The San Diego Wave are without some key players, and they don’t expect to get them back anytime soon.
Alex Morgan, Sofia Jakobsson, Melanie Barcenas, Abby Dahlkemper, and Naomi Girma are all currently on the team’s injury list. On Monday, head coach Casey Stoney was asked if she expected any of them to return to the pitch in the near future.
“No, unfortunately not,” was her response. The Wave is set to play Utah on Wednesday.
While Stoney hasn’t yet provided anything else definitive, absences from Morgan and Girma leave behind a pretty big hole in the team roster, particularly with the Olympics — not to mention the preceding USWNT send-off friendlies — just around the corner. Morgan has been sidelined with ankle trouble since the team’s late April match against Orlando, while Girma’s first game on the injury list was against Seattle.
Stoney, however, has said that the Wave doesn’t play any differently with or without the missing players.
“It doesn’t really affect the way we play,” she said following the team’s recent loss to Seattle. “We just needed to have more patience. We still had some senior players out…
