The camera caught the frustration on Laura Harvey’s face in the sixth minute of Friday’s game, streaming it out via Go90 for the whole NWSL world to see.
Her Utah Royals FC were already down a goal to the Portland Thorns, having seen a first-minute Katrina Gorry giveaway turn into a Tobin Heath score. Even after that setback, though, her players were being pinned in their own end. Five minutes had passed, with the Royals occasionally pushing play into the other half of the field, but Utah had yet to get a hold of the game, a disadvantage her side wasn’t used to.