The 2018 NWSL season has been unrelentingly cruel to the Washington Spirit and to Sky Blue FC. Naturally, their final meeting would descend into a bizarre farce. With both teams combining to suit up just 31 of the normal 36 available players, and needing a total of 8 national team replacement players between tem just to get to that low number, the weather gods intervened, with lightning forcing a postponement to tomorrow at 10:00am.
The weather delay began before warm-ups even began, and despite two separate instances of the SoccerPlex’s alert system issuing an all-clear, lightning continued to strike the area.