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The Seattle Reign insist they are okay. The National Women’s Soccer League table, which shows the three-time Shield winners on the bottom, suggests otherwise.
“Not a lot of things are going their way right now,” coach Laura Harvey said following Saturday night’s 1-0 loss in North Carolina, adding that she told the team she was proud of them. “They could drop their heads and show a different mentality and they’re not. And that’s really hard to do.”
The loss to the Courage was the Reign’s fifth in a row following an opening-weekend, 1-0 victory over the Washington Spirit and the second straight week they have lost at Lumen Field. These are rare occurrences in the Pacific Northwest. Not since a nine-game skid in 2013—before the club had ever won a game—have the Reign lost as many as 5 in a row. Only once since then, in 2017, have they dropped consecutive matches at home.
At one point during the unsightly 0-9-2 start to the inaugural 2013 season, Harvey sat…
