The Chicago Red Stars won their regular season finale against the Utah Royals on Saturday evening, capping off their second five-game winning streak of the season.
But, in all honesty, the Red Stars didn’t play that well.
The team had clinched their 2019 playoff spot the previous weekend, but the squad that came out against Utah looked like they were in preseason, and less like a sharp group ready to take on the playoffs. With the Royals in a must-win position, Chicago was happy to sit back for much of the first half to absorb whatever pressure Utah was going to build up to open the scoring.