James Bridget Gordon: Readers, this is a special edition Red Stars Roundtable, which we're convening to discuss Chicago's 1-0 loss to North Carolina and the end of their 2017 season. Our Fire Roundtable will run tomorrow afternoon, as per usual.
So as we all know by now, the Red Stars' season is done. For the third year in a row, Chicago did just enough to get into the playoffs and then crashed out of the semifinals.
There's a lot to get through with this game, but I want to start with the obvious question: what went wrong for the Red Stars?