The 2025 NWSL common season rang within the quartermark of the season with a bang, and which means Attacking Third’s staff of the week is again.  After weekly fixtures all through the 2025 NWSL marketing campaign, Attacking Third analysts choose a finest XI and a coach based mostly on standout performances throughout the weekend. 

As groups gear towards the halfway level of the season, there’ll probably be some repeat appearances as constant performances kick into type. In case you’re protecting observe, you’ll be able to hold tabs on our week six staff of the week.

Seven match weeks have passed by, 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: Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Stars FC)

The long-time goalkeeper earned her first clear sheet of the season towards a surging Gotham FC facet. Naeher confronted 15 photographs and made 5 saves, together with an enormous goalline stuff in late stoppage time. 

Defender: Phoebe McClernon (Seattle Reign FC)

The central defender anchored a three-back towards top-of-the-line attacking groups within the league. She’s turn into a constant presence for the Reign’s backline, beginning each match this season, and her efforts to restrict scoring threats towards Kansas Metropolis out of week seven have been notable and crucial with so many photographs (13) towards the Seattle protection. 

Defender: Gisele Thompson (Angel Metropolis FC)

Kayla Sharples has discovered a house on Kansas Metropolis’s backline. The middle again presents a layer of safety alongside Alana Cook dinner and is a menace on set items. She made a header look simple, towering over so many within the field throughout week 5. 

Defender: Trinity Armstrong (San Diego Wave FC)

The 17-year-old rookie is trying extra comfy with every begin in San Diego’s backline alongside second-year heart again Kennedy Wesley. She was efficient in snuffing out any significant assault towards regional rivals Bay FC, and in addition scored her first skilled objective — a clutch sport winner on the dying.

Defender: Reyna Reyes (Portland Thorns FC)

Reyes actually stepped up for the Thorns in week seven when she nailed the sport winner towards reigning champions Orlando Satisfaction. She’s turn into a dependable presence on the Thorns’ backline to start out the season. The surface again stored up her inverted run and maintained her positioning alongside the highest of the field to web the sport winner.

Midfielder: Kenza Dali (San Diego Wave FC)

The France worldwide has nearly earned a everlasting spot on our staff of the week at this level. It is one other efficiency the place the savvy veteran clogged up lanes towards the opposition and generated artful pockets to function out of. San Diego retains thriving, and it is tied to Dali’s midfield presence. 

Midfielder: Denise O’Sullivan (North Carolina Braveness)

The long-time Braveness captain has rapidly helped steer a drifting ship again on target for North Carolina. The Irish worldwide is pulling the strings, and her teammates, with regards to connective play or stabilizing possession. 

Midfielder: Katie Zelem (Angel Metropolis FC)

The England worldwide has stepped up as an skilled presence amongst a younger Angel Metropolis squad on a roll. Whether or not standing tall within the midfield alongside Alana Kennedy, or medical as she will get extra begins, she’s rapidly turn into a solution to balancing a youthful lineup with a veteran.

Ahead: Lynn Biyendolo (Seattle Reign FC)

The U.S. girls’s nationwide staff ahead notched the sport winner in her third begin for Seattle. The long-time league veteran joined the squad within the offseason and has been progressively working her manner again into common begins. Her influence has been instant, as she’s efficient in counterpressing situations and opens up areas for different attackers in coach Laura Harvey’s system.

Ahead: Riley Tiernan (Angel Metropolis FC)

The rookie of the yr race is heating up simply seven weeks into the season, and the Angel Metropolis ahead is in prime type as she makes her first look on our staff of the week. She’s scored 4 objectives via 5 video games and the primary participant ended up the match hero with a stoppage time sport winner.

Ahead: Ashley Sanchez (North Carolina Braveness)

Because the Braveness proceed to search out their type, an enormous piece is Ashley Sanchez. There is perhaps some debate about an attacking midfielder amongst our forwards, however now in her sixth season within the league, this can be a veteran participant who might want to take over video games generally, and she or he’s doing simply that out of week seven. She’s been utilized in begins and off the bench, and if she’s wholesome, she’ll keep a key consider Braveness video games shifting ahead. 

Coach: Bev Yanez (Racing Louisville FC)

Teaching via not one, however two lighting delays? We needed to give coach of the week honors to Racing Louisville FC coach Bev Yanez. She stored her staff centered and grounded, on the street in Houston, and thru one delay that ticked towards a two-hour mark. The win means two consecutive outcomes for a facet that struggled via the primary quarter of the common season.