{"id":237160,"date":"2026-04-06T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/laulettas-xi-riding-the-wave-pks-galore-and-alyssa-naeher-to-the-bench\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:06:48","slug":"laulettas-xi-riding-the-wave-pks-galore-and-alyssa-naeher-to-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/laulettas-xi-riding-the-wave-pks-galore-and-alyssa-naeher-to-the-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauletta\u2019s XI: Riding the Wave, PKs galore and Alyssa Naeher to the bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Week 4 saw the first two stoppage-time winners of the season, a new record for penalty kicks in a game, and the Current prevail over the Gotham in the Strugglebus Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 11 thoughts from the weekend. We\u2019ll do this every Monday following NWSL match weeks. Some points will be factual, some will be opinion based. And some will just be random statements or observations.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s dig in!<\/p>\n<div class=\"equalizer-paywall\">\n<div class=\"paywall-block\">\n<div class=\"paywall-heading\">\n      Access the best women&#8217;s soccer coverage all year long\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall-body\">\n     Start your FREE, 7-day trial of The Equalizer Extra for industry-leading reporting and insight on the USWNT, NWSL and beyond.\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall-button\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/eqs\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"login-note\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Existing Users Sign In Here<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall-fade-block\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/2026\/04\/06\/laulettas-xi-riding-the-wave-pks-galore-and-alyssa-naeher-to-the-bench\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 4 saw the first two stoppage-time winners of the season, a new record for penalty kicks in a game, and the Current prevail over the Gotham in the Strugglebus Cup. Here are 11 thoughts from the weekend. We\u2019ll do this every Monday following NWSL match weeks. Some points will be factual, some will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}