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The National Women’s Soccer League champions are on the move. Despite a miracle run to the title last fall, NJ/NY Gotham FC decided to retool ahead of the 2024 National Women’s Soccer League season. They attacked the free agent market with ferocity and landed Tierna Davidson, Crystal Dunn, and Rose Lavelle. The early returns were not great. After being shut out in the Challenge Cup, the New Jersey side opened with eight straight regular season matches scoring zero or one goal. Only a stingy defense held their record at 3-2-3.
Saturday afternoon, in front of the second-largest crowd in club history, Gotham made it three straight games with multiple goals in a 2-1 victory over Angel City FC. They have won all three games—only the fourth time in NWSL they have won as many as three straight—and the focus can now shift to the fact that only one time this season has Gotham conceded two goals. That was a 2-0 loss in Washington on April 20. They are unbeaten in seven games…
