Kenza Dali

But, yeah, I think you look at that game for Kansas City against San Diego, and both teams wanted to play their games, and San Diego certainly prevailed with keeping the ball versus Kansas City's high press.

I mean, the Kenza Dali interview at halftime where she said, they're just waiting for us to make a mistake, it was like – It's not going to work, right? And it didn't.

And I think that that is, you know, there's Kansas City against top quality teams in that moment.

So, yeah, I think Angel City has the momentum.

Like, it's fun for everyone." Um, it's, I think, uh, well, I shouldn't guess.

It's probably Kenza Dali who goes out into the right channel.

And it's this one touch pa- So they...

It gets played out to her, and this one touch pass back in across the sort of the two center backs to someone making the run on the far post, maybe Godfrey.

And I'm like, "I could play this quick ball in back across the shape-

Mm-hmm

... to the next person, and then they could go in on a breakaway on the far post." And Kenza Dali hit it to perfection, and it was amazing.

The other person, if we're in this space right now, I think Deanna Davidson from a pure, like, if you were to p- go into a classroom and you were to say, "Here's 19 different passes," you're gonna hit them all differently, right? Different part of your foot, different weighted, leading your, your teammate, not leading your teammate, in the air, on the ground.

She was immense.

Um, ended up getting the, the, the second goal of the, the evening off the, the free f- free kick from Kenza Dali.

But this is a team I feel like has all the components.

Defensively they're working together.

Midfield, Escaneo and Kenza Dali, so good with the way that they wanna play and build out.

They're really good in tight spaces, so they're able to secure the ball when necessary.

And then, I'm sorry, lights out.

...

Byers? Byers is one, but I think Armis tends to kind of hone in on a player that Might be the one that's doing a lot of the chance creation and stuff.

And I just think a player like Kenza Dali is a player whose service you have to close down.

And what she can do from a dead ball situation, what she can do from the midfield in terms of passing and jump-starting things is a very high level of play.

And I think that being able to quiet her, hassle her, keep players kind of closing her space down, give her as little space as possible, um, to, to kind of hit some of the passes and shots and, you know, long balls that she wants to play.

Mm-hmm.

They get Kenza Dali back, and this North Carolina team is in that- ... that rough zone where I think players are close to being back, but not quite back.

Yeah.

Don't know the severity of Natalie Jacobs, but if they can get her back that would really help their back line, and help them.

Alyssa Naeher, Jen Beaty, Sarah Gordon, Meg Lanahan, Maria Sanchez, Casey Stoney, Leslie Osborne, Katie Zelem, Jenny Nguyen, Olivia Moultrie, Cindy Parlow Cone, Briana Scurry, Alana Kennedy, Macy Hodge, Lily Nobitt, Parvati Shalloe.

Julie Uhrman, Meg Kleberg, Carli Bindon, Savi King, ER Fightmaster, Kenza Dali, Delphine Cascarino, Riley Tiernan, Willow Bay, Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird, Yasmin Ryan, Maddie Mastro, Blake Morgan, Caroline Hendershot, Cami Levin Ashton, Doma Wells, Allyson Felix.

Themba Chawinga, Ali Setnor, Kimia Escancio, Priska Chilufya, Dr. Robyn Sholfield, Jimmyse Joseph, Crystal Dunn, Coach Jackie, Kennedy Fuller, Melanie Bocenras, Carolien, Sydney Bortanaro, Amber Glenn, Lily Johannes.

Mary Earps, Yaneli Farias, Alessia Russo, Sam Coffey, Tierna Davidson, Ari Borges, Dana Castellanos, and Sophia Smith.

So San Diego would insist, and would make their home crowd very happy.

Kenza Dali there, Jeff, from distance.

A Kenza Dali truther.

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She does it again.

She does it again, uh, emphasis on the baller part-

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... of Kenza Dali.

Not in the final third of the season.

Not when you're facing a San Diego Wave that is bringing back a Kenza Dali, who ended up being that difference maker in the end.

And it's...

I think it's like just part of the narrative of the storyline of racing Louisville this season.