San Diego Wave W 0–1 Utah Royals W
- Season
- NWSL
- 2026 · Quarter-finals
Referee
Ekaterina Koroleva
NWSL: Utah Royals W beat San Diego Wave W 1–0. Goals: Kiana Palacios 30'.
Top rated
The provider's match ratings, out of 10.
K. Wesley7.1
M. Barcenas6.8
Ludmila6.7
K. Palacios7.8
M. Haught7.7
C. Lacasse6.9
How the score moved
The running score, step by step, with every score marked.
- San Diego Wave W
- Utah Royals W
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| When | San Diego Wave W | Utah Royals W |
|---|---|---|
| 30′ · Kiana Palacios | 0 | 1 |
| 90′ | 0 | 1 |
Chances and finishing
Expected goals (xG) weigh every shot by how often a chance like it is scored. Set against the goals, they show who made the better chances and who took them.
- San Diego Wave W
- Utah Royals W
San Diego Wave WGoals0xG1.23
- xG per shot
- 0.08
- Goals minus xG
- -1.23
Utah Royals WGoals1xG1.07
- xG per shot
- 0.13
- Goals minus xG
- -0.07
How the chances split
San Diego Wave W win 40%Draw 28%Utah Royals W win 32%
Each side's xG treated as the average of a Poisson distribution of goals: how often this match ends each way if its chances were played out again and again.
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| San Diego Wave W | Utah Royals W | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 1 |
| Expected goals (xG) | 1.23 | 1.07 |
| xG per shot | 0.077 | 0.134 |
| Goals minus xG | -1.23 | -0.07 |
| San Diego Wave W win | 40% | |
| Draw | 28% | |
| Utah Royals W win | 32% |
Goals & cards
- 30′Kiana PalaciosAssist: Cloé Lacasse
- 59′Kiana PalaciosNot Retreating
- 67′kaleigh riehlFoul
- Barbara BonanseaFoul90′
- 90+3′Miyabi MoriyaFoul
- 90+5′
- 30′
Key stats
- 62%Ball Possession38%
- 1.23Expected goals1.07
- 16Total Shots8
- 5Shots on goal2
- 10Corner Kicks3
Half by half
- San Diego Wave W
- Utah Royals W
| Team | 1H | 2H | T |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego Wave W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Utah Royals W | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Facts
From each side's recent results and their meetings, before this match.
- San Diego Wave W: 4 won, 1 drawn, 0 lost in their last 5 matches.
- San Diego Wave W have scored in each of their last 5 matches.
- San Diego Wave W kept 2 clean sheets in their last 5 matches.
- San Diego Wave W scored 9 and conceded 4 in their last 5 matches.
- Utah Royals W: 1 won, 2 drawn, 2 lost in their last 5 matches.
- Utah Royals W have not won in their last 4 matches.
- Utah Royals W scored 3 and conceded 6 in their last 5 matches.
- Last 2 meetings: San Diego Wave W won 2, Utah Royals W won 0, 0 drawn.
Recent form
Standings
Nwsl Women
| POS | Team | GP | W | D | L | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  NJ/NY Gotham FC W | 30 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 61 |
| 2 | San Diego Wave W | 30 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 58 |
| 3 |  Washington Spirit W | 30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 55 |
| 4 |  Kansas City W | 30 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 53 |
| 5 |  Angel City W | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 52 |
| 6 |  Portland Thorns W | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 50 |
| 7 | Utah Royals W | 30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 47 |
| 8 |  Seattle Reign FC W | 30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 47 |
| 9 |  North Carolina Courage W | 30 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 45 |
Timeline
- 30′Kiana PalaciosAssist: Cloé Lacasse
- 59′Kiana PalaciosNot Retreating
- Off: Lia Eugenia GodfreyOn: Ludmila Da Silva60′
- 64′Off: Madison HammondOn: Narumi Miura
- 64′Off: Jameese JosephOn: Cecelia Kizer
- 67′kaleigh riehlFoul
- 72′Off: kaleigh riehlOn: tatumn milazzo
- Off: Laila HarbertOn: Laurina Fazer78′
- Off: Melanie BarcenasOn: Barbara Bonansea78′
- 86′Off: paige monaghanOn: Brecken Mozingo
- Off: Amelia Van ZantenOn: Tatum Milan Wynalda87′
- Barbara BonanseaFoul90′
- 90+3′Miyabi MoriyaFoul
- 90+5′
- 30′
Chances and finishing
Expected goals (xG) weigh every shot by how often a chance like it is scored. Set against the goals, they show who made the better chances and who took them.
- San Diego Wave W
- Utah Royals W
San Diego Wave WGoals0xG1.23
- xG per shot
- 0.08
- Goals minus xG
- -1.23
Utah Royals WGoals1xG1.07
- xG per shot
- 0.13
- Goals minus xG
- -0.07
How the chances split
San Diego Wave W win 40%Draw 28%Utah Royals W win 32%
Each side's xG treated as the average of a Poisson distribution of goals: how often this match ends each way if its chances were played out again and again.
Show as a table
| San Diego Wave W | Utah Royals W | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 1 |
| Expected goals (xG) | 1.23 | 1.07 |
| xG per shot | 0.077 | 0.134 |
| Goals minus xG | -1.23 | -0.07 |
| San Diego Wave W win | 40% | |
| Draw | 28% | |
| Utah Royals W win | 32% |
Every shot, and how it ended
Goals, shots the keeper saved, shots off target and shots blocked before they reached goal — then where they were taken from.
- Goals
- Saved
- Off target
- Blocked
San Diego Wave W16 shots547
Utah Royals W8 shots1151
- 127Inside the box
- 41Outside the box
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| San Diego Wave W | Utah Royals W | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 1 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| Off target | 4 | 5 |
| Blocked | 7 | 1 |
| Inside the box | 12 | 7 |
| Outside the box | 4 | 1 |
The ball: possession and passing
Who had it, how often they moved it, and how many of those passes found a teammate.
- San Diego Wave W
- Utah Royals W
62%Possession38%
79%378 of 477 passes63%180 of 286 passes
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| San Diego Wave W | Utah Royals W | |
|---|---|---|
| Possession | 62% | 38% |
| Passes | 477 | 286 |
| Completed | 378 | 180 |
| Pass accuracy | 79% | 63% |
Discipline
Fouls, cards and offsides, and when each card was shown.
- 810Fouls
- 14Yellow cards
- 00Red cards
- 23Offsides
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| San Diego Wave W | Utah Royals W | |
|---|---|---|
| Fouls | 8 | 10 |
| Yellow cards | 1 | 4 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
| Offsides | 2 | 3 |
Every player's rating
The provider's match ratings out of ten, one dot per player who featured. Point at a dot for the name.
- San Diego Wave W
- Utah Royals W
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| Player | Team | Rating | Min |
|---|---|---|---|
| K. Palacios | Utah Royals W | 7.8 | 90 |
| M. Haught | Utah Royals W | 7.7 | 90 |
| K. Wesley | San Diego Wave W | 7.1 | 90 |
| C. Lacasse | Utah Royals W | 6.9 | 90 |
| M. Barcenas | San Diego Wave W | 6.8 | 78 |
| C. Kizer | Utah Royals W | 6.8 | 26 |
| K. Del Fava | Utah Royals W | 6.7 | 90 |
| Ludmila | San Diego Wave W | 6.7 | 30 |
| K. Dali | San Diego Wave W | 6.6 | 90 |
| N. Miura | Utah Royals W | 6.6 | 26 |
| Sandra Paños | San Diego Wave W | 6.6 | 90 |
| B. Mozingo | Utah Royals W | 6.6 | 4 |
| T. Milazzo | Utah Royals W | 6.5 | 18 |
| K. McNabb | San Diego Wave W | 6.5 | 90 |
| P. Monaghan | Utah Royals W | 6.4 | 86 |
| G. Corley | San Diego Wave W | 6.4 | 90 |
| Nuria Rábano | Utah Royals W | 6.3 | 90 |
| L. Harbert | San Diego Wave W | 6.3 | 78 |
| Ana Tejada | Utah Royals W | 6.3 | 90 |
| T. Wynalda | San Diego Wave W | 6.2 | 3 |
| L. Fazer | San Diego Wave W | 6.2 | 12 |
| Jameese Joseph | Utah Royals W | 6.2 | 64 |
| T. Byars | San Diego Wave W | 6.1 | 90 |
| K. Riehl | Utah Royals W | 6.1 | 72 |
| B. Bonansea | San Diego Wave W | 6.1 | 12 |
| M. Moriya | Utah Royals W | 6.0 | 90 |
| P. Morroni | San Diego Wave W | 6.0 | 90 |
| M. Hammond | Utah Royals W | 5.9 | 64 |
| Luisa Agudelo | San Diego Wave W | 5.9 | 60 |
| A. D. Van Zanten | San Diego Wave W | 5.8 | 87 |
The goalkeepers
Saves against shots on target faced; goals prevented is the provider's measure of goals saved beyond what the shots' quality predicted.
50%
Sandra Paños
Sandra Paños- Saves
- 1
- Conceded
- 1
- Rating
- 6.6
100%M. Haught
M. Haught- Saves
- 4
- Conceded
- 0
- Rating
- 7.7
- San Diego Wave W
- Utah Royals W
Top stats
- 62%Ball Possession38%
- 1.23Expected goals1.07
- 16Total Shots8
- 5Shots on goal2
- 10Corner Kicks3
Shots
- 4Shots off Goal5
- 7Blocked shots1
- 12Shots insidebox7
- 4Shots outsidebox1
Passing
- 477Total passes286
- 378Passes accurate180
- 79%Pass accuracy63%
Defence & set pieces
- 1Goalkeeper Saves4
- 9Free Kicks7
- 2Offsides3
Discipline
- 8Fouls10
- 1Yellow Cards4
- 0Red Cards0
Half by half
- San Diego Wave W
- Utah Royals W
| Team | 1H | 2H | T |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego Wave W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Utah Royals W | 1 | 0 | 1 |
126.6Sandra Paños
46.3L. Harbert
106.6K. Dali
156.1T. Byars
217.8⚽K. Palacios
995.9M. Hammond
176.3Ana Tejada
17.7M. HaughtSan Diego Wave W4-2-3-1Utah Royals W4-2-3-1San Diego Wave W4-2-3-1Coach: J. Eidevall
Bench
6B. CourtnallD
21B. BonanseaM
1Luisa AgudeloG
18L. FazerM
81Gabi PortilhoF
9A. LeonF
33K. PickettM
19T. WynaldaM
17LudmilaF
Utah Royals W4-2-3-1Bench
| 17LudmilaF | 30 | 6.7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19T. WynaldaM | 3 | 6.2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33K. PickettM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9A. LeonF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 81Gabi PortilhoF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18L. FazerM | 12 | 6.2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1Luisa AgudeloG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21B. BonanseaM | 12 | 6.1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6B. CourtnallD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12Sandra PañosG | 90 | 6.6 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16A. D. Van ZantenD | 87 | 5.8 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2K. WesleyD | 90 | 7.1 | 3 | 0 | 73 | 0 | 65 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14K. McNabbD | 90 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 1 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 75P. MorroniD | 90 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10K. DaliM | 90 | 6.6 | 1 | 0 | 49 | 3 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4L. HarbertM | 78 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7M. BarcenasM | 78 | 6.8 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 2 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1Luisa AgudeloG | 60 | 5.9 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11G. CorleyM | 90 | 6.4 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 15T. ByarsF | 90 | 6.1 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nwsl Women
| POS | Team | GP | W | D | L | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NJ/NY Gotham FC W | 30 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 61 |
| 2 | San Diego Wave W | 30 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 58 |
| 3 | Washington Spirit W | 30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 55 |
| 4 | Kansas City W | 30 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 53 |
| 5 | Angel City W | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 52 |
| 6 | Portland Thorns W | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 50 |
| 7 | Utah Royals W | 30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 47 |
| 8 | Seattle Reign FC W | 30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 47 |
| 9 | North Carolina Courage W | 30 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 45 |
| 10 |  Denver Summit W | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 41 |
| 11 |  Orlando Pride W | 30 | 11 | 3 | 16 | 36 |
| 12 |  Houston Dash W | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 33 |
| 13 |  Boston Legacy W | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 33 |
| 14 |  Bay FC W | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 27 |
| 15 |  Racing Louisville W | 30 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 24 |
| 16 |  Chicago Red Stars W | 30 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 17 |