Winner between San Diego and Chicago will advance to play Portland for berth in title game
The first expansion team to reach the playoffs, the will host Chicago at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 16 at Snapdragon Stadium. Chicago grabbed the sixth and final postseason spot Sunday on the final day of the regular season with a 2-0 victory over Angel City.
The teams met twice in the regular season with the Wave winning both, 2-1 in May at home and 1-0 in July in Chicago. Alex Morgan scored the first goal of the first game, one of her career-best 15 goals in 17 games as she won the NWSL Golden Boot Award as the league’s top scorer.The winner Oct. 16 will advance to play at Portland at 2 p.m. on Oct. 23. Both games will be televised on CBS Sports Network.
On the other side of the bracket, Houston and Kansas City, which tied the Wave for third place, will play Oct. 16 in Houston with the winner going to Seattle the next week to play OL Reign, the regular-season champs. The Oct. 23 winners will play six days later in Washington, D.C., for the championship.
The Wave has not announced when tickets for the Oct. 16 game will go on sale. The team sold 32,000 tickets for its first game last month at Snapdragon and 18,000 for its second game on Friday.
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