Narrowing the field: NWSL game played on 58-yard wide pitch

At only 100 yards long and 58 yards wide, the field was about 10-20 yards to short and 12-22 yards to narrow.

The Flash ended up winning 3-2, thanks in large part to a brace from New Zealand worldwide Abby Erceg.

“The result and outcome are secondary to what impact this will have on our sport, who claimed the pitch was 110 yards long but only 58 wide”.

Western New York now have Matildas’ star Alanna Kennedy on their books, but she did not feature in this game. However, a league spokesman told FourFourTwoUSA’s Jeff Kassouf an exception was made because no other field was available for the contest.

Members of the U.S. Women’s National Team were understandably upset their colleagues were forced to play in such conditions.

And Laura Harvey postgame was emotionally distraught over the field – “I was lied to the whole week”, she said – and the handling of goalkeeper Haley Kopmeyer’s injury, in addition to the referee apparently reversing a decision to grant the Flash a goal after seeing a video replay.

With Flash’s usual home ground at Rhinos Stadium out of action, they were given the go ahead to use the baseball arena at Frontier Field instead. In retrospect, we made the wrong decision.

PISCATAWAY, NJ – Taylor Lytle ‘s goal in the 54th minute was all Sky Blue FC needed to defeat the Houston Dash 1-0 at Yarcak Field Saturday night. Seattle (4-4-4) set a NWSL record for most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal at 530 minutes. Seating capacity might be smaller, but one game with limited seats for fans seems an even exchange to provide a quality field for pro athletes in a league that theoretically is supposed to have minimum field standards. We did not do that tonight and we apologize to the NWSL players, coaches and fans.

Western New York won Saturday’s match, 3-2, scoring twice off throw-ins.

“In the future, we will ensure that every NWSL match meets our standards”.