The 2025 NWSL common season will take a quick pause after week 10 motion for an upcoming worldwide window. After the break, the halfway level of the season will likely be just some weeks away, and meaning Attacking Third’s workforce of the week is heating up. 

After weekly fixtures all through the 2025 NWSL marketing campaign, Attacking Third analysts choose a greatest XI and a coach based mostly on standout performances throughout the weekend. Whereas groups start to separate themselves from pretenders and contenders, particular person awards chatter will buzz, and that is the place gamers shine on our workforce of the week. 

Week 10 reintroduced some gamers to our greatest XI, and their consistency has been a key issue of their repeat appearances, even when they do not present up on a consecutive foundation. Others returned for the primary time in a number of weeks, so welcome again, Barbra Banda. Should you’re maintaining tabs on who has cracked the Finest XI, you should definitely reference our week 9 workforce of the week, the place we gave Savy King captain of the week honors. 

There’s loads to stay up for in week 11o, and followers can watch choose NWSL common season matches throughout CBS platforms, together with CBS, CBS Sports activities Community, Paramount+, and CBS Sports activities Golazo Community.

Check out our greatest XI:

Goalkeeper: Jordyn Bloomer (Racing Louisville FC)

The goalkeeper has stepped up for Racing after getting tabbed with the beginning position a number of weeks again. She was examined towards Angel Metropolis attackers with 14 pictures and seven makes an attempt on the right track. She made 5 saves and confronted 28 crosses and stood tall, and she or he by no means actually panicked all through all the sport, even with some objectives conceded. 

Defender: Perle Morroni (San Diego Wave)

The French fullback can now add goalscorer to her San Diego resume after opening up the scoring for the Wave in week 10. She’s already dependable in delivering assists with three on the season however now’s a scoring possibility and have become the thirteenth totally different aim scorer for San Diego this yr.

Defender: Emily Sams (Orlando Delight)

Regular, dependable, and constant. That is how Emily Sams has functioned for the Delight all through the season. Even because the teaching employees shifts issues to tinker tactically, the belief in Sams reveals. She led the workforce in clearances (three) and is a big asset as both a fullback or middle again.

Defender: Casey Krueger (Washington Spirit)

A second consecutive week for Casey Krueger within the workforce of the week after incomes a begin following her halftime heroics final week. When she’s not shutting down assaults, she’s spawning objectives. For week 10, she delivered a shocking cross into the field to generate a scramble for Seattle, which was later credited as an personal aim.

Defender: Arin Wright (Racing Louisville FC)

The league veteran reached a private career-high when she obtained to fifteen,000 regular-season minutes performed. She lined loads of floor attempting to trace Angel Metropolis attackers and has been a vocal chief for Racing as they’ve lastly turned a nook on this season, and she or he notched an help on Emma Sears’ aim. 

Midfielder: Kenza Dali (San Diego Wave)

Again on our greatest XI is the long-time France worldwide and first-year Wave participant. She is actually in every single place and led the workforce in complete touches (91), received six of her duels, and functioned as both the preliminary cross or further outlet for teammates. She’s the midfielder that the Wave have been lacking for years. 

Midfielder: Croix Bethune (Washington Spirit)

The 2024 NWSL Rookie of the 12 months has been working her approach again into kind following a meniscus damage final season, and in week 10, Croix Bethune delivered loads of reminders of her abilities on the pitch. The midfielder can drift out and in of pockets so seamlessly that it may possibly generally be tough to mark. Now credited as an personal aim (Shae Holmes), Bethune was in precisely the best spot on the finish of an extended cross to drive the chaotic contact. 

Midfielder: Taylor Flint (Racing Louisville)

The defensive midfielder does loads of work outdoors of the field to make sure Louisville can management video games however has come up large on penalty conversions, and week 10 was simply extra examples of that. Racing’s unbeaten streak did not come out of nowhere; it has been generated by means of relentless effort by gamers and coaches, and if Taylor Flint instructions the center of the pitch, Louisville get outcomes. 

“She will get the penalty, she gives a lot of interceptions for them, and her aerial presence. She [didn’t] get an help on it, however the first time cross to [Kayla] Fischer for the DeMelo aim … it was a sport changer for them,” stated Jordan Angeli on Attacking Third. 

Ahead: Barbra Banda (Orlando Delight)

The hat-trick hero was a no brainer to get honors out of week 10. Banda’s flurry of objectives launched her again in competition for the Golden Boot race, and she or he is now tied with Gotham’s Esther Gonzalez with seven objectives. The Delight have saved issues shut in video games with slim scorelines, however Banda’s objectives are one other reminder of simply how deadly Orlando might be.

Ahead: Bia Zaneratto (Kansas Metropolis Present)

Because the Present handle accidents to gamers towards the halfway level of the season, Bia Zaneratto is again and in motion. She rapidly reminded everybody that she will be able to take command of video games on her personal or by organising teammates. A aim and a chip help over the backline means she’s lastly on our workforce of the week.

Ahead: Adriana Leon (San Diego Wave)

The Canadian worldwide scored twice for the Wave, and her double objectives mark her first brace since her time with former NWSL facet Boston Breakers in 2017. Her timing on runs, positional consciousness, and fast pondering had been on full show throughout San Diego’s win over North Carolina.

Coach: Jonas Eidevall (San Diego Wave)

He needed to put together his new membership for an enormous problem whereas his former membership, Arsenal, received the UEFA Girls’s Champions League. Capped off a six-game unbeaten streak with an enormous efficiency the place the group confirmed off their fast touches and possession whereas racking up the objectives.

Captain: Lo LaBonta (Kansas Metropolis Present)

Following per week the place the long-time league veteran was named to the U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce roster, she was proper again within the combine along with her membership facet, offering the whole lot that led to her first-ever senior nationwide workforce call-up. Most touches amongst her midfield teammates (51), she managed tempo and created two possibilities.