Update: Athletica at Sol
The Sol are still trailing 1-0 in the 59th minute.
But the Sol, which played in a conventional 4-4-2 to start the game, came out after half time in what looked like a 3-6-1, with Marta up top. A colleague noted it was the first time he'd seen that formation since Steve Sampson used it against Austria just before the 1998 World Cup.
Defender Katie Larkin and the ineffective Han Duan were pulled at the half for Aly Wagner and Liz Bogus, BTW.
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