Big Dogs Only With Cloé Lacasse

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Cloé Lacasse (1:19)

They keep us as the underdogs, which is fine. I mean, hey, we'll be in the background and we'll just keep kind of collecting our wins as we go. It's well deserved what happened this last weekend for us and I don't think it should be a surprise, but hey, we'll take it.

Sam Mewis (1:38)

Hi everyone and welcome back to Friendlies brought to you by The Women's Game. Today on the podcast, we have Utah Royals attacker, Cloé Lacasse.

SPEAKER_3 (1:46)

Cass pulls it through. It's Palacios!

A regal moment for the Utah Royals, their first playoff goal and they lead on the road.

Sam Mewis (1:57)

That was Cloé assisting Kiana Palacios in last weekend's quarterfinal, scoring the club's first ever playoff goal. Before we get to Cloé, just a quick reminder that The Women's Game is coming to LA for a live show on December 7th at the Bellwether, and I really hope to see you all there. Here is Cloé Lacasse.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Friendlies. Today, I am so excited to be sitting down with one of the heroes of these NWSL playoffs so far. She is semifinal bad Utah Royals star Cloé Lacasse. Cloé, welcome to the show.

Cloé Lacasse (2:42)

Thanks so much, what an intro, wow.

Sam Mewis (2:45)

Oh my gosh, I'm so happy to have you on. I can't even imagine how busy you all are. I want to talk all about this team's historic run, the assist that changed everything, plus what you all need to do to take down Trinity Rodman and the Spirit. But first, I just want to check in. How are you doing? How busy has it been? Are you hanging in there?

Cloé Lacasse (3:02)

You know, it's been busy, but it's a good busy. You know what I mean? These are the things we wanted when we kicked off in January and now we're here. I mean, we're making it happen. So like I said, busy, but it's been good. It's been really good.

Sam Mewis (3:16)

Okay, good. Well, I'm really excited for you all. I want to talk about the dream goal that you set up, the one that allowed the Utah Royals to silence the non-believers 29 minutes into your quarterfinal match against the San Diego Wave. You worked the ball down the field and found Kiana Palacios in front of the goal. She shoots and scores, not only scoring the Royals first playoff goal ever, but the goal that would continue this Cinderella round for the Royals. This was far from your first assist of the season. You were actually tied for most in the league with 11, but this one felt really consequential. When you watched the ball hit the back of the net, what was going through your head?

Cloé Lacasse (3:50)

Yeah, it was exciting. Just after the game, people were kind of laughing. They were saying, oh, you were saving this assist for this game, right? I'm glad it came and I'm glad it came for this game. Absolutely. But these are things that are kind of routine in training, right? Like there's so many times in training I've seen Kiana do this. So it was just it meant so much that she was able to kind of pull it through in this match because we knew that San Diego was going to limit our opportunities at the end of the day. We knew we had to be opportunistic. And yeah, I'd say we had probably four clear cut chances. Oh, my God. What a disaster.