2025 NWSL Previews: Washington Spirit and Orlando Pride

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2025 NWSL Previews: Washington Spirit and Orlando Pride

Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here! We got a preview of this exact match up already, with the Spirit defeating Orlando in a penalty shootout in the Challenge Cup Final.

If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Podcast (available wherever you get your pods).

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2022 NWSL Season Previews: Chicago Red Stars, Portland Thorns FC, Washington Spirit

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2022 NWSL Season Previews: Chicago Red Stars, Portland Thorns FC, Washington Spirit

The 2022 NWSL season is nearly upon us! We’ll be publishing three team previews every weekday until the NWSL regular season opens on Friday, April 29, 2022. Previews will be released in reverse order of how each team finished in the 2022 Challenge Cup’s group stage. You can find all of them here!

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The Most Interesting Teams in the NWSL Challenge Cup So Far

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The Most Interesting Teams in the NWSL Challenge Cup So Far

The preliminary rounds of the Challenge Cup are wrapped up. The seeds are set.

While the first few games saw teams experiment with styles of play and roster rotation (at least for some teams), teams now have to put the pieces together as the knockout rounds begin. We looked at the performances of a couple teams to see where they’re succeeding, and more importantly, what they need to improve upon to be successful in their knockout matches. Here's a look at four of the teams we found most interesting thus far.

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NWSL Mini-Previews: Washington SpiriT and Houston Dash

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NWSL Mini-Previews: Washington SpiriT and Houston Dash

The time has come. This weekend, the NWSL will return as the first professional sports league in the United States to take the field since the COVID-19 pandemic began. After writing previews since before the Challenge Cup was even announced (here are parts one and two), we’re excited to share our final set on the last three teams in the league.

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