{"id":2483794,"date":"2026-07-01T17:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2483794"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:35:26","slug":"what-is-the-key-to-the-success-of-the-utah-royals-equalizer-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-is-the-key-to-the-success-of-the-utah-royals-equalizer-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the key to the success of the Utah Royals \u2013 Equalizer Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"mvp-post-feat-img\" class=\"left relative\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/USATSI_29043962-1000x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1000\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"600\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-post-feat-img--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"mvp-feat-caption\">\u00a9 Rob Gray-Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Entering the summer break of the <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/category\/nwsl-national-womens-soccer-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Women\u2019s Soccer League<\/a><\/strong> season, seven of the eight teams above the playoff line didn\u2019t look out of place there, having made the playoffs at least once in the past two seasons. If you squint hard enough, you\u2019d notice perennial wooden spoon contenders Utah Royals (12th in 2025 and 11th in 2024) in second place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is no accident \u2014 the Royals have been good. In addition to scoring the third-most goals and conceding the third-fewest goals in the league, they\u2019ve generated the fourth-most expected goals (xG) and have the sixth-highest xG differential (xG created minus xG conceded). Both the actual and the underlying numbers support a real turnaround for this team with a normally abysmal track record, especially in the first half of the season. What is it about their play this season that is making them so successful?<\/p>\n<p>Is it the goalkeeping? 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If you squint hard enough, you\u2019d notice perennial wooden spoon contenders Utah Royals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2483795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/What-is-the-key-to-the-success-of-the-Utah.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483796,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483794\/revisions\/2483796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}