Coach Laura Harvey said it best after the game: It was too bad that on Samantha Johnson’s last game as a soccer player came in a loss like that. The Royals gave up two goals in the span of five minutes and went into a bye week third in the league standings.
The team as a whole seemed confounded at the reason why the game played out the way it did. Midfielder Mandy Laddish plainly said that the Royals just weren’t good enough.
The two goals Utah gave up happened on sequences where Seattle’s attackers received passes through Royals center backs and had clean looks at the goal.