Washington Spirit ahead Trinity Rodman’s high-intensity strategy is nicely documented, however she has produced a brand new degree of development this season, notably in her on- and off-ball motion. Now coached by two of one of the best coaches in world soccer — Emma Hayes for the United States, and Jonatan Giráldez for Washington — Rodman has the clear potential to progress additional and turn into one of many greats for the US.
Regardless of Rodman’s position together with her Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League membership being much like that of final season’s, her strategy is barely totally different — and her play additional improved — beneath Giráldez. Whereas the coach solely arrived on the membership this summer time, his affect on Rodman and the Washington Spirit as an entire is already telling. Rodman ranks fourth in anticipated targets + assists (xG+A) within the NWSL with 11.18 per 90 — her actual tally is eight targets and 6 assists — with the liberty to occupy the flank and roam between the extensive and central areas. She’s outperforming already lofty expectations, which has propelled the Washington Spirit to the playoffs.
A latest again damage triggered her to overlook the previous two video games. Her significance to the Spirit — a staff battling a handful of main accidents, most not too long ago a torn ACL for Andi Sullivan earlier this week — can’t be understated.
