Despite the weather heating up, the Washington Spirit have gone ice cold, failing to score in five straight games and currently mired in a six-game winless run. That would lead most to expect a real struggle today against the Orlando Pride, who currently sit in the final NWSL playoff spot. However, the Spirit have managed to play the Pride extremely close this year, winning 2-0 in early April on two late goals before falling 1-0 on a goal of the year contender from Alanna Kennedy a couple of weeks ago.
If Washington wants to break this long slump, they’ll need to once again keep a potent attack bottled up while still pushing enough numbers forward to (finally) get themselves on the scoreboard.