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It was a record-breaking weekend in the National Women’s Soccer League, from the fastest hat trick in NWSL history to the largest standalone crowd for a professional domestic women’s sporting event. Elsewhere, the playoff picture became a bit more complicated, and the Orlando Pride went back to the drawing board after Barbra Banda‘s season-ending injury. Let’s go through it all!
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