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Lauletta’s NWSL Heat Check: Current gain more separation as season’s first half concludes

Kansas City’s Shield victory is all but guaranteed, while Orlando, Louisville, and San Diego are all in various states of playoff contention.

Bia Zaneratto holds her arms out and yells in celebration after scoring against Angel City FC.
Credit: Nick Tre. Smith-Imagn Images

The National Women’s Soccer League season has reached its midpoint. Every team has played 13 of their 26 matches, and regular season competition won’t resume until August 1 as the league takes a pause in deference to the Euros, Copa América Feminina, and to a lesser extent the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations. It’s a great time to take stock of things. Every team’s first-half performance can be analyzed on equal footing for the first time in league history, as every club has played every other club once, with a return match on the other side of the break.

Here’s how teams stack up as they head into the back stretch.

 

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