Natalie Jacobs

So, um, we want fans to make sure they get their tickets soon.

Helping lead the defense, center half Natalie Jacobs says having those fans really helps.

The fans that we have here, they're the best.

We- When we see them out there cheering, coming out during the rainy days and staying out there, it just motivates us, us to push even more because, yeah, that's why we do it.

So I definitely don't remember 2018.

Um, it, it was a big win, uh, in many, many ways, and I think the fact that Kaylyn came out with a clean sheet has a lot to do with the fact that Natalie Jacobs was also on the field.

100%.

And that, I mean, I think that, that tells a, a big story that the score doesn't tell is look at the past games, you know, we've gotten scored on early or late.

I think they played really well.

I think Natalie Jacobs coming back in really settles us [chuckles] and makes us not quite as panicked as I think we are without her.

And I think we can grow from this.

I 100% think this is, like, a growing opportunity, as long as we can stay healthy.

That was a really cool one.

Um, Natalie Jacobs also, who-

I was gonna say, I remember that interview

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in stoppage time? Never.

And Natalie Jacobs has only played, like, five games this year, unfortunately 'cause of injury.

And, and she's only scored, like, a handful of goals-

And think about the spat of injuries.

I don't blame any on injuries as far as if you can't play the what if, but you can say, look at how it affected our team when we finally started getting Nat Jacobs and Macy Bell and had Riley Jackson on.

I mean, there was that like one week where our team that was our, our injury report was only the people that were on season A list.

It was like one week.

I did say Ally.

So yep.

Nat Jacobs.

Yeah.

And the Courage don't do it often, so breaking the rule I think is fine in, in certain circumstances.

And while we're on the topic, Natalie Jacobs was listed as questionable.

She ended up not being rostered for this match, but it looked to us, just from external perspective, that she's on the road to recovery as well, and that they're still being careful with her.

But who knows, we might see her subbing in some of those, uh, late minutes that you're talking about in the next couple of weeks.

We don't have any tall players and we need some tall players who can add a little bit of an aerial threat for us in there.

She was trying to get in and behind the girl re in the entire game and I think she did a couple of times and it's just unfortunate that this was the game that she came for because you could see the timing was just a little bit off between like Williams and her and I think as they play together it's going to grow and I think if Natalie Jacobs is in this game this switch is on for Gianna because there was times where Gianna was just standing there like with both hands in the air like waving like I want the ball give me the ball give me the ball and we don't have the passer right now whether it's Riley Jackson or Natalie Jacobs who was able to hit that diagonal ball over to her it was short safe passes into the midfield that did eventually turn into turnovers, as we talked about earlier with the back and forth of the game.

I want to ask your opinion, though.

What do you make of her getting the start immediately and then playing for majority of the game?

They were picking up a lot of rebounds and trying to kick them in.

And so Stoudy's right there to boot it in.

So I was joking with her after the press conference and I was like, you know, we've seen Natalie Jacobs hit a goal in a clutch moment.

We've seen you hit a goal when we really need it.