Both teams were in search of a silver lining in a long, disappointing season. In the end it was Sky Blue that wanted and needed, it more as the New Jersey club battled on a home field for what some think could be the last time at Yurcak Field.
There were many chances for the Pride though, but as has become custom, the team couldn’t seal the deal. Let’s break the game down one last time and find our own silver linings and our Pride player of the match.
GK, Haley Kopmeyer, 5 — Kopmeyer wasn’t tested all that much, and that probably had more to do with Sky Blue’s chances bouncing off the crossbar a couple of times, but the chance came in the 73rd minute when Carli Lloyd put a powerful shot to her far left, but Haley couldn’t get there.