Paige Cronin

So, I mean, there's a lot of talented players across the pitch.

Paige Cronin as well, captained.

doing some great things for them.

And Jimmy Kunratz has an organized team, and they have been very methodical about the slow development, not kind of doing easy things, really coming together as a squad.

They reviewed it, and there were act- there were actually a couple really good angles on that ball on the end line.

And the entire ball has to go out, but Paige Cronin just kept it in.

And that's all she wrote.

And Racing manages just one point in the last seven games.

And Utah moves higher up in the standings, so Utah now is three points out of second place.

They win this game at home without Ana Tejada and Paige Cronin, who were both suspended because of the red cards in the last game.

And that's been one of our big questions for this Utah group, Jordan, is lack of depth.

They haven't rotated a ton, so to be able to do this without two of your starters is pretty impressive.

But at the same time, like we mentioned earlier...

Utah will be without Anna Tejada and Paige Cronin, who both earned red cards in their match against Angel City that the Royals lost 3-0.

That propelled Angel City to sixth place

because of

over us.

So,

and Paige Cronin has been a captain this year, so that's a tough loss for them.

Hopefully it's to our gain, and we can get a good showing Out in Utah.

And so the good news for the Courage, even though it was tough in terms of the table positioning to lose that match, is that the Courage will now face them with two of their starters out.

So that's Ana Tejada and their captain, Paige Cronin.

So potentially some advantage there since they'll have two new players who are trying to figure out where they fit in in the starting lineup.

Yeah, the Paige Cronin coming out, that play against Chalufia, clear yellow card.

Ref immediately pulled it out, but there's no other defender around her.

And I know I saw a lot of discourse that that maybe shouldn't have been a red card, but Chalufia has so much speed that there's no way the other defender who is tracking back is getting there before she can put a shot on goal.

She's so good at cleaning up passes and disrupting and getting her body in between players and the ball that I'm not sure who they bring in in her place who can do that.

She's a valuable part of their defense.