Song: ‘Twilight’ -Anderson Paak

Hey you,

A couple continental trophies will be handed out this Saturday. First, the Women’s Champions League final kicks off midday (ET) and will either be a haymaker-laden banger between Barcelona and Lyonnes, or a timid #shookfest—let’s find out together! Then, Saturday night the Spirit face Club América for the right to become the second ever team to lift the Concacaf W Champions Cup trophy.

During the weekend and week we’ll still have NWSL’ing, Liga F, and the Northern Super League (hola, Canadá). There are also a couple new pieces below. I drop the data viz from each midweek NWSL match, and your Week 8 Neat Sh!t arrived late thanks to NWSL+, but still has plenty of neat to dig into. And of course, your schedule of games to watch is below, along with times and links, because I love enabling obsessive woso watching habits.

Enough yappin’, here are your things…

NWSL+ wouldn’t let me be great (which I def gripe about in the intro) but I still got to relive three banger moments from last week’s games. Kerry Abello reconnected us all to woso heritage, Izzy Rodriguez hit a missile, and Mina Tanaka haunted Taylor Flint.

Realized that sending the data vizzes from the midweek games after the full matchweek was silly. So here are the shot charts and g+ passing networks from the midweek games. Your themes are: Houston continuing one of the oddest trends in the NWSL, Bay being bad, Portland needing to find a way to get Tordin closer to the final third, and Chris Armas putting himself right back under the microscope.

Re-upping this since we still don’t know where Sam Kerr is headed.

Annie, Ella & I react to Washington Spirit’s unbeaten streak ending in San Diego. We discuss an overall impressive performance, derailed by two mistakes.

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Ain’t know Hal could do this…

Lmao.