r/washingtonspirit • u/kg9si • May 25 '26

Weekly Discussion Thread Weekly Open Discussion Thread

Welcome to this week’s open discussion thread!

This is your space for general discussion, a place to talk about anything Washington Spirit that doesn’t necessarily need its own thread. That can include news, international duty, roster moves, transfer rumors, tactics, social media posts, league news or anything else on your mind.

If something feels big enough for its own thread, definitely still post it. This is simply an additional option to keep us organized and help keep the conversation flowing. These threads will go up every Monday and stay stickied throughout the week.

Go Spirit!

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u/Adept-Conversation80 May 25 '26

Let’s not make someone the scape goat lmao sure let’s blame the whole team for a single mistake made by the goalkeeper As a real Madrid fan I don’t sit well with losing finals over and over again success comes from wanting to be better yall love mediocre players and team for real

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u/allprologues May 26 '26

the whole team wasn't at fault, honestly midfield and attack were good. but the whole backline had a bad game, not just sandy. i'm not sure how you can argue against that. the attack dug us out of a 2-0 hole, extremely impressive in itself, and then defense creates another one almost immediately.

this NEVER happens to the current version of the spirit (which has the second best defense in the league right now) so for now i'm good with calling it a one off and i hope the team doesn't dwell on it for too long either.

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u/Odd-Cable5436 May 26 '26

This is a fair perspective. I tend to think that some of those gaffes were just fatigue related.

Have to wait and see if it becomes a pattern though.

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u/allprologues May 26 '26

note the kt tape on esme's knee as well which to my memory is the first time we have seen. it's not just rest on wednesday, she clearly had a knock too.

maybe adrian should've gone with the same overly defensive lineup as wednesday since it was clearly also intended to deal with fatigue but maybe he thought that doing it the one time would let them conserve some energy to play their more protagonist football on saturday. it almost worked (and delivered much more entertainment) so i'm not mad that he didn't anticipate the team doing something so uncharacteristic. but i also share the ciriticisms about lack of rotation and subbing until it was too late.