speaker 3: to nothing. Seattle leading here in Rhode Island. Casey Murphy
Speaker 3: goes trying to go along against a lot of pressure,
Speaker 3: but here is Curry on it, Curry getting in the way.
Speaker 3: Curry just had an assist trying to poke it forward
Speaker 3: to Mercado, Mrcado trying to get to the end of
Speaker 3: that one. A foul called. Boston will have a free
Speaker 3: kick from deep in their on half. But the pressure
Speaker 3: right now, kwame you feel Seattle picking up that pressure,
Speaker 3: and it's kind of reverse roles from the first half.
Speaker 3: It's Seattle with the high press, not letting Boston get comfortable,
Speaker 3: and right there on that free kick goes.
Speaker 6: Out for a Seattle throw in spoke that into existence.
Speaker 6: I mean, it comes with the confidence. Once one team
Speaker 6: gets confidence, it takes confidence away from the other team,
Speaker 6: and then every little bit of a mistake feels like
Speaker 6: extra added pressure. And so right now Boston's trying to
Speaker 6: play themselves out of that pressure and that mentality in
Speaker 6: the Yeah, right now, it seems like it's working in
Speaker 6: Seattle's favor.
Speaker 3: And here's Boston now working in possession and there on
Speaker 3: the end of the field, working with a lot of press.
Speaker 3: It's changed from Laura Harvey's working. It's a quick turnover,
Speaker 3: Seattle back with it, no opportunity for Boston to get
Speaker 3: comfortable at all right now. And this is the change
Speaker 3: we were wondering Laureal Harvey would make here in the
Speaker 3: second half. She has made it, and it is working
Speaker 3: so far. But here is now Seattle in possession, Boston
Speaker 3: with the press, high pressing from both teams. Right now,
Speaker 3: this is going to turn into a transition game. It's
Speaker 3: going to open up. And you'd love to see that
Speaker 3: third goal for Seattle that could effectively end it with
Speaker 3: thirty minutes to go. Foul called Boston now with a
Speaker 3: free kick in Seattle's end.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think we see a flurry of subs
Speaker 4: in the next you know, ten to fifteen minutes because
Speaker 4: both teams they're put like you said, they're pressing high.
Speaker 5: It's transition soccer.
Speaker 4: Two zero's you know, quote unquote the most dangerous score
Speaker 4: and so you're going to be looking for both coaches,
Speaker 4: both teams to be making at least, you know, get
Speaker 4: some fresh legs in there.
Speaker 5: Switch up the energy.
Speaker 3: Kick come as Boston. We'll control now on this right side,
Speaker 3: sending it to the forward. Here is Prince Prince working
Speaker 3: one on one now, trying to use an overlap. But
Speaker 3: some great defending there by Phoebe mcclernan, and that's shuffled
Speaker 3: out for I believe a goal kick coming here in
Speaker 3: the fifty ninth minute. Some good defending there is. We'll
Speaker 3: wait to see. I believe some subs may be on
Speaker 3: the way here. Actually, I wanted to make a note
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 6: The most interesting thing that just happened there was it
Speaker 6: looked like Podie was the one defending there, but our
Speaker 6: forward Mattie Mercado is the one who came all the
Speaker 6: way back to usher that out into the into a goalkick.
Speaker 6: And so that's incredible effort all the way from top
Speaker 6: to bottom. And so that's that's just a big, big,
Speaker 6: like you know, note to make there that the entire
Speaker 6: team for ninety minutes is putting there all into.
Speaker 3: Everything, player down to believe that's Maddie Dollen is down
Speaker 3: getting her lower right leg worked on by a trainer.
Speaker 3: Here in the sixtieth minute, we see the replay here
Speaker 3: Dollen just tripped up, looks like may have taken an
Speaker 3: awkward fall there here in too much pain is Mattie Doleen,
Speaker 3: but certainly is down and is in some here as
Speaker 3: this could be one of Seattle's changes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it didn't look too bad there, but they definitely
Speaker 4: got tangled up and looks like she's kind of just
Speaker 4: getting urching guard on, ready to go again.
Speaker 3: No now leading to no. We've talked about the sub
Speaker 3: ideas and the sub potential strategy from Laura Harvey in
Speaker 3: a one nothing game. Stephanie Qualmy, how does the sub pattern,
Speaker 3: How does that idea change with a too nothing game?
Speaker 3: Or does it change it all?
Speaker 5: I don't think it changes it all.
Speaker 4: For Laura Harvey in this moment in the games that
Speaker 4: they're coming off of, I think she's going to push
Speaker 4: for CoCom onduce here and for others to still come
Speaker 4: on and change the energy here because I think she
Speaker 4: knows if they get another goal that is exactly what
Speaker 4: this team needs right now, and so she wants to
Speaker 4: bring the energy regardless if it's you know, adding a
Speaker 4: third goal, or if it was adding a second, that's
Speaker 4: what she's looking for.
Speaker 5: She needs more.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean so, statistically speaking, the two zero
Speaker 6: lead is the most dangerous lead in the game of football,
Speaker 6: because soccer is a game. It's a game of momentum,
Speaker 6: and so once you get up that high and you're
Speaker 6: mentally you feel like, hey, you have the momentum, and
Speaker 6: so it kind of puts you on your heels and
Speaker 6: if one.
Speaker 3: Goal gets scored, it could change the whole game.
Speaker 6: And so you want to pretend that two zero lead
Speaker 6: is a one zero lead and you still want to
Speaker 6: go score more goals.
Speaker 3: Boston in possession on that left side, but merely giving
Speaker 3: it away here as Maddie Dalen back onto the field.
Speaker 3: She came off the field for they required a couple
Speaker 3: of minutes, and then is now back on after a
Speaker 3: high five from Laura Harvey. I thought that might have
Speaker 3: been the sign that she was coming out of this game.
Speaker 3: But she is back on now and has the ball
Speaker 3: at her feet on this left wing with Madison Curry underneath,
Speaker 3: all the way back to their center backs mcclernan bug
Speaker 3: and on the right side Sofia Huertsa out of the
Speaker 3: foot of my canon in the middle of the park,
Speaker 3: working on against some Boston pressure. Here clock ticking away
Speaker 3: Seattle with a two to nothing lead and eleventh minute
Speaker 3: penalty kick from Puerta, and just about ten minutes ago
Speaker 3: fifty first minute goal from Mattie dall Lean on the
Speaker 3: cross from Madison Curry. Doubling Seattle's lead and keeping this
Speaker 3: clean sheet for Claudia Dicky would be massive here on
Speaker 3: the road. This is a big road trip for Seattle
Speaker 3: after five games without a win. They now go on
Speaker 3: the road for this game in Rhode Island against Boston Legacy,
Speaker 3: and then next Saturday, on Tomorrow, a week from tomorrow,
Speaker 3: they will play at the Washington Spirit. We will have
Speaker 3: that game for you as well right here on sports
Speaker 3: Radio nine to fifty km a week from tomorrow. Rain
Speaker 3: at Spirit, a Spirit team that just beat Rain actually
Speaker 3: at Luminfield a couple weeks ago by a score of
Speaker 3: one to nothing in a game where Seattle actually outplayed Washington,
Speaker 3: but a late goal for the Spirit gave them that win.
Speaker 3: And now here all the Rain trying to get their
Speaker 3: own win on the East Coast in this East Coast
Speaker 3: road swing where they will play at Boston and then
Speaker 3: stay on the East Coast and play Washington again in
Speaker 3: just over a week. Sixty fourth minute here, rain leading
Speaker 3: to nothing. Boston haven't in possession on this left side,
Speaker 3: but a good takeaway there. There's Collie Ward getting in
Speaker 3: the way of that one, earning a Seattle throw in.
Speaker 3: Now that's the physicality. We talk so much about Boston's physicality.
Speaker 3: There's some great physicality there from Holly Ward stepping up
Speaker 3: and getting the ball back for Seattle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I expect just to see it a little
Speaker 4: bit more, you know, like we said, as players get tired,
Speaker 4: as this game wears on, that's when you start to
Speaker 4: see some of those fouls in that physicality. And you know,
Speaker 4: like you said, I mean, the momentum shifts of this
Speaker 4: game have been huge at moments, and I think this
Speaker 4: last five minutes was a little bit of a lull
Speaker 4: where where both teams were actually combining in the midfield,
Speaker 4: which we haven't seen too much. And you know, I
Speaker 4: think we're about to see some subs that it might
Speaker 4: might change that up.
Speaker 3: So what we're gonna see right now is a massive
Speaker 3: change for Boston and the players coming on are Lace Arujo,
Speaker 3: Nikki Hernandez. Those are two defenders, midfielders, and then Amanda
Speaker 3: Gutierrez is now on the field for Boston. That is
Speaker 3: a name we're probably gonna say a few times here
Speaker 3: in the remaining twenty six games. In twenty six minutes.
Speaker 3: Amanda Gutierres is a twenty two year old Brazilian forward.
Speaker 3: She recently played with Paul Miras in Brazil, where she
Speaker 3: scored and you're gonna hear this stat correctly. I'm not
Speaker 3: making it up. Sixty one goals in sixty seven games,
Speaker 3: almost a goal of game. Playing in Brazil and then
Speaker 3: for the Brazilian national team. At the national level, she
Speaker 3: has nine goals in twelve games thirteen games. Nine goals
Speaker 3: in thirteen games for the Brazilian national team. This is
Speaker 3: an outstanding striker that can change the whole makeup of
Speaker 3: this game.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I mean, you see those stats and if you're a
Speaker 4: rain fan, I think we joked about it at halftime,
Speaker 4: We're like, can we just please don't put her in
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 5: Can you just keep her out for her a little
Speaker 5: bit longer?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: She clearly, I mean, she's very, very crafty she's a
Speaker 4: skilled player. A lot of people talk to her as
Speaker 4: just someone that is very comfortable on the ball and
Speaker 4: has a lot of skills at her to put disposal.
Speaker 4: So again, this changes Laura Harvey's strategy slightly and that
Speaker 4: the back line absolutely knows who just came.
Speaker 5: Into the game.
Speaker 3: And now here is Boston with possession on this right
Speaker 3: side as they bring some additional players on, We'll see
Speaker 3: how Laura Harvey will combat those changes here in the
Speaker 3: sixty sixth minute. No changes yet so far for Seattle.
Speaker 4: In Boston with three subs at this stage. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, we kind of said it that we thought
Speaker 4: there was going to be a flurry because they play
Speaker 4: a fast paced, high demanding type of soccer. They're pressing,
Speaker 4: they're covering a lot of ground and so besides the
Speaker 4: fact that they're down to zero and need some energy,
Speaker 4: they also play hard.
Speaker 3: And Boston taking it away a chance to break quickly
Speaker 3: here working on this left side, trying to move fast
Speaker 3: through the middle of the park. Now here's de gudieras
Speaker 3: in the middle of the field. She's dropping back but
Speaker 3: can quickly get forward and get involved. Now to this
Speaker 3: right side for Prince, but a great job by Madison
Speaker 3: Curry to hit that one out for a throw in.
Speaker 3: Boston will have to work quickly on this right side
Speaker 3: down to nothing. Twenty four minutes to go. Here's Prince
Speaker 3: coming up against Seattle's right side defenders and some good
Speaker 3: defending there. That's James Turner getting in the way of
Speaker 3: that one. And now back to has she's working up
Speaker 3: this left side ball going all the way forward Mercado,
Speaker 3: Mercado one on one with the goalkeeper shot and it's
Speaker 3: a good save there from Casey Murphy, but it is
Speaker 3: called offside. Was wondering if Mandy Mercado was off there
Speaker 3: on that ball all the way up from James Turner,
Speaker 3: and she was indeed off and Jesus breather on that one.
Speaker 3: She was.
Speaker 4: But she did a great job to get around her
Speaker 4: to offender her and actually had a great ball in
Speaker 4: and just really can get on the back shoulder of
Speaker 4: that defender and take a touch towards goal.
Speaker 5: You know, it's a hard angle.
Speaker 4: She's pretty far out wide and so she's not able
Speaker 4: to actually get it all the way across Casey Murphy
Speaker 4: like she wants to. She's trying to play it under
Speaker 4: her in that near post. But we're seeing some stuff
Speaker 4: from the rain that that you know, Kwamea and I
Speaker 4: actually were standing here cheering a little bit because they're
Speaker 4: playing through the thirds. Their midfielders are turning and that's
Speaker 4: where this play is coming from. And so again Maddie
Speaker 4: Mercado was one of those players that Laura Harvey picked
Speaker 4: out and said she creates chances, maybe the most chances
Speaker 4: actually on the team, and we're seeing that there. But
Speaker 4: it comes when those midfielders are willing to progress the
Speaker 4: ball forward.
Speaker 3: And now Boston having a possession on this left side
Speaker 3: after they made a couple changes to the both their
Speaker 3: back line midfield and then getting Gudieera's up top, we'll
Speaker 3: see if that can produce here. Now onto the right
Speaker 3: for Carl Bally, wring to head of forward for Prince.
Speaker 3: Good job by James Turner getting in the way of
Speaker 3: that one, smucking up those waters. But Boston finds some
Speaker 3: space now here on the left side, chance to cross
Speaker 3: it in for Smith head it away. There is mcclernan
Speaker 3: getting in the way of that one, but it'll stay
Speaker 3: with Boston. Now on the right side, Carl Bally, chance
Speaker 3: to cross it in takes it aflection. Good job by
Speaker 3: Madison Curry to get in the way of that cross.
Speaker 3: It will stay with Boston on this near side the
Speaker 3: right for a throw in.
Speaker 4: And that was some incredible footwork. That is footwork that
Speaker 4: you wish you could do on the field, and we'd
Speaker 4: all practice in our backyards and do when we don't
Speaker 4: have anyone pressing us. But man, that was some crafty footwork.
Speaker 3: And it will go. A free kick now coming for
Speaker 3: Boston in Seattle's end of the field. We're twenty two
Speaker 3: minutes away from stoppage time here in the second half,
Speaker 3: Seattle leading to nothing. Free kick will come from all
Speaker 3: the way at the back here from albut Cano, about
Speaker 3: thirty five yards from the end line, right hand raised.
Speaker 3: Now send it towards the middle of the park, going short,
Speaker 3: now across towards the back post, headed up. Triori heads
Speaker 3: it up right into the arms of Claudia Dickie. Easy
Speaker 3: save there for Claudia Dickie, who, by the way, with
Speaker 3: the save has hit two hundred saves in her career.
Speaker 3: By the way, congratulations to Claudia Dickie. A big milestone
Speaker 3: for the Seattle reign in the United States. Women's national
Speaker 3: team starting goalkeeper Boston still with it on this right side.
Speaker 3: Claudia may need to make a few more tonight to
Speaker 3: secure this win for Seattle, as they will clear that
Speaker 3: away takes a deflection, it will be a Seattle throwing
Speaker 3: from this near side the left twenty minutes and will
Speaker 3: wonder if this will be the first changes from Laura Harvey.
Speaker 3: It will we see three changes from Laura Harvey, Me Official, Coco, Monasir,
Speaker 3: Emily Mason all coming onto the field now for the
Speaker 3: Seattle rain here in the seventieth minute.
Speaker 4: And I think this is exactly what we thought Laura
Speaker 4: Harvey might do. It's just do not pull up, do
Speaker 4: not rest on the fact that you're up two goals. Nope,
Speaker 4: We're gonna put Coco in. We're going to put me
Speaker 4: Official in. We're going to see how much we can
Speaker 4: press and if we can get two even three more goals,
Speaker 4: you know, before the end of this game's over. I
Speaker 4: think she wants this team to believe in themselves and
Speaker 4: she wants more people to have the opportunity to have
Speaker 4: chances to put.
Speaker 5: A goal on the board.
Speaker 3: So it be Sally Mente coming out of this game
Speaker 3: Jordan Bug coming out of this game. As we now
Speaker 3: see Emily Mason. It's a straight swap at center back
Speaker 3: me official as well. Onto this game, we'll see who
Speaker 3: is the final player that came out for Seattle here
Speaker 3: for those final changes. As Boston try to work into
Speaker 3: the box, we'll get to that in a moment. The
Speaker 3: right side, Prince Chance across it in, goes towards the
Speaker 3: middle of the box, headed away nicely by McCammon. Stays
Speaker 3: with Boston on the left side now working against a
Speaker 3: couple of defenders crossing it in, headed away again, and
Speaker 3: it's this time Mason getting it away of that one.
Speaker 3: Hoyer to Clant can't clear it though, it will stay
Speaker 3: with the legacy on that left side. Mandas here getting
Speaker 3: in the way of that one is trying to muck
Speaker 3: up these waters and not let anything clean happen. But
Speaker 3: it's out for a throw in for Boston. Cross into
Speaker 3: the box quickly takes a deflection, still with the legacy,
Speaker 3: Lots of green shirts around the ball, but it's some
Speaker 3: good pressure from Seattle. Now they switch the point of
Speaker 3: attack onto the right side. Carl Bally chance to cross
Speaker 3: backpost headed up into the arms of Claudia Dicky and
Speaker 3: now a moment for Seattle to breathe here in the
Speaker 3: seventy second minute, Yeah, two.
Speaker 4: Hundred and one says, and you're right, it's a it's
Speaker 4: a big stat for Claudia Dickie, especially as such a
Speaker 4: young keeper. And it's in games like this, in moments
Speaker 4: like this where you're you're really glad that you have
Speaker 4: her because she's so strong coming out of the goal,
Speaker 4: and like we've said, it's a dangerous score line. Boston
Speaker 4: clearly is not taking their foot off the pedal, and
Speaker 4: so you know, they've had well, i'd say three or
Speaker 4: four chances in these last ten minutes, and so they
Speaker 4: really got to lock in. I know they've had some
Speaker 4: attacking subs, but making sure that Dicky and everyone in
Speaker 4: that back line is staying tuned in is really important
Speaker 4: to see this game out.
Speaker 3: Boston with a possession on their right side. I believe
Speaker 3: it was Holly Ward who also came out for Seattle. Yea,
Speaker 3: Holly Ward was the other substitute, as Coco Monassey is
Speaker 3: on that left wing. The official up top Mattie Mercado
Speaker 3: shifts to the central attacking midfielder the ten as Sally
Speaker 3: Menti has exited. So those are the three Seattle changes
Speaker 3: here as they lead to nothing. Here with eighteen minutes
Speaker 3: left to go of the ninety now Seattle attacking with
Speaker 3: some space. Chance off to the left for Dallen Dallien.
Speaker 3: Great last ditch defending there from Carl Ball, the center
Speaker 3: back for Boston at that far a post nearly got
Speaker 3: to the foot of Maddie Dollen. That was a big
Speaker 3: chance for Seattle and Boston saved themselves from being down
Speaker 3: three to nothing.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that was huge.
Speaker 4: I mean, just really slides and is able to poke
Speaker 4: it away at the last second. I think it was
Speaker 4: Matti Mercado kind of charging up the middle and was
Speaker 4: able to dish it off there. And again she's just
Speaker 4: a great player that can create chances for the rain.
Speaker 11: Here.
Speaker 3: This Coco Monasse here to take this corner kick in
Speaker 3: the seventy fourth minute, it'll be an in swinger going
Speaker 3: to the front of the box, bounces back out to
Speaker 3: Juera Juertza putting in the ball all the way towards goal.
Speaker 3: Was hoping that would be a body there towards the
Speaker 3: near post not doing I mean it, we'll go out
Speaker 3: for a goal. Kick for Casey Murphy and Boston have
Speaker 3: to work quickly here. They have to open up. They
Speaker 3: have to find two goals in sixteen minutes. But it's
Speaker 3: a quick giveaway for the Rain. Can they work fast
Speaker 3: with James Turner? She will go slow, she will send
Speaker 3: it back to Huerta, And you wonder also leading to
Speaker 3: nothing if and when time and you just take your time,
Speaker 3: you go to maybe not the corner yet, but you know,
Speaker 3: instead of progressing in that attack quickly in transition, you
Speaker 3: play it back to where to take a couple of
Speaker 3: minutes off the clock, get fouled and you had a
Speaker 3: free kick coming in Boston's end for the Rain here
Speaker 3: with fifteen sixteen minutes to play, it's.
Speaker 4: Like gentle time management at this point. I think if
Speaker 4: they were going to the corner, I would be a
Speaker 4: little worried. It's too long to go to the corner.
Speaker 5: What is this sixteen minutes?
Speaker 4: So yeah, well, you know they'll take their time when
Speaker 4: they have throw ins and when they have kicks, but
Speaker 4: definitely not to that corner yet.
Speaker 5: But eventually I do think they'll get there.
Speaker 4: With this pressure and the speediness and aggressiveness that Boston has.
Speaker 3: Free kick for Sophia Horitz sending it into the box
Speaker 3: going towards a head. It gets to Emily Mason's head,
Speaker 3: but not enough on that head or I think it
Speaker 3: might have been a kind of a more of a
Speaker 3: cushion head or to cross it to somebody, but it
Speaker 3: goes right to the goalkeeper Casey Murphy, and she will
Speaker 3: work quickly for Boston. Here's me Official with some heavy
Speaker 3: press here, not letting much time on any of these defenders.
Speaker 3: Boston have to work quickly. They're dealing with very good
Speaker 3: pressure from Seattle tonight, and that slips on through all
Speaker 3: the way to a Seattle defender Boston trying to find
Speaker 3: all the way up to Triore. Interestingly, Gudiera is kind
Speaker 3: of playing under Triore in that attack for Boston has
Speaker 3: not been overly involved just yet. The massive Brazilian talent
Speaker 3: for this Boston team. And now here's a counter attack.
Speaker 3: Can Maddie get to that one? Do Len working against Caralbali,
Speaker 3: But it's all the way back to her keeper. Now
Speaker 3: Official with presser on the Boston center back and they
Speaker 3: get out of it. More pressure coming. They force a
Speaker 3: Boston throw in. Seattle doing well right now to not
Speaker 3: give Boston any time, even in their own end of
Speaker 3: the field. Kwame.
Speaker 6: I mean you see the pressure on both sides right now.
Speaker 6: It becomes a matter of who can seal the game,
Speaker 6: who can get back into it. So everyone is putting
Speaker 6: in every bit of effort. They're making sure that that
Speaker 6: last second, that last step, that last move really really counts.
Speaker 3: Boston going along here trying to find Troy already headed away.
Speaker 3: They play there by Mason, Boston picks it up here,
Speaker 3: here's Gudieras. Gudierras has help the middle of the field.
Speaker 3: Have not too many green jerseys up the field into
Speaker 3: the final third of the park, A lot of blue
Speaker 3: shirts for Seattle or back now onto this right wing
Speaker 3: our Bally, but a good defending there from Maddy Dollen
Speaker 3: on that side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you can tell there's definitely an urgency with
Speaker 4: Boston right now. It makes sense you're down to zero,
Speaker 4: you put some new subs in. But like you were saying, Jackson,
Speaker 4: I mean, we are seeing some great pressure, some box
Speaker 4: to box defending from the Seattle rain and that is
Speaker 4: what goals give you confidence to actually play the game
Speaker 4: and see it out and to put that extra effort
Speaker 4: in and so it's really great to see the rain
Speaker 4: like ME Official coming in Maddy Dahleen, playing a whole
Speaker 4: game and still putting pressure on them the way that
Speaker 4: they are. That's what you want to see when you're
Speaker 4: in games at this stage.
Speaker 3: And Seattle's able to clear that one all the way
Speaker 3: back out to Boston's own end, but Me Official keeping
Speaker 3: that pressure up as you talk about here, clock hits
Speaker 3: seventy seven to thirteen minutes of the ninety left to go.
Speaker 3: Seattle looking for their first win in a while, a
Speaker 3: team that opened up the season with a win in Orlando,
Speaker 3: where they ended their run in twenty twenty five. In
Speaker 3: the playoffs, they lost to Parland, then went to Spokane
Speaker 3: where they got big results a win over Kansas City,
Speaker 3: the former Shield winners went over Louisville. Since then five
Speaker 3: games without a goal. They drew against Denver, lost to Utah,
Speaker 3: draw Houston, lost to Washington, and then one week ago
Speaker 3: losing at Lumenfield to Gotham FC. Five straight without get
Speaker 3: two goals tonight and are looking for their first win
Speaker 3: since that Louisville game couple months ago. Where Boston will
Speaker 3: throw a lot of numbers forward here in the final
Speaker 3: twelve plus stoppage throw in coming for the legacy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm talking about this this East Coast trip too.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, they're lucky that they're able to
Speaker 4: kind of get out there, like you said, stay on
Speaker 4: their time zone, you know, keep kind of an even
Speaker 4: rough air work into this game, and then to also
Speaker 4: get settled there.
Speaker 5: But before they take on.
Speaker 3: Their next opponent, a yellow card coming right now to
Speaker 3: Madison Curry. Wonder if that's one of those tactical good
Speaker 3: yellows where you just don't want to let Alba Cano
Speaker 3: get too far down that right wing without anybody on her.
Speaker 3: So Madison Curry takes the yellow card to halt Boston's attack,
Speaker 3: and a free kick will come from just inside of
Speaker 3: Seattle's half. And here is Canoe over the ball looking
Speaker 3: to go along with this kick here or from just
Speaker 3: right next to the side, right next to Laura Harvey.
Speaker 3: We'll send it very long, headed away good head or
Speaker 3: there by mcclernan headed again by Boston and he goes
Speaker 3: just wide. Mcclernan headed it up and headed it to
Speaker 3: just a Boston defender who could not redirect that on frame.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you have to be careful because a little
Speaker 4: taste of success here for Boston. You know, they're getting some,
Speaker 4: like we said, more chances. That wasn't exactly on frame,
Speaker 4: but they're dangerous. You feel like they're still in this game.
Speaker 4: And so even though there's only you know, ten minutes
Speaker 4: or so, with maybe some stoppage time, I think the feeling.
Speaker 5: Is that they're still in it.
Speaker 4: And so the worry here is if you get one,
Speaker 4: then it's kind of emergency, lock the game down. Defending
Speaker 4: the rain really don't want to go into that mode.
Speaker 3: They certainly do not, but they have the ball at
Speaker 3: the feet of Turner. Now to Mandasier Montasyr dragged back.
Speaker 1: No foul called.
Speaker 3: Nowady is a foul called, and Seattle will have a
Speaker 3: free kick just inside of Boston's half. You wonder if
Speaker 3: any other subs coming. Both teams made triple changes. Boston
Speaker 3: made their big triple change first, Seattle and Laura Harvey
Speaker 3: resaliated with a big double offensive change of me Official
Speaker 3: and Coco Mondasre. A straight swap at center back with
Speaker 3: Emily Mason and Jordan bug who had a great day defending.
Speaker 3: Now here's to Mondasere onto this right wing. Can she
Speaker 3: get to the end of that when she is dragged down,
Speaker 3: no foul call. They ruled off side. Now, Coco Mantas,
Speaker 3: You're ruled off side on that great ball there towards
Speaker 3: that prime of Cist zone on the right side. But
Speaker 3: that is also very good defending there by Nicki Hernandez.
Speaker 3: They're their left back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, excellent defending when you're going up against an incredibly
Speaker 4: fast player like Coco Mondessar who could just get around
Speaker 4: the edge of her defenders so easily. And you know,
Speaker 4: I love it when when a fast player like like
Speaker 4: Coco goes down, you know, for an offside call, and
Speaker 4: she's just in disbelief and she's like, no, I'm just
Speaker 4: so fast. It's just that I'm so fast. You didn't
Speaker 4: even see me. I was on side and I was
Speaker 4: so fast. But she gets called there.
Speaker 3: Boston making another change here Alea Gambon a forward coming
Speaker 3: out of the field now for one of their center backs,
Speaker 3: Jordan Clara Balilara Bali has been part of so many
Speaker 3: attacks and she just had that header that went off
Speaker 3: frame a few minutes ago. She exits this game. Is
Speaker 3: Boston throwing another number forward? Can Seattle break those numbers
Speaker 3: and get a third decisive goal that just will put
Speaker 3: this game within no doubt.
Speaker 4: I mean that's a pretty aggressive move to bring in
Speaker 4: that extra forward there. I think that's a clear sign
Speaker 4: from Patao that this game is not over. I think
Speaker 4: she actually it almost seems like they're going to a
Speaker 4: two back.
Speaker 3: That's what they look like they are. Yeah, right now
Speaker 3: they're working with a two BAC system of Nicki Hernandez
Speaker 3: and Lesa Rujo, who, by the way, was questionable in
Speaker 3: this coming into this game with a thigh injury. Here
Speaker 3: she is playing in what is a no very very
Speaker 3: little defensive set here, but into the box here is
Speaker 3: Gudier As. Gudia has turned shoots and that shot will
Speaker 3: go maybe two Massachusetts in the eighty second minute rain
Speaker 3: leading to nothing. You like that one? That was good
Speaker 3: for as much talent Goudiere as has, she's not able
Speaker 3: to work enough there against three rain defenders. Turns and shoots,
Speaker 3: can't get that one on frame, and the Brazilian talent
Speaker 3: will want that one back because Boston cannot let any
Speaker 3: of those opportunities go to waste, and they will foul
Speaker 3: me official there. That's the whole up play that you
Speaker 3: were talking about wanting me official on at halftime, talking
Speaker 3: about that hold up play. She does have the hold up.
Speaker 3: She earns a foul here in the eighty third.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she does a great job, right, just balls that
Speaker 4: kind of even holes in the air and it's really
Speaker 4: hard to hold up while your defenders trying to kind
Speaker 4: of bump you off and create better positioning.
Speaker 5: Does such a good job.
Speaker 4: And so whether it's getting the foul or actually coming
Speaker 4: out of that with possession, it's one of her best skills.
Speaker 3: And it will actually be Claudia Dicky to take this
Speaker 3: free kick from Seattle's own end, going along to Mondasere,
Speaker 3: headed away from Nikki Hernandez. As we see a Boston
Speaker 3: team that now that they have to defend their throwing
Speaker 3: a lot of migfielders along that back line, just to
Speaker 3: have bodies along the Seattle offensive weapons official Mercado, Doleen
Speaker 3: and Mondasere seven minutes until the full ninety Boston working
Speaker 3: with it in their own end. Pressure now from Mondasere,
Speaker 3: pressure from ficial presser from Marcado. Can they force them
Speaker 3: into a turnover? They can, there is Mercado, but can't
Speaker 3: control that one. And it stays with Boston. Can they
Speaker 3: break the press? They cannot, and a foul is going
Speaker 3: to be called here, I believe on Sammy Smith, who
Speaker 3: will foul Puert's on that right side that's actually has
Speaker 3: but who fouls Huerta and it will be a free
Speaker 3: kick coming for Seattle and they will take a few
Speaker 3: extra seconds off of this clock, leading to nothing with
Speaker 3: just a few minutes remaining.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely a rough fowel. They're just kind of
Speaker 4: going into her back some frustration. They want to win
Speaker 4: the ball back and so yeah, now Seattle, can you
Speaker 4: know ten seconds can feel like an eternity at some
Speaker 4: point in games like this, So to get a little
Speaker 4: bit of a back is nice.
Speaker 3: Here is where it's a mock kick and then does
Speaker 3: take it. A couple seconds later, another five seconds go
Speaker 3: off the clock and she will go short. Seattle working
Speaker 3: with it in possession, getting a lot of pressure here
Speaker 3: from Boston. Can they break this pressure? Now to the
Speaker 3: left side for Curry. Curry has doleen. They have Official
Speaker 3: right on top, a little looped ball over trying to
Speaker 3: find me Official, and it's out off of Boston foot
Speaker 3: throw in coming for Seattle. You can take a couple
Speaker 3: more seconds here, tick tick tick, see how looking for
Speaker 3: their first win in a couple months. Now Mia trying
Speaker 3: to hold up play. Here's Maddy Dallen, Dahalen chance to
Speaker 3: cross it in towards the top of the box, and
Speaker 3: a great step by a Boston center back to just
Speaker 3: get a foot in the way of that one. They
Speaker 3: take it away and now they will have to work quickly.
Speaker 3: It's in the arms now of Casey Murphy after a
Speaker 3: quick deflection. We're at eighty five minutes of the ninety for.
Speaker 6: A team that's winning to zero. This is almost exactly
Speaker 6: how you want the game to go. You're consistently in
Speaker 6: the other team's half. Are you putting them, you know,
Speaker 6: pressure on theirs, You're putting them on their heels, and
Speaker 6: so it's a right now it seems like Seattle has
Speaker 6: a good control of the game.
Speaker 3: They certainly do. Is Boston has to retreat all the
Speaker 3: way to their goalkeeper Murphy and along there now two
Speaker 3: woman back line playing with almost no defense, just throwing
Speaker 3: numbers as many as they can forward. And now a
Speaker 3: big turnover, but a foul is called a huge turnover
Speaker 3: in Boston's own end. But a foul bails them out
Speaker 3: in what was certainly going to be a third Seattle goal.
Speaker 3: But now here is Boston on the left side with
Speaker 3: Gutierrez trying to get some help, not seeing too many
Speaker 3: green shirts there as Seattle retreats and keeps the pressure on,
Speaker 3: not letting too many passing windows open up. But here
Speaker 3: on the left wing, chance for Hernandez to cross it
Speaker 3: into the box reaches a Boston foot and it's a
Speaker 3: goal for Boston. But will this be offside? We're taking
Speaker 3: a moment here, Yes, it will be no goal for
Speaker 3: the legacy. It is offside there on Troore. The cross
Speaker 3: came in for Hernandez, Troore was off and Boston stays
Speaker 3: scoreless here in the eighty seventh minute.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and everyone's just Dez really waiting for that flag
Speaker 4: to go up, show us the flag rep and it
Speaker 4: does there. And you know, watching the play, you kind
Speaker 4: of assumed she was. She was pretty low on the
Speaker 4: post there behind the defenders. You know, it's smart play.
Speaker 4: It's a low crossload. Defenders were low on the field.
Speaker 4: But she does just sneak right in past me and mclernan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hasbo there, gets the ball in the box and
Speaker 3: her first touch towards goal. Triori eventually gets it, but
Speaker 3: it's waved off after she puts it into the back
Speaker 3: of the net. You wondered, and it is no goal.
Speaker 3: And now three minutes remaining of the ninety and for
Speaker 3: head coach Felipe Pateal, Boston has not lost in five games.
Speaker 3: They're two to zero to three. They lost the first
Speaker 3: five games of their expansion season, as many expansion teams do.
Speaker 3: They were shut out in four of those five games,
Speaker 3: and then they went on a great streak. They've been
Speaker 3: playing such great soccer and now they're staring a loss
Speaker 3: in the face to nothing. Now, I will say they
Speaker 3: referees are holding this one up right now. They're taking
Speaker 3: another look at this one. We see the ball in
Speaker 3: from Hernandez into Hasbo middle of the box, and they're
Speaker 3: I think they're taking a look to see if Madison
Speaker 3: Curry fouled Hasbo before that pass that ended up getting
Speaker 3: to Triore. They're gonna see if Madison Curry fouled Hasbo
Speaker 3: in the box, which would be a Boston penalty. This
Speaker 3: is interesting, what do you see here?
Speaker 4: Well, they also might be looking to see if it
Speaker 4: actually knicks a Seattle defender because if it comes off
Speaker 4: you know, a Seattle player in that instance, then she
Speaker 4: might not be offside. So you also have to watch
Speaker 4: for that because if it hits the back line, if
Speaker 4: it hits a defender last, then it's actually she could
Speaker 4: she could be in the clear triory for being for
Speaker 4: being offside.
Speaker 3: Man. If that, if that took a Seattle afflection, it
Speaker 3: was not much. Did not see much of a deflection
Speaker 3: on that. Let's see what our referee, John Motto vir
Speaker 3: Laura Rodriguez, what they decide here. And know there is
Speaker 3: no penalty given play on as we approached the ninetieth
Speaker 3: minute here in Rhode Island, the first professional women soccer
Speaker 3: match to ever be played in Rhode Island, and it
Speaker 3: looks like Seattle right now is looking at winning that
Speaker 3: first ever game. Should note also that for Laura Harvey,
Speaker 3: her first ever win was at Boston as Seattle makes
Speaker 3: a change there. Speaking of Laura Harvey, her recent change
Speaker 3: Britney Ratcliffe coming on for Maddie Doleen. So like for
Speaker 3: like attacking wingers there as Brittany Radcliffe, a ford on
Speaker 3: this team comes in for Doleen, who's been playing on
Speaker 3: the left wing today. D Leen who's scored in the
Speaker 3: fifty first minute of this game. Ball is a foot
Speaker 3: of Casey Murphy for Boston. She will launch it forward
Speaker 3: here because we are nearly at the full ninety pressure
Speaker 3: from Mercado and fisial foul called Boston will at this
Speaker 3: point try to work quick, but I believe they will
Speaker 3: work quick in a losing effort. This one looks to
Speaker 3: be going for the Seattle rain.
Speaker 4: Jackson, you can't say that too early.
Speaker 3: Jinxes aren't real.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now we're gonna see them, hopefully see this game out.
Speaker 4: We'll see how much staffage time there is. But you know,
Speaker 4: Seattle does look like they're in barely good control. But
Speaker 4: Boston keeps knocking on the door as they come down
Speaker 4: the field once again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, on this right side of your chance for Prince
Speaker 3: once again to cross it in working once again on Curry.
Speaker 3: Curry defending her so well, or she's done all day
Speaker 3: on or light glue and gets in the way for
Speaker 3: a turnover, Mercado trying to clear it's still to Prince,
Speaker 3: Prince crossing to the top of the box. As we
Speaker 3: now know, four minutes have been added here. Collision between
Speaker 3: mondasre ful called on Mondas here free kick coming for
Speaker 3: Boston about ten yards outside of Seattle's box is where
Speaker 3: you're here in the ninety first minute. Seattle just a
Speaker 3: few minutes away from wrapping up this win. Can they
Speaker 3: do it? Coco Mandas here going into that collision with
Speaker 3: Nicky Hernandez, fair call there or what do you think?
Speaker 5: I thought it was a little weak.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think they're both kind of going in
Speaker 4: in a collision, But it did seem like her leg
Speaker 4: and her pleat was kind of up and maybe went
Speaker 4: in a little bit late once once the player already
Speaker 4: had the ball. So yeah, maybe fair enough, But this
Speaker 4: is a tough spot to give this kind of free
Speaker 4: kick at the stage of the game.
Speaker 3: Albut canoe over it for Boston? Will she shoot on
Speaker 3: frame or looked across on frame? But no, not on
Speaker 3: frame wide left? She went four goal and missed about
Speaker 3: five yards wide left and Claudia Dickey will have a
Speaker 3: goalkick here in the ninety second minute. If I've added
Speaker 3: four minutes here in this game, you wonder, though they
Speaker 3: looked at a couple things there, if they extend that
Speaker 3: four to a slightly longer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you never really know, do yet?
Speaker 3: You never really know.
Speaker 4: Once that first number is up there, then it's a
Speaker 4: guessing game.
Speaker 3: Long ball from Dickey bounces off of Boston head cleared
Speaker 3: to mcclernan, who sends it out right towards Laura, who
Speaker 3: is screaming at her team to get back. Laura Harvey
Speaker 3: wants help defensively, she wants me official to come back
Speaker 3: and help, trying to get as many Blue Shirts back
Speaker 3: in their own end as possible to close this thing out.
Speaker 4: And I think that kind of shows exactly, you know, one,
Speaker 4: how dangerous Boston can be. I think everyone watches this game.
Speaker 5: We've talked about it.
Speaker 4: They're aggressive, they're fast, they're transition oriented, so it does
Speaker 4: feel like they could get two goals quickly at any moment,
Speaker 4: no matter what moment. And you see that in Laura
Speaker 4: Harvey while she's really really yelling at her players to
Speaker 4: get back and to get organized.
Speaker 3: It has been interesting because Boston plays this transition, high intensity,
Speaker 3: high press game. Seattle defensively has stopped them at every
Speaker 3: turn today. Big collision there, Ratcliffe working on cano. Boston
Speaker 3: comes away with it, but only to mandas Here, who
Speaker 3: interrupts that one and sends a ball all the way
Speaker 3: towards Boston's own box, and the legacy will have to
Speaker 3: work quickly. But a tremendous job by Seattle's entire defense
Speaker 3: today to work against this Boston pressure, against this Boston press,
Speaker 3: and allow them absolutely nothing so far towards the box.
Speaker 3: Getting the way that one is official. She did exactly
Speaker 3: what Laura Harvey asked, came back, defended, got in the
Speaker 3: middle of that one. Now Here up Is has turner
Speaker 3: on that left side, gets in the way of that one.
Speaker 3: Boston still with it cross towards the box. Clock strikes
Speaker 3: ninety three sixty seconds left of the added four. Gudiera's
Speaker 3: top of the box long chuck blocked, great block there
Speaker 3: by McCammon. Now it's with Seattle with Mercado, mccado working
Speaker 3: on the left side, gives it away still with Boston
Speaker 3: forty five seconds left of the added four towards the box,
Speaker 3: chance on goal and it's into the back of the
Speaker 3: net for Boston. There is the goal. With thirty seconds
Speaker 3: until the added four. Boston get their goal. It is Triore.
Speaker 3: It's I saw at Trioa putting it right by Claudia.
Speaker 3: Dicky looked like there was a hand to it, but
Speaker 3: it rolls into the back of the net. It's now
Speaker 3: two to one, Seattle over Boston. The clean sheets gone.
Speaker 3: The win is still in the cars. Claudia Dicky gets
Speaker 3: a hand to it. But now the only question is
Speaker 3: how much time will referee John Monto ad to this
Speaker 3: added four minutes? Can Seattle lock this down? Leading two
Speaker 3: to one? Long ball ahead from Claudia Dicky to this
Speaker 3: left side. It will go out, Boston throw in. We
Speaker 3: have hit the full four minutes. Now we will see
Speaker 3: how much our referee adds. It could go at any
Speaker 3: moment now two to one Seattle Boston with it clearing
Speaker 3: it forward, heading it back and forth, ends up at
Speaker 3: the foot of Mercado. Mercado to this left side for Ratcliffe.
Speaker 3: Ratcliffe can go to the corner. Now can she keep
Speaker 3: it in? She can, She's at the quarter and she
Speaker 3: hits it out. This will be a Boston throw in.
Speaker 3: Now we are plus thirty of the added four How
Speaker 3: much longer will this go? Boston clearing it forward to
Speaker 3: the foot and there is the final whistle.
Speaker 2: Laura Harvey celebrates with her staff. Players celebrate on the field.
Speaker 2: Seattle Rain break the winless streak. They get the w
Speaker 2: It wasn't cleaning there in the final minutes. It ends
Speaker 2: with a two to one final score. Nerve racking at
Speaker 2: the end. But the Rain will start off this road
Speaker 2: trip with a w.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big win for them. Great to see them get
Speaker 4: not just one goal but two goals. You know, magic
Speaker 4: of the Maddies, we said, Maddy Dolling come in and
Speaker 4: with such a great goal there.
Speaker 5: And this is a good.
Speaker 4: Boston team, maybe inconsistent, but this is a strong, fast,
Speaker 4: good Boston team. And the Rain did a great job
Speaker 4: to meet them toe to toe to put away their
Speaker 4: chances and I think start actually believing in themselves again
Speaker 4: and knowing how good they really are.
Speaker 3: You got to be proud of your wins. You know.
Speaker 6: You don't look at where the team is, the level
Speaker 6: of their consistency, how many points they have, look at
Speaker 6: the fact that this is another professional soccer team. They
Speaker 6: came out there to play, they have scored, they have
Speaker 6: it on a good streak recently. And so you came
Speaker 6: out there, you did what you had to do. You
Speaker 6: scored two goals, and you know, ultimately, hey, a tough
Speaker 6: you know goal against you in the end, but you
Speaker 6: put it together.
Speaker 3: You played hard and you won the game. So for
Speaker 3: Seattle they go to now four four and two on
Speaker 3: the season. They move back into the playoff picture with
Speaker 3: fourteen points. For Boston they stay all the way back
Speaker 3: in fourteenth place with their nine points. We will take
Speaker 3: a break and talk about what is a win for
Speaker 3: the Seattle Rain two to one final score. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about it next on the postgame show on Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: The following is an exclusive presentation of Seattle Rainsucker on
Speaker 1: Sports Radio nine point fifty kJ U.
Speaker 3: Curry Long both towards back post Hast dline, Maddie in
Speaker 3: the back of the net. Maddie Dollen second gold for
Speaker 3: the Rain. It's two nothing Seattle. A corner kickpop back out.
Speaker 2: The cross came in from the left side from Madison Curry,
Speaker 2: Madison to Maddie Dolly makes it to nothing.
Speaker 3: It's a win for the Seattle Rain. Late goal for
Speaker 3: Boston not enough. It's a two to one victory for Seattle.
Speaker 3: They moved a four to four and two. They're in
Speaker 3: the playoff window now and they open up this long
Speaker 3: East Coast road trip from here to Washington, DC. With
Speaker 3: the w welcome into the postgame show, Jackson felt Stephanie
Speaker 3: Verdoi had kwameapaya as we talk about a Rain win,
Speaker 3: the first Rain win for Rain on the radio here
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six. It's great to have the w
Speaker 3: for the first time since this team beat Louisville a
Speaker 3: couple months ago in Spokane. What do you know, it
Speaker 3: just takes. It takes this team playing in different places,
Speaker 3: whether it's Spokane, whether it's in Rhode Island, like tonight,
Speaker 3: it's a win for the Rain.
Speaker 4: Stephanie, Yeah, what do you know, It just takes some
Speaker 4: goals to actually win. So they did that tonight and
Speaker 4: it was great to see it. You really could see
Speaker 4: the change and the energy, the smiles, just the momentum
Speaker 4: out there. We hadn't seen it in recent games, even
Speaker 4: when they'd played well. They played well against Spirit recently,
Speaker 4: they had their moments against Gotham. But but tonight you
Speaker 4: really saw them believe in themselves, and we said that.
Speaker 5: Over and over again.
Speaker 4: They took more chances, they were more creative, they you know,
Speaker 4: they did a lot together as a team, and so
Speaker 4: I think they walk away with a lot of things
Speaker 4: to be proud of.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of pride in it. Honestly, you saw
Speaker 6: Stephie and I were just cheering in a few times.
Speaker 6: You saw us excited, jumping up and down it. In
Speaker 6: case you heard any thumps on the radio, we were
Speaker 6: just so excited about good soccer. You know, I think
Speaker 6: that's one thing that the Rain does really well. They
Speaker 6: play really good soccer in moments of the game. You
Speaker 6: see good connections, you see good through balls, you see
Speaker 6: them really making sure that they're playing with spirit, with heart.
Speaker 6: It's just a good game to play. And ultimately, when
Speaker 6: you play a good game and you get rewarded, it
Speaker 6: feels really good. You know, we had a really really
Speaker 6: good game similar to this in terms of ability play
Speaker 6: against the Spirit, but unfortunately, you know, a late winner
Speaker 6: or a late loser against us. So ultimately this was
Speaker 6: the game where we played well and we got the reward,
Speaker 6: and you gotta be happy about that.
Speaker 3: For Maddie doll Leen, she had four goals for US
Speaker 3: to slash year in twenty six games. It's taken eight
Speaker 3: games this year, but she gets her first goal contribution
Speaker 3: with her first goal of the year here in the
Speaker 3: fifty first minute. Sofia Houerta, your captain, steps up to
Speaker 3: the spot, hits a penalty kick in the eleventh minute,
Speaker 3: gets her first goal of the year, her forty fifth
Speaker 3: career goal. So Huerta got them off to snine with
Speaker 3: that early penalty kick. It's now time we'll wrap up
Speaker 3: the postgame show with our Paula's choice Skincares Player of
Speaker 3: the Match. This is an interesting discussion and I have
Speaker 3: a player in mind right now. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: I think deserving candidates, Stephanie Kwalmy. I'd like both you
Speaker 3: guys to weigh in on who your player of the matches.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna do the obvious one, Mattie Dollen. I mean,
Speaker 4: what do we say you have to score goals to win?
Speaker 4: And I just I think she was the dynamic player
Speaker 4: that they needed.
Speaker 12: Her to be.
Speaker 4: I think she has actually been that player in recent games,
Speaker 4: and so it's been building for her and I'm just
Speaker 4: so happy that she finally got the reward of that
Speaker 4: play because she's she's a really really aggressive, good fast
Speaker 4: striker and she did a great job.
Speaker 5: So it's finished that off.
Speaker 3: I have a different player, So kwame, are you also
Speaker 3: going with Maddy Dolan or you going somebody else?
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go Maddie Dolleen. I mean, all the way
Speaker 6: from the first minute, won us our first corner right
Speaker 6: and then ended up ultimately had a having technically another
Speaker 6: goal contribution because won us the PK and then ultimately
Speaker 6: scored to also get that you know, game winner. So
Speaker 6: I just she was all over the field. She just yeah,
Speaker 6: she was taking defenders on, putting the ball in the box.
Speaker 6: I gotta go dling.
Speaker 3: So Paul's choice. Skincare is proud to present tonight's player
Speaker 3: of the match, that is Maddy Dolleen. I would just
Speaker 3: like to say Sophia Wuerta not only getting us off
Speaker 3: the schnight, scoring our first goal in five plus games,
Speaker 3: also representative of a back line that dealt so well
Speaker 3: with Boston's pressure tonight. Boston won the press, press, press, pressure, pressure, pressure,
Speaker 3: and until the very very end of that game, they
Speaker 3: had nothing in the back of the net. For our
Speaker 3: final comment, tonight, just a great job overall for ninety
Speaker 3: two minutes for Seattle's defense.
Speaker 4: It absolutely was. Seattle's defense is maybe actually the player
Speaker 4: of the match the whole back line, but Huerta is
Speaker 4: a major part of that. And you know, she's a captain,
Speaker 4: she's leading this team and I'm really excited to see
Speaker 4: what they do next.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, honorable mention for me for you know,
Speaker 6: player of the game would have been Matti Mercado. You know,
Speaker 6: I think playing as a nine, coming back and defending
Speaker 6: in our box and then getting moved to the ten
Speaker 6: and playing box the boxes a midfielder. So it's just
Speaker 6: effort all the way through. And then also almost god
Speaker 6: An assists in an incredible through ball to Maddie Dollen,
Speaker 6: and so playing defensively, playing hard, winning the ball and
Speaker 6: also creating some opportunities. You know, hopefully as the game
Speaker 6: goes on, her effort is going to be rewarded by
Speaker 6: some opportunities and some goals.
Speaker 3: Seattle with a win in Boston a final score of
Speaker 3: two to one with goals from do Leen and Huerta,
Speaker 3: that will do it for us tonight. I want to
Speaker 3: thank every with the broadcast and their shirts on our board,
Speaker 3: our broadcast producer, Keiley Dunning. Great job here from my
Speaker 3: right and to my left from Kwame Apia and Stephanie Verdoya.
Speaker 3: My name is Jackson Feltz. We will talk to you
Speaker 3: next week for this next rain match. It's on Saturday
Speaker 3: May thirtieth, where they will play in Washington against the
Speaker 3: Washington Spirit that will have a three point fifteen pre
Speaker 3: match kickoff of three point thirty right here on Sports
Speaker 3: Radio nine fifty KJRM. Also make sure to check out
Speaker 3: Rain Weekly on the Seattle Soccer Show's podcast page. It'll
Speaker 3: be up later this week to talk more Rain soccer. Everybody,
Speaker 3: have a good rest of your evening and CBS Sports
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