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16 hours agoNWSL Power Rankings: Wave lead the way, Spirit back on track
The NWSL Power Rankings reflect team performances after Matchday 4, highlighting standings and key player contributions.
Seattle won 14 of the 28 games in which it was a moneyline favorite last season (50.0%). Seattle went 12-6-2 last year (winning 60.0% of its games) when playing as a moneyline favorite of +113 or shorter.
"It was like this new era had come. I wasn't sure if I would ever feel that again. I think back to 2013 and 2014 and all the newness of what that felt like, and all the excitement around that. I didn't feel I'd ever have that again -- and I had it again last year. It was really fun turning up to work every day and working with the staff and the players was really, really fun. And that was credit to everybody involved in the environment we tried to create."
United States midfielder Croix Bethune has joined the Kansas City Current, and USWNT midfielder Claire Hutton has joined Bay FC, in a pair of separate seven-figure moves, multiple sources have confirmed to ESPN. Kansas City will pay the Washington Spirit $1 million total for the transfer of Bethune, while Bay FC will pay the Current $1.1 million total in a separate transaction. Both players are young, rising stars with the USWNT and had previously only played for one NWSL club.