Super League Power Rankings – Week 18

Brooklyn, FTL finish fall on winning streaks 

The Super League’s Fall Finale was a thrilling cap to the first half of the inaugural season headlined by four exciting matchups. Brooklyn, Lexington, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa Bay came away with three points, and three different players found the back of the net twice on Saturday. 

Brooklyn earned its sixth consecutive win and fourth straight shutout and became the first road team to take down Dallas Trinity at the Cotton Bowl. Substitute Isabel Cox scored the game winner, her third of the season. Brooklyn now has five different players with 3+ goals; no other team has more than three players. 

Fort Lauderdale’s Kiara Pralle, Lexington’s Hannah Richardson and Tampa Bay’s Natasha Flint all scored braces to help their teams to a win. It was Pralle’s and Richardson’s first two goals of the season; meanwhile, Flint continued her three-match streak of scoring at home. They were the eighth, ninth and tenth braces of the season and it was the first for FTL UTD. 

Rank		Team	Change	Summary
1		Brooklyn FC (9-3-2) Week 19: —	Last Week: 1	Standing strong at the top of the pack is Brooklyn. The winning streak gets more and more impressive, but to have outscored its last four opponents 8-0 is a testament to how complete the team is from front to back.
2		Fort Lauderdale United FC (6-5-2) Week 19: @ TB	1 Last Week: 3	FTL UTD flipped a switch in December and went a perfect 3-0 in the last three weeks. The team’s offense was already clicking with Addie McCain, Jasmine Hamid and Sh’Nia Gordon, but bringing Kiara Pralle into the mix has made Fort Lauderdale that much more dangerous.
3		Dallas Trinity FC (6-3-5) Week 19: —	1 Last Week: 2	Dallas put up a strong fight against Brooklyn, and by just looking at the stats, it probably should have come away with a result. Trinity is normally sharper in front of goal, but with only four of 19 shots on target and none truly testing Brooklyn’s goalkeeper, it was a tough loss to end the Fall Schedule.
4		Tampa Bay Sun FC (5-4-4) Week 19: vs. FTL	Last Week: 4	We know by now that Tampa Bay can never be counted out. The team battled back from a 2-1 deficit to earn the 3-2 win against Spokane thanks to the brilliance and composure of Natasha Flint, one of many game-changers along the frontline for the Sun.
5		Lexington SC (3-8-3) Week 19: —	3 Last Week: 8	Hannah Richardson and Bridgette Skiba led Lexington to its first home win and clean sheet of the season. Grace Wisnewski also scored her first goal of the season and captain Shea Moyer tallied two assists of her own to make for the team’s most cohesive and impressive win yet.
6		Carolina Ascent FC (5-3-6) Week 19: —	1 Last Week: 5	The Ascent continues to topple down the rankings after suffering its third loss in a row. The loss of Ashlynn Serepca and Jaydah Bedoya stifled the already-struggling offense, and the defense was no match for the firepower of FTL’s front line.
7		Spokane Zephyr FC (2-6-6) Week 19: —	Last Week: 7	It looked for a moment that Zephyr could pick up three points in its final road match of the fall, but they couldn’t hold off a Tampa Bay comeback. Fortunately, the team has a more balanced home/away schedule in the spring to help combat these road struggles.
8		DC Power FC (3-7-4) Week 19: —	2 Last Week: 6	The spring is an opportunity for DC Power to reset and fine-tune the areas it struggled with both offensively and defensively. The –11 goal differential is the worst in the league, so DC needs to figure out where to make changes if it wants to move up the standings in the second half of the season.