EVERYTHING That’s Gone WRONG For Gotham & Why the NWSL's Reigning Champs Can't Score | Plus the Surprising Houston Dash

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

Sports, Soccer

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Two of the biggest surprises this season have been Gotham & Houston. One has shocked the NWSL by soaring up the table, while the bats are underperforming as reigning champs. Just Women’s Sports is the leading digital media platform dedicated exclusively to women’s sports. In a world where women’s sports have been historically underfunded and under-promoted, Just Women’s Sports exists to shine a light on all the stories, athletes and moments that define and fuel the space. Through original podcasts, premium video programming, social media, editorial content, a newsletter, and exclusive merchandise and live events, Just Women’s Sports is committed to making it both easy and fun to be a women’s sports fan. Add us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justwomenssports/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/justwsports Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@justwomenssports?

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0:00.0	The NWSL has reached its first international break of the season, and I'm sure there are some
0:05.3	clubs ready for a breather. We're going to take a look at two clubs, which are sides of
0:11.3	the very different coins, both succeeding and perhaps struggling a little bit with a very
0:16.3	similar type of soccer. Hello, everybody. Welcome to this week's edition of The Late Sub.
0:20.8	I am your
0:21.1	host, Claire Watkins. It is Wednesday, April 8th, and we're going to be talking Gotham,
0:25.9	and we're going to be talking Houston, as we see two teams trying to forge an identity with one
0:31.6	rising and one struggling, and it might not be the clubs that you expect. Let's jump in.
0:41.0	So the NWSL has reached its first international break of the 2026 season, a little bit of a
0:47.0	breather after kind of an almost unusually intense start to the year.
0:51.5	We've already had an early midweek game day schedule.
0:54.1	So teams have played a lot of
0:55.4	games. There's been a lot of really interesting movement in the larger context of the table. We're
1:00.1	seeing some teams that did not do super well last year, playing well. We're seeing some teams
1:03.8	coming in with some hardware from last year, not playing super well. It seems like we're moving
1:08.4	into a very high parity area of the season before we're seeing
1:11.4	some separation from teams. It's been good. It's been interesting. I thought this might be a good
1:16.5	week going into the break to pull out two clubs, kind of mirror images of each other, one that is
1:22.2	struggling a little bit more and one that is succeeding a little bit more, perhaps and a little bit
1:26.2	more of a surprise,
1:32.0	not playing completely different styles of football, but one team where it's working and one team where it's not working super well, because I do think that these international
1:35.7	breaks are going to be opportunities for these teams to either solidify what they think is
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