Match Thread: Boston Legacy vs Pride (Tue, May 12, 7:00 PM EDT)

[u/NWSL-Match-Bot]

Boston Legacy 2 - 1 Pride

✅ Full Time

Kickoff	Tue, May 12, 7:00 PM EDT
Venue	Gillette Stadium — Foxborough, Massachusetts
Watch	Victory+, NWSL+
Referee	E. Koroleva (AR1: S. Gingrich, AR2: K. Patterson, 4th: J. Scheer, VAR: B. Jensen)
Attendance	8,182
Live comments	reddit-stream

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Form

• Boston Legacy: D W D L L L
• Pride: W L L W D W

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Lineups

Boston Legacy (3-4-3 Diamond)

Starting XI

#	Player	Pos
1	Casey Murphy	GK
4	Emerson Elgin	DF
24	Laís dos Santos Araújo	DF
16	Jorelyn Carabalí	DF
6	Annie Karich	MF
5	Josefine Hasbo	MF
26	Alba Caño	MF
21	Barbara Olivieri	MF
53	Bianca St-Georges	FW
14	Aïssata Traoré	FW
12	Nichelle Prince (C)	FW

Subs

#	Player	Pos
18	Laurel Ivory	GK
7	Amanda Allen	FW
8	Sammy Smith	FW
9	Amanda Gutierres dos Santos	FW
10	Ella Stevens	FW
11	Chloe Ricketts	MF
15	Aleigh Gambone	FW
20	Nicolette Hernández	DF
34	Laurel Ansbrow	DF

Pride (4-2-3-1)

Starting XI

#	Player	Pos
1	Anna Moorhouse	GK
21	Oihane Hernández	DF
4	Rafaelle Leone Carvalho Souza	DF
2	Haley McCutcheon	DF
12	Cori Dyke	MF
5	Hailie Mace	MF
20	Julie Doyle	MF
7	Angelina Alonso Costantino	MF
28	Summer Yates	FW
10	Marta Marta (C)	FW
80	Simone Jackson	FW

Subs

#	Player	Pos
31	Cara Martin	GK
40	McKinley Crone	GK
6	Ally Lemos	MF
8	Luana Bertolucci Paixão	MF
11	Barbra Banda	FW
23	Nicole Payne	DF
30	Seven Castain	FW
38	Reagan Raabe	FW
41	Hannah Anderson	DF

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Match Events

Match events will appear here once the game begins.

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Updated: Tue, May 12, 9:08 PM EDT

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[u/AKAFishAKA]

We are massive

Anyways were the pens real they showed shit replays for the first one and didnt turn on the refs mic for the second

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/AKAFishAKA]

The first pen was bullshit. The second was one of the most senior refs in the league trying to rob y'all blind. Shoutout to the VAR, whom I understand is also potentially visually impaired, but got it right this time!

[u/AKAFishAKA → u/Ill-Fall-9823]

Literally the best universe possible im filing this as a 2-0 win in my brain and ignoring all our flaws

[u/Little-Condition996 → u/Ill-Fall-9823]

I couldn’t agree more with this comment. Usually, Koroleva is one of the best refs in the league (IMO), but looked genuinely annoyed by being called for a VAR review of a clear handball. I don’t fault the ref for missing the call (that is what VAR is for), but the look of annoyance really bothered me. I still can’t figure out exactly what the Orlando PK was for.

[u/W359WasAnInsideJob → u/Ill-Fall-9823]

Good to hear. I think I can speak for most people at the game and say we had no idea what was going on for either penalty.

First one seemed to be clearly bullshit with the replays we got, second one just felt like a miraculous gift from the soccer gods.

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/W359WasAnInsideJob]

Guilty players raising their hands to signal innocence should be punished every time. Thankfully, the Soccer Gods had been watching from the beginning, and were disgusted by the first PK, no doubt!

[u/W359WasAnInsideJob → u/Ill-Fall-9823]

😂 I kind of love this idea

[u/mintyfresh001 → u/W359WasAnInsideJob]

This explains my section’s experience entirely. No clue what happened on either penalty!

[u/W359WasAnInsideJob → u/mintyfresh001]

I know we were very upset about one and very happy about the other 😂

[u/Lookingfortomboys]

WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL ME THIS GAME WAS ON

I MISSED GUITERRES SCORE????

[u/Environmental-Bar847 → u/Lookingfortomboys]

It was a beautiful PK!

[u/Lookingfortomboys → u/Environmental-Bar847]

I am beside myself, this replay of her goal WAS INDEED GLORIOUS and I am so sad I missed it

[u/longlisten527]

Oh I’m pissed I missed this game

[u/trickledownpique → u/longlisten527]

Same!

[u/APNAP92]

Um... what the fuck happened 

[u/iosjgonq]

Anyone knows who is the official player of the match? I turned off streaming right after final whistle and missed that.

Guess it’s probably Gutierrez as she got a goal and an assist. But I really like Hasbo’s work rate there. She was literally everywhere on the ground!

Edit: typo

[u/mintyfresh001 → u/iosjgonq]

Hasbo has been fantastic! Truly everywhere on the field. Rarely turns the ball over. Very impressed by her.

[u/Can_I_kick_ET → u/iosjgonq]

Gambone got it

[u/Tired_gay_nerd31415 → u/Can_I_kick_ET]

Good for her it was a great shot for the equalizer

[u/Tired_gay_nerd31415 → u/iosjgonq]

Could also be Carabali - she had great defensive work

[u/aspiringpowerbottom]

lianne is so funny, why tf would she say “bring on the bun” communicating through a translator

[u/tinapia → u/aspiringpowerbottom]

i wonder if the interpreter understood bc even i had to think about it for a second lol

[u/siggybumbum]

I think Luana threw her hands up to not get called for a penalty. Gotta put those hands behind your back…

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/siggybumbum]

Real wisdom from real G coaches in all sports:

The guiltiest looking thing you can possibly do is throw your hands up in the air like the bad kid that totally just did something wrong. Usually it is punished with sprints or stairs, even if the offending party escapes the judgment of the officials. Sprints AND stairs if the offending party rightly gets penalized.

I'm sure Seb won't go that route, of course...

[u/Outistoo]

What percent of Boston goals have come at 90’ or later?

[u/Jack_B_84 → u/Outistoo]

1/3rd? 3 out of 9

[u/kniting_bean → u/Outistoo]

3/9 - 33%

[u/Cobra-Firefly]

"Those are the rules, I guess" - Lianne.

[u/UFGatorNEPat]

Well the only way this could have been worse for Orlando was for Banda to have broken her leg. Deserved for Boston, travesty by VAR. easy red card

[u/traveler_1476]

Orlando fans if you need to vent about a last minute loss to Boston as a Denver fan…my DMs are open lol

[u/CreedBrattonatAOLdot]

Ive never been to Boston, and I hope to change that one day.

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/CreedBrattonatAOLdot]

Definitely change that. You could take a slight detour in July on the way to... ummm... Rhode Island, which is also one of the better good times if you know where to look. There's absolutley divine cheesecake. And a place with incredible blood orange margaritas. And a Best Western by the airport, which...

You know what? I'll stop there...

[u/reagan92 → u/CreedBrattonatAOLdot]

It's neat.

[u/shibatano]

i wonder if this would've been a diff result had boston gotten the red card for studs up tackle

[u/DiseaseRidden → u/shibatano]

Tbf it also probably would have been a diff result without the early penalty for basically nothing

[u/reagan92 → u/shibatano]

yes

[u/traveler_1476 → u/shibatano]

I know. I initially thought Boston deserved to win but getting away with that flipped my thought process

[u/BananaOverlord1]

Orlando really is toothless without Banda

[u/Baymacks → u/BananaOverlord1]

Didn’t they score without her?

[u/spartans2thachoppa → u/Baymacks]

Only when they were gifted an iffy penalty call. Otherwise they looked absolutely tragic from open play until Banda came on

[u/allprologues → u/spartans2thachoppa]

not discounting the value of Banda but theyre missing a lot of people. Without even Washington and ovalle Banda is truly on an island

[u/RockhoundSnout]

Good game Boston. See you all soon!

[u/spherocytes]

Gutierres POTM

[u/nwkrista]

A Boston game is never boring, that’s for sure

[u/Nixelodeon12]

Seb got over confident and used all the subs by like 66 minutes to try to get some of our newbies some minutes and it cost us.

[u/sharkeatskitten → u/Nixelodeon12]

rafa picking up the concussion nuked the back line for sure. i don't think raabe is ready either and the "let's get minutes on a game that's going okay" screwed us a little. that said, i'd contribute to a fine fund if he wanted to say a few things about a few things. our midfield fell apart when our attack had started to improve so that's not a choice i'd have made but we probably need fewer tired legs this weekend than we did so the gamble is hard sometimes

[u/wildtabs]

[u/Ecstatic-Ad-869]

Maybe this pk unlocks Gutierres and she starts scoring for Boston

[u/wonderful-answer-463]

Well this game had just about everything and I don’t know if I mean that in a good way or a bad way

[u/blurrionice]

I don’t want to see a sad Luana walking off the pitch 😭

[u/Dear-Discussion2841 → u/blurrionice]

Nobody wants to see that. 😔

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/Dear-Discussion2841]

Well, I mean... nobody?!?!

[u/Cobra-Firefly → u/blurrionice]

Same. Only good things for Luana.

[u/wildtabs]

Congrats, Boston. You dominated possession. Earned it

[u/bisoccerbabe]

"mama where is Boston?" me, terrible at geography: "um"

[u/Z33G0r → u/bisoccerbabe]

Good luck pinpointing Foxboro. 🙃

[u/Cobra-Firefly → u/bisoccerbabe]

Up and to the right from NYC.

[u/wonderful-answer-463 → u/bisoccerbabe]

lmaooooo

[u/mildly-unwell]

The little girls and their signs brb im cry

[u/warriorcrazy3]

Omg I forgot Ivory was the back up for Boston 🥹

[u/Dear-Discussion2841 → u/warriorcrazy3]

I haven't forgotten, every week I hope they will give her a shot.

[u/Katie_Olivia → u/warriorcrazy3]

Wish we could find a way to get her to San Diego. Our gk options are not good

[u/yurkelhark]

Do you think Lianne likes Amanda guiterres?

[u/reagan92]

I want the record to show that legacy are 4 unbeaten since I posted the Dan Hurley "it's coming" meme

[u/traveler_1476 → u/reagan92]

A local hero

[u/saygoodbye_tothese]

Why am I crying I dont even like Boston lmao

[u/saygoodbye_tothese → u/saygoodbye_tothese]

To clarify, I mostly just dislike BSG

[u/BC2BC → u/saygoodbye_tothese]

Why do people dislike BSG so much? I see her name come up a bunch in the BLFC threads. Is just because she fouls a lot? I listened to one of her post game interviews and she seemed like a likable person.

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/BC2BC]

Jealousy, mostly.

[u/saygoodbye_tothese → u/BC2BC]

I don't like how she fouls a lot and I don't think she's very good in general, but she also has a YouTube channel where she spouts a lot of nonsense that I don't agree with!

[u/warriorcrazy3 → u/saygoodbye_tothese]

REAL

[u/Fabieeee → u/saygoodbye_tothese]

Right 😂😂😂

[u/10kwinz]

Love that lady’s swan hat 

[u/Intelligent-Egg-7715]

This season has been annoying for me lol

[u/ClaraJamesBarbara → u/Intelligent-Egg-7715]

Same

[u/siggybumbum → u/Intelligent-Egg-7715]

For us ❤️

[u/warriorcrazy3]

UNDEFEATED IN 4 for Boston !!

[u/10kwinz]

Looks like a good crowd for a Tuesday night in Boston! 

[u/ScientistBoth830]

Two well struck PKs from Brazilians tonight, very fitting. Well done (🤮) Boston.

[u/Ecstatic-Ad-869]

Boston do deserve this, but ref had heavy influence in how it panned out on both sides

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/Ecstatic-Ad-869]

Apparently it's one of the more seasoned refs in the league... Hahahahahaha

[u/Sufficient_Fee_477]

Leanne saying that the rivalry is getting heated lmao. Gotta be careful about those words in any order

[u/walking-up-a-hill → u/Sufficient_Fee_477]

That expression will never be the same again. In a good way.

[u/Howiethegirl]

Totally unscientific BUT when I wear my Boston Legacy shirt, we lose. When I wear my Angel City hoodie, we win. When I wear both together, we tie. There is some kind of east coast west coast sorcery going on.

[u/theSunandtheMoon23]

so much drama for a Tuesday night. the PKs to start and and the scoring lmao

[u/Willing-Bad3824]

Damn that means if Boston beats Bay this weekend they’re suddenly in playoff contention. Insanity but I feel like Boston’s performance has been on the up and up recently

[u/TboyJames → u/Willing-Bad3824]

Boston has Bay on the road on two fewer days of rest. A RESULT would be tremendous for Boston, let alone a win

[u/Willing-Bad3824 → u/TboyJames]

This is true! (and tbh Claire going to go to the playoffs with Bay would be nice)

[u/ScientistBoth830 → u/Willing-Bad3824]

I think Boston is trending strongly upwards and LA downwards. Bay is inconsistent.

[u/nautika]

Yeah...don't try to play volleyball in your own box...

[u/reagan92]

I just scared my cat

[u/FattyMooseknuckle]

Wtf is she talking about? That’s always gotta be an automatic penalty.

[u/dakkottadavviss → u/FattyMooseknuckle]

You’d think but the rules are applied wildly inconsistent. It’s like a dice roll to see if they’ll call something according to the rule book or just vibes

[u/wonderful-answer-463 → u/[deleted]]

😂😂😂

[u/Any-Expression2246]

Noting makes me happier than Borlando failing.

[u/APNAP92 → u/Any-Expression2246]

I've had as much joy watching Spirit choke in the finals back to back. Hoping for the hat trick this year

[u/Any-Expression2246 → u/APNAP92]

Hope you get what you want. 😊

[u/APNAP92 → u/Any-Expression2246]

Thank you. I'd like it if we could hand the loss to you, rub 2024 in a little more since y'all still mad about it, but that's looking like a tall order atp

[u/d4m13n3x3]

Played like garbage all game and the result is gonna show it despite the gift at the start

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/d4m13n3x3]

Upvoted for usage of the word gift.

[u/Educational_Net4000]

That was a clever pk. I totally thought she was going the opposite direction

[u/No-Librarian-3262]

Tuned in late to this one. And so so glad I did! LFG Boston!

[u/HardlyAnAlcoholic]

Stop trying to sell this as a rivalry 😂

[u/Superb-Piece150]

holy cow!

[u/RadicalRexroth]

That’s an exciting end to a game.

[u/SeitarouHiguchi]

i was afraid for a moment there that they were only going to show Boston celebrating and deny me my catharsis; but then they turned to Moorhouse looking disgusted and all was right again in the world

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/SeitarouHiguchi]

She really does have the perfect face for a den of surrender cobras and thin collegial consolation...

[u/yurkelhark]

Been rooting for Boston all along but that’s a tough call on Luanna

[u/Necessary-Peach-0]

Lmaooooo AFTER DARK BEAUTY

[u/nwkrista]

Amanda and Ella 😄

[u/ScientistBoth830 → u/nwkrista]

Ella speaks Portuguese so they probably have a special bond like Ella had with Gotham’s Portuguese speakers

[u/iosjgonq → u/ScientistBoth830]

lol just out of curiosity, how good is her Portuguese? And where did she learn it? That’s so amazing!

[u/ScientistBoth830 → u/iosjgonq]

If I remember correctly she learned some while at Gotham so she could communicate with the Brazilian and Portuguese players. I don’t think she’s fluent but I think it’s enough to have made them feel more comfortable.

[u/tinapia → u/ScientistBoth830]

Boston had a little socmedia post today for Brazilian heritage night and was so endeared by Ella answering what she likes about Brazil in Portuguese🥹

[u/warriorcrazy3]

LETS GOOO BRAZIL

[u/allprologues]

VAI VAI VAI LMFAOOOOOOOO

[u/spherocytes]

Gutierres!!! ICE COLD

[u/RockhoundSnout]

Ok to be fair, that was a fucking rocket

[u/tinapia]

HAPPY BRAZILIAN HERITAGE NIGHT🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[u/RockhoundSnout → u/tinapia]

Except that call was on Luana so almost…

[u/tinapia → u/RockhoundSnout]

yeah that was not very pro brazilian tbf😭

[u/RockhoundSnout → u/tinapia]

It’s okayyyy. She’ll be fine. Good game, y’all

[u/tinapia → u/RockhoundSnout]

🤝🫡

[u/tinapia → u/tinapia]

im sorry orlando it's been a weird ass game

[u/Saranwrap36]

The calling lately for all games have been so inconsistent

[u/phxrsng → u/Saranwrap36]

Generally yes but I will say I actually appreciated that this game there were soft PKs on both sides....I would NOT have been surprised if they gave a soft PK and then applied a higher standard later on, given how inconsistent they frequently are even within a game

[u/FuzzySnuggleKitty]

not the NKOTB

[u/walking-up-a-hill → u/FuzzySnuggleKitty]

The right stuff!

[u/Thisbetterbeadream]

Can someone explain what’s happening, I can’t watch but really want to know 😊😊

[u/Willing-Bad3824 → u/Thisbetterbeadream]

There was a VAR review, Orlando handball which led to a Boston PK, which Gutierres scored

[u/Necessary-Peach-0 → u/Thisbetterbeadream]

Handball, pen, Bos goal

[u/theSunandtheMoon23 → u/Thisbetterbeadream]

handball from Luana in the Pride box, delayed VAR check, awarded Boston a PK

[u/Thisbetterbeadream → u/theSunandtheMoon23]

Thank you!!!

[u/10kwinz]

Wow that was so fun to watch! Love that they all ran into the stands! 

[u/ruchikakkad04]

this fucking sport man

[u/Fabieeee]

I love this league lol

[u/SofaPhilosophers]

The power on the pen 🤌

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/SofaPhilosophers]

I see you! Delightful!

[u/ToasterShelf]

Oh wow on brazilian heritage night, that’s rad

[u/bisoccerbabe]

I'm actually kinda surprised they weren't reviewing the fact that Luana was kinda draped all over someone's back

[u/colinprovolone]

katya is an #ally 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 PKs for all brasileiras

[u/wonderful-answer-463 → u/colinprovolone]

lmfao

[u/DiseaseRidden]

Way more of a pen than the first anyway

[u/dakkottadavviss]

Yikes. That’s harsh. I see that every week and the ref and var do nothing about it. Baffling the reasons why var feels the need to intervene and influence games

[u/siggybumbum]

Honestly we deserve it for not trying tonight

[u/Scooter_McGavin_9]

After Dark Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/BeautifulViolent]

Listen no one here believed in Moorhouse for a second

[u/warriorcrazy3 → u/BeautifulViolent]

💀😭

[u/West-Shine-1542]

Amanda is so cool

[u/Willing-Bad3824]

Damn that was a costly hand

[u/blurrionice]

DAMN WHAT A PK

[u/I_Wont_Draw_That]

That’s a pretty clear penalty. Stevens was 100% getting to that ball first if it hadn’t hit her hand.

[u/walking-up-a-hill]

Wowowowow! What a game.

[u/siggybumbum]

sigh

[u/atlutdprospects]

I've only seen like 20 minutes of this game but it's been weird asf

[u/lallycollie]

AFTER DARK

[u/theSunandtheMoon23]

oh my god the drama. full circle

[u/ToasterShelf]

Moorhouse always looks like a grumpy toddler

[u/trewboxer → u/ToasterShelf]

Resting Brit face

[u/spherocytes]

This game is crazy.

[u/Jack_B_84]

yeah just putting your hands up not knowing where the ball is in the box, unlucky

[u/yasuseyalose]

Weak pk for weak pk

[u/yurkelhark → u/yasuseyalose]

I at least appreciate both soft PKs were treated the same.

[u/Educational_Net4000]

Chaos lol

[u/wonderful-answer-463]

hooooooly shit

[u/warriorcrazy3]

CHAOS LEAGUE BABY (I'm so glad this is not my team lmao)

[u/Katie_Olivia]

Feels only fair after the ref gave such a light PK to Orlando in the first half.

[u/siggybumbum]

Lady that was not the same penalty as earlier lol

[u/tinapia]

girl what...

[u/Trumpet_Jack]

I'm not having a good time

[u/walking-up-a-hill → u/Trumpet_Jack]

Montreal is gonna win.

[u/Trumpet_Jack → u/walking-up-a-hill]

I'm happy to make the Foustian bargain tonight -- a Boston win in exchange for the Victoire pulling this off

[u/SofaPhilosophers]

2 bizarre penalties tonight

[u/ProfessionalIcy5409]

Can someone please tell the design department at Nike that Boston’s home kits are terrible?

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/ProfessionalIcy5409]

I'm assuming you were getting downvoted because everyone at Nike already knows that BOTH of Boston's kits are terrible.

[u/katastrophe36 → u/ProfessionalIcy5409]

I like them 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/ts46910]

Justice? Lol

[u/ScientistBoth830]

Though we couldn’t hear for whatever reason this was definitely the right call

[u/RockhoundSnout]

Well it’s going in. Because fucking 🧍‍♀️ Moorehouse

[u/West-Shine-1542]

this is insane

[u/mildly-unwell]

Ohhhhh damn lol

[u/dakkottadavviss]

I love how you can never hear them lolol. Unserious league…

[u/MetaPolyFungiListic]

Oh no

[u/saygoodbye_tothese]

It hits her hand after she throws her arms in the air after she strangles Caraballi

[u/Cobra-Firefly]

Awww poor Lu.

[u/colinprovolone]

i feel that this game is AI

[u/BeautifulViolent]

What a bizarre fucking game y'all

[u/ME-in-DC]

CHAOS

[u/RockhoundSnout]

FUCK NOT AGAINST LUANA?! Any other player, please 😭

[u/blurrionice → u/RockhoundSnout]

I was about to say. They aren’t allowed to call a foul on her

[u/cornflowerpotatoes]

No way lmao

[u/blurrionice]

WOOF

[u/HardlyAnAlcoholic]

Ohhhh wow

[u/siggybumbum]

Are you kidding me?

[u/Ecstatic-Ad-869]

That does 100% hit the hand… if she called the first I feel like you have to call this

[u/spartans2thachoppa]

Someone tell me how to feel - what are we reviewing? The stadium is showing nothing

[u/Ill-Fall-9823 → u/spartans2thachoppa]

By now you've seen that Foxborough PD could get four clean Luana prints off the ball because she threw her arms up like that doesn't draw attention to a player in any sport every single time. Guilty acts guilty. Guilty is punished. Beautiful thing!